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Latino Group Cancels Convention in Kansas in Protest Originally From New America Media
Saturday, October 27, 2007 : KANSAS CITY -- The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has decided not to celebrate their 2009 national convention in Kansas City, reports Univision Online. The board unanimously voted to cancel the convention after they failed to reach an agreement with Mayor Mark Funkhouser over his June nomination of Frances Semler to the city’s parks board. NCLR opposes Semler’s nomination because of her affiliation with the Minutemen Civil...
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 9:47am PDT
San Diego Came Together, Spanish-Speakers Left Out Originally From New America Media
Saturday, October 27, 2007 : The Spanish-language community was once again left out of the information loop during the first few days of the emergency - one of the lessons San Diego apparently didn't learn from the 2003 fires, according to an editorial in the bilingual newspaper La Prensa-San Diego....
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 9:47am PDT
Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm to Protect Immigrant Rights Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm... to Protect Immigrant Rights, ensure immigrants access services and translate!
Bilingual volunteers are needed to inform immigrant evacuees of their rights and aid them accessing emergency relief services.
The purpose of this effort is to ensure the immigrant community of San Diego are able to safely access social services without fear.
Please sign up for a four hour shift (at least 3 volunteers per shift). Spanish, Vietnamese Tagalog, Vietna...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 4:12pm PDT
immigrants neglected and abused during San Diego wildfires It is important that people know that the government’s response to this has not been as benevolent as the news media has made it out to be. For immigrant families, this is in no way an ‘anti-Katrina.’ Immigrants in San Diego county are being neglected by emergency evacuators, put in danger by their employers, treated rudely by authorities and volunteers, refused aid at evacuation sites, and racially profiled by police and deported by the Border Patrol....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 2:46pm PDT
New York State Senate Votes Down Move to Allow Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Workers Friday, October 26, 2007 :
The New York the State Senate has voted to oppose Governor Eliot Spitzer’s September 21st decision to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Spitzer noted the high number of accidents caused by uninsured drivers and described the new policy as a public safety measure that makes licenses and insurance available regardless of immigration status. We’re joined by New York State Senator Eric Shneiderman and La Fuente Executive Director Amy Sugimori...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:16am PDT
Peace Activists Kathy Kelly and David Smith-Ferri on Iraq’s Worsening Refugee Crisis Friday, October 26, 2007 :
As the United Nations reveals that 2,000 Iraqis are still fleeing their homes each day because of the continuing violence, peace activists Kathy Kelly and David Smith-Ferri join us to talk about their work with Iraq’s displaced. Kathy Kelly is the executive Director of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and founder of Voices in the Wilderness. David Smith-Ferri is a poet and peace activist. His latest collection of poetry is titled “Battlefield Without Borders.”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:16am PDT
Turkish Invasion Threatens SK Troops in Iraq Originally From New America Media
Friday, October 26, 2007 : From the neon glitz and hip-hop buzz of Korea tensions in the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Turkey seem far removed. Yet with Turkey preparing an invasion of what has been Iraq's most stable area, the continued presence of a "token force" of some 1200 South Korean soldiers in the Kurdhish province of Irbil threatens to bring this confilct much closer to home....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:47am PDT
Latino Students Dream Bigger than DREAM Act Originally From New America Media
Friday, October 26, 2007 : The DREAM Act died Wednesday in a U.S. Senate vote, days after the California version of the act was vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger. A student organizer argues that the DREAM Act, which would have made it possible for certain undocumented students to receive financial aid, never actually had anything to do with the real “dream.” The DREAM Act didn't come true because it wasn't our dream....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:47am PDT
New Sanctions Against Iran Will Accomplish Nothing Originally From New America Media
Friday, October 26, 2007 : The United States has once again implemented economic sanctions on Iran, accusing it of developing nuclear weapons. Like the earlier sanctions, these will not accomplish anything either, writes NAM contributor William O. Beeman....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:46am PDT
U.S. Senate Expected to Take Up Federal DREAM Act Today Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : The U.S. Senate is expected to vote today on considering legislation that would provide federal financial aid to undocumented students, after a similar state bill was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this month....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 7:54am PDT
Displaced Farmworker Aid Dear Farmworker CARE Coalition and Allies;
The National Latino Research Center is collecting items for Evacuees and Displaced Farmworker and immigrant families in the Pala/Pauma Valley, Rice Canyon, Rincon and Fallbrook communities. As members and allies of the Farmworker CARE Coalition we ask that you join our efforts to ensure that nobody impacted by this disaster falls through rescue relief safety nets. We plan on immediately coordinating collection of clothes, food, and bedding for af...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 2:24pm PDT
La Patrulla Fronteriza acosa mexicanos en Fallbrook, California, (english below)
Hemos sido testigos de la presencia de la Border Patrol en Fallbrook
durante una visita breve que hicimos hoy hace un rato. Testificamos que
entraron en vecindarios mexicanos y creemos que no hay razon alguna para que
la Border Patrol esté presente en estos tiempos de crisis. Su presencia de
hecho intimida a la gente que pueda estar en necesidad urgente para buscar
ayuda. (Pueden ver un breve clip si oprimen donde dice: "here", mas abajo)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 10:01am PDT
Fuego en San Diego: Muy Poca Información en Español Originally From New America Media
La peor oleada de incendios en la historia del Condado de San Diego ha dejado un saldo de 250 mil personas evacuadas, 195 mil viviendas desalojadas y 100 mil acres consumidos por las llamas. “Y esto va a empeorar”, dijo el Sheriff Bill Kolender....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:49am PDT
Fuego in San Diego: Very Little Information in Spanish Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : SAN DIEGO – As fires continue to rage in San Diego County, Hispanic residents have had trouble getting emergency information in Spanish. The worst wave of forest fires in the history of San Diego County left a total of 250,000 evacuated, 195,000 homes destroyed and 100,000 acres consumed by the blaze....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:49am PDT
The Return of Native Americans as Immigrants Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : The United States is seeing a resurgence of Native Americans in the form of immigrants who are descendents of North America’s indigenous populations. As Native Americans, they are terrifying precisely because they have a moral claim to cross the borders imposed on their lands, writes NAM contributor Louis E.V. Nevaer...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:48am PDT
NY Senate Blocks Driver's Licenses for the Undocumented Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : NEW YORK -- A plan to give driver's licenses to the undocumented failed in the New York state Senate on Monday, reports Univision Online. Republicans rejected the measure, which was announced Sep. 21, by a vote of 39-19, saying it put state security in jeopardy....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:48am PDT
Border Fence Shuts Out U.S. Steelworkers, Threatens Environment Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : Once again, the Bush administration is sending work overseas that could be done here and ignoring laws that get in the way of what it wants to accomplish. This time it's the $1.2 billion, 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that's supposed to make us more secure....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:47am PDT
Border Patrol Take Advantage of Fire People in the community have reported that the Border Patrol/I.C.E. have set up checkpoints at Imperial Avenue in the south and San Marcos in the north. We are not surprised to hear that due to displacement of residents in San Diego immigration forces of order are seeing this as an opportunity to set up checkpoints and deport, harass, and bring fear to many in the community....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 11:45pm PDT
Hurt, Kidnapped and Repatriated: Children of the Border Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 : It’s been just one year since “Lupe” left Veracruz, Mexico with her 3-year-old son. She was yet another humble woman who left Mexico to pursue her hopes of the “American Dream.” But the scorching temperatures in the Arizona desert took the last breath from her son....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 7:32am PDT
Increased Deaths Along the Mexico-U.S. Border Originally From New America Media
Monday, October 22, 2007 : LOS ANGELES -- On average, one person a day perishes trying to cross the border from Mexico to America, reports La Opinión. Deaths have increased since the implementation of the border enforcement program known as Operation Gatekeeper in 1994. A triple layered wall, night vision equipment and powerful lights separating Tijuana from San Diego force immigrants from Mexico to take more dangerous routes north....
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 7:31am PDT
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