Compassionate Resistance for 5/8/17

This post is part of my “Compassionate Resistance” series, a regular roundup of stories of local resistance from across America. This series was inspired by and is part of Powerful Resistance, a grassroots project to counter the injustice of the current administration by promoting positive stories of justice and compassion.

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• Five Muslims Walk into a Roseville Bar—Here's What Happened Next (Sacramento Bee): "Shaiq explained the five pillars of Islam, built around a single god, five prayers a day, charity, fasting and self-discipline during the holy month of Ramadan and a pilgrimage to Mecca."
• This Budget Plan Is a Road Map for the Resistance (The Nation): "The 'People’s Budget' calls for public investment, sustained over the long run by insuring that corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes."
• Ardmore Church Welcomes the Stranger with Transitional Home for Refugees (DelCo Daily Times): "Safety is the biggest thing. They come here for safety. Most of us don’t know what it’s like not to be safe, what it’s like to be targeted."
• Progressive Clergy Oppose 'Bathroom Bills' in Texas (Baptist News Global): "We will continue to speak out against all attempts to use religion to demonize, discriminate against or bring harm to our LGBT sisters and brothers."
• Muslim in America: Changing the Conversation (KCTS): "Choudhry is a member of Seattle’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, a sect of Islam. Every Wednesday evening members arrive at a local coffee shop and wait for strangers to show up and talk with them."
• Protest Expert Says Anti-Trump Resistance Is Not Slowing Down (Common Dreams): "The data we have collected so far suggest they are not going back to watching TV."
• Nonprofits Step Up to Offer Legal Advice to Immigrants (National Catholic Reporter): "This is specifically a response to the new administration and new enforcement priorities, or rather lack of priorities."
• Looking for Another Way to Resist President Trump? Give to Local Nonprofits (Sacramento Bee): "…With the Trump administration putting social programs on the chopping block, it’s even more important to give."
• ‘We Must Actively Stand Up’: John Angelos’s Response to Racism at Fenway Park (The Nation): "We must stand up to, speak truth to, and face down this growing movement of open, notorious, arrogant, and dictatorial hatred in all its forms, and we must do so in every place where this competition will be contested…"
• Five Big Questions for the Future of the Immigrant Rights Movement (Truthout): "How can we connect the dots between immigration enforcement, racial injustice and criminalization?"

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