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On Thursday, September 10, at 9:00 p.m. ET, the Workers Circle hosted a virtual celebrity table read of the Academy Award-nominated animated classic, ‘An American Tail.’ This live, one-night-only event raised over $300,000 for the Workers Circle programming, drew over 10,000 virtual attendees and featured performances by celebrated actors. The virtual table read was directed by Steven Tabakin who brought the performance to life. Cast members included Jesse Eisenberg, Sarah Cooper, Richard Kind, Bernadette Peters, Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Alan Kim, Dulé Hill, Oscar Nunez, Jose Andrés Rivera, Tracie Thoms, Paola Lázaro and more.
On Thursday, September 10, at 8:30 PM ET the Workers Circle will host a live, virtual celebrity table read of the Academy Award-nominated animated classic, ‘An American Tail.’ The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Dulé Hill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Hamill, Richard Kind, Alan S. Kim, Paola Lázaro, Kelly McCreary, Bernadette Peters, Josh Andrés Rivera and Tracie Thoms, among others. The event will be emceed by Ken Jeong and Whoopi Goldberg, who will bring their signature humor, warmth, and energy to the evening.
The Workers Circle, Asian Law Caucus, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta, Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, South Asian American Justice Collaborative, Common Cause, and 23 other civil rights organizations today filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to reject the Trump administration’s request to reinstate Executive Order 14399, which threatens mail-in voting, while litigation continues.
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Mississippi Today covered the inhumane treatment inside of the Adams County Detention Center, an ICE detention center in Natchez, Mississippi, and the Workers Circle’s advocacy to close it.
WINK News covered the ongoing investigation into Alligator Alcatraz and the longterm the center has perpetrated on detainees and their family members.
On Thursday, September 10, at 9:00 p.m. ET, the Workers Circle hosted a virtual celebrity table read of the Academy Award-nominated animated classic, ‘An American Tail.’ This live, one-night-only event raised over $300,000 for the Workers Circle programming, drew over 10,000 virtual attendees and featured performances by celebrated actors. The virtual table read was directed by Steven Tabakin who brought the performance to life. Cast members included Jesse Eisenberg, Sarah Cooper, Richard Kind, Bernadette Peters, Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Alan Kim, Dulé Hill, Oscar Nunez, Jose Andrés Rivera, Tracie Thoms, Paola Lázaro and more.
For 47 consecutive weeks the Workers Circle organized a broad-based Freedom Vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz, where we heard firsthand about the inhumane treatment of the people inside. These vigils drew tens of thousands of community members to the gates of this detention facility, maintained sustained public pressure on the state and federal government, launched an investigation into torture by Senators Ossoff and Durbin, and contributed to the facility’s ultimate closure.
On Thursday, September 10, at 8:30 PM ET the Workers Circle will host a live, virtual celebrity table read of the Academy Award-nominated animated classic, ‘An American Tail.’ The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Dulé Hill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Hamill, Richard Kind, Alan S. Kim, Paola Lázaro, Kelly McCreary, Bernadette Peters, Josh Andrés Rivera and Tracie Thoms, among others. The event will be emceed by Ken Jeong and Whoopi Goldberg, who will bring their signature humor, warmth, and energy to the evening.
The Hill covered the Workers Circle’s upcoming Virtual Benefit, a table reading of the beloved film An American Tale, featuring stars including Mark Hamill, Jesse Eisenberg, Dulé Hill, Bernadette Peters, and more.
“Make no mistake about what happened here. This was a procedural ruling — the Court did not bless the legality of Trump's executive order to curtail access to mail-in voting for millions of Americans, and plainly stated that nothing about its implementation is guaranteed to be lawful. But the effect is real: it clears the way for the federal government to insert itself between voters and their ballots, weeks before those ballots go out.”
The Guardian covered the inhumane treatment of people detained in an ICE facility in Mississippi and the important work that the Workers Circle is doing to organize Freedom Vigils and fight back against ICE’s fascism.
The Workers Circle, Asian Law Caucus, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta, Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, South Asian American Justice Collaborative, Common Cause, and 23 other civil rights organizations today filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to reject the Trump administration’s request to reinstate Executive Order 14399, which threatens mail-in voting, while litigation continues.
CBS News, ABC, and others covered a recent Workers Circle-organized Freedom Vigil in Raleigh, NC.
Photo credit: CBS News
CBS News and the Miami Herald covered a press conference co-organized by the Workers Circle drawing attention to the inhumane conditions at a federal detention center in Miami. As a direct result of the press conference, some detainees have been released from solitary confinement.
Photo credit: Pedro Portal
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