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FEATURING GRACE COTANGCO - We live in an era of global warming. Although climate change is often described in global terms, its effects are localized and tend to disproportionately affect low-income communities of color who are less likely to live next to parks and more likely to live next to industrial sources of pollution. A growing movement for what’s being called “park equity” is working to ensure fairness in the distribution of green spaces and all the health benefits they provide.

    
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FEATURING DÉBORA SOUZA SILVA AND REV. WANDA JOHNSON - A new documentary, released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY ahead of the 4th anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd, highlights how Black mothers cope with the most unimaginable loss of their lives.  The film For Our Children, by award winning Brazilian documentarian Débora Souza Silva, centers Rev. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant. Johnson acts as a mentor to other women like her whose sons and daughters have been beaten, brutalized, and murdered by police and explores a movement of mothers determined to prevent others’ children from being victimized by the same system. 

    
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How Black Mothers Are Organizing Against Police Violence


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FEATURING LAJWARD ZAHRA - The campus protests that swept the nation in recent weeks are as clear a sign as any that young people are politically aware, active, and willing to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs. But, as we hurtle toward another make-or-break election in November, many are asking, will this political engagement in the streets translate into action at the polls?  In a new story for YES!, a young journalist and Rice University freshman, Lajward Zahra, explored “Gen Z’s Political Paradox.” 

    
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Gen-Zers are Politically Active. Will They Vote?


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FEATURING JENNIFER WELLS - Thousands of childcare workers walked off their jobs the day after Mother’s Day, for the national Day Without Child Care. It was the third annual commemoration of a day intended to draw attention to the unsustainable costs of child care to parents and child care providers. Child care costs are often the biggest expense for parents of young children, even as child care providers are unable to make a living wage. 

    
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Making Child Care Sustainable for Parents and Providers


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The same day that UCLA student activists were reeling from their Free Gaza encampment being attacked by pro-Israel supporters and police officers, students at California State University of Los Angeles (Cal State LA) were busy setting up their brand new campus protest. Dozens of tents were erected just across from the campus student union on May 1st and the area barricaded by benches and tables. Young people wearing masks and keffiyahs sat and prayed, studied, quietly conversed, participated in group activities or staffed tents dedicated to food and medical aid. Members of the community who were not enrolled at the school also showed up to support.   Special thanks to Anna Buss for production assistance. 

    
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Cal State LA  Students  Launch Free Gaza Encampment


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FEATURING ROBIN D G KELLEY - Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are returning to their campus after a week of violent attacks aimed at a student encampment set up to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The University has moved to create a safety officer role to oversee a new Office of Campus Safety. Late in the evening on April 30th, into the early morning hours of May 1st, a group of pro-Israel supporters destroyed parts of the encampment on campus and injured students, while police took no action for hours. Then, on May 2nd, police dismantled the camp. Students are facing serious repression in the face of their activism and there is widespread outrage over UCLA’s treatment of its young activists. 

    
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