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text5/26 in SF: Press Conf Respond to Senate Immigration Bill! by via list
When: Friday, May 26, 2006 at 10:00AM Where: In front of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office – 1 Post Street, San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 12:01am PDT
textImmigrant Rights Actions/Zapatista Protest Against Vicente Fox Today in Sacramento by Dan Bacher
Today is another big day for demonstrations in Sacramento. CAUIL is sponsoring three immigrant rights actions today, while the Zapatista Solidarity Commiteee is sponsoring a demonstration to protest the appearance of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Here's all of the details!...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 10:21am PDT
textWhile Some See Compromise, Senate Immigration Bill Punishes Undocumented Immigrants by Democracy Now (repost)
The Senate version of the immigration bill is expected to be voted on as early as today. While the bill is being hailed as a compromise solution to immigration, many immigrant advocates point to a number of adverse provisions in the bill that they say will actually bar millions from legalization and threaten their civil liberties....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 8:58am PDT
textvicente fox, president of mexico, visiting sacto by Bianca
come to protest the bs that fox will be feeding legislators....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:28am PDT
textUS Senate limits debate on immigration reform by AFP repost
The motion to cut off what has been protracted debate was made by Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist and approved on a 73-25 vote....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 11:39pm PDT
textDown with Senate Bill 2611! by Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee
Attacks on immigrants are attacks on the working class! Full rights for all immigrants now!...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 9:30pm PDT
textSenate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill by repost
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to limit debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 2:15pm PDT
textLATINOPHOBIA on the Senate by Rose
What the immigration debate is really about by Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 10:23am PDT
textMadres se oponen a la deportacion de sus hijos by El Tecolote
Olina Calderón y Ana Corea celebraron el día de las madres luchando por sus hijos, quienes podrían ser deportados por el Servicio de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos. A Olina el gobierno pretende arrancar de su lado a Gerson, 20, y Oscar, 17, un par de jóvenes espigados quienes se han adaptado sin complicaciones en Oakland, donde vislumbran un mejor futuro que en su natal y pobre Honduras. Ámbos muchachos fueron detenidos por la patrulla fronteriza, en el desierto de Arizona, junto con otros...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:30am PDT
textMothers confront sons' deportation by Benito Jiménez, El Tecolote (reposted)
Olina Calderón and Ana Corea celebrated Mother’s Day fighting for their children, who face deportation by the Immigration Service. Calderón says the U.S. government intends to deport her two sons, Gerson, 20 and Oscar, 17, to Central America. The two have grown-up, trouble free in Oakland, where they have carved out a better future than they could have in their native and impoverished country of Honduras, says Calderón....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:28am PDT
documentPhilippine solon files resolution vs. repressive US immigration bills
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by Lyn Angelica Pano
Philippine activist lawmaker Rep. Crispin Beltran recently filed House Resolution 1263 urging the Philippine government to support the call of millions of Filipinos and migrants of other nationalities in the US and actively oppose the passage of the racist and repressive Sensenbrenner-King bill and other similar proposals....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:11am PDT
textU.S. Troops Heading to Southern Border Not About Immigration by New America Media (reposted)
The push to deploy National Guards troops to our southern border with Mexico has nothing to do with current immigration issues, but plenty to do with the Bush administration’s failure to effectively maintain U.S. influence in Latin America....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:53pm PDT
textEnglish-Only Was a Bane in My Immigrant Family by Pueng Vongs, New America Media (reposted)
Long before the Senate adopted a measure that would make English the national language of the United States, Pueng Vongs' immigrant parents imposed an "English Only" rule within her family. Vongs, an editor with New America Media, says that instead of helping, speaking English exclusively deprived her family of intimacy....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:53pm PDT
textUna Cárcel de Barras y Estrellas by Crispín Garrido
Crispín plantea así, literariamente, como relato periodístico, la interacción de los muchísimos componentes del fenómeno de la emigración y la existencia, azarosa y desarraigada, de los connacionales en el mundo enajenante --de alienación-- de los gringos, el cual es una prisión. De allí el título de la novela: Una cárcel de barras y estrellas....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 6:58pm PDT
textLA's South Central Farm's Call for Action by ZHelper
LA's South Central Farm is asking for people to come to the 14 acre community garden (41st/Alameda) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:16pm PDT
textWho's Illegal? Shooting to Kill on the Border by Counterpunch (reposted)
On the afternoon of May 18, 22 year-old Oscar Abraham Garcia-Barrios was shot and killed at close range by U.S. Border Patrol and Customs agents. Garcia-Barrios was just 50 feet north of the border crossing from San Diego to Tijuana. He and a teenage passenger were transporting four undocumented immigrants-back to Mexico....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:09am PDT
textWorkers Hoping to Secure Minimum Wage Enforcement by Beyond Chron (reposted)
In 2003, workers across San Francisco scored a huge victory when voters approved Proposition L, the Minimum Wage Ordinance. The measure raised the local minimum wage to $8.50, indexed it to inflation, and put the city on the map as having the strongest minimum wage law in the country. However, since its passage, a crucial element to the ordinance revealed itself to be missing * no on was enforcing the ordinance, leaving many immigrants and other vulnerable workers unable to reap its benefits....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:42am PDT
textEnglish-Only Laws Don't Work, and Bush Knows It by New America Media (reposted)
The president, who enthusiastically backed bilingual education as governor of Texas, should resist English-only moves by Congress. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press). TheHutchinsonReport blog is now at www.earlofarihutchinson.com....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:25am PDT
textUpdate on Senate Debate and Action Alert by National Immigration Forum via guess who
can you tell that i got on another list?...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:22am PDT
textBay Area Minutemen Chapter May Form by nbc11 repost
A group that wants to crack down on undocumented workers hopes to launch a Bay Area chapter of the Minutemen on Monday night in Fremont....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:17am PDT
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