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By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump (!!!). Muslim Ban will not go into effect, but this “victory should not lead to complacency.”

Trump’s policies at work: ICE deports an immigrant mother in the middle of the night.

Seven of the protestors who blocked the van she was in were arrested. As a friend wrote, “this is the ‘deeply local’ work of resistance.”

Read more about deeply local work in this incredible interview with Dean Spade over at Alternet.

Love seeing WOC in government: an interview with Julia Chavez Rodriguez, Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter and Senator Kamala Harris’ state director in California.

Tishaura Jones is running for St. Louis mayor in the March 7th primary election and her letter here is exactly why we need electeds like her.

Mahroh is a community organizer and law student who believes in building a world where black and brown women and our communities are able to live free of violence. Prior to law school, Mahroh was the Executive Director of Know Your IX, a national survivor- and youth-led organization empowering students to end gender violence and a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research addresses the ways militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact communities of color transnationally.

Mahroh is currently at Harvard Law School, organizing against state and gender-based violence.

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