UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike February 22, 2020 - The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), the youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, is holding an emergency online meeting this Sunday, February 23, at 4pm Pacific Time to discuss an international socialist strategy for the UC strike. Visit https://iysse.com/UCstrike/ for further details....
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:24PM
Winter 2019 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert! 2019 Year Ends: US Detains Record Number of Child Migrants, Surpassing Crisis Under Obama...
Posted: Sun Dec 1, 2019 2:56PM
Immigrants Feel Broaden Risk During Fires This is an opinion piece on the anxiety endured by the immigrant population. While referencing events in northern California, the climate of fear is throughout all of the United States. This piece is meant to raise awareness of and for immigrants, in relation to the Public Charge Rules....
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:36PM
The fate of DACA recipients goes before the US Supreme Court According to government sources, there were around 15,500 active DACA recipients in the San Francisco metropolitan area (San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward) as of September 4, 2017....
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:34AM
Fall 2019 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert! More Trump’s Racist Raids, Killings and Immigrant Children Indefinite Detentions!...
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2019 10:28PM
Fighting the Causes of Flight The refugee debate is back again but only the symptoms are in the spotlight. Refugees are fought instead of the causes of flight. The political failure is as dreadful as the forgetfulness of the media and politics. For the first time, more than 70 million persons are fleeing from war, persecution and conflicts. Every two seconds a person becomes a refugee....
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:05AM
Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Detention Centers Reposted from Common Dreams under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License....
Posted: Thu Jul 4, 2019 5:54PM
HUD moves to force undocumented immigrants from public housing In an effort that pits public housing tenants against one another, reportedly last Wednesday evening on April 17, 2019, the Trump administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new proposal to force undocumented immigrants from our nation’s public housing units!...
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 5:35AM
"Capitalism will make migrants out of all citizens" No one speaks about the right to be deeply rooted in one's country and not to be uprooted by global capitalism. In reality, the elite is demophobic. That means, it hates people and democracy. We must be populist and not elitist today, democratic and not demophobic, and defend national sovereignty and not globalization....
Posted: Mon Mar 4, 2019 3:49AM
The Dutch racist tradition/Goodbye to Black Pete/Fascism is coming Similar to the former ''Blackface'' [USA] and ''Golliwog'' [Great Britain], in the Netherlands ''Zwarte Piet'' [Dutch for
Black Pete] is a racist caricature, that is invented in the 19th century, the era of slavery, diehard colonialism
and racist theiries about the superiority of the ''white race''
Black Pete is the stupid servant of Saint Nicholas [in Dutch ''Sinterklaas] and leads to discrimination and
teasing of black children. Time to say goodbye to Black Pete!...
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 7:48PM
On the Refugee Debate The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and the greed of mammoth world corporations. Only the prospect for a future in their country can stop refugees, not borders. Just trade would be the first step. Borders are a thorn in the eye to capital....
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:21AM
Caravan Seeks Safety from Murder and Poverty The caravan is being harassed with tear gas....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:57PM
Keep Them Here: A Brief Discussion of Temporary Protected Status This is a brief discussion of the situation that TPS recipients are going through....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:02PM
Winter 2018 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert! Hey Trump: 'Tear Gassing Children Is Outrageous and Inhumane!...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:05AM
Immigration in the U.S. Today A brief look into immigration and how the current administration has affected it....
Posted: Wed Dec 5, 2018 11:34AM
Join us at the Border in San Diego December 8th – 10th Solidarity Actions for migrant caravan...
Posted: Sat Dec 1, 2018 8:53PM
Mexican Government Demands Investigation After U.S. Fires Tear Gas At Asylum Seekers The Mexican government is demanding a full investigation after U.S. border authorities fired tear gas Sunday into a crowd of Central American asylum seekers on November 25. Pedro Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program, witnessed the incident from the U.S. side....
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:12PM
US Condemned for Violence Against Asylum Seekers "Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn't a crime," says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after U.S. Border agents fire tear gas into Mexico....
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:00PM
FEMA and EMP Disaster FEMA is unprepared and lacks strategic planning The President relies on Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for all disasters in the United States, which includes every state and territory. Hurricane Maria was an extraordinary act of nature that spawned one of the worst human tragedies in American history. It was one of the most destructive natural disasters that we as a nation have ever seen...
Posted: Thu Nov 1, 2018 1:48PM
Carl Schmidt and the New Right The intellectual New Right may be more a loose network of persons, political projects, publications and publishers than an organization or party. Carl Schmidt defined democracy as the "identity of ruler and ruled, commanding and obedient." He reinterpreted democracy and started from the unity and homogeneity of the people's will with the state. Pluralism and parliamentary democracy are delegitimated with plebiscites....
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:12AM