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A Day Without Organizers: Youths Honor Their Parents in a Movement of Families
Advocacy groups are scrambling to lead and channel the energy sparked spontaneously by immigrants in marches across the country. They risk ruining the intimate, familial nature of the movement. Raj Jayadev is the editor of Silicon Valley De-Bug (www.siliconvalleydebug.com), a project of New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:16am PDT
THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES - STOP DEPORTATION NOW! MOBILIZATION - April 24, 2006 WASHINGTON DC
Nationwide Immigrant Rights Mobilization to D.C.-Register Now!
On the 10th Anniversary of the Worst Immigration Laws in United States
History...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:28am PDT
support the LA trucka and taxi drivers on May1
In Laa on May1 truck and taxi drivers will add to the nationwide strike to support immgrants....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:10am PDT
File a tax return to prove you would be good citizen
Here Illegally, but Choosing to Pay Taxes...
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2006 10:09am PDT
Radio Report Back from April 10 Immigrant Rights March from Davis to Capitol (audio/mpeg 7.9MB)
An 8 minute audio report back/sound montage from the 100+ participant, 9 mile Immigrant Rights march from Davis to Sacramento on April 10. THe mobilization was against HR 4437, and for a more just immigration policy. Interviews with student participants as well as interview with an immigrant & Sac resident I met at the Capitol rally....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 11:09pm PDT
Protest song: El PRIMERO DE MAYO
Download the FREE mp3
http://calacapress.com/gigantedespierto/mp3/PrimeroDeMayo.mp3...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 7:19pm PDT
Sacramento Joins Cities Throughout the Nation In Opposing Anti-Immigrant Legislation
Over 10,000 immigrant rights activists marched in Sacramento on Monday, April 10 against legislation in the U.S. Senate that would make assisting an undocumented immigrant a felony....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 7:16pm PDT
The Plight for Freedom, Bay Area April 10
The San Francisco contingency of the April 10 nation mobilization in support of immigrant rights....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 2:07pm PDT
U.S. Denies Healthcare to Non-Citizens
Congress hides anti-immigrant law inside deficit reduction legislation....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 9:15am PDT
Missing in Immigration Debate, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee’s Bill
Race in America is such a sickness driving sickness that most people, Black and white, fail to see clearly. Instead of seeing “us” or people, they see only “Black” or “white” – usually at odds with one another, using one another for their own racialist and divisive purposes....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:25am PDT
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: Politics Trumped Substance in Senate
WASHINGTON, DC -- Politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties failed immigrants and their advocates last week, as the Senate failed to reach an agreement that would allow immigration reform legislation to come to a vote....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:24am PDT
Groups Calls for ‘A Day Without an Immigrant’
LOS ANGELES -- Activists with the March 25th Coalition, organizers of the massive immigration rights protest which took place in Los Angeles two weeks ago, are now calling for an economic boycott to take place next month....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:23am PDT
The Power of Latinos
In the last weeks, the sleeping giant of American politics has growled: the young immigrant generation, the Latino population.. E pluribus Unum - one out of many - is the national motto of the United States inscribed on all kinds of public buildings....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 5:03am PDT
Can Marches Stop the Scapegoating of Immigrants?
An editor at a Spanish-language newspaper remembers with trepidation the harsh legislation and rhetoric that came on the heels of California's last big immigrant-rights mobilizations. Pilar Marrero is a columnist for the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, where this commentary first appeared. Translated by Daffodil Altan....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:25pm PDT
BTL:Some AntiImmigrant Activists Have Known Connections with Racist Hate Groups
Interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 5:01am PDT
Mexican workers fired for attending immigrant rights rally in Detroit
Twenty-one immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Detroit were fired last month for participating in a national day of protests against anti-immigrant legislation being drafted in Washington. Wolverine Packing Company fired the workers—all born in Mexico—on March 28, the day after 20,000 immigrants and supporters protested in downtown Detroit....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 9:38pm PDT
Photos From Fresno Immigrant rights protest
Immigrant rights march results in largest protest in Fresno History. Over 10,000 people march for Human Rights and dignity for immigrants in Fresno on Monday....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 5:37pm PDT
The Stake for Asian Americans in Immigration Reform
The current immigration debate has huge implications for the Asian American community but they have largely been left out of the coverage of the immigration rights movement. On a teleconference call organized by New America Media and the Asian American Justice Center (AAJA), Traci Hong, Director of Immigration Programs for AAJA, told a group of 25 reporters and editors from the Asian press across the country that immigration was the civil rights issues of the 21st century and would affect all...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:48am PDT
Shared Struggle: Gays, Immigrants Each Can Be Labeled 'Illegal'
Marta Donayre, Apr 12, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:47am PDT