• Three years ago, Chinese authorities in the western province of Xinjian with a large Muslim population known as Uighurs, ordered everyone in the provincial capital, Urumqi, to return to their the towns in which they were born to get a new identity card. This order imposed hardships on families who had migrated to the capital city to find work.
(“Apartheid with Chinese Characters,” The Economist, June 2, 2018)
• The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court, upheld Ohio’s aggressive voter purge law, which allows a voter to be scrubbed from the registration rolls if they miss a federal election. Only a handful of states have such punitive voting regulations, which disproportionately impact poor people and communities of color.
(“Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter Purge Law,” NPR, June 11, 2018; “Ohio Voting Rights Decision not a Green Light for Reckless Voter Purges,” CNN, June 12, 2018)
• The National Fair Housing Alliance recently issued its annual Fair Housing Trends Report. The study found that the number of housing discrimination complaints continues to rise as the Trump administration is rescinding rules that imposed strict deadlines on states and localities to address housing discrimination and segregation.
(“Government Remains the Biggest Obstacle to Fair Housing,” American Prospect, May 8, 2018)
