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For liberals, immigration is a reality teeming with potential Friday, July 13, 2007 : When it comes to whether and how to regulate the economy, Western societies have a history of liberal theory upon which to rely. But when it comes to immigration, there is not much in the liberal tradition to which they can turn. As a result, in both Europe and the United States, much of the debate over immigration is dominated by illiberal voices....
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 6:58am PDT
Asian Americans Remain Vigilant Against Hate Crimes Thursday, July 12, 2007 : Twenty-five years after Vincent Chin was beaten to death because of his race, hate crimes against Asian Americans continue unabated, reports NAM contributor Julia Kitlinski-Hong. She is a student at Emmanuel College....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:56am PDT
Chinese Community Troubled by FBI Ad Thursday, July 12, 2007: The FBI recently advertised in Chinese-language newspapers asking readers to report on potential Chinese spies. The ads created a stir among Chinese Americans, reports NAM editor Eugenia Chien. Chien monitors Chinese-language papers for New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:55am PDT
Immigration Movement Should Learn from Civil Rights Movement Originally From New America Media
Thursday, July 12, 2007: Immigration reform suffered a major defeat in the Senate recently but some immigration rights advocates are looking to the civil rights movement for hope and inspiration. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:54am PDT
August 18th: Protest Anti-Immigrant Racists! SAVE THE DATE—Saturday, August 18 and be prepared to turn out and protest. The racist anti-immgrant group, "Washingtonians for Immigration Reform" along with the John Birch Society and the Minutemen plan to hold their second march through Seattle....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:56am PDT
Sham Trial in Iran for Canadian Photojournalist Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : July 10 marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Zahra “Ziba“ Kazemi, a Canadian photojournalist arrested after photographing a demonstration outside Evin prison in Iran following the student uprisings of 2003. Ziba was killed while in the custody of the Iranian judiciary....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 10:52am PDT
The Revolution Starts Under the Sink Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : When it comes to accepting global warming and being eco-friendly, there’s a generation gap, notes NAM contributor Asya Pikovsky, whose family hails from the Ukraine. Eco-friendliness is second nature to the young. Pikovsky is an intern for New America Media and a student at Bowdoin College....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 10:52am PDT
Germany: End Efforts to Strip Iraqis of Refugee Status (Washington, DC, July 10, 2007) – Germany should immediately stop revoking the refugee status of Iraqi refugees and should reconsider the cases of more than 18,000 Iraqis who have been stripped of their refugee status, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to German authorities. Saddam Hussein’s fall from power hardly means that it is now safe for Iraqi refugees to go home....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 9:08am PDT
Arkansas Officer Returns Quickly Despite Youtube Video of Choking, Chasing, & Double Headlockes Saturday, July 7, 2007 :
Dear National & International Press:
We as a united national and international community have decided to protest Officer Joey William's return to the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:11pm PDT
The Bayview Hunters Point in 2007 with corrupt forces adversely impacting innocent folks. The Bayview Hunters Point has produced good leaders in the past and it still has come good leaders that are coming together to help those that cannot defend themselves. We did good collecting 33,200 signatures that is now in the Appeals Court and has a better chance to win. We will stop Lennar BVHP in its track and send them packing home and with them the cronies from the City and County of San Francisco like Mayor Gavin Nesom and Marcia Rosen....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 7:33am PDT
The New Challenges Facing the Immigrant Rights Movement Friday, July 6, 2007 :THE U.S. Senate and the Bush administration failed in their effort to revive an immigration proposal, which, among other things, would have separated families, heightened worker exploitation by creating a "guest-worker" program, further militarized the U.S.-Mexico border, and provided no realistic path to residency for the vast majority of undocumented people now living in the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:49pm PDT
Immigrants' Rights Activists Join Students' Fast to Support DREAM Act Immigrants' rights activists marched Thursday from Post and Market St. to San Francisco's Civc Center and joined with students from all over California on a week long fast to support the DREAM Act....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 9:10am PDT
Charges dropped against Sin Fronteras Friday, July 6, 2007 :
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Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:41am PDT
Some South Asians Mourn, Others Rejoice Over Demise of Immigration Bill Friday, July 6, 2007 : Mohan Babu, a software engineer who lives and works in Colorado Springs, may be heading back to Bangalore at the end of this year. The collapse of a Senate immigration reform bill that promised to clear the backlog of family-based visa petitions in the next eight years dashed Babu's hopes of being reunited with his wife, he told India-West....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 6:59am PDT
Too Much Self Esteem Can be Bad For Your Child Friday, July 6, 2007 :American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping-stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school, writes New America Media editor Andrew Lam....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 6:58am PDT
Hanoi Plays America for a Sucker Friday, July 6, 2007 :In the wake of the Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet’s first state visit to the United States, NAM contributor Thai A. Nguyen Khoa writes that a democratic Vietnam can do more for the stability of Southeast Asia....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 6:57am PDT
Mexican Newspapers Excoriate U.S. Immigration Vote Thursday, July 5, 2007 : MEXICO CITY – An editorial in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper contends that the U.S. Senate’s vote to block immigration reform goes beyond politics and represents a “severe failure” for the United States in general: “the most powerful country on the planet will have to continue living, for many months, with a scandalous contradiction between its laws and the real needs of its economy, thirsty for cheap labor to guarantee that its exports are internationally competi...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:45pm PDT
What happened to immigration reform? Thursday, July 5, 2007 : The Senate last month failed to pass the Bush-backed immigration reform plan, known as the “grand bargain.” It’s now widely reported that any immigration reform measures will have to wait until after the 2008 elections. The “grand bargain” bill was fatally flawed from the get-go. The president, the Republican right and their big business backers are the main culprits preventing any comprehensive approach....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:26pm PDT
Indians in America Gain Access to India's Right to Information Act Thursday, July 5, 2007 :WASHINGTON -- Indian Americans can now access India's Right to Information Act, which allows them to question the Indian government's decisions and makes it mandatory for the government to disclose information pertaining to those decisions, reports India West newspaper....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:41am PDT
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