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Today Governor Gavin Newsom announced his intention to commute all death sentences in California. This impacts the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere. EJS President Lisa Holder said: “This is a momentous victory for justice, humanity, and the estimated 550 individuals and families – too many who are Black and Latinx – whose livesContinueContinue reading “EJS Applauds Gov. Newsom’s Commutation of All Death Sentences in California”

By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence Shift the gears in your fears from park to overdrive…put your pedal to the metal come and take this ride…through harkened histories of darkened miseries…pater plans in mater lands were never mysteries…stop defending and pretending about the Eden days…the beginning of the sinning of deceiving ways…all the planning in theContinueContinue reading “‘How the Story Goes’ by Michael Tyler”

Dolores Huerta enriched American life as one of the most dynamic and defining feminists and labor leaders of the past century. Her monumental achievements, from negotiating the first successful collective bargaining agreement for agricultural laborers in the continental United States in 1966 and directing the East Coast grape boycott, to helping secure Robert F. Kennedy’sContinueContinue reading “Honoring Dolores Huerta: A Legacy of Justice, Labor Rights, and Resilience”