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Help Defeat Unrealistic & Dangerous Immigration Legislation
In just a few days the House of Representatives will vote on a misguided and harmful immigration proposal that would, among other things, make unlawful presence a crime....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 10:34pm PST
Urgent Action: Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bill
Your House representative needs to hear from you about why this bad bill should not pass. Instead, he or she should support comprehensive immigration reform such as the AgJobs bill (H.R. 884)...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:44pm PST
Day Laborers Face Uncertain Future under Bush’s Immigration Plan
They earn a living day-to-day, painting houses, installing roofs, gardening and offering their work at a low cost. Day laborers are the most visible undocumented group of Latino immigrants in the United States, and their lives may soon change if a guest worker plan proposed this week by Pres. George Bush is approved by Congress....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:36am PST
Theresa Dang acquitted of all criminal charges
“They
saw that this was a politically-motivated charge
brought forth by the Garden Grove Police Department
against Dang for exercising her constitutional rights
of free speech and assembly."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:52pm PST
November 2005 U.S. Immigrant News Alert!
November 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter
Published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:44am PST
As Flames Die Down, Young People in France Exhale and Organize
PARIS--Burnt and rotting garbage spills from melted dumpsters at the entrance to a public housing project here in Saint Denis, a suburb north of Paris. The refuse has lain here for more than a week, blocking the walkway and serving as a reminder of the violence. Four teenagers stand in front of the building, one of them holding tight to a dog on a leash. As they turn to walk away, one of them says, "Nobody has come to clean it up because nobody cares."...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 2:42pm PST
France’s state of emergency—Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy has given a clear racist coloration to the state of emergency, which was imposed at midnight on November 8. The following day, he explained to the National Assembly his instructions to the préfets (regional central government officials), whose task it is to carry out the police repression of the suburban youth revolt that has been raging in France’s council estates for over two weeks...
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 9:46pm PST
Solidarity with the Rebels of France
The o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective wishes to extend our feelings of solidarity to the rebels of the migrant communities of France. It is clear to us that the recent uprising which has spread across the country is a reaction against years of bitter racism that has ruined countless lives as well as a reaction against racist immigration policies based on that racism....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 4:10pm PST
The Roots of Civil Unrest in Europe
Robert Fisk and Behzad Yaghmaian on Post-Colonial Muslim and Arab Immigrants...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:15pm PST
A Look at the Plight of Immigrant Youth in Europe
The French government has declared a state of emergency in response to the youth-led uprising that began nearly two weeks ago, and has spread to over 300 towns and cities across the country as well as Brussels and Berlin. We go to Paris to speak with French-born journalist Naima Bouteldja and French-American activist Julia Wright about how the current civil unrest is rooted in decades of social discrimination....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:14pm PST
The Explosion in the Suburbs:Paris is Burning
The Explosion in the Suburbs
Paris is Burning
By NAIMA BOUTELDJA...
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 10:17pm PST
Paris Uprising: Rebellion in Real Time
Paris Uprising
Rebellion in Real Time
By MATT REICHEL...
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 10:15pm PST
The Left's Response to the French Riots
Why The Left has been so slow to respond to the French riots....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 9:00pm PST
Urban Unrest Escalates in France as Riots Continue for 11th Straight Night
Urban unrest escalated around France this weekend as youths continued rioting throughout the country for an eleventh straight night. Over 3,300 cars had been destroyed throughout the country, along with dozens of public buildings and private businesses. More than 300 people have been detained. We go to Paris to speak with Christian Science Monitor correspondent, Peter Ford....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:24am PST
Eyewitness to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation
Rioting in Paris suburbs and other urban areas in France entered its second week Friday, as impoverished and angry youth continued to battle police. The fighting has extended to the eastern city of Dijon and the southern port city of Marseilles....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:21am PST
France: widening anti-police riots provoke government crisis
Nightly riots and clashes in the Paris suburbs, between the police and youth mainly of North African and African descent, are entering their second week. A thousand police officers were deployed Wednesday night in Seine-Saint-Denis, northwest of Paris, and half of the department’s 40 towns were affected by violence. Shots have been fired at police officers, and one official spokesman described events as a descent into civil war....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:32pm PST
Paris hit by anti-police riots
Two boys died on the evening of October 27 while fleeing from the police on a suburban council estate that houses poor and immigrant workers. The deaths of the boys, in Clichy-sous-Bois in Paris’ northern suburbs, sparked violent confrontations between mainly immigrant youth and 400 to 500 riot police dispatched by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:55am PST
Immigrant Advocates Demand a Halt of Deportations to Quake-torn Pakistan
Following the devastating earthquake that shook Pakistan, Kashmir and India in early October, legislators and community groups are hoping to get temporary asylum for Pakistanis in the U.S....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:26pm PST
October 05 U.S. Immigrant News Alert!
First They Come to the "Illegals"....
The worsen situations of U.S. immigrant rights
"Injury To One Is Injury to All!"...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 1:08am PST
Lifting the curtain: Immigrant detention centers in U.S. charged with abuse
A recent Associated Press article sheds light on how human beings are treated when they are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The AP article reports allegations that as many as six federal Homeland Security deportation agents assaulted and tortured a shackled Nigerian man at the ICE facility in Oklahoma City. ICE officials have denied widespread abuse of detainees. The FBI is investigating....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:38pm PDT