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Contact ADC if Approached by the FBI
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has noted a recent wave of reports from across the country indicating that FBI agents are contacting Arab and Muslim Americans, including citizens, for what has been described as voluntary interviews. ADC would like to remind members of the Arab, Muslim, and Arab-American communities that equal protection and due process rights are afforded to everyone, including non-citizens, in the United States....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 5:01pm PDT
June 24 04: Civil Liberties and Immigrant Rights News Updates
Last two weeks had been one of the dark moments in US civil liberties and immigrant rights, U.S. conducted several horrible raids against immigrants across the California, arrested and deported many people.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the House passed the so-called "Intelligence Bill".
Lee Siu Hin
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Peace No War Network
United Students Against Sweatshops...
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2004 3:15am PDT
Santa Barbara County Supervisors Support Drivers License Bill
At 12pm on Tuesday, June 22nd, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to support SB 1160, the new drivers bill that will ensure that all drivers have access to proper training and insurance....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 7:41pm PDT
MALDEF Helps Defeat Rep. Tancredo's Anti-Immigrant Amendments
I don't really agree with some of the rational being argued in this press release from MALDEF in regards to police, as it seems that police already have a chilling effect on the latino community and other communities across the country with any amount of pigment(ie people of color).
Yet the defeat the this anti-immigrant legislation is great....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 8:20pm PDT
76-mile desert walk protests border rules
Over 200 people protested U.S. immigration policies at the Tucson Sector Headquarters of the Border Patrol on June 6 at the end of the 76-mile Migrant Trail Walk.
According to Kat Rodríguez, coordinating organizer for the Derechos Humanos Coalition, 26 activists walked the whole length of the march, which started at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31. Another seven walked part of the length through the Sonoran Desert, where a few hundred people perish each year trying to enter the United St...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:56am PDT
ACTION ALERT HR 3722: Requires Emergency Rooms to Report Undocumented Immigrants
US House of Representatives to vote on HR 3722, requiring emergency
room health workers to fingerprint or photograph undocumented
immigrant patients and then call Homeland Security to begin
deportation proceedings...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Call to Action! - Immigrant-Worker Solidarity Day at RNC
Call to Action! - Immigrant-Worker Solidarity Day Of Action and Conference During Anti-RNC Mobolization, New York!...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 7:16pm PDT
IWFRC: New American Freedom Summer
Prior to working in Arizona or Florida, participants will receive training in Mississippi from leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer. This training will take place June 28-June 30. Participants will begin work in Arizona or Florida July 1....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 12:25pm PDT
LGIRTF is now Immigration Equality
The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force has officially changed its
name to Immigration Equality...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 1:41pm PDT
October 22nd Coalition Statement about February 20th
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,
Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
expresses its total support of the National Day of
Solidarity with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian
Immigrants on February 20th, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 12:21am PST
Anti-immigration bigots trying to take over the Sierra Club
"Anti-immigration candidates trying to take over the Sierra Club's governing board have filed a lawsuit against the national environmental organization, alleging that its leaders are breaking state law by using club money and resources to oppose them in upcoming board elections."
-- Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2004...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 9:58am PST