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ACLU Asks Esmeralda County To Stop English-Only Rule On School Bus Thursday, January 31, 2008 : LAS VEGAS – Forbidding Esmeralda County public high school students from speaking Spanish while riding the school bus violates their free speech rights and discriminates against children of Latino backgrounds, charged the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Nevada in a letter sent today to Esmeralda County School District Superintendent Robert Aumaugher....
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 7:30am PST
Filipino nurses face trumped-up charges in New York Wednesday, January 30, 2008 :Ten Filipino nurses are facing trial on criminal charges of endangering patients at a nursing home in New York’s Suffolk County. The accusations stem from the nurses’ decision to walk off their jobs in April 2006 to protest broken promises and unacceptable working conditions at the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown, Long Island....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 7:11am PST
JUSTICE FOR FILIPINO AMERICAN VETERANS ACTION FORUM JANUARY 24 
Despite the stormy weather, the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), in conjunction with the American Coalition for Filipino Veterans (ACFV), Peoples CORE and Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), held a community action forum last Thursday, January 24, 2008, at 6:00 PM, The Forum was held at SIPA’s community room.
It was attended by a fairly good size crowd of veterans, students and community advocates.Veterans groups like Society of Guerillas and Sc outs (SGSI), United ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 28, 2008 10:53am PST
Petition for the lives of Hamzeh and Loghman: two young gay men who are in love Petition for the lives of Hamzeh and Loghman: two young gay men who are in love and who risk the death sentence in Iran. And let's not forget Pegah: the United Kingdom could still hand her over to the executioner....
Posted: Sun, Jan 27, 2008 3:26pm PST
Desperate plight facing millions of Iraqi refugees Friday, January 25, 2008 :Nearly five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, there is no end in sight to the difficulties facing Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Facing government harassment, unemployment and a lack of basic essentials where they are, or the prospect of returning to sectarian violence, looting and economic hardship in Iraq, these refugees are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place....
Posted: Fri, Jan 25, 2008 7:35am PST
What Is The Northwest Detention Center? What Is The Northwest Detention Center...
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 7:25pm PST
Australia: Demands grow for closure of Villawood detention centre Wednesday, January 23, 2008 :A recent report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has underscored the repressive character of Australia’s migration policies and fueled calls for the Rudd Labor government to abolish Australia’s mandatory immigration detention laws. HREOC’s annual survey of Australian immigration detention centres was produced following visits to mainland facilities between August and November 2007....
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 7:13am PST
Enero Zapatista! Human Rights Now! Stop the Raids! Video Parts One and Two (video/quicktime 50.7MB) On January 12, the California Coalition Against Poverty organized a Stop the Raids! event at Chicana Perk as part of La Otra San Diego's Enero Zapatista, a month long series of events to educate and share information about Zapatismo and local struggles. Pedro Rios from the American Friends Service Committee spoke about I.C.E. raids (Parts Two and Three), two young women whose parents have been taken and deported by I.C.E. shared their stories (Part One), and folks were dancing to the energizi...
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 2:17am PST
Enero Zapatista! Human Rights Now! Stop the Raids! Video Part Three (video/quicktime 39.9MB) On January 12, the California Coalition Against Poverty organized a Stop the Raids! event at Chicana Perk as part of La Otra San Diego's Enero Zapatista, a month long series of events to educate and share information about Zapatismo and local struggles. Pedro Rios from the American Friends Service Committee spoke about I.C.E. raids (Parts Two and Three), two young women whose parents have been taken and deported by I.C.E. shared their stories (Part One), and folks were dancing to the energizi...
Posted: Wed, Jan 23, 2008 10:53pm PST
Racism: Italy reported for crimes against humanity CERD will have to ascertain the violations of articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” Italy, in fact, is accused of carrying out a series of measures, both on a national level and on a local level, aimed at hitting the Rrom and Sinti communities on Italian territory - from the 14 security packages to the emergency expulsion decree for EU citizens put forward by Giuliano Amato. The International Criminal Court of ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 23, 2008 1:22am PST
Obama vs. Clinton: What Would Cesar Chavez Do? Tuesday, January 22, 2008 : When Barack Obama shouted “Yes We Can” in his New Hampshire concession speech, he invoked Cesar Chavez’s legendary rallying cry, “Si Se Puede.” In response, the Hillary Clinton campaign quickly turned to Dolores Huerta, Chavez’s longtime UFW ally, to undermine Obama’s effort to identify with the farmworkers movement....
Posted: Tue, Jan 22, 2008 7:49am PST
CDIR Marks Martin Luther King Day, January 21, 2008 The Coalition In Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR)-USA pays tribute to the great African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today January 21,2008.
“While we commemorate Dr. King and his greatness and the American people’s struggle, for justice and equality, the CDIR is however militantly preparing for the surge of anti-immigrant scape-goating in the face of the current economic recession in the United States”, the CDIR-USA coordinator Arturo P. Garcia said....
Posted: Mon, Jan 21, 2008 3:56pm PST
Britain: Terminally ill Ghanaian woman deported and denied medical care Friday, January 18, 2008 :Ama Sumani, a 39-year-old Ghanaian woman terminally ill with a malignant myeloma, was deported from Britain to Ghana on January 9. She was taken from the University Hospital, Cardiff, in Wales, where she was receiving dialysis treatment, as her kidneys were damaged by the myeloma. Five immigration officers put her on a flight from Heathrow to Ghana that day....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2008 11:20am PST
SEIU Lays Out Measures To Reduce Naturalization Backlog And Help New Citizens Vote In 2008 Thursday, January 17, 2008 : In House Testimony, SEIU Calls on Congress to Step In, Appropriate Funds, and Hold USCIS and FBI Accountable...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 3:28pm PST
January 2008 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter Immigrant Rights Movements for 2008 -- Latest Information, and What You Can Do...
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 10:31pm PST
France: Police-state measures against immigrants provoke resistance Wednesday, January 16, 2008 :French government measures to recruit networks of informers in the public services to aid the police hounding of illegal immigrants, or sans papiers, and which oblige staff to become “police auxiliaries,” are creating alarm and resistance among these workers. Simultaneously, the criminalization of those giving aid and assistance to sans papiers is advancing rapidly....
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 2:21pm PST
Struggle Against Anti- Immigrant Laws and Discrimination- CDIR The Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR)-USA expresses deep concern that while the presidential campaign is going to its high gear, the anti- immigrant advocates are on the offensive. According to the CDIR, the anti-immigrant forces are trying to frame the Republican Party debates to focus on illegal immigration and some elements in different states are passing discriminatory laws against immigrants. Candidate Mitt Romney kept on calling the McCain proposal an “amnesty”. At the sam...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 6:19pm PST
INB 1/12/08: ICE Says It Won't Sedate Deportees; Raids in TN US immigration authorities say they will no longer involuntarily sedate detainees without a court order. The policy change follows lawsuits by detainees who say they were drugged as agents tried to deport them....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 6:51pm PST
Elvira Arellano: Sanctuary's Human Face Originally From New America Media
Saturday, January 12, 2008 : Elvira Arellano met with Felipe Calderon in his salon. These household names from Michoacán, Mexico followed starkly different paths to celebrity: the latter, a Harvard graduate, had just taken the Mexican presidency with only a .58-percent margin of victory and amidst fervent dissent; the former, a cleaning lady, had just been deported from the United States after taking sanctuary to evade immigration laws....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:24am PST
Latino Rights Coalition Says ‘Basta Ya!’ to Hate Crimes 
The number of ethnicity-based hate crimes in San Diego County doubled between 2005 and 2006. Local law enforcement estimates that 75% of all hate crimes committed in 2007 were against Latinos, and a North County coalition of Latino rights groups has had enough....
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 5:33pm PST
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