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New law brings managed care to people with intellectual disabilities

Jun 10, 2025 | 8:06 pm ET By Christine Sexton Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed into law priority legislation for House Speaker Daniel Perez that addresses how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) receive health care. There were fears in the IDD advocacy community that DeSantis was going to veto the bill but he…
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Florida Removes 1.3m People From Health Care Plan

Published Feb 09, 2025 at 5:00 AM EST By Hugh Cameron To watch video report, Click Here. Over one million Floridians have had their health insurance revoked as a result of a nationwide disenrollment from coverage that was previously safeguarded as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrolment in Florida has fallen from…
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Miami-Dade organizations team up to expand services for abuse victims

WLRN Public Media | By Verónica Zaragovia Published November 14, 2024 at 1:43 PM EST Two Miami-Dade organizations are teaming up to expand services for women, children and families affected by violence and abuse. The groups have dubbed the $5 million facility The Healing Sanctuary a one-stop shop for resources like therapy and social services.  Susan Rubio-Riverra is the founder and executive director…
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Miami Beach pledges millions to the county for homeless funding. Will it be enough?

Aaron Leibowitz, Douglas Hanks November 15, 2024 Miami Beach officials agreed Thursday to direct $10 million to Miami-Dade County for homeless services and provide additional funding in future years, a response to county commissioners’ demands after the city pulled a question about implementing a tax to fund those services from the Nov. 5 ballot. City officials expressed frustration…
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Hope amid heartbreak for Amendment 4

Majority vote for reproductive rights signals bipartisan support Amelia Orjuela Da Silva Nov 12, 2024 On election night, as the results of Florida’s Amendment 4 poured in, Natasha Sutherland was surrounded by a mix of hope and heartbreak. The overwhelming support for the amendment, which sought to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, was…
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New high-rises and vanishing roots in West Grove

By Amelia Orjuela Da Silva Published November 7, 2024 at 1:39 PM EST Growing up in West Coconut Grove, lifelong residents Paula and Paulette Culmer shared a childhood steeped in the warmth of a tight-knit community, rich with Caribbean culture and the legacy of their Bahamian immigrant family.  “We didn’t have electricity until we were about eight,”…
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‘A true lifeline’: Community radio helps Florida immigrant workers prepare for Milton

Syra Ortiz Blanes Tue, October 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM CDT Amid a steady stream of rancheras and marimbas, Radio Conciencia is broadcasting messages about storm preparation and available shelters across Immokalee ahead of the arrival of ferocious Hurricane Milton to the Florida peninsula. “We must not let our guard down, we must continue making…
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Florida Dems cry foul as Donald Trump threatens to revoke TPS for Haitians

Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics Oct 8, 2024  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumpsaid he will revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians if he wins in November. That’s a move that could affect tens of thousands of Haitians living legally in Florida. Trump made his comments to NewsNation at a Texas fundraiser while discussing a high concentration of…
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Local Organizations

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Community Justice Project - We are community lawyers. In our legal work we collaborate closely with community organizers and grassroots groups in low-income communities of color because we believe that a more democratic, more just and more equal society can only truly come about through grassroots organizing and social movement. We are a part of that social movement in South Florida and strive to support organizing through our varied and often innovative legal work.

Dream Defenders - The Dream Defenders is a Florida-based nonprofit social-justice group that advocates for equality for people of color, an end to police militarization, an end to gender discrimination, and widespread nonviolence and peace at home and abroad. The group organizes protest marches, art events, and alternative history lessons, among many other happenings.

Florida Immigrant Coalition - A statewide confederation of 65 groups, the Immigrant Coalition is one of the the state's largest Latin American immigrant-advocacy organizations. The group advocates for not only immigration-law reform but also rights for undocumented workers, farmworkers, and immigrant students.

Power U Center for Social Change - Miami's PowerU seeks to develop "the leadership of black and brown youth and black women in South Florida" to end systemic oppression and racism.

The Miami-Dade Women's Fund - The Women's Fund, one of the largest women's rights organizations in Miami, advocates for economic security and health care for women. The group also awards grants to smaller groups that help underserved women across the Miami-Dade.

Miami Bridge - The organization is Miami-Dade's only 24-hour shelter for abandoned or abused kids ages 10 to 17. The shelter provides for more than 500 children and teens each year.

Engage Miami - Founded by a group of young local laywers, Engage Miami aims to get more young people involved in politics — especially the local kind that actually affects most people day-to-day. They're trying to convince Millennials that they should care about things like zoning board hearings and lobbyist transparency.

Urban Paradise Guild - What the South Florida Wildlands Association does for the Glades, the Guild does for the City of Miami. The UPG and its members are dedicated to bringing back a sense of "natural habitat" to Miami.

Food Not Bombs - The mission of Food Not Bombs is to recover and share free vegan or vegetarian food with the public without restriction to protest war, poverty, and the destruction of the environment.

Miami Homes for All - We believe that everyone in Miami deserves to lead a dignified, healthy, and vibrant life. That includes everyone from those struggling to make ends meet to those experiencing homelessness.

Upcoming Events

2024 Symposium on Neurodiversity

The University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma is excited to host Dr. Temple Grandin, alongside Tim Herbel, as the keynote speakers for the 2024 Emerson-Wier Liberal Arts Symposium focusing on neurodiversity, a derivative of our annual Speaker Series.

FREE Black History Month Through Film at Belle Isle Library

Features OETA’s documentaries that delve into black history in Oklahoma, from Langston University, which opened even before Oklahoma became a state, to the trailblazers of Oklahoma’s Civil Rights movement, such as Roscoe Dungee, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, and Clara Luper.

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“The Fairytale Project”

A dance performance about the love between two African-American slaves and how they discover their roots in the free colonies of East Texas. It is both informative and moving.

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UCLA Luskin Lecture: Barbara Ransby

Noted writer, historian and activist Barbara Ransby will explore the inter-institutional space of ideas and organizing, linking research and scholarship to communities and movement-based work.

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Empower Run 2024

The Empower Run is a 3.1 mile long family-friendly race open to participants of all ages and abilities, including runners, walkers and strollers. Funds raised by the 2024 Empower Run will provide access to free representation and legal services to low-income survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and help secure #JusticeForSurvivors.

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41st Upton Sinclair Celebration

In 2024, we’re looking forward to honoring the contributions of organizers and activists who are paving the way for social justice progress in Los Angeles—from fighting for the creation of a new Youth Development Department focused on care not punishment, to advocating for eviction protections for millions of struggling tenants—or securing a ban on toxic…

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North Texas Food Bank – Pack & Box

Millions of meals are distributed through our programs and Feeding Network each year. Volunteers participating in the Pack and Box opportunity will work together in an assembly line to package the boxes/bags of food that are distributed to our neighbors through our programs and our Feeding Network. This opportunity is ideal for individuals or groups.…

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Qigong For Peace

Join us for this 2-hour Live Webinar, Qigong For Peace, on Saturday, Feb. 10th, 2024. David J. Coon, will share Qigong Exercises, Guided Meditations to Experience Inner Peace, and a Medical Qigong Lecture on the benefits of a regular Qigong practice.

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Comedy for Peace

Comedy for Peace is an incredible comedy show with Muslim and Jewish comedians, founded in March of 2019 in New York City. Comedy For Peace is an accessible, funny, fun, and meaningful show that brings diverse, Interfaith communities together with the belief that we can make a difference through the art of comedy.

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We Drum For Hope & Global Peace

Pick up your drum (or a box, pot or book) and join us in community drum prayers for peace.

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Anyone and everyone can make an impact, and at LoveJustice we believe that they deserve to be recognized for their good, necessary work!

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