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Old Civil Rights Groups Missing-in-Action As Immigrants Hit the Streets As a groundswell of immigrant rights activism spreads across the country, the old-guard black civil rights movement is dragging its feet, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:36pm PST
The Historic Immigration March in LA: We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us Don't believe the hype I was in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday when the historic march to protest the racist anti-immigration bill HR 4437 took place. For those who don't know, this bill would make illegal immigrants felons as well as anybody, including family members who help them in any sort of way....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:36pm PST
Fear -- the Core of Current Immigration Debate SAN FRANCISCO – New immigration bills proposed by Congress have incited large-scale protests across the nation. Different people have different opinions about the complex content of the bills, agreeing on some points but not others. Besides debating specifics of the bill, it is important to look at the motivation behind any bill and what it seeks to accomplish. The new immigration bills before us are actually not new at all – they are merely expressions of xenophobia....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:34pm PST
The Anti-Minutemen Five: Think Twice Before You Oppose the Minutemen There have been a number of massive protests across the United States for immigrant rights in recent weeks. The particular impetus for these protests is a bill authored by the anti-immigrant Congressmen Rep. Sensenbrenner and his allies that was passed by the House in late 2005 and is currently being considered in the Senate. The bill, numbered H.B. 4437, is a repressive piece of legislation authored by one of the most reactionary legislators in the Congress. Not only would it penalize undocu...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:32pm PST
To the Streets! Hispanic Media at the Forefront of Immigration March LOS ANGELES, Calif.— It was the biggest protest in the city’s history, according to the local police department. More than half a million Latinos took to the streets Saturday, March 25 wearing white t-shits, carrying signs and waving American flags, along with flags from their native countries including Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:28pm PST
Si Se Puede! Illegal Immigrants Speak Up - And America Should Listen The immigration debate has been hijacked by nasty jingoism in our nation's capitol. But now in great numbers, illegal immigrants and their supporters take to the street to protest the draconian bill that will turn the 12 million undocumented residents in the U.S. into felons. New America Media contributor Lydia Chávez is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and writes extensively about immigration....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:26pm PST
Bush Signs Statements to Bypass Torture Ban, Oversight Rules in Patriot Act When President Bush signed a law banning torture he quietly signed a statement saying he could bypass it. Earlier this month, Bush signed the USA Patriot Act but signed a statement that said he did not consider oversight rules binding. We speak with the Boston Globe reporter who broke the story....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:09am PST
State authorities threaten to impose contract on New York transit workers The New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled last week that the contract fight of New York City’s 34,000 subway and bus workers must be resolved by arbitration. This decision is the latest development in the protracted dispute, which led to a two-and-a-half day strike just before Christmas....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:06am PST
More than a million march in Los Angeles, other US cities in defense of immigrant rights In the largest demonstration in California’s history, well over half a million people marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, March 25, in defense of immigrant rights and to protest the government attacks on immigrants, especially undocumented workers....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:00am PST
NEST is back! Help save Cascadia's Forests 
The Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team (N.E.S.T.) will begins its citizen surveys this Join. NEST looks for species listed under the Survey and Manage portion of the Northwest Forest Plan in order to get timber sales canceled or reduced in size. While George and his timber buddies removed Survey and Manage in 2004, a judge ordered it back in. NEST is seeking volunteers to participate in it's surveys that will be conducted in National Forests and BLM. Contact primateliberation(AT)yahoo(DOT)co...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 2:57am PST
Organic fruits and vegetables work harder for their nutrients - Produce has been losing vi yum...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 8:12pm PST
National Campaign against Anti-Palestinian Legislation 
Oppose HR4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 3:22pm PST
Immigrant Rights Protests Spread -- New Chapter in Civil Rights Movement Hispanic media report that hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters are marching in cities across the country on behalf of immigrant rights....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:18am PST
Are Some Human Beings Illegal? Last Week's BC cover story raised the subject of the relationship between African Americans and Latinos, blacks and browns. We singled a particularly contemptible maneuver by Kasim Reed, a black DLC Georgia state legislator from Atlanta who tried to outdo Republican viciousness when it came to proposing punitive measures against immigrants. Reed authored a bill which would imprison anyone convicted of using a false ID to get a job for five years. Predictably, his proposal was embraced by lead...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:16am PST
Where Are Latino Elected Leaders in Immigration Reform Fight? A controversial proposal on immigration reform which could allow more non-citizens legal entry to the United States as guest workers began taking shape in the U.S. Senate this past week....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:15am PST
Today on McChesney's Media Matters 
Wireless seems to be the thing today....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 9:19am PST
National "Support the Troops Day" Congress has recently passed a resolution that calls
for a national moment of silence on Sunday March 26th, and declaring this day
"National Support the Troops Day." The resolution in part says: "All people in
the United States should participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the
service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces both home and abroad."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 9:37pm PST
The Racist War on Immigrants: Jim Crow Goes Fishing Speaking in Cleveland, President Bush called on Congress to end "catch and release" practices on the border with Mexico. He wasn't referring to recreational fishing enthusiasts who catch large mouth bass, snap a picture and then release them back into the water. He was talking about INS (now Homeland Security) agents who round up undocumented workers trying to cross the border, harass and threaten them, and then issue them summons to appear in American court. President Bush and Cong...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:50pm PST
IMMIGRATION MATTERS -- Fortress America Is Not the Solution Virtually unnoticed in the immigration debate is the proposed expansion of the current immigrant detention system that is already rife with abuse, writes New America Media contributor Andrea Black, coordinator for the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to reform the U.S. immigration detention system. She was the executive director of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:40pm PST
March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity! March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 2:42pm PST
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