Новости за 16.03.2018

Over the past eight months, township meetings in the southwest suburbs of Chicago have turned into lively hubs of activism, community protests, teach-ins and rallies. A coalition led by the Campaign to TAKE ON HATE (TOH), a project of the National Network for Arab American Communities, has organized scores of community members and residents to appear at every meeting to demand that Palos Township Trustee Sharon Brannigan resign because of her hate speech targeting the Arab and Muslim communities of the southwest suburbs. Читать дальше...

On Wednesday, Democrat Conor Lamb officially claimed a narrow, upset victory for a Western Pennsylvania House seat in a district that in 2016 President Trump carried by nearly 20 points. Like many of the state’s soon-to-be-dissolved districts, Pennsylvania’s 18th was designed specifically to ensure Republican victories. Yet in what will be its last election—thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling in January—the district flipped. Trump won at least 110 other Republican House districts by even smaller margins than PA-18... Читать дальше...