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Solidarity Vigil for Elvira Arellano Clocktower in Downtown Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 10:51am PDT
Human Rights and the Realities of Returning to New Orleans Buried amidst video montages of a still devastated Lower Ninth Ward and sound bytes from the pundits and politicians who have come to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina's one year anniversary, the biggest story will continue to be who is not in the city. Sadly our nation's greatest tragedy continues for a displaced and dispossessed American community unprecedented in scale....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 6:49am PDT
Filipinas in Lebanon treated like ’modern-day slaves’ FINDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL MISSION TO LEBANON:
Filipina overseas workers in Lebanon are being treated like “modern-day slaves,” this was the main finding of Filipinos who had just arrived from Lebanon as part of an international civil society and parliamentary delegation....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 6:37pm PDT
Labor Day Marches to Tell Congress ‘Give Us Comprehensive Reform’ Nationwide marches will greet Congress’ return around Labor Day and say no to enforcement-only immigration “reform.” IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates. Deepak Bhargava is the executive director of Washington, DC-based Center for Community Change....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:08am PDT
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK Press Conference (video/quicktime 31.7MB) Asian Pacific Legal Outreach, the Asian Law Caucus, Chinese for Affirmative Action, La Raza Centro Legal, the Filipino Community Center, PODER, and St. Peter’s Housing Committee have formed the Immigrant Rights Network to combat attacks on immigrants in San Francisco. Four-minute QT movie. 32MB....
Posted: Mon, Aug 28, 2006 7:41am PDT
March for Legalization/Gran Marcha por Legalización Fulton Mall de Fresno-4:00p.m...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 1:11pm PDT
Film at El Rio: Tues, 8/29: Letters from the Other Side-- Benefiting Deporten a la Migra The Heads Up Collective presents
Televising the Revolution
a Radical Film Series at
El Rio, 3158 Mission St. @ Cesar Chavez, San Francisco
A benefit for Deporten a la Migra (Deport the Immigration Authorities)
Tuesday, August 29, 8:00 pm
Showing "Letters from the Other Side"...
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:42am PDT
Nazis at the Capital Today! (Sacto!) Stop the neo-Nazis of National Alliance/Vanguard, (it's hard to be a vanguard when you're talking heads keep dying!), as they rally against "illegal immigration"....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 9:36am PDT
Sun 8/27: Xicano Moratorium 
it's 11-4 or so in Dolores Park in SF on Sunday 8/27...
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 12:38am PDT
immigrant rights convention The purpose of the convention was to unite organizations under a national umbrella network and hammer out a strategy to proceed with the goals of this broad national immigrant's rights movement...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 3:56pm PDT
Border Shelter Sees Population Shift TIJUANA, Mexico — The statue of La Virgen de Guadalupe sits in a corner in the courtyard at Casa del Migrante....
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 6:32am PDT
Debate Endgame in this Congress -- Stalemate, Solution, or Setback? With time running out for this Congress to legislate on immigration, Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, lays out the possible outcome of the rancorous debate this year. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 6:29am PDT
9/4 Labor & Immigrants Rights March on Market in SF Labor Day, September 4, 2006, we are having a second, and hopefully bigger and better, labor and immigrants rights march this year in San Francisco on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, with a rally at 10 a.m. and the march at 11 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 7:51pm PDT
Trajabadores Inmigrantes: Ganando derechos laborales para las mujeres de color 
La propuesta ley AB 2536 para las Trabajadoras del Hogar fue aprobada por el Congresso el 29 de Junio y pronto confrotara a la aprobación del Comité sobre Apropiaciones en Agosto. La ley AB 2536 haría que los clientes paguen un salario mínimo y las horas extras y incluye los derechos de recuperar los salarios que no se les pago a las trabajadoras de hogar, (o trabajadoras domésticas), que a menudo son discriminadas, explotadas y abusadas debido a su color, su genero y estado de inmigración....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 4:29pm PDT
Immigrants Rights Marches Continue in LA! The struggle for immigrants rights and all workers rights continues, with marches on September 2 and 4 in Los Angeles. Organize your own local solidarity marches!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 7:14pm PDT
8/23 Press Conference: Community Groups Launch Immigrant Rights Network On Wednesday, August 23rd District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly
will join community groups to call on the City to safeguard immigrants
against discrimination and harassment.
Press Conference
12 noon, August 23rd
City Hall Steps, Polk Street Side...
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 12:37am PDT
March for Immigrant, Worker and Community Justice Start : 10 am Justin Herman Plaza at the Embarcadero
March: 11:00 am to Civic Center...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:23am PDT
Chicago Pastor on Why He is Allowing Mexican Mother to Stay in Church to Avoid Deportation A Mexican woman has taken refuge inside a Chicago church in an attempt to defy a government deportation order. Elvira Arellano has been living in the Adalberto United Methodist Church since last Tuesday -- the day she was supposed to surrender to authorities. We go to Chicago to speak with Arellano from inside the church as well as the Rev. Walter Coleman, the pastor of the church....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 9:55am PDT
LGBT Asylum Seekers Suffer in Biased Court System Seeking political asylum in the U.S. is today a grim proposition with the lives and safety of applicants at stake, writes Victoria Neilson, legal director of Immigration Equality, which advocates for equal immigration rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive community. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 9:38pm PDT
The Fight for Immigrant Rights and Black Liberation YWCA, 1515 Webster St. (at 15th St.), Oakland
(2 blocks from the 12th Street/City Center BART station)...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 23, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 7:08pm PDT
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