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How to Keep it Up (Momentum, That is)
The Project, Page 11
Momentum in social justice movements globally and locally....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:37pm PDT
HR4437 & SR2454: The Deal With the Bills
The Project, Page 9 and continued on Page 14
This article describes what HR4437 and Sr2454 are and how these legislation propositions have transformed the issue into a crisis at the border....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:29pm PDT
Shout Out to May Day: Unidos Estamos, Nos Quedamos
The Project, Page 8
Immigrant rights groups all over the U.S. called for a general strike on May 1st, International Worker's Day. This article gives an explanation of what happened in different cities such as Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Salinas, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and so forth on May 1st when an estimated 1.5 million people all over the country showed up to protest against HR4437....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:23pm PDT
Call Your Senators -- Immigrants Are Not Terrorists, Militarization Is Not the Answer
Call your Senator today to tell him/her not to sign on to an anti-immigrant,
pro-militarization agenda!...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:20pm PDT
The Border War Comes Home
"This is the calm before the storm; they’re going to make it tough,” Professor Armando Navarro had told LA’s La Opinion. “They’re talking about raids, deportations. In every barrio we have to organize migrant defense committees, and get ready for civil disobedience.”...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:13pm PDT
WHAT COMES NEXT?
The People Will Answer This Important Question
Cinco de Mayo, 2006...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 2:44pm PDT
The Struggle for Immigrant Rights Continues in San Francisco
An Emergency Demonstration took place on May 17 to counter the Bush Administration's call to turn the border into a militarized zone. The rally and march called by the May 1 Coalition began in UN Plaza and marched past the Chronicle to protest its miserable and dishonest coverage of the Immigrant Rights movement....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 9:46am PDT
UK Immigration: Mother consigned to certain death by harsh new rules
A young mother fell ill and died on a visit to Britain - an innocent victim of the hysteria over so-called health tourism...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 6:09am PDT
5/30: Press Conference to denounce Senate bill
WHEN: Tuesday, May 30, 10 am.
WHERE: In front of Senator Feinstein's office, 1 Post (at Market St.), San
Francisco....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 8:45pm PDT
Center ties hate crimes to border debate
WASHINGTON - Tension over illegal immigration is contributing to a rise in hate groups and hate crimes across the nation, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. It says that racist groups are using the immigration debate as a rallying cry....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 4:15pm PDT
IMMIGRANT FAMILY FIGHTS BACK AGAINST EMPLOYER ABUSE AND ICE RAID IN SAN FRANCISCO
Young Workers United, Golden Gate University Womens Employment Rights Clinic and Community Stand Up to Defend and Support Family...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 11:27am PDT
Bush's Border Folly
Bush's tough talk on the border is just that, the writer says. Past efforts to slow illegal immigration through law enforcement and walls have failed. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press)....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:33am PDT
Brawls in Beach Flats: latina pays for it
A fight between a group of Latino and white males, in their late teens....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 3:03am PDT
Immigrant rights groups protest in San Francisco and across California
...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 2:11pm PDT
Ku Klux Klan Anti Latino?
Y ahora qué?
Tras las manifestaciones del 1 de mayo, hay que emplearse a fondo
en encontrar alianzas para la comunidad latina indocumentada.
Hemos levantado demasiado odio entre los anglos, estaban acostumbrados
a vivir como reyes a nuestra costa y no se acostumbrarán al cambio
tan fácilmente....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 11:52am PDT
Bush’s immigration speech—an appeal to militarism and reaction
Bush’s speech was ignorant, short-sighted and reactionary. While crafted with the short-term goal of satisfying both the prejudices of the Republican Party’s extreme right-wing base and the profit interests of the American Manufacturers Association, the proposals outlined by the US president have far-reaching and ominous implications....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:32am PDT
Bush Calls For 6,000 National Guard Troops to Deploy to U.S.-Mexican Border
President Bush spoke on national tv night and called for 6,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border. We looking at the growing militarization of the border and the role private contractors, like Halliburton, are playing....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:32am PDT
Black Politicians Question Bush's Border Plan
President Bush said Monday night he will send as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico to help stop the flood of illegal immigrants, part of an administration drive to win conservative support in Congress for an election-year overhaul of the nation's tattered immigration laws....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:27am PDT