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Can Marches Stop the Scapegoating of Immigrants?
An editor at a Spanish-language newspaper remembers with trepidation the harsh legislation and rhetoric that came on the heels of California's last big immigrant-rights mobilizations. Pilar Marrero is a columnist for the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, where this commentary first appeared. Translated by Daffodil Altan....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:25pm PDT
BTL:Some AntiImmigrant Activists Have Known Connections with Racist Hate Groups
Interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 5:01am PDT
Mexican workers fired for attending immigrant rights rally in Detroit
Twenty-one immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Detroit were fired last month for participating in a national day of protests against anti-immigrant legislation being drafted in Washington. Wolverine Packing Company fired the workers—all born in Mexico—on March 28, the day after 20,000 immigrants and supporters protested in downtown Detroit....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 9:38pm PDT
Photos From Fresno Immigrant rights protest
Immigrant rights march results in largest protest in Fresno History. Over 10,000 people march for Human Rights and dignity for immigrants in Fresno on Monday....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 5:37pm PDT
The Stake for Asian Americans in Immigration Reform
The current immigration debate has huge implications for the Asian American community but they have largely been left out of the coverage of the immigration rights movement. On a teleconference call organized by New America Media and the Asian American Justice Center (AAJA), Traci Hong, Director of Immigration Programs for AAJA, told a group of 25 reporters and editors from the Asian press across the country that immigration was the civil rights issues of the 21st century and would affect all...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:48am PDT
Shared Struggle: Gays, Immigrants Each Can Be Labeled 'Illegal'
Marta Donayre, Apr 12, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:47am PDT
Our new America rises up in Fresno’s largest march — ever
Our new America rises up in Fresno’s largest march — ever. 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 7:20am PDT
BENEFIT SHOW for the BAY AREA COALITION TO FIGHT THE MINUTEMEN!
FRIDAY, APRIL 14th BALAZO 18 GALLERY 6pm
(2183 Mission st, near 18th)
6pm-8pm: Chican@ dinner, short documentary:"New World Border", talk w/ film-maker and educator Jose Palafox about current border militarization and anti-immigrant repression, (also a veterano punkero and member of newly formed hard-core punk band- Baader Brains).
EARLY SHOW!!!
Bands start 8pm sharrrp! ends at Midnight! DJ's, dancing + drinking + cotoreando/flirting ;} continues till late...
Firme (headl...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 2:45am PDT
Help Org May 1st! Sat., April 15 at 2:30pm at SEIU Local 87, 240 Golden Gate Ave
Join immigrant rights organizers at an open public meeting to plan to bring hundreds of thousands of people to SF on May First....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 12:41pm PDT
Help Organize for Immigrant Rights May Day
Sat., April 15 at 2:30pm at SEIU Local 87 union hall, 240 Golden Gate Ave, 3 blocks from Civil Center BART.
Join immigrant rights organizers at an open public meeting to plan to bring hundreds of thousands of people to SF on May First....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 10:00am PDT
THE WAR ON IMMIGRATION
THE US WAR AGAINST IMMIGRANTS IN THEIR FIGHT FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 5:36am PDT
Immigrants Rights March in San Jose
The people are on the move in a continuing historic mobilization in cities all over the U.S. to oppose HR 4437 and other draconian laws which would criminalize undocumented workers as a part of the general attack on all working people in the United States. These photos show some of the participants of over 25,000 marchers in San Jose, California on Monday April 10, 2006. Most of the marchers were immigrants from Mexico and other Central American countries....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 12:59am PDT
25,000 march in San Jose - one witness account
As marchers filled two lanes of traffic for 15 blocks of Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose, it was a proud day to be a "Joseano."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:13pm PDT
Corporate Agriculture's Dirty Little Secret: Immigration and a History of Greed
Our nation's continuing controversy surrounding its current immigration "policy" is more than just corporate agribusiness's dirty little secret, but it also shrouds an economic iceberg that unless recognized could well rip the U.S. apart....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 5:46pm PDT
More Pics of 4-10-06 San Jose Immigrants Rights March and some demands
Demand total amnesty!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 4:03pm PDT
Demonstrators take to the highway (Davis to Sacramento 9-mile march)
About 200 people, mostly UC Davis students, marched nine miles from the Chiles Drive exit off of Interstate- 80 on Monday, joining about 4,000 demonstrators in Sacramento in protest of tough immigration bills being debated in Congress....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 12:51pm PDT
Greens join protests against punitive anti-immigrant bills, urge repeal of NAFTA
Green Party candidates and members speakout against legislation criminalizing immigrants, and join in nationwide rallies to support immigrants and draw attention to the corporate crafted Trade Agreements which have harmed workers everywhere and created waves of economic refugees....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 11:14am PDT
Immigrants Show Force at Rally Against Federal Policy
Immigrants rights activists kicked off a day of protest yesterday with an energetic rally that culminated in a march through the heart of the Mission District. Participants included a broad coalition of representatives from almost every major immigrant group in the city, all of who lashed out strongly against an immigration bill currently being debated in the Senate. Competing proposals include a house bill that would make felons out of both illegal immigrants and those that provide these peo...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:50am PDT
After the Protests, San Francisco Activists Must Build Latino Power
Latino immigrants and their supporters have shown unexpected strength the past two weeks, leading many to ask what will happen to this growing movement once the fate of the pending immigration bill is resolved. San Francisco activists should be raising a similar question. San Francisco’s large Latino community has remained a politically sleeping giant for decades, securing few elected positions and exercising nowhere near the clout of Latinos in San Jose, Los Angeles, or even Orange County. W...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:50am PDT
US: Over a million protest against anti-immigrant legislation
Well over a million immigrant workers and their supporters joined marches and rallies in cities from coast to coast beginning Sunday and continuing Monday to protest against reactionary legislation approved by one house of Congress that would treat undocumented workers in the US—as well as anyone who provides them with aid or support—as criminal felons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:37am PDT