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Over 400 Detained in Southern California Immigration Sweep In the past month, immigration agents have arrested hundreds of undocumented workers and immigrants in Southern California in sweeps conducted well inside the US/Mexico border that are causing widespread fear and charges of racial profiling in local immigrant and Latino communities....
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 9:10am PDT
Heroes’ Farewell For Cuevas Family: Communities Continue Struggle But even as lawmakers turn a deaf ear and fail to
protect their constituents, the Cuevas campaign has
given hope to other families. According to the Support
Committee for the Cuevas Family, more undocumented
Filipino families have stepped forward to ask for
assistance with legalizing their status after decades
of working in the country and raising their families....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 8:22am PDT
March Against INS Intimidation The campaign begins with a five-day march that begins Tuesday, June 29, at 8 AM at the King City Park (take the Canal St exit and go right on Division St). On Tuesday evening marchers will rally at Patriot Park in Greenfield after marching through the town. Marches and rallies will follow each day, moving north to Soledad, Gonzalez, Chualar and arriving in Salinas on Saturday. A similar campaign will move through towns to the north of Salinas during the following week, arriving again in ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 8:32am PDT
Labor Continues to Join Struggle to Stop the Deportation of the Cuevas Family The Alameda Central Labor Council passed a resolution last Monday supporting the campaign to stop the deportation of the Cuevas family, and the Million Worker March Organizing Committee decided to endorse the campaign last night at their meeting....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 2:00pm PDT
Chronicle story about Immigration Raid Press Conference Thanks to kick-ass media work by the coalition of immigrant rights groups who put it on, we got a good write-up in the usually-hostile Chronicle. --Jeff G...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 4:28pm 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
Immigrant Communities Fight Back Against INS/ICE Immigration Raids Throughout California Our demands are:
stop all raids
that the city denounce the raids
that the police not cooperate with the INS
stop violating the human rights of immigrants who are under custody of the INS...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 12:06pm 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
SF Labor Council Passed a Resolution in Support of the Cuevas Family on 6/14/04 Whereas an injury to one is an injury to all and the Cuevas family has come under attack under the Patriot act repressive policies and part of anti-immigrant repression...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:54am PDT
Sign on to Letter to Stop the Deportation of the Cuevas family Please forward this to any organizations or groups that you work with, and encourage them to join the fight to stop the deportation of the Cuevas family. If you live in the SF Bay Area please join us on Wednesday June 16 at Senator Barbara Boxer's office to demand that she take action on behalf of the Cuevas family(info on link)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 6:41am 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
Post Boxer-Delegation, Cuevas Family Celebrates Bittersweet College Graduation Meanwhile, the Cuevas family prepares to celebrate their eldest daughter Donna’s graduation from California State University, Hayward. Without an extension of their final departure date, participation in commencement ceremonies would have been impossible for her. “This is a bittersweet celebration,” according to Support Committee convener, Robyn Rodriguez......
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 8:15am PDT
Letter delivered to Senator Barbara Boxer calling for her to stop deportation As constituents in your area who feel very strongly about this issue we urge you, Senator Boxer, to respond to the Support Committee for the Cuevas Family’s request that you begin the process of introducing personal legislation on the behalf of the Cuevas family by June 15, 2004...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 8:11am PDT
Help Stop the Cuevas Family Deportation "It's going to take a miracle (to stay)," said Dale Cuevas, 23, the family's adult son.
Calling All Miracle Workers and Organizers of all strips and colors - We need to stop this deportation and draw a line in the sand, so to speak - Join the organizing efforts talked about below and do whatever you can to stop the deportation of the Cuevas family....
Posted: Sat, Jun 5, 2004 10:06am PDT
ICE (INS) raids in the Mission! 2 articles from the SF Bay Guardian, Press Release an Press Conference Report....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 11:47am PDT
Up against ICE(aka la migra) The following is an editorial that appears in this weeks, May 19th, edition of the SF Bay Guardian....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 2:09am PDT
Film Screening and Benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - This Friday - Oakland! This Friday evening - there will be a benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - at the AK Press warehouse in Oakland. Including a film screening of The Gatekeeper, and a panel discussion by Freedom Riders themselves....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 5:04pm PDT
Immigrant HIV Assistance Program Forced to Close Its Doors CARE Doesn't Care For Latinos: Health And Legal Assistance Programs Cut....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:48pm 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
5/14, 10am Press Conference about INS Raids >
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>447 Valencia st. (between 15th & 16th)...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:58pm PDT
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