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Adriana Leon, right, and her 12-year-old daughter, Erica, legal
immigrants from Ecuador, were asleep at home in East Hampton, on Long
Island, when seven Fugitive Operations agents came looking for illegal
immigrants at 5 a.m. on Feb. 20....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:35pm PDT
Oakland Workers Center
2501 International at 25th
Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:12pm PDT
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia at 19th
Mission Distrcit...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:10pm PDT
Longshore workers on the West Coast have passed a resolution supporting national May Day actions for immigrant and workers’ rights. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) took solidarity a step further by announcing a work stoppage in major West Coast ports on May 1 to support and participate in the “Great American Boycott II.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:33am PDT
Looking the Other Way on Immigrants
Some Cities Buck Federal Policies
By Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Staff Writer
April 10, 2007...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:26am PDT
More than 50,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates filled the streets of Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 7, 2007, to rally support for fair legislation for immigrants; and to protest against the recent White House plan that will further restrict the rights of immigrants across America. The March and rally was one of the largest in recent months and it further demonstrated the growing momentum of the immigration rights movement....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:00am PDT
In a rare show of unity for the Filipino community, The Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), the regional alliance in the West Coast of Filipino veterans, student, youth and community advocates together with the Filipino Veterans Foundation commemorated the 65th Bataan Day yesterday, April 9, 2007 with simple commemorative rites at the memorial monument at the Lake Street Park Memorial Monument at 227 Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90026 Philippine Ambassador to the United States, W...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:53am PDT
STOP THE WAR AT HOME & ABROAD!
ORGANIZE A WALKOUT AT YOUR SCHOOL!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 11:55pm PDT
Campaign surges forward with Burger King in its sights! Come to Chicago – now more than ever!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:40pm PDT
Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church. 609 Southwood Dr. South San Francisco (off of El Camino Real)...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 3:02pm PDT
“For a safe America, adopt an immigrant,” says a coalition that recently initiated a program where American citizens can symbolically adopt an undocumented immigrant in the United States. More than 12 thousand undocumented children and adults in the United States have already been “adopted.” What’s more, some activists opposed to illegal immigration say they support the program....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:37am PDT
Immigrants to the United States who don’t speak English are keenly aware that acquiring it will increase their viability as an employee. In an ironic twist, NAM writer Louis Nevaer discovered that U.S. Latinos are being pressured by their employers to learn Spanish. Nevaer is the author, most recently, of HR and the New Hispanic Workforce, a book about Hispanics in the labor force....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:37am PDT
Amnesty Now! Full Rights for All Immigrants, Now!
With these resounding chants, more than 75,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates under the banner of the April 7 Coalition marched and rallied for full rights for all immigrants last Saturday, April 7, 2007, in Los Angeles.
Unlike the disparate and fewer numbers of mobilized activities last March 25, 2007, the April 7 Coalition march for full rights for all immigrants became one of the largest to be held in Los Angeles after May...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 6:45pm PDT
Thousands of people have marched in protest over a leaked White House proposal that would require illegal immigrants to pay thousands of dollars to become legal US residents....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 10:14am PDT
More than one-third of 18,000 people arrested in a nearly yearlong federal crackdown on illegal immigrants were not the people authorities targeted, according to government figures....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:07pm PDT
ah, where were the indy reporters?...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:06pm PDT
"I am starting this hunger strike, on the eve of Good Friday, as a
prayer that our people will mobilize, that the hearts of the people
of this nation will open and that the elected officials will act to
preserve our families and the Holy Bond between the children and
their mothers and fathers..."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:16pm PDT
La suprema ironía de los disparatados comentarios que el ex presidente de la Cámara Baja Newt Gingrich ha vertido acerca de lo indeseable del multilingüismo en Estados Unidos es la alusión desafortunada al "gueto" en el cual, según él, quienes hablamos español nos confinamos....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:27am PDT
The supreme irony of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s absurd comments about the undesirability of multilingualism in the United States was his unfortunate allusion to the “ghetto” to which, according to him, those who speak Spanish are confined....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:26am PDT
April 10th 2007
National Day of Action
Stop Tearing Apart Families! Stop the Raids! Stop Deportations!
Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Now!!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 4:49pm PDT

