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- Oct 1, 2020
Pláticas: Two Latina Lawyers' Perspective on Losing a Legal Giant
On September 18th, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. The world lost a legal giant. With her unwavering voice for justice, she transformed the possibilities available to future generations by chipping away at legal precedent that made it lawful to discriminate on the basis of gender. Her dissents inspired an entire generation of attorneys, like Amparo Cid and Aida Macedo, to continue the never ending work of pursuing justice for all. During this webinar, w
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- Aug 28, 2019
Webinar: Making Your Space LGBTQ+ Friendly and Queer Issues in the Central Valley
In this two-part webinar, the presenter covers how to make spaces more accessible to the LGBTQ+ Community, proper etiquette, and current issues happening in the Queer community within the Central Valley. Topics include definitions of different genders, the importance of pronouns, poverty issues in the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Valley, access to healthcare for the Queer community, and highlighting the stories of Queer folk from the Central Valley from a youth perspective
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- Jul 20, 2018
ICE Terrorizing Our Communities
ICE was created in 2003 and there are multiple examples of how this agency has gone rouge. In Delano, young children lost their mother and father because of the wrongful actions by ICE agents; they're targeting hardworking individuals at their places of employment; they're unlawfully detaining and holding Americans in custody, and they are undermining our judicial system by conducting arrests at courthouses preventing immigrants with valid legal claims from pursuing legal rem
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- Jun 25, 2018
The Fresno Bee: 'For Valley families, it should strike a chord.' Border centers compared to
Sarah Reyes, former member of the California Assembly, took to social media to urge Valley residents to speak out against the policy, pointing out the region's immigrant community and also its past ties to internment camps. "Then, they called Japanese citizens the enemy. They said they were going to destroy America. Fast forward to today, you hear the same rhetoric coming out of the administration about these undocumented residents," she said. "I don't think it's a stretch to
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- Jun 4, 2018
CNN: Blue state, red valley: In this part of California, a new generation is more woke than ever
At Calwa Park's El Dorado Taqueria, Celedon orders mangonadas for herself and two of her closest allies: Amparo Cid and Aida Macedo. The three women slurp their mango drinks laced with chamoy and chile-lime salt and reflect on the things that inspire their activism. Cid and Macedo, both 34, are young lawyers who left more politically comfortable environments in San Francisco and Los Angeles to devote their energies to the Central Valley. "There are so many Calwas in Californi
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