Melissa Lee is a communications fellow with the American Friends Service Committee.
This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to unveil new priorities for federal prosecutors' enforcement of immigration law, including aggressive prosecution against immigrants for unauthorized reentry into the United States. He has also reversed the Obama Justice Department's move away from private prisons, backed away from oversight of police departments, and promised to ramp up the failed war on drugs.
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On Thursday night, President Trump fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Al Shayrat airfield near the city of Homs in Syria. Here's what we're reading to learn more.
U.S. launches cruise missiles on Syrian airbase, via Al Jazeera
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For years, we've known that to build popular movements that can prevail, we need to recognize interrelated causes of injustice, war, and environmental degradation. From the Black Lives Matter manifesto to the Women's March in January to the upcoming People's Climate March, people are catching on.
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The U.S. is engaging in escalating military actions and fueling conflict through increased arms sales. Here's what we're reading to learn more.
'Galling': US Lifts Human Rights Restrictions on Arms Sales to Bahrain, by Nadia Prupis via Common Dreams
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