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Press Conference & Protest: No Walls No Deaths Nov. 1, 11 am Immigrant rights groups will hold a press conference and protest on Wednesday, November 1, 11 am, at the Federal Building in Sacramento....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 8:44am PST
Urgent Alert! 11/1-2 Protest Against Minutemen Rally at Indiana! We just learned that Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist will be in Indiana on November 1st and 2nd, speaking at the racist anti-immigrant rally "Rally In the Valley '06" along with Congressman John Hostettler, Congressman Tom Tancredo and many others....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 4:37am PST
Native American Culture Day: "Natives Across the Americas-Indigenous Immigration" Oakland Public Library will celebrate it's 15th annual Native American Culture Day on Saturday, November 4, 2006 from Noon-5pm. The theme is "Without Borders/Sin fronteras: Natives Across the Americas". Arnoldo García of the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights. will be the keynote speaker. Culture Day will also include a documentary film entitled, "Nosotros Somos Uno - We are One", Native dancing and drumming, flute music, a speaker from the 2006 Shellmound Walk, and a Balle...
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 11:37am PST
A CALL TO SUPPORT THE CASE OF ELVIRA ARELLANO Elvira Arellano has become the symbol of resistance to the heartless
and callous deportations that are sweeping the country....
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 10:20pm PDT
"We Want This Border To Disappear" The Other Campaign in the Sonora Desert, Where the U.S.-Mexico Border Cuts an Indigenous Nation in Two...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 7:47am PDT
Will There Be a November Surprise? Construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexican border will never happen, the writer says. But the red-hot issue of immigration will play a key role in hundreds of congressional races. Frank Sharry is executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Immigration Forum. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 7:44am PDT
Bush signs Mexico fence into law US President George W Bush has authorised 700 miles (1,125km) of new fencing along the US-Mexico border, in a move to curb illegal immigration....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:07am PDT
Yesterday We Marched, But Today We Wait For illegal immigrants, the hope of legalization or even of a real dialogue about immigration has dwindled after the immigration march in May. NAM contributor Elizabeth Gonzalez talks to two women who marched in San Jose about how they perceive their future in the United States. Gonazalez, 25, is a writer for Silicon Valley De-Bug (http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org), a project of New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 5:47pm PDT
SA Muslim Scholar Turned Away From US An Islamic scholar from South Africa has been denied entry into the United States, prompting questions from Muslims in the San Francisco Bay area who had invited him to participate in activities marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:57am PDT
A Report from the First Annual Southwest Border Social Forum Last weekend, Ciudad Juárez celebrated the First Annual Southwest Border Social Forum, congregating people from across the United States and Mexico. The Border Social Forum took place at the Central Autonomous University in Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in the State of Chihuahua, Northern Mexico. Students, long-time immigrants rights activists, professors, youth-led alternative media, peace visionaries, indigenous tribes, workers and union organizers, and the curious all met for a three-day...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:31am PDT
Iranian immigration detainee featured in "Disappeared in America" released SAN FRANCISCO--On Friday, Oct. 13, Masoud Hosseini became a free man. Hosseini had spent four years behind bars as an immigration detainee -- most recently, in Florida's Colquitt County Jail -- based on terrorism allegations but without facing any criminal charges.
Over the telephone on Oct. 16, Hosseini described "giv[ing] all his stuff away" to fellow jail mates before being bussed to the Greyhound station in Tallahasee carrying sacks full of documents related to his case conspicuously s...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 5:33pm PDT
Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos: US-Mexico Wall 'A 700 Mile Mistake' In a recent column, journalist Jorge Ramos calls the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a "700-mile mistake." New America Media interviewed Ramos, who anchors Noticiero Univision, one of the country's most-watched newscasts, about Spanish-language media, the immigration movement and the growing political power of Latinos in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:22am PDT
How Military Recruiters Pitch to Latinos In a 1958 CIA information report on revolutionary activities in Cuba, the agent in charge wrote "Che [Guevara] is fairly intellectual for a Latin." A racist assertion such as this was not uncommon in government documents. Throughout the Cold War, official bureaucratic language and content continued to be influenced by long-standing"scientific" theories about national character and racial psychology....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 5:16pm PDT
ICE Raids, Amnesty Scams, Target Filipino Family in Queens NEW YORK CITY -- Six Filipino immigrants were arrested by agents of the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who raided the house in Elmhurst,
New York, where they were staying on September 22....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 1:01am PDT
New Guide to Domestic Workers' Rights in California Published Online With this online
advocates guide Mujeres Unidas y Activas and the Womens Collective of La
Raza Centro Legal will ensure that more advocates and domestic workers
around the state know and defend their rights....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 2:49pm PDT
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate With Columbia Student Organizer The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited to the school by the College Republicans. Gilchrist and student organizer Karina Garcia joins us for a debate that ends when Gilchrist abruptly pulls the plug....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 7:49am PDT
Canada to resettle 46 Palestinian refugees AMMAN - Canada has accepted to host 46 Palestinian refugees from Iraq who have been languishing at al-Rweished refugee camp, some 250 km east Amman, for the past three years, said Robert Breen, the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR) Representative in Jordan....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 6:44am PDT
Mexican Government Snubs Immigrant Demonstrations Supporting the Fight of the APPO in the US “We will use other methods,” if the repression continues, warn Oaxacans; In California, New York, Texas and Massachusetts preparations are made for protests against the government...
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 6:41am PDT
France: Immigrant squatters pressured into accepting dispersal On October 5, at the Cachan town hall in south Paris, the representatives of several hundred immigrant squatters, most of who had been living in a municipal gymnasium for 48 days, were pressured into an agreement that will disperse them without meeting their demands. The mainly African immigrants were evicted on August 17 from a university student residence in Cachan. Of the 30 squatters’ delegates at the meeting, three voted against the agreement and six abstained....
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:06am PDT
SOS Planning Rally in Sacto This Saturday! SOS is planning a rally in Sacramento this Saturday, Oct 14th, but is only letting those in the group know about it. Email them and get the info!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 7:31pm PDT
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