Immigrant rights advocates gathered today outside of the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility at Batavia in support of undocumented women facing deportation. More than 50 people, including many from New York City — and one sporting an oversize Donald Trump head, orange skin and all, holding a “Deport Me” sign — stood close together to listen […]
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A year of Trump: activists see fatigue, but stay hopeful
A year ago next Sunday, around 2,000 people turned out for the People’s Solidarity Rally in Rochester’s Washington Square Park. Simultaneously, millions of people around the world — an estimated 500,000 in Washington, D.C., alone — participated in Women’s March protests the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Organized and led by women, the national movement […]
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DACA reversal has a human cost
Griselda Trejo has built herself a good life, one she wants to keep. The 24-year-old Sodus resident is married; has two children, one 2 and the other 7; and has a job making things for the Navy, such as headsets. But she fears that she won’t have this life much longer. Trejo’s parents brought her […]
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[UPDATED] Photo gallery: Solidarity Rally draws 2,000 downtown
Around 2,000 people gathered in downtown Rochester’s Washington Square Park on Saturday for the People’s Solidarity Rally. Locals rallied against President Donald Trump, who was sworn into office on Friday, and called for peace and inclusion. A string of speakers — including Mayor Lovely Warren, Assembly Member Harry Bronson, Rochester NOW President Jaclyn Richard, and […]
