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Since 9.11, individuals calling themselves "Minutemen" have formed loosely structured volunteer associations that patrol the Southern U.S. border and have been vilified as racist vigilantes for their armed actions against undocumented immigrants. After camping out with the Minutemen of Campo, Calif., Russell Morse discovers the unexpected, even conflicting, reasons these men spend their lives in the desert. Morse, Furtado and Rojas are editors at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia a Proje...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:21am PST
WHEN: SATURDAY -- FEBRUARY 25 -- STARTS 12PM
WHERE: FRUITVALE DISTRICT, OAKLAND -- ST.ELIZABETH'S SCHOOLYARD-- 1500 BLOCK OF 34TH AVE....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:53pm PST
A recent series of Los Angeles Times articles critical of the United Farmworkers Union and its leadership is sparking a re-examination of the revered union's historical inheritance, writes Eduardo Stanley (nuestroforo@kfcf.org), host of the bilingual "Nuestro Foro" weekly radio program on KFCF in Fresno, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 6:53pm PST
Listen to an interview with Enrique Morones, a founder of the group Border Angels, and an organizer of a cross-country migrant caravan from San Diego to Washington, DC....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 12:44pm PST
Planning Meeting
Reunion de coordinacion
February 18 (Saturday) 2006
18 de Febrero (sabado) 2006...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 11:26pm PST
When longtime San Diego Latino marketer Enrique Morones read about the death of Guillermo Martínez Rodríguez at the hands of a Border Patrol agent on Dec. 30, he knew he had to do something....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 6:14pm PST
By Edward Campbell
SEATTLE, Feb. 9 (Al-Masakin)--Captain James Yee author of For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism under Fire said that desecration of the Holy Koran led to mass suicide attempts at the US detention center, Camp Delta, at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Yee spoke to a packed auditorium Feb. 8 on the University of Washington campus....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 1:44pm PST
Paga lo que debe, Escobar!
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 15MB....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 8:05pm PST
Crossing America for immigrant rights. 1 minute video...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 10:50am PST
SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (al-masakin)--libelous caricature insulting the Holy Prophet Muhammad, salah lahu alhi wasallam, God's final messenger, have appeared on the University of Washington campus in Seattle....
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2006 3:30pm PST
The March for Migrants will stop in Sacramento at the South Steps of the State Capitol on Monday, February 6. Be there to support the marchers!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2006 10:09am PST
Students at the University of Michigan held a Migrant and Immigrant Rights Awareness and Labor Law Roundtable conference here Jan. 17-19. The gathering, organized by the students of MIRA (Migrant and Immigrant Rights Awareness) and the Labor Law Roundtable, with the support of UM faculty and other sponsoring organizations, was projected as the first of a series of conferences that will address issues of immigration and social justice....
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:48am PST
I am writing to ask for your help and support in three main areas:...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 5:52pm PST
Anti-immigrant legislation inspired by the "Minutemen" is passed by the House of Representatives. San Francisco passes an ordinance condemning it...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 12:15pm PST
Saturday, February 25, 2006 12PM – 3PM
Fruitvale District in Oakland...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 11:26pm PST
Englsih followed by Spanish announcement of a Sunday Demonstration...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 8:44am PST
A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:54am PST
For 75-year-old Fresno resident Ernesto Cisneros, bill HR 4437 — Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 — has his arms up in protest....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:53am PST
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 2:04am PST