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The Labor Day 06 march for immigrant rights drew about 10,000 people to downtown San Jose...
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 1:09pm PDT
Hotel Workers Rising!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 12:24pm PDT
The Chicago marchers will end their 45-mile journey, dubbed the Immigrant Workers Justice Walk, on Sept. 4 at the office of US House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Batavia, a suburb west of the city....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 9:24am PDT
Some of the speakers at the first stage at Justin Herman Plaza at the foot of Market Street....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:38pm PDT
A march in support of Immigrant Rights was held in downtown Fresno today. The march, which called for fair and humane immigration reform, was attended by over 500 immigration rights activists and their allies. The marchers went from the Free Speech area at the Fulton Mall to Fresno Street, down R street, and back to the mall for a rally. This Labor Day march was organized by a coalition of immigration rights groups....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 8:13pm PDT
An Anti-Immigration counterprotest to Labor Day Pro-Immigrant marches was held Monday morning in San Jose. The Raging Grannies Action League organized a "Clean Up the Hate Brigade" and went into action on the tails of the counterprotestors with mops and featherdusters....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 7:59pm PDT
Thousands took to the streets today around the country to defend immigrants against attacks by Congress...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 1:41pm PDT
Here's the press release for tomorrow's Immigrant Rights Rally at Southside Park in Sacramento....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 2:24pm PDT
New Rounds of Marches For Immigrant Rights Movements!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 8:58pm PDT
St. Joseph of worker BERKELEY (1640 Addison St.)...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 3:55pm PDT
St. Joseph of worker BERKELEY (1640 Addison St.)...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 2:47pm PDT
Meeting at the government building on the corner of Water and Ocean Streets in Santa Cruz at 7:30 and carpooling to San Francsico
The March begins at the Emarcadero at 10:00...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 10:10am PDT
Besides the legalization of undocumented immigrants, reform also means doing away with unusually punitive proposals that would erode the nation’s core values, writes Avideh Moussavian, a senior staff attorney for immigration advocacy and training at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a member of the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to reform the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's lead...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:30am PDT
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 3:12am PDT
"Congress members organize hearings in the most remote places and only invite the 'minutemen' and anti-immigrant groups," said activist Kavitha Pawria. Immigrant Communities in Action says at least 100 people were set to travel 200 miles from New York City for an Aug. 25 "counter- hearing" in Glens Falls to challenge the anti-immigrant message....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 7:54pm PDT
Thousands of students are returning to campuses across the country and crafting their organizing plans for the year. This fall and beyond, the stakes are high in the struggle for fair food as McDonald's continues its attempts to undermine the CIW's movement for decent wages and dignified working conditions in Florida's fields......
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 2:11pm PDT
Immigration officials promptly arrested the 40-year-old professional
architect, with a threat from the U.S. government that she soon
would be deported back to the Muslim island of Java on Indonesia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 1:27pm PDT
Starts at: Story Rd. / King Rd. (Parking Lot Mi Pueblo) in San José
Ends at: San José City Hall (Santa Clara St / 5th St.)...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 8:40am PDT
On Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, hospital workers at John Muir Medical Center's Concord Campus (formerly Mt. Diablo) went on strike, urging the management to come back to the bargaining table. Without a contract since October, members of the 450-strong union (part of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers' 140,000 members in the Western U.S.), have been struggling to prevent the profit-oriented John Muir management from cutting back their families' healthcare packages. Other issues of concern include the need...
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 5:32am PDT
9:00am - March begins from the corner of E. 14th St./
International Blvd. + 98th Ave., down International
Blvd. toward the Oakland Federal Building
11:30am - Rally at the downtown Oakland Federal Building
(13th St. + Clay)...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 10:46pm PDT






