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Immigration in the U.S. Today
A brief look into immigration and how the current administration has affected it....
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 11:34am PST
Join us at the Border in San Diego December 8th – 10th
Solidarity Actions for migrant caravan...
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2018 8:53pm PST
Mexican Government Demands Investigation After U.S. Fires Tear Gas At Asylum Seekers
The Mexican government is demanding a full investigation after U.S. border authorities fired tear gas Sunday into a crowd of Central American asylum seekers on November 25. Pedro Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program, witnessed the incident from the U.S. side....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 2:12pm PST
US Condemned for Violence Against Asylum Seekers
"Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn't a crime," says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after U.S. Border agents fire tear gas into Mexico....
Posted: Mon, Nov 26, 2018 8:00pm PST
FEMA and EMP Disaster
FEMA is unprepared and lacks strategic planning The President relies on Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for all disasters in the United States, which includes every state and territory. Hurricane Maria was an extraordinary act of nature that spawned one of the worst human tragedies in American history. It was one of the most destructive natural disasters that we as a nation have ever seen...
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2018 1:48pm PDT
Carl Schmidt and the New Right
The intellectual New Right may be more a loose network of persons, political projects, publications and publishers than an organization or party. Carl Schmidt defined democracy as the "identity of ruler and ruled, commanding and obedient." He reinterpreted democracy and started from the unity and homogeneity of the people's will with the state. Pluralism and parliamentary democracy are delegitimated with plebiscites....
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2018 4:12am PDT
The Shortwave Report 07/06/18 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Sputnik Radio, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 4:41pm PDT
In the 1750s, who said this about which immigrants?
"As one complainant put it, "Few of their children in the country learn English...The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages...Unless the stream of the importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2018 7:12pm PDT
Hundreds Of Immigrant Families, Activists To “Block I.C.E.”, Demand End To Family Detention
The daily horrors being committed by the US government against immigrant families and individuals at border crossings are a crime against humanity....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2018 1:28pm PDT
Gentrifiers Co-Opting Detainment Protest in Concord
A group of gentrification advocates and development lobbyists are attempting to co-opt an anti-fascist Concord protest movement for their own gain....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2018 8:40pm PDT
Progressives wrestle with dilemma on migration
Canadians' over-riding commitment to a "multicultural identity" has served as a kind of "cultural glue, forestalling broad antagonism to immigration based on fears it will reduce support for the country's welfare policies (which, in terms of generosity, lie somewhere in between those in the US and northern Europe)....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2018 1:08pm PDT
Summer 2018 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert!
Trump's Animals ICE And Prisoner Sexual Abuse Racists Are On The Loose!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2018 11:58pm PDT
Asylum Seekers Heinously Abused By Trump, Sessions, Kelly, Nielsen, Miller Etc
a litany of crimes against the poor and helpless by Trump, Sessions and company...
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2018 5:19pm PDT
Latinos in America
Latinos in America are given an image where they are portrayed as "bad" people in society. Immigrants come to America hoping to start a new life and reaching for the American Dream. Little do they know that they come to face discrimination not only in the real world, but also in the media....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2018 2:11pm PDT
ICE Trained Surreptitiously at Urban Shield - In Our Sanctuary County.
The revelation of secretive HSI/ICE participation (ICE was not listed on the Urban Shield website as a participating agency) follows a series of disturbing incidents at the event, including the presence of the Oath Keepers vigilante extremism group in an Urban Shield-branded community fair giving out literature to the public in an Alameda County Sheriff's Department pavillion, the use of vendor Strategic Operations in secret after the Alameda Board of Supervisors vetoed the vendor due to blat...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2018 3:26pm PDT
An Open Letter to the Chief of Campus Police
Our open letter to the chief of campus police, after being invited to an open forum about campus safety. Thanks Sarah and Ana for this pointed and clear response declining the "offer". We demand a demilitarized campus, as one of our sunshine demands. FTP....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2018 8:56pm PDT
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Research
Current laws and stipulations are threatening the legal status of immigrants in the United States. The president’s decision to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and call congress to act has left the “Dreamers” of the country in uncertainty. A set of interviews were held with DACA recipients of Sonoma County to understand the demographic of the recipients and the effects recent laws have had on them and their families. The interviews will help understand who the DACA populatio...
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2017 8:18pm PST
BCR, Identity Europa rallying tonight at Sproul Plaza
Berkeley College Republicans and Identity Europa are holding a rally 6:30PM tonight at UC Berkeley campus, using Kate Steinle's death as a prop to push their agenda....
Posted: Thu, Dec 7, 2017 11:46am PST
Effects of the removal of DACA
With the removal of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), lives will be extremely impacted and years of hard work and effort will be taken away without any remorse. So many people had the opportunity to go to college, start a fulfilling career, and were able to help out their family with the help of DACA. These individuals took great advantage of the benefits and opportunities the program offered and it seems inhumane to suddenly take that all away from them....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2017 12:31am PST
What DACA is Doing To Families
My article is about how DACA is affecting not only the recipients, but the families as well....
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2017 9:15pm PST