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Take action to clean up illegal farm labor contractor violations San Joaquin Valley farm workers need your immediate help before the grape harvest begins in June. The farm labor contractor (FLC) system is corrupt. Illegal violations are an everyday occurrence during the harvest. Please take action today and e-mail CA Attorney General Jerry Brown and tell his office it's time to crack down on these law breakers....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:36pm PDT
Stop the Raids on Immigrants 298 Valencia St. (corner of 14th St.), SF. On the #26 Muni line, and two blocks from the 16th Mission BART station....
Event Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 11:46am PDT
Secret Immigration Raids in the D.C. Subway WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Around 3:15 P.M., Monday, March 5, María (not her real name) finished work cleaning houses in Alexandria, Virg., and began her commute home to Washington, D.C. She bought a ticket at the King Street Metro station and started down the steps to the train when two officials calmly and slyly approached her and asked for her “papers.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:51am PDT
San Rafael ANTI-I.C.E Rally San Rafael 4 St. Plaza (Between Bank of America and Cold Stones)...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 10:34pm PDT
On the Imus Racist and Sexist Remarks and the People’s Outrage The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) and the Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR) stands against systemic racism and sexism in all its forms.
The racist and sexist remarks by Imus about the Rutgers women’s basketball team is not only racist in form but a like the tip of spear, in essence- the racist and sexist slur, an offensive against people of color and immigrants....
Posted: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 11:26am PDT
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Needs To Resign! The Mexican American Political Association joins the American Muslim Alliance to call for the resignation of Alberto Gonzales.
Nativo V. Lopez, National President of MAPA:
"U.S. Attorney Gonzales has been at the helm of the Justice Department during the darkest period of deteriorating civil liberties in the history of our country."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 6:33pm PDT
The STRIVE Act Is A False Promise While some immigrant rights advocates support Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Jeff Flake’s immigration bill (STRIVE Act), others believe it’s not a good plan for immigrants. Lillian Galedo is executive director of Filipinos for Affirmative Action in Oakland, Calif. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:08am PDT
Thousands March Against ‘Z Visa’ LOS ANGELES -- Immigrant rights activists, Latino radio and TV celebrities, members of the clergy and entire families took to the streets of Downtown L.A. last weekend, once again asking for comprehensive immigration reform that would allow the estimated 12 million undocumented persons in the country to legalize their status. At the same time, marchers called for an end to recent immigration raids and condemned an immigration reform plan supported by President George W. Bush that will require...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:44pm PDT
Australia's Howard calls for HIV migrant ban Australia should refuse to allow migrants or refugees with HIV to enter the country, Prime Minister John Howard has said....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:10am PDT
HIV carriers not welcome in Australia The grotesque and disgusting, pathological, lying coward Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard is cutting a comical figure as he flounders from one gaffe and blunder to another. Jumping straight from the ‘cubicle’ of support for a known racist and questionable character, Alan Jones to the primitive, superstitious behaviour of ‘branding’ individuals suffering manageable maladies and preventing them from entering the country. Howard’s recent gesture of banning individuals with HIV is reminis...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 12:13am PDT
La Gran Marcha por Una Amnistía Incondicional 
Inmigrantes y Trabajadores Rechazan el Programa de Trabajares Huéspedes, las Redadas de I.C.E, y La Separación de Familias...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:18pm PDT
Movement For An Unconditional Amnesty Announces “The Grand March for Unconditional Amnesty 
Immigrants and Workers Reject the Guest Worker Program, I.C.E. Raids and the Separation of Families...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:08pm PDT
The Muddy Fields (short story: farmworkers) Immigration and racism are two sides of the same coin...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 12:20pm PDT
Immigration Reform and LGBT Discrimination Francoeur explained, that post-operative transgender
individuals face a unique situation, depending on whether or not
their state recognizes their marriage as an opposite sex couple,
there is a chance for a transgender individual to be sponsored by a
spouse....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:57pm PDT
SF Day Laborer Update Dear friends and allies of the SF Day Labor Program,
I'm writing to (1) give you a quick update on the Mayor's plans to set up a
new day laborer program next to Home Depot, (2) to let you know what our
position is on all this, and (3) how you can support us....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:36pm PDT
4/12-21: Central Valley's Journey for Justice 2007 en-day
> schedule to begin in Sacramento on April 12, 2007 with Sally Lieber
> Assembly Speaker pro Tempore taking the first step of more than 300
> hundred mile journey involving many people across the central valley....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:30pm PDT
May First March and Boycott! March May 1st from Dolores park to Civic Center...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 1:00pm PDT
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL RADIO (April 2007) Occupation by the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte; ICE raids in New Bedford, MA; Justice for Anas Bennis...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 12:10pm PDT
Deported refugee commits suicide in Romania On Saturday, March 17, 57-year-old Marin Mogos hanged himself in the transit area of the Bucharest airport at Otopeni. This act of desperation can only be understood as a protest against the inhumane refugee and rigid deportation policies of the German government and authorities....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 10:08pm PDT
Immigrant Mom in Sanctuary Goes on Hunger Strike Saulito's mother is Elvira who is fighting with every ounce of her petite physique to
stay here in the United States with her son....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:48pm PDT
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