More than 138,000 Mississippi residents lost power amid temperatures as high as the 90s since the arrival of severe thunderstorms last Friday, and thousands remained without power as storms continued to pummel the state this morning.
SR1’s C.O.O.L. Talks video series, designed for both adults and children, features interviews with experts on various academic topics and provides information on educational resources for students and parents.
University of Mississippi School of Law MacArthur Justice Center Director Cliff Johnson and Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity Executive Director Lorena Quinoz explained the benefits of “deferred action” for workers affected by 2019 Mississippi ICE raids.
Lladi Ambrocio-Garcia was among the 680 people arrested in August 2019 following raids on seven poultry plants in Mississippi, including at Koch Foods in Morton, Miss., where she had worked as a chicken cutter for some months.
A jury rendered a not-guilty verdict for Duane Lake, 35, for a capital-murder allegation against him in November 2021. He had been in jail since 2015 and got his freedom after the verdict. The MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law says his story highlights Mississippi inmates’ plight in county jails without legal representation.
The Poor People’s Campaign’s “Third Reconstruction” resolution highlights what it calls a congressional failure to elevate the poor through social programs, voting-rights expansion and the elimination of systemic racism. It details suggested solutions for each of these problems, including an increase in the long-stagnant federal minimum wage, provisions to expand insurance coverage, a large-scale reduction of student debt and prison reform.
With the state’s vaccine rush well in the rear-view mirror, individual advocates embedded in communities—like Pastor Odee Akines—are key to the Mississippi State Department of Health’s plan to vaccinate both the skeptical and the indifferent.
Local law enforcement’s “entanglement” with federal immigration agencies instills “fear across Mississippi’s immigrant communities” and introduces “a host of public safety hazards,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi said today while announcing “Unalienable,” a statewide campaign designed to change that dynamic.
One day shy of a year after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed poultry plants across Mississippi and arrested 680 undocumented workers, ICE and the U.S. Department of Justice announced their first indictments against executives at the targeted companies.
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