Act Now

• This Father’s Day: a new Trump policy tears children from parents. Call a company profiting this heinous act: 888-342-1135
• Join Natalie Portman and add your name to stop family separation at the border
• Take Action: Citizenship Question is Bad for the Census
• As the Muslim ban goes before SCOTUS, share the stories of its victims via The Nation
• Sign Petition For a Clean Dream Act Now, Action Network
• Tell Congress: Stand Against Harsh Drug Penalties via Drug Policy Alliance
• Call your representatives and urge them to extend crucial DACA protections

Educate Yourself

• 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall, Charlie Savage and Robert Pear, The New York Times
• It’s Our Job to Finish Dr. Martin Luther King’s Economic Justice Work, Nina Turner, ColorLines
• Jobs are the ultimate criminal justice reform, Kahryn Riley, The Hill
• Systemic Inequality, Hanks, Solomon, and Weller, Center for American Progress
• Invest-Divest and Economic Justice, The Movement for Black Lives
• What a Black Lives Matter economic agenda looks like, Janelle Ross, The Washington Post
• To Move is to Thrive: Public Transit and Economic Opportunity for People of Color, Algernon Austin, Demos
• 50 Years after the riots: Continued Economic Inequality for African Americans, Valerie Wilson, EPI
• Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor, Justin Miller, The American Prospect
• Prison labour is a billion-dollar industry, with uncertain returns for inmates, The Economist
• A Revolution of Values in the Criminal Justice System, Daryl V. Atkinson, Center for American Progress
• The Racial Wealth Gap, Why Policy Matters, Amy Traub et al., Demos
• Trump’s America: Open to Global Capital, Not People, Robert Reich, CommonDreams.org
• The Border Patrol Was Monstrous Under Obama. Imagine How Bad It Is Under Trump. Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU
• Poverty Fact Sheet, State of Working America
• WATCH: John Oliver Breaks Down How the U.S. Withholds Justice From Immigrants, John Oliver, ColorLines
• WATCH: The Border Control’s Inhumane Practices, National Immigration Law Center, Youtube
• WATCH: Mass Incarceration, Visualized, The Atlantic, Youtube

In the News

• The Progressive Revolution Is Being Led by a Black Woman, Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root
• What It’s Like Inside a Border Patrol Facility Where Families Are Being Separated, Zoe Carpenter, The Nation
• Meet the Rising New Housing Movement That Wants to Create Homes for All, Jimmy Tobias, The Nation
• Amazon to Seattle: The Housing Crisis Is Not Our Problem, Angela Peoples and Mariah Montgomery, The American Prospect
• Ben Carson vs. The Fair Housing Act, The Editorial Board, The New York Times
• Meet the Rising New Housing Movement That Wants to Create Homes for All, Jimmy Tobias, The Nation
• HUD Secretary Ben Carson to be sued for suspending Obama-era fair-housing rule, Tracy Jan, The Washington Post
• NAACP Sues President Trump Over 2020 Census, William J. Ford, Seattle Medium
• The Weaponized Census, Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic
• Maryland Close To Passing Criminal Justice Reform, Jared Meyer, Forbes
• California Supreme Court Rules State Must Stop Sending So Many Children to Prison for 50 Years, Samantha Michaels, MotherJones
• The New Reformer DAs, Justin Miller, The American Prospect
• We Are Not Bargaining Chips, Sadhana Singh, The American Prospect