18 MILLION RISING

I thought we went over this. People aren’t “illegal.”

Tomorrow is the last day of the 19th UN Climate Conference. Mary Ann Lucille Sering yesterday expressed her frustration with the process, and renewed the call for action.

Why aren’t we being heard? Add your voice to support the Philippines delegation and action against climate change.

“Immigrant Dreams,” Retrofit Republic’s 2013 Fall/Winter lookbook, is some of their most beautiful and personal work yet. Amazing.

Get well soon, Grace!

Congresswoman Grace Meng was attacked in DC last night. We wish her a speedy recovery. Source.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We remember those we’ve lost and renew our commitment to fight for the living.

Samantha Allen, in Jacobin, points out that fighting for the living requires a truly radical politics:

Because most people on the list lack basic economic security, it must be socialist; because the list is primarily made up of women, it must be feminist; because most of those women are people of color, it must be anti-racist. Because so many of these transgender women of color are sex workers, it must adopt a nuanced approach to sex work that respects its economic and personal necessity without ignoring its dangers. And because so many of these sex workers are in countries like Brazil and Mexico, it must be internationalist. If this politics seems impossible, consider that the safety of transgender people is impossible in its absence.

More at Jacobin.

Cece McDonald poster by Micah Bazant.

[PHOTO: Almost 150 students at UC Davis rally in support of undocumented students and their allies fighting back against the Young Conservatives of Texas’ “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game.]

All power to the students standing up against hate on their campuses! This shit is so out of line.