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Workers Hoping to Secure Minimum Wage Enforcement 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
English-Only Laws Don't Work, and Bush Knows It 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
Update on Senate Debate and Action Alert can you tell that i got on another list?...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:22am PDT
Bay Area Minutemen Chapter May Form 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
5/24: NNIRR/AFSC Press Conference What: "Immigrant Communities Nationwide say NO to Compromise Bill
-Call for Fair and Just
Legalization with Rights"
When: Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 1:00 to 2:00 pm EDT...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Newcomers should be citizens, not guests It was a soothing color to see after so many stark shades of black and white. The president, who has long boasted that he doesn't see a lot of nuance, dressed up his speech on immigration in muted tones of gray....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 6:51pm PDT
INB 5/21/06: More Raids as Senate Acts on Bill 1. Raids Protested in Detroit
2. LA Water & Power Raided
3. 34 Arrested in Western NY
4. Construction Raids Continue
5. Senate Moves on Immigration Bill...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 5:22pm PDT
Revealed: 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at immigration HQ in UK A 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at the UK's largest immigration processing centre has been uncovered by an Observer investigation, piling more pressure on a government already reeling from a series of Home Office bungles....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 1:03pm PDT
Immigration Setback Blacks, Poor Whites The increasing number of immigrants entering the U.S. has been sanction by Washington D.C. to satisfy the growing demand from corporate America for cheap labor; and the failure of U.S. policy has been a setback for all Americans on both sides of the border....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 6:27pm PDT
Language Bill Divides Americans LOS ANGELES, May20 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A US Senate bill making English the United States' national language has divided the Americans, with many seeing the move as adding more burdens on millions of immigrants in the country....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 9:36am PDT
MASS STUDENT PROTEST AGAINST RACIST MINUTEMEN SUNDAY MAY 21 @ 10:00AM @ L.A. City Hall (then march through Broadway until we get to Olympic & Broadway)
IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
STUDENTS 4 MIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION...
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 3:54pm PDT
FAMILIA IMMIGRANT LUCHA CONTRA EL ABUSO DE SUS PATRONES Y UNA RADADA DE LA “MIGRA” -Jóvenes Trabajadores Unidos (YWU), la Clínica de Derechos Laborales para Mujeres de la Universidad Golden Gate (WERC), y la Comunidad se Levantan para Defender y Apoyar a la Familia-...
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 3:05pm PDT
Call your Senators Today to Support Legalization for ALL! Thanks to all your calls, the Ensign, Cornyn and Kyl amendments were defeated! We have an opportunity now to push for an amendment that would strengthen the Hagel-Martinez bill S. 2611....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 10:22am PDT
US agents murder driver at SD Border crossing US border pigs opened fire yesterday on the driver of an suv suspected of carrying illegal immigrants. The major media is glossing over this blatant murder....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 9:23am PDT
Fear of a Brown America! The simmering struggle over immigration continues to bubble over the congressional vacation, and after all is said and done, it is doubtful in the extreme that they have the solution....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 7:24am PDT
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: Senate Bill Gets Harsher; America, We Have a Problem As debate proceeds in the Senate, the so-called “compromise” immigration bill gets more restrictive. Fear of immigrants is the cause, argues the writer....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 6:28am PDT
Green Card Holders From India Anxiously Watch Immigration Debate FREMONT, Calif. – Suma Rhea of Minnesota and Sumathi Athluri of Massachusetts are among the 1.5 million green card holders, an estimated 350,000 of them from India, who have been forced to live away from their spouses and children because of U.S. immigration laws....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 6:28am PDT
SF Immigrant Rally of May 17th The Chronicle omitted something...
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 1:51am PDT
Solidarity march with workers fired on for taking off on MayDay. Solidarity march with fired Chevy's workers....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 12:04am PDT
Call Now: STOP THE KYL/CORNYN AMENDMENT Immigration reform legislation is taking a turn for the worse. Senators Kyl (R-AZ) and Cornyn (R-TX) are poised to offer an amendment that would strip the right of temporary workers to obtain green cards....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 10:45pm PDT
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