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Dan Vicuña, Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation, Common Cause, explains Prop. 50, including why it was introduced and its long-term effects on California’s voting districts. | Watch the full briefing: buff.ly/LV4v5Yk
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Dan Vicuña, Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation, Common Cause, explains Prop. 50, including why it was introduced and its long-term effects on California’s voting districts. | Watch the full briefing: buff.ly/LV4v5Yk
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., California Secretary of State, shares the challenges her family faced trying to vote and notes that California is working hard to make voting easily accessible throughout the state.
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#election #vote #voting #ballots #California #Prop50 #ShirleyWeber #Americancommunitymedia
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., California Secretary of State, shares the challenges her family faced trying to vote and notes that California is working hard to make voting easily accessible throughout the state.
#election #vote #voting #ballots #California #Prop50 #ShirleyWeber #Americancommunitymedia
#election #vote #voting #ballots #California #Prop50 #ShirleyWeber #Americancommunitymedia
‘People Are Making Decisions About Your Life’ – Why We Should Vote in Every Election
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., California Secretary of State, emphasizes the importance of all elections, whether they are local or national, big or small.
#election #vote #voting #ballots #CA #Prop50 #ShirleyWeber
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., California Secretary of State, emphasizes the importance of all elections, whether they are local or national, big or small.
#election #vote #voting #ballots #CA #Prop50 #ShirleyWeber
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl spotlight isn’t just entertainment—it’s a collision of identity, industry, and empire. A Puerto Rican artist turns halftime into a lesson in culture, commerce, and power. buff.ly/q8I6LmT
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl spotlight isn’t just entertainment—it’s a collision of identity, industry, and empire. A Puerto Rican artist turns halftime into a lesson in culture, commerce, and power. buff.ly/q8I6LmT
ACoM News Briefing | Sorting Through New — and Confusing — Vaccine Recommendations
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Experts unpack recent ACIP recommendations that reshape MMR, Hep B & COVID-19 protocols — and why states may diverge from federal guidance.
#Vaccines #HealthPolicy #ACoM
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Experts unpack recent ACIP recommendations that reshape MMR, Hep B & COVID-19 protocols — and why states may diverge from federal guidance.
#Vaccines #HealthPolicy #ACoM
Sorting Through New — and Confusing — Vaccine Recommendations
ATIP’ new MMR, Hepatitis-B, and Covid-19 vaccine recommendations clashed with policy, prompting medical concern. Several states rejected the guidance, opting to develop independent protocols.…
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October 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ACoM News Briefing | Sorting Through New — and Confusing — Vaccine Recommendations
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Experts unpack recent ACIP recommendations that reshape MMR, Hep B & COVID-19 protocols — and why states may diverge from federal guidance.
#Vaccines #HealthPolicy #ACoM
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Experts unpack recent ACIP recommendations that reshape MMR, Hep B & COVID-19 protocols — and why states may diverge from federal guidance.
#Vaccines #HealthPolicy #ACoM
ACoM News Briefing | Who Gets Deported in the U.S.?
Since 1895, deportation policy has reflected bias in law, race & geography. UCLA experts unpack 130 years of data + what it means today.
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#Immigration #Bias #ACoM
Since 1895, deportation policy has reflected bias in law, race & geography. UCLA experts unpack 130 years of data + what it means today.
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#Immigration #Bias #ACoM
A History of Bias: Who Gets Deported in the United States?
UCLA scholars and Million Dollar Hoods researchers unveil 130 years of deportation data, mapping patterns of enforcement and bias that continue shaping U.S. immigration policy today.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ACoM News Briefing | Who Gets Deported in the U.S.?
Since 1895, deportation policy has reflected bias in law, race & geography. UCLA experts unpack 130 years of data + what it means today.
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#Immigration #Bias #ACoM
Since 1895, deportation policy has reflected bias in law, race & geography. UCLA experts unpack 130 years of data + what it means today.
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#Immigration #Bias #ACoM
The Ed. Department is cutting funds for Minority Serving Institutions, calling them discriminatory. Advocates say that the programs are corrective of racial inequity.
At Laney College in Oakland, one program that Asian immigrants relied on is being forced to shutter.
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At Laney College in Oakland, one program that Asian immigrants relied on is being forced to shutter.
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The Education Department says MSI programs “discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.” However, higher education advocates say that…
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September 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Ed. Department is cutting funds for Minority Serving Institutions, calling them discriminatory. Advocates say that the programs are corrective of racial inequity.
At Laney College in Oakland, one program that Asian immigrants relied on is being forced to shutter.
Listen here
At Laney College in Oakland, one program that Asian immigrants relied on is being forced to shutter.
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Yingjia Huang, Deputy Director for Health Care Benefits & Eligibility, DHCS, discusses Medi-Cal’s new eligibility and enrollment rules for undocumented immigrants, which go into effect January 2026.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yingjia Huang, Deputy Director for Health Care Benefits & Eligibility, DHCS, discusses Medi-Cal’s new eligibility and enrollment rules for undocumented immigrants, which go into effect January 2026.
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Emerald Tse, Associate at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology, shares data on the federal government's growing surveillance efforts, including a DNA collection program that is used to create profiles in a police database.
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#immigrants #surveillance #ICE
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September 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Emerald Tse, Associate at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology, shares data on the federal government's growing surveillance efforts, including a DNA collection program that is used to create profiles in a police database.
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#immigrants #surveillance #ICE
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ACoM News Briefing Recap | The Wide-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs Plan | See More: buff.ly/xift7ma | 90+ countries targeted. Who pays? Experts warn U.S. consumers, small biz & workers could bear the cost.
#Tariffs #TradePolicy #SmallBizImpact #EconomicJustice
#Tariffs #TradePolicy #SmallBizImpact #EconomicJustice
The Wide-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs Plan
President Trump unveils plans to impose tariffs on at least 90 countries, including major economies like China, India, Brazil, and Mexico. Experts examine the potential effects on U.S. consumers,…
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September 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ACoM News Briefing Recap | The Wide-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs Plan | See More: buff.ly/xift7ma | 90+ countries targeted. Who pays? Experts warn U.S. consumers, small biz & workers could bear the cost.
#Tariffs #TradePolicy #SmallBizImpact #EconomicJustice
#Tariffs #TradePolicy #SmallBizImpact #EconomicJustice
Join us for a special conversation with Nobel Laureate Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on restructuring global aid to better serve the world’s most vulnerable.
📅 Tue, Sept. 9, 2025
🕚 11:00 – 11:30 AM PT
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📅 Tue, Sept. 9, 2025
🕚 11:00 – 11:30 AM PT
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September 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Join us for a special conversation with Nobel Laureate Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on restructuring global aid to better serve the world’s most vulnerable.
📅 Tue, Sept. 9, 2025
🕚 11:00 – 11:30 AM PT
Link to Register: buff.ly/yuEXXac
📅 Tue, Sept. 9, 2025
🕚 11:00 – 11:30 AM PT
Link to Register: buff.ly/yuEXXac
Sam Wang, President of the Electoral Innovation Lab at Princeton University, provides information on how voters can address gerrymandering and other issues related to voting district fairness.
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#midterms #gerrymandering #votingrights #trump #republicans #texas #acom
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September 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Sam Wang, President of the Electoral Innovation Lab at Princeton University, provides information on how voters can address gerrymandering and other issues related to voting district fairness.
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#midterms #gerrymandering #votingrights #trump #republicans #texas #acom
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#midterms #gerrymandering #votingrights #trump #republicans #texas #acom
ACoM News Briefing | Feeding Gaza’s Children — When Starvation Is a Moral Imperative
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Starvation in Gaza is not inevitable—it’s preventable. Experts call for urgent action to deliver aid and protect the most vulnerable.
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Starvation in Gaza is not inevitable—it’s preventable. Experts call for urgent action to deliver aid and protect the most vulnerable.
Feeding Gaza's Children — When Starvation is a Moral Imperative
A critical conversation exploring the roots of this crisis, the conditions on the ground, and what must be done to protect the lives of Gaza’s children and families.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
ACoM News Briefing | Feeding Gaza’s Children — When Starvation Is a Moral Imperative
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Starvation in Gaza is not inevitable—it’s preventable. Experts call for urgent action to deliver aid and protect the most vulnerable.
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Starvation in Gaza is not inevitable—it’s preventable. Experts call for urgent action to deliver aid and protect the most vulnerable.
Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF, discusses Texas’ redistricting efforts and how they will impact Latino voting power.
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#midterms #gerrymandering #votingmaps #votingrights #trump #republicans #texas #blackvoters #latinovoters #americancommunitymedia
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August 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF, discusses Texas’ redistricting efforts and how they will impact Latino voting power.
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#midterms #gerrymandering #votingmaps #votingrights #trump #republicans #texas #blackvoters #latinovoters #americancommunitymedia
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Dr. Anil Deolalikar, Professor of Economics at UC Riverside, Founding Dean Emeritus, UCR School of Public Policy, discusses shifting trade alliances between BRICS nations in the wake of the US’ imposition of tariffs on trading partners.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dr. Anil Deolalikar, Professor of Economics at UC Riverside, Founding Dean Emeritus, UCR School of Public Policy, discusses shifting trade alliances between BRICS nations in the wake of the US’ imposition of tariffs on trading partners.
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#BRICS #tariffs #trade
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ACoM News Briefing | Medicaid Turns 60 — The Road Ahead for Health Care Justice
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Medicaid has helped tens of millions—but historic rollbacks now threaten coverage. California’s push to defend Medi-Cal could lead the way.
#Medicaid60 #HealthCareJustice #MediCal #HealthEquity
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Medicaid has helped tens of millions—but historic rollbacks now threaten coverage. California’s push to defend Medi-Cal could lead the way.
#Medicaid60 #HealthCareJustice #MediCal #HealthEquity
Medicaid Turns 60 - The Road Ahead for Health Care Justice
Aug 1 | As the U.S. now faces the largest federal subsidy rollback in history, experts discuss how can Americans keep the struggle for health care justice moving forward.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
ACoM News Briefing | Medicaid Turns 60 — The Road Ahead for Health Care Justice
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Medicaid has helped tens of millions—but historic rollbacks now threaten coverage. California’s push to defend Medi-Cal could lead the way.
#Medicaid60 #HealthCareJustice #MediCal #HealthEquity
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Medicaid has helped tens of millions—but historic rollbacks now threaten coverage. California’s push to defend Medi-Cal could lead the way.
#Medicaid60 #HealthCareJustice #MediCal #HealthEquity
Alex de Waal, executive director, World Peace Foundation; expert on famine and mass atrocity, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, explains why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is failing to provide food to Palestinians.
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#Palestine #Gaza #famine #acom
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August 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Alex de Waal, executive director, World Peace Foundation; expert on famine and mass atrocity, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, explains why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is failing to provide food to Palestinians.
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#Palestine #Gaza #famine #acom
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#Palestine #Gaza #famine #acom
ACoM News Briefing | CA Gun Laws Save Lives—but Most Don’t Know How
California leads the nation in gun safety, yet awareness of tools like GVPOs remains dangerously low. Experts explain how we can change that.
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#GunSafety #GVPO #California #PreventGunViolence
California leads the nation in gun safety, yet awareness of tools like GVPOs remains dangerously low. Experts explain how we can change that.
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#GunSafety #GVPO #California #PreventGunViolence
California’s Gun Safety Laws Save Lives – Few People Know About Them
This briefing focuses on how increasing public awareness of these laws can improve safety and save lives, especially in communities that have been hit hardest by gun violence.
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August 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
ACoM News Briefing | CA Gun Laws Save Lives—but Most Don’t Know How
California leads the nation in gun safety, yet awareness of tools like GVPOs remains dangerously low. Experts explain how we can change that.
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#GunSafety #GVPO #California #PreventGunViolence
California leads the nation in gun safety, yet awareness of tools like GVPOs remains dangerously low. Experts explain how we can change that.
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#GunSafety #GVPO #California #PreventGunViolence
Ari Freilich, Director, California Office of Gun Violence Prevention at the Department of Justice, gives an overview of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order (GRVO) and how it is helping to protect the states’ residents from gun violence.
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#gunviolence #gunsafety
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August 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ari Freilich, Director, California Office of Gun Violence Prevention at the Department of Justice, gives an overview of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order (GRVO) and how it is helping to protect the states’ residents from gun violence.
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#gunviolence #gunsafety
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As gun violence surges nationwide, many Californians still don’t know that powerful tools already exist to help prevent gun violence. In response, has launched a new campaign focused on protection orders. Read more:
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California Launches Campaign to Fight Gun Violence Crisis
As gun violence surges nationwide, California has launched a new campaign focused on protection orders.
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August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
As gun violence surges nationwide, many Californians still don’t know that powerful tools already exist to help prevent gun violence. In response, has launched a new campaign focused on protection orders. Read more:
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For our latest episode of SoundOnSight, Journalist and photographer Manuel Ortiz speaks with ACoM’s Peter Schurmann about his current reporting mission in El Salvador. He says conditions have grown more dire, especially for the nation’s poorest people.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For our latest episode of SoundOnSight, Journalist and photographer Manuel Ortiz speaks with ACoM’s Peter Schurmann about his current reporting mission in El Salvador. He says conditions have grown more dire, especially for the nation’s poorest people.
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ACoM News Briefing | Why #GenZ Grapples with #Loneliness, #Depression & a Sense of #Rejection | See More: buff.ly/Rg8otNg | Why is depression, anxiety & disconnection soaring among young adults? Real stories & expert insight into the mental health impact—and paths forward. #GenZMentalHealth
Why Gen Z Grapples with Loneliness, Depression and a Sense of Rejection
Just Live | Speakers will discuss the many drivers of poor mental health in children and young adults, including poverty, racism, rejection, and the many uncertainties of contemporary American life.…
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July 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ACoM News Briefing | Why #GenZ Grapples with #Loneliness, #Depression & a Sense of #Rejection | See More: buff.ly/Rg8otNg | Why is depression, anxiety & disconnection soaring among young adults? Real stories & expert insight into the mental health impact—and paths forward. #GenZMentalHealth
Laila Ayub, Director of Project ANAR, an Afghan American women-led immigration justice group, explains the impact a recent justice department decision on asylum will have on women and girls in Afghanistan.
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#women #asylum #refugees #girls #violence #immigration #acom
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July 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Laila Ayub, Director of Project ANAR, an Afghan American women-led immigration justice group, explains the impact a recent justice department decision on asylum will have on women and girls in Afghanistan.
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#women #asylum #refugees #girls #violence #immigration #acom
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Afghan women and girls fleeing violence may no longer automatically be eligible for asylum in the US, says Laila Ayub of @ProjectAnar speaking on a new decision issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals. @CGRS_Asylum @tahirihjustice
July 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Afghan women and girls fleeing violence may no longer automatically be eligible for asylum in the US, says Laila Ayub of @ProjectAnar speaking on a new decision issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals. @CGRS_Asylum @tahirihjustice
ACoM News Briefing | Unpacking The New ‘One Big, Beautiful’ Law | See More: buff.ly/5Yv63Il | Tax cuts, fossil fuel & border boosts—but healthcare & SNAP take a hit. Deficit set to swell by $3 T. #OneBigBeautifulBill #BudgetPolicy #HealthCare #Climate #Deficit
Unpacking The New ‘One Big, Beautiful’ Law
Speakers will discuss some of the impacts of the new budget and spending bill, including long-term effects on American health, the environment, and the national deficit, which is expected to rise by…
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July 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ACoM News Briefing | Unpacking The New ‘One Big, Beautiful’ Law | See More: buff.ly/5Yv63Il | Tax cuts, fossil fuel & border boosts—but healthcare & SNAP take a hit. Deficit set to swell by $3 T. #OneBigBeautifulBill #BudgetPolicy #HealthCare #Climate #Deficit