By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In climate news, at least 11 people have died and 30,000 people have been rescued from massive flooding in Louisiana. Meanwhile in San Bernardino, California, over 80,000 people have been evacuated to escape the Blue Cut fires. 

These activists have been camping outside of the L.A. City Hall for 36 days, demanding that Mayor Eric Garcetti fire the L.A. police chief for his handling of what activists are calling the most murderous police force in the country.

Autistic activist Lydia X.Z. Brown discusses violence against people of color with disabilities and their personal experiences with autism.

Yesterday on the 4-year anniversary of DACA, Kelly Harry launched a nonprofit that provides financial resources and guidance to immigrant communities. An undocumented immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, she wants to help undocumented people navigate the U.S. financial system.

It’s not just Trump: the right wing’s increasing reliance on violence and intimidation as a path to power.

 

 

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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