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Standing Up to ICE Is a Moral Imperative.
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Standing Up to ICE Is a Moral Imperative.

In this powerful op-ed in The Progressive magazine, Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers Circle, draws a chilling parallel between her great uncle’s disappearance during the Holocaust and the current wave of ICE raids targeting noncitizen residents across the U.S. She exposes how federal agents, often aided by local sheriffs, are detaining immigrants without due process, and calls on communities to take action. Through the #DisappearedInAmerica campaign, Toback urges voters to pressure their elected sheriffs to stop cooperating with ICE, warning that these unconstitutional actions threaten not just immigrants — but the future of American democracy itself.

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US must end complicity in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
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US must end complicity in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis

Since our founding in 1900 by Eastern European Jews who came to the United States seeking democratic freedoms and fleeing violence and persecution, again and again we have witnessed how the erosion of democratic norms enables systematic violence and expands conflict. The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza right now is both a consequence of and contributor to a global crisis of democratic accountability.

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The Workers Circle responds to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan which ruled that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Ann Toback CEO said,
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The Workers Circle responds to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan which ruled that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Ann Toback CEO said,

In response to today’s U. S. Supreme Court decision in Allen v. Milligan which ruled that Alabama had violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by redrawing its Congressional map to dilute Black voters’ power and that ordered the state to redraw its Congressional map, Ann Toback CEO of the Workers Circle said,

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