Film "The Empire's War on the Border" on immigrant rights 
2969 Mission St., near 26th St....
Event Date: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:00PM
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:44AM
Victory! Cancellation of Contract with ICE at Richmond's West County Jail 
On July 10, Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston announced that his department is canceling its contract with ICE at the West County Jail in Richmond. Sherrif Livingston said that protests and public pressure played a role in the decision to cancel the contract....
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:14PM
Letter Writing to Immigrants & Refugees in Detention 
Tannery Arts Center, 1040 River Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat Jul 14, 2018 3:30PM
Posted: Mon Jul 9, 2018 12:06PM
San Francisco police raid Occupy ICE SF on behalf of the immigrant deportation machine 
On July 2, a Block ICE demonstration in front of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services building in San Francisco became a round-the-clock occupation when tents went up in front of the vehicular gate. For nearly a week, the building was unable to physically process immigrants for deportation from Northern California... until SFPD raided the encampment and arrested 39 occupiers in the dead of night on July 9....
Posted: Mon Jul 9, 2018 12:01PM
Occupy ICE San Francisco Support Rally 
444 Washington St
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat Jul 7, 2018 12:00PM
Posted: Fri Jul 6, 2018 10:09PM
We Have a Moral Imperative to Fight for Children Who Have Been Taken From Their Parents 
At the U.S.-Mexico Border, thousands of children have been stolen from parents fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries – conditions that have been greatly influenced by US policy and practice....
Posted: Fri Jul 6, 2018 4:45PM
In Santa Rosa, thousands demand an end to Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy 
Several thousand people gathered at Old Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa on June 30th. They called for the reunification of immigrant families separated at the southern U.S. border and demanded an end to the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy.
Photos by Bill Clark, free to not-for-profit organizations. Please credit the photographer....
Posted: Fri Jul 6, 2018 6:09AM
Independence Day For Who? 
While families celebrated the 4th of July last night, activists shut down the streets of downtown Sacramento in solidarity with the Occupy ICE movement which is growing nationwide. Separation of Families continues be the focus of Human rights violations as child abuse reports increase....
Posted: Thu Jul 5, 2018 10:57PM
Occupy ICE SF Statement / Declaración de Ocupa ICE de San Francisco 
We are here because we are and are in solidarity with undocumented immigrants, not only from Latin America but from around the world. We are calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Estamos aquí porque somos y estamos en solidaridad con inmigrantes indocumentados, no solo de América Latina sino de todo el mundo. Hacemos un llamado para la abolición del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE)....
Posted: Thu Jul 5, 2018 8:47PM
The Shortwave Report 07/06/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Sputnik Radio, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Jul 5, 2018 4:41PM
Occupy ICE SF Standing Strong 
Demonstrators welcomed hundreds of people who came to an “ICE Block Party” yesterday. A core group of protesters are staying 24/7 at an encampment at 444 Washington St. in San Francisco, taking over the street outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building....
Posted: Thu Jul 5, 2018 11:02AM
SF ICE Protest, Rally Against San Francisco Med Examiner and MTA NEA Pres Barbara Madelon 
WorkWeek radio hears about the protest at ICE SF. Then WorkWeek interviews workers protesting the racist harassment and workplace bullying at the SF Medical Examiner's office. Then WorkWeek interviews MEA NEA president Mary...
Posted: Wed Jul 4, 2018 11:47AM
Rally for Immigrant Rights at Stanford University Entrance 
On June 30th, as part of a national day of action to protest Trump's family separations at the US/Mexico border, the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center held a rally near the entrance to Stanford University.
Photos by Jack Owicki, please credit the author if you repost them....
Posted: Wed Jul 4, 2018 5:32AM
Block ICE Block Party — Occupy ICE SF 
444 Washington St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed Jul 4, 2018 12:00PM
Posted: Tue Jul 3, 2018 10:17PM
Community Forum - The fight for immigrant rights 
2969 Mission St. near 26th St....
Event Date: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:00PM
Posted: Tue Jul 3, 2018 1:04PM
Solidaridad con los niños: Caravan Planning Meeting 
Where: The New School Preschool, 1606 Bonita Ave in Berkeley
What: To discuss & prepare for the caravan leaving on Sunday July 15th...
Event Date: Thu Jul 5, 2018 7:00PM
Posted: Tue Jul 3, 2018 9:25AM
In the 1750s, who said this about which immigrants? "As one complainant put it, "Few of their children in the country learn English...The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages...Unless the stream of the importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious."...
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 7:12PM
Hundreds Of Immigrant Families, Activists To “Block I.C.E.”, Demand End To Family Detention The daily horrors being committed by the US government against immigrant families and individuals at border crossings are a crime against humanity....
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 1:28PM
As Night Falls, Candlelight Rally Calls for Immigration Reform 
By 8:30pm on the night of June 30th, a national day of action to protest the separation of children and parents at the US southern border, it was time to bring out the candles in Mountain View, California. Top photo: Sameena Usman of CAIR at left in the waning light.
Top photo courtesy Raging Grannies....
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 4:34AM
30,000 March in San Francisco to Protest Trump's Border Separations 
Beginning in San Francisco’s Dolores Park, demonstrators gathered from 9am Saturday. By the time their group made it to Civic Center via a march down Market Street, the crowd swelled to 30,000. June 30th was a national day of action protesting the Trump administration's border separations.
Top photo by Rose Marie Ramboz. Others by Karen Corby, Rose Marie Ramboz, and Steve Disenhof. Photos free to non-profit groups, please credit the photographer should you repost....
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 1:05AM