by Kelly Rissman | Aug 14, 2019 | Economy, Featured
WASHINGTON– To show opposition to a company’s actions, some shareholders divest. But a new platform offers a different option — pooling assets to publicly petition for changes in corporate policies. Stake, launched in 2018, unites shareholders across...
by Kelly Rissman | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
DETROIT–Protestors championing immigrant rights tried to shut down the Detroit-Windsor international tunnel ahead of the second Democratic presidential debate Wednesday, leading to arrests by Detroit police. Some 100 protestors chanted, “No hate no fear,...
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 26, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Democrats challenged the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the agency’s “culture of cruelty” at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. CBP Chief Carla Provost repeatedly denied the notion of a toxic culture at her agency....
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Yazmin Juárez, a Guatemalan asylum seeker, told a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee that her 19-month-old daughter died because of medical negligence at a federal detention center in Texas last year, causing several Democrats on the committee to...
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 12, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — More than 250 people listened to a live staged reading of a single volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report Thursday, with dozens of performers reading bite-sized chunks. Event hosts expected the reading to take 11 hours, finishing up...
