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Berkeley High School Students vs. Fascist ICE Raids 
At lunchtime on May 22, more than 2,000 Berkeley High School students of all different nationalities streamed out of class and formed a human chain around the school to protest the escalating attacks on immigrants. As they linked arms, they chanted “Immigrants are people!” A young woman with the group Fighting for Immigrants’ Rights and Equality (FIRE), which organized the protest, said, “Most of the school went out with us… Ooooh it made the whole school feel good, like we were a family, no ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:20pm PDT
White Supremacist Flyer Posted in Potrero Area/River Street 
While on a walk, my friend and I found several anti-immigration/white supremacy posters on telephone poles on Mora and Potrero Streets....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 5:54pm PDT
The New Bad News for California About Blackwater Letter by Jeremy Scahill for Courage Campaign citing the Orwellian disaster in store for us with Blackwater gaining access to our state....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 4:48pm PDT
Migrawatch Denounces ICE Raids Migrawatch denounces the gestapo-like tactics of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). More than 900 people were taken in California and over 700 in Iowa during recent ICE raids. In the Monterey Bay Area, 25 people were taken, including in Watsonville, Salinas, Capitola and Seaside.
One individual was stopped by ICE on Rodriguez Street in Watsonville in plain daylight. He was pushed to the ground, his hands were tied around his back, and his feet were bounded while being f...
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 11:23pm PDT
Local Immigrant Activists Denounce Opposition’s Tactics 
Strengthening Our Lives (SOL) is conducting a voter registration and get out the vote (GOTV) campaign in Fresno. They have come under attack by The Fresno Bee, the local daily newspaper, who has accused SOL and organized labor of having undue influence in local elections. The Press Conference, featured in the video below, was SOL’s response to the Bee’s criticism....
Posted: Sat, May 31, 2008 5:16pm PDT
Community Organizes in Beach Flats to Denounce ICE Raids 
On Friday May 30th, The Movement Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA) organized a rally and press release to denounce the ICE raids that took place last week. Community members, Union members, religious leaders, representatives from human rights organizations such as the resource center for non-violence and migrawatch were represented. Press packets where given to the press and students stuck around for immigrant rights educational workshop and flyer distribution....
Posted: Sat, May 31, 2008 4:16pm PDT
indynewswire 5.30.08: the friendly fire collective on chevron's global exploitation (audio/mpeg 14.9MB) An interview with david from the friendly fire collective on the protests outside the annual shareholders' meeting at Chevron's San Ramon headquarters: 32 min. 38 sec....
Posted: Fri, May 30, 2008 11:26am PDT
SF: Mobilize Against the Raids 630 SANSOME ST. @ Washington St. in San Francisco (near Montgomery BART)...
Event Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, May 29, 2008 6:37pm PDT
El Balazo Worker Speaks at Rally at ICE Headquarters (video/quicktime 57.0MB) Renée Saucedo introduces El Balazo worker Juan Francisco to speak to supporters at ICE headquarters in San Francisco on May 27, 2008, and who later, along with Todd Chretien, is interviewed for KPFA by Max Pringle. Alex Franco of the Rapid Response Network translates.
Four-minute QT movie. 57MB....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2008 2:25pm PDT
POLICE STATE OPRESSION, SF STRAWBERRY FIELD... The senseless arrest of an undocumented Hermana AND HER CHILDREN for ...
A Vicious Crime....
Selling strawberries at the corner of 21 and Valencia last Wednesday ... is an abomination, and our community has the Power to Redress and obtain Justice for this family, as well as for all unjustly criminalized undocumented Immigrants in our City....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 10:10pm PDT
six surveillance cameras destroyed at UC Santa Cruz Over the last week, we took out six surveillance cameras from the exteriors of four different buildings on the University of California in Santa Cruz campus. This was an act of rebellion to the social control in our daily lives. These cameras are the eyes of the police....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 2:32pm PDT
ICE Raids continue to terrorize the community Learn how a group of undocumented youth have come together to stop the ICE raids by creating a national campaign known as One Dream 2009. Included are the videos captured of ICE officials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5AVtlZ7GM
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q16uB0hFi3Q)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nIWV8-cJ1c0...
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 4:31pm PDT
Mission Station Police Arrest Woman and Her Two Children - Protest Called For BRIGADES AGAINST THE RAIDS, a Project of BARRIO UNIDO is calling for a picket on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 5 PM in front of Mission Police Station. The picket is to protest the arrest and probable deportation of a woman who sold strawberries on the corner of 22nd and Valencia Streets on March 21, 2008. The woman's two children were arrested at the same time for attacking the arresting officer....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 3:31pm PDT
EMERGENCY ACTION: STOP THE RAIDS IN THE BAY AREA! 
630 Sansome St. (at Washington St) SF...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 2:57pm PDT
EMERGENCY PICKET against S.F. arrests of undocumented street vendors Mission Police Station
630 Valencia St. (at 17th St.)...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 2:16am PDT
Stop The Raids! Emergency Action @ ICE 
Homeland Security Building, 630 Sansome St. (at Washington St.), downtown San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 12:37pm PDT
Denouncing ICE Raids Press Conference and Rally on May 30th There will be a (press conference with various community advocates denouncing the raids in the Bay area) and rally followed by a community celebration....
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 11:29am PDT
ICE Raids in the Canal on May 22, 2008 Agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched raids of Canal neighborhood homes at 5 am Thursday May 22, 2008, only two days after Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey held a hearing on the impact of immigration enforcement on children. It’s reported that 17 people were taken, including the father of a Bahia Vista student who was due to have cancer surgery today. His young son was terrified that his father was going to die....
Posted: Sat, May 24, 2008 9:20pm PDT
BERKELEY stands up for IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! (video/quicktime 52.9MB) Four-minute QT movie. 53MB....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 10:56am PDT
Local ICE Raids: Five detained in Watsonville, Two in Capitola 
Migrawatch heard about it first, sending an message Tuesday night to be on alert. Turns out five people were disappeared by the Feds in Watsonville, plus two in Capitola, fifteen in Seaside, two in Salinas, and another in San Jose. As always, they claim they are selectively targeting dangerous criminals and those who have defied orders to be deported, yet the Santa Cruz Sentinel quotes Lori Haley of ICE, saying "Six of the people arrested had criminal convictions." What about the ot...
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 12:39am PDT
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