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News Briefs: Rally at Georgia Prison; No-Match Protest The rally culminated a week-long 105-mile march through six counties, organized by the Prison & Jail Project, a 15-year-old civil rights and prisoner rights advocacy group based in Americus, Georgia....
Posted: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 8:13pm PDT
Evangelical Church Sues Georgia Over Immigration Law Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 : ATLANTA – The Hispanic Evangelical Church of Georgia, with the support of the National Latino Coalition of Christian Ministers, announced this week that they are filing a lawsuit against the state of Georgia for “treating their faithful without dignity,” according to Atlanta Latino newspaper....
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 7:04am PDT
Iraq: Refugee crisis unfolds amid global apathy Iraq: Refugee crisis unfolds amid global apathyThe international community is failing to address adequately Iraq's spiralling refugee crisis leaving the main host countries of Syria and Jordan shouldering too much of the responsibility, Amnesty International said in a report published today....
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 7:32am PDT
Habla Espanol or Don’t Get Old Monday, September 24, 2007 : They say that children learn languages at a remarkably rapid rate. But the nation’s elderly are proving that adage to be a lot of Hungarian hogwash. It seems that linguists are speechless over the speed at which some seniors are mastering Spanish. Said one tongue-tied expert, “It’s like the opening of some science-fiction movie just before the aliens come.” In this case, the aliens are us....
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 7:23am PDT
Escobar on Palestinian Refugees in Brazil From a Sunday, September 23, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 10:08pm PDT
Mystery Meteor in Peru Might be Satellite Speculate Russians Originally From New America Media
Saturday, September 22, 2007 : NEW YORK — The object that fell from the sky and struck the Peruvian village of Carancas, in Puno, leading local villagers and animals to fall ill, could have been a satellite containing a radioactive isotope, not a meteor as was originally reported, according to New York’s Spanish-language El Diario/La Prensa....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 10:07am PDT
New York Grants Licenses to Undocumented Originally From New America Media
Saturday, September 22, 2007 : NEW YORK – New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed authorization Friday to allow the nearly one million undocumented immigrants living in New York state to obtain drivers' licenses without being required to provide their legal status or social security number, reports Univision.com and New York's El Diario/La Prensa....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 10:06am PDT
Meatpackers union sues on immigration raids Friday, September 21, 2007 : Mike Graves, a 21-year veteran at the Swift & Co. plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, stood in front of a crowd of reporters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 12 and held a pair of handcuffs high over his head. Graves is a U.S. citizen who moved from his home in Mississippi 22 years ago and went to work as a meatpacker in Iowa....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:33am PDT
Born in the USA, don't take our parents away Friday, September 21, 2007 : Immigrant families fight to stay together WASHINGTON — Martin Andrade, 40, is a security officer from Chicago and is originally from Michoacan, Mexico. He has been living in the U.S. legally for almost 30 years. Two years ago, his wife and mother of their two children was arrested and deported to Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:27am PDT
American Children Seek Better Lives in Mexico Originally From New America Media
Friday, September 21, 2007 : LOS ANGELES – Small but growing numbers of American children are being sent to Mexico in hope of a better life, reports La Opinión. Children whose parents have been deported, sent to prison, or have disappeared are now being relocated to live with their relatives in Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:22am PDT
Saving Private Ramos: Ken Burns' World War II Documentary Continue to Incite Latino Protest Originally From New America Media
Friday, September 21, 2007 : Eighty-seven year-old Carlos Alvarez remembers his first experience of war, when he dodged the bullets of Japanese gunners and airplanes in the Philippine jungles during World War II. Now, 60-plus years later, he’s on the front lines of a media war pitting grassroots Latino groups against the multimillion-dollar guns of PBS, its corporate sponsors and legendary filmmaker, Ken Burns....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:20am PDT
The DREAM Act Needs Your Call Now Originally From New America Media
The Senate is getting ready to debate the DREAM Act which would help undocumented youth earn a path to citizenship through higher education or military service. But as anti-immigrant activists ramp up their efforts to bring down the bill, this bipartisan bill needs all the help it can get says Rich Stolz, immigration director for the Center for Community Change, a national social justice non-profit which coordinates the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FI...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:18am PDT
Call Speaker Pelosi TODAY! Urge her to Ensure ICHIA is included in final SCHIP bill .doc attachment from the email not included...
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:50pm PDT
U.S. Resettlement Plan Stalled for Iraqis in Syria Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : Iraqi refugees in Syria are paying the price of strained relations between Syria and the United States. While the Bush administration has pledged to resettle more than 2 million Iraqis who have fled to Syria, Jordan and other Middle East countries to the United States, the process has been stalled for Iraqis in Syria....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 7:13am PDT
San Francisco Values: Municipal ID Cards Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : San Francisco has been a “sanctuary city” since 1989, which means that the City does not enforce immigration laws – or cooperate with federal authorities. But with more ICE raids hitting immigrant communities, and Republican politicians having found a new Willie Horton, San Francisco must put real teeth in its policy....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 7:02am PDT
New Jersey Town Repeals Anti-Immigrant Law Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : MIAMI – Thousands breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when a small New Jersey town repealed a law designed to crack down on illegal immigration, reports Univision.com. The Riverside city council voted 3-1 to repeal a law that would have banned employers from hiring immigrants and landlords from renting to them....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:59am PDT
Male Day Laborers Turn to Prostitution Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : LOS ANGELES – Their faces reflect how uncomfortable it is for them to talk about. On street corners where day laborers congregate, it’s no longer as easy to find work – but there are plenty of offers of sex for money....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:59am PDT
Hillary Clinton Walks Fine Line on Outsourcing Originally From New America Media
Monday, September 17, 2007 : WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton, while courting the Indian American community, is walking a fine line on outsourcing, reports India West based on reports from various publications including the Washington Post. Key labor unions have been withholding their endorsements while waiting for clear position statements from the presidential candidates....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:01am PDT
News Briefs: Pro-Immigrant Rallies, More Raids The DC demonstration was one of more than a dozen protests taking place across the country on Sept. 12 in what organizers called a National Day of Action....
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 7:15pm PDT
Out4Immigration Applauds Sen Boxer’s Commitment to Equal Immigration Rights for Gay Couple Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the seventh US Senator to co-sponsor the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). The legislation, introduced in the Senate (S. 1328) and House (H.R. 2221) earlier this year would amend current US immigration law and give same-sex binational couples the same immigration rights as their heterosexual counterparts to stay together legally in the United States....
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 6:19pm PDT
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