WHEREAS, Alaska became an Employment First state in 2014 with the goal of ensuring that individuals with disabilities have information, training, resources, and programs that increase opportunities for meaningful, integrated, competitive wage and career employment; and WHEREAS, increasing the participation of Alaskans with disabilities in the workforce remains a priority for public and private sector […]
WASHINGTON – Last week, the Trump administration invited fresh controversy when it announced it will abandon environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to allow oil and gas companies to run roughshod over pristine Arctic ecosystems to search for expensive, far-flung oil. The Bureau of Land Management granted the polluters a new categorical […]
“We just want to be left alone,” the former longtime political prisoner said. “We don’t want to be part of a government that’s killing women, children, babies, and bombing every damn thing that they can.” Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous activist who spent nearly half a century in prison for murders he says he did not […]
Trump and other Republicans have called for Omar to be stripped of her citizenship and deported for years. Following years of threats from President Donald Trump and other Republicans to deport Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman’s Washington, DC home was raided on Monday morning by agents with the Department of Homeland Security. The US […]