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In a sea of strangers ... Market Street, San Francisco , from the Embarcadero to Civic Center , was awash today with hope and repaved once again with tens of thousands of immigrants' dreams. Families and friends, very young to very old, chanted, marched, and sang together along the entire route but, for me, it was the sea of young faces that carried the day....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 9:35pm PST
Border Fence- The Cost is Far Too High A study released last December by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service says a proposed 700 mile stretch of fence, along the 2,000 mile U.S. – Mexico border, could cost an estimated $49 billion. But what the report fails to say, U.S. –built walls on the border would cost both the U.S. and Mexico trillions of dollars in economic losses over the predicted 25-year lifespan of the fence, and non-monetary damage to political and cultural relations between the two countries would also la...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 5:34pm PST
Does Our Government Care Enough To Bring Justice?!! Does our government care enough to do something about this senseless act?...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 5:00pm PST
Report from 1/29 Meeting with Pelosi's Staff about Immigrant Rights Issues Report Back from Jan 29 Meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Staff about Our
Open Letter and the Immigrant Rights Issues...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 4:48pm PST
Gunmen Open Fire on Illegal Immigrants--Three Men Are Killed And Several Are Taken Hostage TUCSON, Ariz. (Feb. 8) - Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot several and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead and two people wounded, authorities said....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 2:46pm PST
Standing FIRM Summit Pushes for Immigration Reform WASHINGTON--Last week over 200 immigrant rights leaders from across the country joined together, building strategies for immigration reform. The three-day conference, hosted by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), was held at the Galludet University in Washington, D.C....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:44am PST
Community forum after ICE raids in Concord The ICE (federal imigration police also know La Migra) have been arresting immigrants and harassing their families in Concord. Interfaith groups are having a forum on these issues....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 3:49pm PST
Another true story of UK asylum policy Abdullah Tokhi fled Afghanistan in fear of his life. He asked for sanctuary in Britain. We sent him back. Within a year he was dead...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:36am PST
DAY 75 of HUNGER-STRIKES at CANADA'S "GUANTANAMO BAY" PRISON CALL FOR EMERGENCY ACTIONS at CANADIAN EMBASSIES
on WEDNESDAY, 7 February 2007
Canadian Consulate General - San Francisco / Silicon Valley
580 California Street, 14th floor
San Francisco, California
USA
94104
Tel: (415) 834-3180
Fax: (415) 834-3189...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 10:01pm PST
Film "Romantico" To Play in Bay Area for a 3rd Week I have gotten a lot of huge emails about this this week, because people keep including the image from the article. I'm not posting it here. I can't find the original article on the sfbg website....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:18pm PST
Unfair Detentions Rise at US-Canada Border Males of Middle Eastern descent feel humiliated by Homeland Security agents' practice of summarily detaining, handcuffing and questioning at the Northern border, reports Rashida Tlaib, advocacy coordinator of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Detroit, Michigan. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 8:53am PST
1/29:Congressional Lobby & National Call-In Day for Immigrant Rights 1. Endorse Our Jan 29 Open Letter to the Congress
http://www.immigran tsolidarity. org/MayDay2007/ openletter12907. html
2. Join Our Jan 26 National Conference Call
http://www.immigran tsolidarity. org/MayDay2007/ Jan2907lobbyday. html#confcall
3. Jan 29 Come to our Washington D.C. Lobby Day
http://www.immigran tsolidarity. org/MayDay2007/ Jan2907lobbyday. html#lobby...
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 7:17pm PST
South Korean Embassies in China Turn Away Escapees from North At the front line of an ongoing political and humanitarian crisis, Korean embassies in China are coming under harsh criticism for their recent mishandling of several cases involving South Korean citizens who fled North Korea and were reportedly turned away by their own embassies in China. Aruna Lee is a writer for New America Media. Peter Schurmann, a UC Berkeley student in Asian Studies, is currently working on a thesis focusing on Korean History....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 7:21am PST
"Poison pill" amendments would cut farm workers from the minimum wage Will farm workers be exempt from minimum wage increases?...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 1:22pm PST
2/2-17: MIGRANT MARCH II We ask you to support this second year endeavor – MIGRANT MARCH II - to educate and mobilize communities throughout the United States in favor of fair immigration reform and demilitarization of the border....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 5:58pm PST
Nicaragua Exports its Poor "Costa Ricans must understand that we need Nicaraguans "...
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 8:36am PST
Returned Darfuri asylum-seekers face torture and death in Khartoum In two days time, Alnour Yousif Fasher will be deported to Sudan, sent back to the people he says were responsible for the murders of his parents and two brothers in Darfur....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 8:21am PST
Please Endorse Immigrant Solidarity Network 1/29 Open Letter to the Congress! January 29, 2007 - National Immigrant Solidarity Network Open letter to the Congress + Friday, January 26, 2007 3 PM EST National Conference Call...
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:17am PST
Help Farmworkers Affected by the Freeze The news is full of stories about the freeze and how California's multimillion dollar citrus crop is being hit hard....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:06am PST
US Apathetic on Iraqi Refugees WASHINGTON — Slamming the US apathy to the plight of nearly four million Iraqi refugees, the Democrat-controlled Congress is pressing the Bush administration to do more to assuage the suffering of Iraqis fleeing their war-ravaged country....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:25am PST
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