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textU.S. Raid on an Immigrant Household Deepens Anger and Mistrust by repost
Adriana Leon, right, and her 12-year-old daughter, Erica, legal immigrants from Ecuador, were asleep at home in East Hampton, on Long Island, when seven Fugitive Operations agents came looking for illegal immigrants at 5 a.m. on Feb. 20....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:35pm PDT
calendarPush & Pull: The immigration and Trade debate with Juan Manuel Sandoval and David Bacon by Kate
Oakland Workers Center 2501 International at 25th Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:12pm PDT
calendarPush & Pull: The immigration and Trade debate with Juan Manuel Sandoval and David Bacon by Kate
New College Cultural Center 766 Valencia at 19th Mission Distrcit...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:10pm PDT
textAll out on May Day! Support immigrant rights by Workers Wold (reposted)
Longshore workers on the West Coast have passed a resolution supporting national May Day actions for immigrant and workers’ rights. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) took solidarity a step further by announcing a work stoppage in major West Coast ports on May 1 to support and participate in the “Great American Boycott II.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:33am PDT
textSanctuary City Movment growing across US by Washington Post
Looking the Other Way on Immigrants Some Cities Buck Federal Policies By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer April 10, 2007...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:26am PDT
textImmigrants: 50,000 March for Immigration Reform by Stewart A. Alexander
More than 50,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates filled the streets of Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 7, 2007, to rally support for fair legislation for immigrants; and to protest against the recent White House plan that will further restrict the rights of immigrants across America. The March and rally was one of the largest in recent months and it further demonstrated the growing momentum of the immigration rights movement....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:00am PDT
textJFAV Commemorates Bataan Day, April 9, 2007 in Los Angeles by JUStice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV)
In a rare show of unity for the Filipino community, The Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV), the regional alliance in the West Coast of Filipino veterans, student, youth and community advocates together with the Filipino Veterans Foundation commemorated the 65th Bataan Day yesterday, April 9, 2007 with simple commemorative rites at the memorial monument at the Lake Street Park Memorial Monument at 227 Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90026 Philippine Ambassador to the United States, W...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:53am PDT
imageStudent Walkout May 1, 2007!
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by revolution youth sf (repost)
STOP THE WAR AT HOME & ABROAD! ORGANIZE A WALKOUT AT YOUR SCHOOL!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 11:55pm PDT
imageOn verge of major protest, CIW reaches landmark accord with McDonald's
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by SFA
Campaign surges forward with Burger King in its sights! Come to Chicago – now more than ever!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:40pm PDT
calendarForum on Low-Wage Cafeteria Workers! by carl
Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church. 609 Southwood Dr. South San Francisco (off of El Camino Real)...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 3:02pm PDT
textThousands of Undocumented 'Adopted' by New American Media (reposted)
“For a safe America, adopt an immigrant,” says a coalition that recently initiated a program where American citizens can symbolically adopt an undocumented immigrant in the United States. More than 12 thousand undocumented children and adults in the United States have already been “adopted.” What’s more, some activists opposed to illegal immigration say they support the program....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:37am PDT
textTo Get Ahead in America, Aprenda Español by New American Media (reposted)
Immigrants to the United States who don’t speak English are keenly aware that acquiring it will increase their viability as an employee. In an ironic twist, NAM writer Louis Nevaer discovered that U.S. Latinos are being pressured by their employers to learn Spanish. Nevaer is the author, most recently, of HR and the New Hispanic Workforce, a book about Hispanics in the labor force....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:37am PDT
textApril 7 Coalition March Rally in Los Angeles Draws 75,000 by AJLPP-USA
Amnesty Now! Full Rights for All Immigrants, Now! With these resounding chants, more than 75,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates under the banner of the April 7 Coalition marched and rallied for full rights for all immigrants last Saturday, April 7, 2007, in Los Angeles. Unlike the disparate and fewer numbers of mobilized activities last March 25, 2007, the April 7 Coalition march for full rights for all immigrants became one of the largest to be held in Los Angeles after May...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 6:45pm PDT
textMigrant workers in US protest by Al Jazeera (reposted)
Thousands of people have marched in protest over a leaked White House proposal that would require illegal immigrants to pay thousands of dollars to become legal US residents....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 10:14am PDT
textImmigration raids net many not on the radar by Daily Breeze repost
More than one-third of 18,000 people arrested in a nearly yearlong federal crackdown on illegal immigrants were not the people authorities targeted, according to government figures....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:07pm PDT
textCall To End Immigration Raids Heard In SJ by NBC 11 repost
ah, where were the indy reporters?...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:06pm PDT
textElvira Arrellano Begins Hunger Strik by via list
"I am starting this hunger strike, on the eve of Good Friday, as a prayer that our people will mobilize, that the hearts of the people of this nation will open and that the elected officials will act to preserve our families and the Holy Bond between the children and their mothers and fathers..."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:16pm PDT
textEl gueto idiomático by NAM
La suprema ironía de los disparatados comentarios que el ex presidente de la Cámara Baja Newt Gingrich ha vertido acerca de lo indeseable del multilingüismo en Estados Unidos es la alusión desafortunada al "gueto" en el cual, según él, quienes hablamos español nos confinamos....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:27am PDT
textThe Idiomatic 'Ghetto' by New American Media (reposted)
The supreme irony of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s absurd comments about the undesirability of multilingualism in the United States was his unfortunate allusion to the “ghetto” to which, according to him, those who speak Spanish are confined....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:26am PDT
textApril 10th - National Day of Action For Stop the Raids! Stop Deportations! by via NISN
April 10th 2007 National Day of Action Stop Tearing Apart Families! Stop the Raids! Stop Deportations! Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Now!!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 4:49pm PDT
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