Rebecca Chowdhury

Rebecca Chowdhury is a freelance journalist covering grassroots organizing and focusing on immigration, criminal justice and surveillance issues. Her work has appeared in Time, The Appeal, In These Times, and Grist.

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Groups focused on ending gender-based violence are building new worlds outside of the carceral system

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Why journalists must speak out about Gaza

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Mutual aid groups in NYC support asylum-seekers where the city has failed

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color photograph of a line of male asylum-seekers on a New York City sidewalk

Black deportees to Haiti face indefinite detention

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Black deportees to Haiti face indefinite detention

There’s a special court for sex workers, but it’s a far cry from what they need

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There’s a special court for sex workers, but it’s a far cry from what they need

Here’s what working-class South Asian groups want to see under a Biden-Harris administration

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Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the country for the first time after being sworn into office.