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“This strong, forward-looking deal honors the vital role nurses play in delivering exceptional care and advancing UC’s public service mission.”

Mahmood told the BBC on Sunday: "This is a moral mission for me, because I can see illegal migration is tearing our country apart, it is dividing communities."

Organizers counter that civil disobedience is central to their mission and vowed to continue holding weekly vigils outside the facility, calling the arrests a sign that we are in “a spiritual emergency.”

They argue such missions make the most sense for powering energy-hungry operations.

Nonprofit news organizations whose primary mission is serving communities of color nearly doubled from 26 to 50 organizations between 2017 and 2021, according to the Institute for Nonprofit News.