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Milkman shows how the flux of low-wage immigrants into the U.S. workforce in recent decades is “not the cause either of the massive economic restructuring that began in the 1970s or the accompanying growth of economic inequality and labor degradation,” but precisely a consequence of these developments....
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 6:59am PST
Immigration leads to stronger economic growth, which in turn creates jobs, Without migration, we would all be sitting in Olduvia in East Africa, as we were 100,000 years ago. About 3% of the world's population, about 215 million people, live in a state other than the one in which they were born. Migration has always existed. Not everything has become more right-wing in the last 50 years....
Posted: Fri, Jan 8, 2021 3:52am PST
As Immigrant Detain, Deport and Dying Under Trump, What’ll be Biden Mean for Immigrant Rights?...
Posted: Wed, Dec 2, 2020 8:28am PST
The Bracero Program, based upon a U.S.-Mexico Treaty imported
Mexican laborers for year-long contract during WWII. My father came to the California San Joaquin Valley Southern Pacific RR....
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2020 4:19am PDT
The California Latino community has been disproportionately infected by the coronavirus. Latinos make up 39 percent of the population in the state, but account for 56 percent of COVID-19 infections and 46 percent of deaths. That’s three times the rate as Whites. State officials say, many employers have not reliably provided protective equipment to workers or implemented social distancing or mask wearing rules. This is systemic racism. Too often, they live in neighborhoods that are located ne...
Posted: Tue, Oct 13, 2020 6:23pm PDT
Americans have always valued their liberal heritage and their political system which tends toward the vital center. Two souls dwell in the American breast to speak with Goethe. White nationalists still regard American history as that of white Americans and have little respect for a revision of historiography.
White privilege is a defining factor....
Posted: Tue, Oct 13, 2020 8:33am PDT
Human rights did not just fall from the sky, but had to and must be fought for by those who are not granted them...This includes the unwritten human right to global freedom of movement. Solidarity is directed primarily at those who are enslaved and/or who, in the struggle for liberation, are working to overcome unjust social conditions....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2020 4:53am PDT
ICE Is Leaving Immigrants To Die In Detention, Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money To Build Border Wall With Mexico...
Posted: Sun, Aug 30, 2020 3:08am PDT
When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be the end of a year-long odyssey....
Posted: Mon, Aug 3, 2020 1:08pm PDT
February 22, 2020 - The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), the youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, is holding an emergency online meeting this Sunday, February 23, at 4pm Pacific Time to discuss an international socialist strategy for the UC strike. Visit https://iysse.com/UCstrike/ for further details....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2020 6:24pm PST
2019 Year Ends: US Detains Record Number of Child Migrants, Surpassing Crisis Under Obama...
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2019 2:56pm PST
This is an opinion piece on the anxiety endured by the immigrant population. While referencing events in northern California, the climate of fear is throughout all of the United States. This piece is meant to raise awareness of and for immigrants, in relation to the Public Charge Rules....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 3:36pm PST
According to government sources, there were around 15,500 active DACA recipients in the San Francisco metropolitan area (San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward) as of September 4, 2017....
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2019 2:34am PST
More Trump’s Racist Raids, Killings and Immigrant Children Indefinite Detentions!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2019 10:28pm PDT
The refugee debate is back again but only the symptoms are in the spotlight. Refugees are fought instead of the causes of flight. The political failure is as dreadful as the forgetfulness of the media and politics. For the first time, more than 70 million persons are fleeing from war, persecution and conflicts. Every two seconds a person becomes a refugee....
Posted: Mon, Jul 29, 2019 3:05am PDT
Reposted from Common Dreams under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2019 5:54pm PDT
In an effort that pits public housing tenants against one another, reportedly last Wednesday evening on April 17, 2019, the Trump administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new proposal to force undocumented immigrants from our nation’s public housing units!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2019 5:35am PDT
No one speaks about the right to be deeply rooted in one's country and not to be uprooted by global capitalism. In reality, the elite is demophobic. That means, it hates people and democracy. We must be populist and not elitist today, democratic and not demophobic, and defend national sovereignty and not globalization....
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2019 3:49am PST
Similar to the former ''Blackface'' [USA] and ''Golliwog'' [Great Britain], in the Netherlands ''Zwarte Piet'' [Dutch for
Black Pete] is a racist caricature, that is invented in the 19th century, the era of slavery, diehard colonialism
and racist theiries about the superiority of the ''white race''
Black Pete is the stupid servant of Saint Nicholas [in Dutch ''Sinterklaas] and leads to discrimination and
teasing of black children. Time to say goodbye to Black Pete!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2018 7:48pm PST
The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and the greed of mammoth world corporations. Only the prospect for a future in their country can stop refugees, not borders. Just trade would be the first step. Borders are a thorn in the eye to capital....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2018 9:21am PST