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‘I Was Not Allowed to Have My Own Thoughts’: California Courts …
WEBJun 30, 2022 · The 2020 California law, introduced by state Sen. Susan Rubio, herself a survivor of domestic abuse, widens the definition of domestic violence and allows victims to introduce evidence of coercive control in applications in family court for a restraining order or child custody.The coercive control law applies to civil, but not criminal, cases. ...
Coercive Control: Abuse That Leaves No Marks
WEBNov 10, 2023 · A California law enacted in 2021 allows domestic violence victims to claim coercive control — a broad range of behaviors including humiliation, surveillance, intimidation, gaslighting and isolation that strips an intimate partner of a sense of autonomy and personhood. Experts in domestic violence say judicial skepticism of abuse victims ...
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Alcatraz Honors 50th Anniversary of Native American Occupation
WEBJun 29, 2021 · Read the story by Mel Baker — “Return to Alcatraz: 50 Years After Native American Occupation, National Park Service Considers Permanent Cultural Center” — that accompanies this photo essay by Yesica Prado. Yesica Prado / San Francisco Public Press. Alcatraz employees catch the first ferry of the day from Pier 33 in San Francisco.
California Indian Tribes Denied Resources for Decades as Federal ...
WEBAug 11, 2022 · In the last 13 years, the U.S. Department of Interior has actively reviewed applications for acknowledgement of only 18 tribes, even as hundreds remain in line. The Public Press has identified more than 400 tribes seeking federal recognition and is working to confirm that 200 others with publicly listed applications are genuine. Many have been waiting for decades.
Fillmore Revisited — How Redevelopment Tore Through the …
WEBSep 23, 2019 · Although significant aspects of the city’s redevelopment scheme for the area were already completed or well underway before the mid-’60s, the decade of the ’70s was a time when community members amplified their struggle for permanence, drawing on the larger narratives of ethnic solidarity and sustainability that were ascending in …
Children Violently Removed by Court Order Celebrate Piqui's Law
WEBNov 10, 2023 · Two children who were violently removed from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home in October 2022 and placed into a court-ordered program to recant parental abuse allegations celebrated a victory last month when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting such programs.. On Oct. 13, Maya, 16, and Sebastian Laing, 12, and their allies celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 331, aka Piqui’s ...
Language Education Evolves in U.S., California
WEBJan 25, 2017 · 1906 The Naturalization Act of 1906 requires applicants for U.S. citizen-ship to be fluent in English.1917–1920Bilingual schools, particularly those teaching German, face backlash during and after World War I. Thirty-four states — 15 between 1919 and 1920 — enact laws that declare English as the basic language of instruction.. 1917–1920 Bilingual schools, particularly those teaching ...
Pandemic and Protest: How AIDS and LGBTQ Activism in the ’80s …
WEBJun 25, 2020 · Long-Term AIDS Survivors Launch Advocacy Movement By Hank Trout | September 17, 2020. AIDS2020: Virtual, the biannual conference of the International AIDS Society, held in early July, marked a turning point for …