Census data show that gentrification is accelerating Black displacement. Brooklyn, New York is the epicenter of gentrification, the displacement of Black people from cities in this country. Recently released census data shows that neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant , which was nearly all Black for decades, no longer has a Black majority. Bedford-Stuyvesant’s white population rose by 30,000 from 2010 […]
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When Communities Reject The Throwaway Economy
Here’s how a growing number of communities across Europe are speeding up the shift to more resilient economies and supply chains. Rethinking the way we create, use, and dispose of our everyday products. The world’s resources are limited, but we are living as if they weren’t. Our current economic system is based on extracting raw […]
Poll: More Voters Want More Police in Their Communities as Crime Escalates
A Hill-HarrisX poll released Wednesday shows more voters want to boost police numbers in their communities rather than diminish them. Forty-four percent of registered voters in the July 8-9 survey said they want more police and policing activity in their community, the Hill reports. By contrast, just seven percent of respondents said they want less […]
FEMA to Deploy “Delta Variant” Response Teams Across US to Communities with Low Vaccination Rates
The Biden Administration will be deploying “Delta variant” response teams across the country to communities with low vaccination rates. The teams will be made up of officials from the CDC, Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to CNN. The government officials will be focused on communities with low […]
Communities Of Color Want Wood Pellet Byproducts Out Of Their Neighborhoods
Above Photo: The Raging Grannies gathered at Halifax Mall to protest, singing songs like “Where is Cooper?”. Ellie Heffernan. And out of their lungs. Belinda Joyner describes her home of Northampton County as a dumping ground for undesirable uses—hog farms, landfills. Northampton was also slated to host the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s compressor station before the project was canceled. […]
Together, We Can Choose A Different Future For Appalachian Communities
Above Photo: Dllu/WikiMedia Commons. Over the course of my career, I have been humbled by what the people in the Ohio River Valley have given to me. I recall those community members who kindly served me coffee made with bottled water because their wells had been compromised by the then-new fracking industry; gifts of home-grown […]
Wade in the Wastewater: U.S. Communities Still Testing Poop for COVID-19; Spikes May Lead to Public Health Measures
By B.N. Frank Last year scientists across the U.S. and around the world started collecting and analyzing sewage to track COVID-19 (see 1, 2). Despite reports of a steady decline in U.S. COVID cases and 50% of Americans now being vaccinated, taxpayer dollars are still being spent to test wastewater – maybe even in your […]
Greek Australians: One of Australia’s Most Vibrant Communities
Greek-Australians on Australia Day. Credit: Chris Phutully/ CC BY 2.0 Greek-Australians are one of the largest minority groups in the country, and they have a long history in Australia. According to recent census data, more than 422,000 people in Australia said that they have Greek, Greek Cypriot or Greek Vlach ancestry. This begs the question: […]
Our Biggest Jails Are Frontline Environmental Justice Communities
Above photo: Grist / Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The three biggest county jail systems in the U.S. demonstrate how incarcerated people are uniquely exposed to environmental hazards. For more than half a century, 441 Bauchet Street has been the address where Los Angeles’ most stark social […]
Protests over Jerusalem tensions spread to Arab communities throughout Israel
Arab members of left-wing parties slam police for stopping buses headed to Jerusalem Arab politicians in left-wing Zionist parties slam police after officers stopped buses of Arab Israelis headed to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, where the police say some passengers were planning to riot. “At this moment racist selection is taking place […]
Meron tragedy impacts world’s Jewish communities’ mental health
The global impact of the tragedy in Meron, the most devastating civilian disaster in Israel’s modern history, is like few tragedies in recent memory – and Jewish communities around the world are requesting increased mental health support to overcome the trauma. “In today’s interconnected world, where the images, videos and stories are broadcast around the […]
Exclusive–Pastors Welcome Rise in Private and Homeschooling in Black Communities
Pastors leading black church communities are confirming the surge in the number of black families choosing private, small schools, and homeschooling for their children, and welcoming the opportunity for more involvement in K-12 education by black churches. Pastor Cecil Blye of More Grace Ministries Church in Louisville, Kentucky, told Breitbart News he and his fellow […]
JFNA CEO on Independence Day: ‘Our communities rallied to support each other’
“Every State has its own policy, [but] as vaccinations are moving forward, we do expect that most summer camps would be open,” Jewish Federations of North America CEO Eric Fingerhut told The Jerusalem Post, in anticipation of a better summer than last. Speaking during the paper’s weekly Zoomcast, Fingerhut looked back at the challenges the American Jewish community […]
Diaspora communities offered online Yom HaZikaron program by WZO
On Tuesday evening, the State of Israel will mark the beginning of Yom HaZikaron, remembering Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. This year, for the first time, the World Zionist Organization, in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense, has created a pre-recorded Yom HaZikaron State ceremony for Jewish communities worldwide. The forty-two-minute program, […]
Indigenous communities march for justice a year on from devastating Amazon oil spill
Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill in 15 years. Demonstrators marched through the Amazonian city of Coca to call on authorities to take responsibility for the 16,000 barrels of crude oil that poured into the Coca […]
Pipeline spills over 1,600 gallons of oil near Los Angeles communities
Image Credit: Associated Press More than 1,600 gallons of oil have spilled in the Inglewood Oil Field — the largest urban oil field in the country, where more than a million people live within five miles of its boundaries, the Sierra Club wrote in a statement on Wednesday. The spill was caused by a human […]
From antisemitism to Zoom prayers, how COVID-19 affected Europe’s Jewish communities
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Victorian report recommends tightening laws protecting communities from vilification
Browse > Home / News / Victorian report recommends tightening laws protecting communities from vilification March 3, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article A State parliamentary committee has recommended Victoria should extend its anti-vilification laws to cover a range of attributes not currently specified in legislation including the display of Nazi symbols. Shopper […]
Jewish communities in Texas battle lowest temperatures in century
WASHINGTON – As Texas is experiencing the lowest temperatures in 100 years, local communities’ volunteers are reaching out to make sure that seniors are safe and to distribute hot meals for those in need. Mariam Feist, CEO and President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, told The Jerusalem Post that people were without power […]
In Texas, Jewish Communities Join a Desperately Needed Response
Now the community has repurposed the team, consisting of rabbis from each denomination and the CEOs of local Jewish agencies, to take on a very different kind of crisis: the unfolding effects of an unusual winter storm named Uri that has crippled large swaths of Texas and left millions of people without reliable access to […]