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Building Alliances: Latinos, Immigration & the Environment Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center Street
(one block from Downtown Berkeley BART station, parking available in nearby garages)...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 12:42pm PDT
May Day 2007 Mobilization National Planning Call Dial-in Number: 1-605-725-3600
Participant Access Code: 91030...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 12:26pm PDT
France: Police attack defenders of immigrant school children On March 20, police assaulted a group of people seeking to prevent the arrest of an undocumented Chinese immigrant who had come to collect his grandsons from the Rampal infant school in the Belleville district of Paris. The police attack has provoked a wave of revulsion amongst teachers, parents and the working class population in the community and throughout France....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:37am PDT
Visa Forces US Firms to Relocate Abroad SAN FRANCISCO — The strict visa rules set up by the US government in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and a chronic shortage of home-grown skilled workers are forcing US companies to expand or even relocate overseas to spare themselves the entrance hassles facing qualified foreigners....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:28am PDT
San Rafael Minutemen Counter Protest March 31, 2007 Ignorant minutemen come out to express their hate and membvers of the community chant them down till they leave....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 1:39am PDT
BAIRC April Coalition Meeting BAIRC COALITION MEETING – APRIL 17, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 5:00PM to 7:30PM
Law Center for Families
510 16th Street (corner of Broadway Street) in Oakland
BART: 12th Street / City Center...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:21pm PDT
Reluctant Ex-Pats: U.S. Born Kids Face Deportation As Well When parents are deported, their U.S.-born children have two "choices" -- leave with their parents or stay in foster care to continue availing of educational opportunities here. The Ramirez children know how painful this decision is....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 7:06pm PDT
JFAV Bataan Day Commemoration, April 9, 2007 in Los Angeles Remember Bataan!” This was the battle cry of American soldiers during the Second World War. The battle cry was a call to avenge the American defeat and the Death March that the Japanese Imperial Army perpetrated against American and Filipino Forces that surrendered in Bataan on April 9, 1942. Today, after 65 years, the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), the regional alliance in the West Coast of Filipino veterans, student, youth and community advocates announced that they will com...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 12:26pm PDT
Day Labor on Bayshore, Today 13 Day Laborers &community activists met with Ed Lee, Balmore
J. Hernandez (DPW) and Wade Crowfoot (newsome's cabinet)
at the Mayor's office,
about the sneaky move from Newsom to open a day labor program on
Bayshore in district 10 without including Cesar Chavez Day Labor
clients, staff and board in the process....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 10:24pm PDT
On The Road For Immigration Reform A mixed group of immigrants and their children -- young, old, documented and not -- traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to Congress about immigration reform. Despite a lukewarm response from Congress, writer Elizabeth Gonzalez says she found the most inspiration in her fellow travelers. Gonzalez is on the staff of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a collaborative of writers, artists, workers and organizers in San Jose, CA....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:39am PDT
Australian immigration detainees launch hunger strike About 60 prisoners at one of Australia’s notorious immigration detention centres launched a hunger strike on March 28 to protest against a new wave of refugee deportations, including the removal to China of a 35-year-old female member of the Falun Gong sect. As of yesterday, 25 detainees were continuing the fast into its second week....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:24am PDT
“Equity Bill To Be Passed by June 30, 2007”—Filner “I wished we could to pass the Equity Bill by April 9, (on Bataan Day,) but we did not make it, I think, we can pass the Equity Bill by June 30.”
This was the direct answer of Representative Bob Filner (CA- 51) of San Diego and the Chairman of the Committee on veterans Affairs to the question of JFAV Coordinator Arturo P. Garcia when will Congress pass the equity bill during the Q and A portion of the Forum on Veterans Affair Issue. The forum was held last Monday, April 2 at the Americ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:58am PDT
Fotos: Foro de MigraWatch 
On Friday, March 30, 2007, César Chávez Day, the MigraWatch Network sponsored a forum on immigration at St Patrick's church in Watsonville. The forum featured guest speakers, a performance by Teatro Campesino, and group discussion of a plans of action for when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) come back to California's Central Coast....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 2:08am PDT
France : "Let these kids grow up here!" 
"Laissez-les grandir ici!" (Let these kids grow up here!)
Here is a short film that has been seen over 80,000 times on the internet and thousands more in cinemas in France, where, through the eyes and voices of children, it questions again the politics of deportation of so-called "illegal" immigrants – this is the midst of the election campaigns. A national petition is gaining momentum and may well gather more signatures than last year's civil disobedience campaign "Nous les prenons sous n...
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 11:18pm PDT
Minutemen Coming To Castro Valley 
A poster about the upcoming minutemen rally....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:51pm PDT
Teenage victim of asylum scandal faces deportation The home office is seeking to deport the Zimbabwean teenager who exposed a major sex-for-asylum scandal in the Immigration Service, The Observer has learnt....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:20pm PDT
Suzi Hazahza and the Pirates of Homeland Security One by one, all the helium-inflated excuses for arresting and imprisoning Suzi Hazahza have been popped and now lie on the ground. And the single memory humanizing the government that still holds her unlawfully behind bars is the look on one Federal Magistrate's face Thursday in Dallas when he was told by a US Attorney that Congress has stripped the federal bench of any right to order Suzi Hazahza freed until a full six months of illegal detention have passed....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 9:37am PDT
Fresno March Honors the Life of Cesar Chavez 
The Committee Cesar E. Chavez CO-CE-CHA held the 14th Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration today (Saturday, March 31, 2007. Y TODAVIA SE PUEDE / YES, WE STILL CAN …...…. continue the fight for justice for all people. This year, the theme of the march was to stop all anti-immigrant raids. Organizers and participants at the march said the inhumane raids are causing fear; nightmares in many children who will be separated from their parents who face the risk of being deported daily. Demonstrators dem...
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 6:18pm PDT
San Rafael: Come Out in Support of Immigrants RALLY: Saturday, March 31, 2007
11 AM
At the Plaza on Fourth Street (near A)
San Rafael
MARCH: 12 noon
to Second & Lindaro Streets
(where the Minutemen will be demonstrating)...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 10:08pm PDT
SF Cesar Chavez Day Parade and Festival 11 a.m. - Assemble for Parade
24th St. & Potrero...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 8:44am PDT
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