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Bush vows crackdown on immigrant workers In a transparent bid to placate its right-wing and xenophobic political base, the Bush administration vowed Tuesday to launch a crackdown against undocumented immigrant workers in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:10pm PDT
¡Ya Basta! Unidos Sin Fronteras, El Paso & Ciudad Juarez, October 8, 2005 Photos and stories from the October 8, 2005 action for border justice in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 12:33am PDT
10/8: Campo, CA: Action Against the Minutemen La Tierra Es De Todos Coalition and other groups call on
brothers and sisters everywhere to join us for a weekend at
the border in Campo, California to denounce and protest
the “Minutemen†and to support immigrant rights and human
rights for all migrants at the border...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:50pm PDT
Reflections on a Mass Grave in America 
reflections on the protests of needless deaths in Calexico, CA...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 9:29am PDT
Why the Minutemen failed The Minutmen's appeal to the far right ignored the source of illegal immigration, economic inequality between US and Mexico, instead they focused on the border wall band-aid and appealed to phony nationalism.....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 2:25pm PDT
Honduran Immigrants in New Orleans: Fleeing Mitch, Katrina and Now the U.S. Government It is estimated that 120,000 Hondurans lived in the New Orleans area. Many were refugees from Hurricane Mitch, which devastated Honduras in 1998 killing up to 10,000 people. While many Honduran immigrants were granted temporary legal status, others are undocumented and fear deportation. Democracy Now! travels to Louisiana to speak with some of the Honduran survivors there....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:26am PDT
JOIN US SEPTEMBER 11 AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA MINUTEMEN IN CAMPO, CA 
Join the Human Rights Coalition of California against the RETURN OF THE CALIFORNIA MINUTEMEN. Jim Chase, California Minutemen Founder has announced a Border Watch to begin SEPTEMBER 11, 2005. Join the Human Rights Coalition of California and other human rights activists at the VFW in Campo, CA to protest the racism of the Minuteman Project....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 1:55pm PDT
From A Buenas Noches Brigade... ...to a Buenas Noches Army!
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Rise of
Fascism and Racism In Our Communities
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Borders
That Capitalism Depends On
This is a call to all people who will be converging on the San
Diego/Tijuana, Campo and Calexico/Mexicali regions to engage in
autonomous direct action to stop the Minutemen, document it and share it
with the world....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 2:15pm PDT
1970: Chicano Moratorium — 2005: Latinos for Peace Thirty-five years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, some 25,000-30,000 people, mostly Mexican Americans, marched through the heart of the East Los Angeles barrios protesting the war in Vietnam. It was the largest Mexican American political demonstration ever until Cesar Chavez’s funeral in 1993. It was a time when young working-class Chicanos and Latinos were beginning to refuse to go to Vietnam, and those on the front lines, along with African American and white soldiers, began to resist the Pentagon’s...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 10:34pm PDT
Shut Down The Minutemen Sep. 16-18! No Borders, No Racists! 
Mobilize to San Diego in September for a movement Against All Borders
We call on people everywhere to converge on the San Diego/Tijuana region
and the Mexicali/Calexico region of the Mexico/US border in order to
stop the vigilante operation being planned there by the Friends of the
Border Patrol, beginning on September 16th. Our goal for Sep. 16th-18th is to take action and directly shut down the
Minutemen operations....
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 5:29pm PDT
July-August 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter and Monthly Actions Digest The only monthly immigrant solidarity newsletter published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 3:19am PDT
Come to San Diego in Spetemebr to help stop the Minutemen The Friends of the Border Patrol are havigna Minutemen type borderwatch beginning on September 16th. Below is a call put out by some groups who plan to confront them and hopefully stop them....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 5:30am PDT
Who You Calling 'Wetback'? A Chicano Becomes The Immigrant 
Growing up as a Chicano, three generations deep in the United States, I have always felt the segregation between Chicanos and Mexican immigrants -- what we call "border brothers" and some call "wetbacks." It is a clash of identity and misunderstanding on both sides. Even something as lethal as the gang warfare between Nortenos and Surenos here in the Bay Area has this conflict at its base....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 1:36pm PDT
Texas AFL-CIO takes stand against ‘Minutemen’ HOUSTON — The Texas AFL-CIO held its 45th convention at the new, all-union Hilton Americas Hotel here Aug. 11-13.
Among its decisions, the convention took a strong stand in support of immigrant rights and against racism — particularly against the “Minutemen” vigilantes who are threatening to carry out their anti-immigrant program in Houston this October....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 6:45am PDT
No Borders Encuentro--Aug.27-28, San Diego (no)Border Encuentro, August 27-28th, San Diego
Hola todos. Crazy times we find ourselves in. Millions of people forced to live underground, more than 3200 dead and tens of thousands more incapacitated crossing the border. Communities and families split by the wall....
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2005 12:00pm PDT
Campo: Good Riddance and Goodbye On Saturday, protestors celebrated the defeat of the California Minutemen, and Friends of the Border Patrol introduced themselves....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 2:24pm PDT
78 Migrant Lives Claimed During July Bring Migrant Death Count to 228...
Posted: Wed, Aug 10, 2005 6:10pm PDT
US: children left abandoned by factory immigration raid On Tuesday, July 26, between 30 and 35 children, some as young as three months old, were left stranded when federal agents arrested 119 immigrant workers at the Petit Jean Poultry plant in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. No provisions were made for these children as their parents were carted 70 miles away to a detention center to await deportation....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 6:35am PDT
Callous maltreatment of refugees in Australian detention centres Further evidence has come to light of the systematic abuse of refugees locked up indefinitely in Australian detention centres. The latest reports come on top of the well-publicised cases of Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez, who were detained, physically mistreated and in Alvarez’s case deported, despite being seriously ill. Alvarez is an Australian citizen and Rau has permanent residency....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:20am PDT
Anti-Minutemen Meeting in San Diego area on 8/1 español abajo
This is a call for people to organize in the North County of San Diego and in all Mexican/Latino Communities in general. Please attend the meeting on Monday, August 1st at 6:30 p.m. at the California Rural Legal Assistance office...
Due to the situation occurring in Campo in which the Minutemen supporters are calling for general support for their movement, activists, including migrant rights lawyer Claudia Smith and film maker Mark Day, are making a call to organize in defe...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 12:53pm PDT
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