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El Paso students stage more walkouts "The kids came into my store, vandalized and they stole"......
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 3:03pm PST
No student walkouts reported in LA after crackdown on truancy "I felt like an animal in a cage"......
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:55pm PST
Houston police arrest protesting students Houston police arrested 26 teenagers for curfew violations today in the latest round of local immigration reform protests....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:41pm PST
Arizona: Nearly 800 leave schools for lengthy protest march 
"Seeing a bunch of high school kids run out of school and break a fence proves a point to the adults that we care too," said Martinez, 17. "We are not going to take this institutionalized slavery — this institutionalized racism."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:26pm PST
3/30: Actions Need For Senate Immigration Bill, Call Your Senator! 1. Why the Senate's Proposed Immigrant Bill is Bad for the Immigrants. 2. Take Actions! Call Your Senator to Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 1:15pm PST
Illegal Immigrants Deserve Protection of American Labor Law Instead of economic reform and wealth distribution, the elites in US and Mexico push the problems off on each other to the benefit of the rich and powerful....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 12:56pm PST
Lungren's Scabrous Town Hall On March 20 the third anniversary of the Iraq war Dan Lungren held a town hall meeting in Rancho Cordova California to talk mainly of immigration reform. Upon receiving the flyer outlining his meeting it immediately felt xenophobic, nationalistic, and reeked of racism. The flyer consisted of the American flag and it was titled, “Say no to any Amnesty guest worker proposal”. His speech and power point presentation consisted of flood protection, immigration reform, Urban Area Security Initiativ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 11:49am PST
Senate Debate Over Immigration Reform Heats Up in Washington The Senate begins debate today on legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that includes enforcement measures, provisions for a guest-worker program, and a way for undocumented workers way to work toward citizenship. We speak with the Director of Immigration Policy Research at the National Council of La Raza....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 10:01am PST
3,000,000 people demonstrate for immigrant rights this is a list of the recent immigrant justice demonstrations nationally....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 9:50pm PST
Students From Six High Schools March in Santa Cruz Against HR4437 (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) On Wednesday, March 29th, hundreds of students from Santa Cruz High, Santa Cruz Community, Habor, Aptos, Soquel and Cesar Chavez (Barrios Unidos) left class at 10:00am to meet at the Clock Tower and march to the Santa Cruz County Courthouse. They marched for immigrant rights and justice and against HR4437.
After the walkout and march, I went over to Santa Cruz High and spoke to a small group of students. Ricky, a student at Santa Cruz Community and Edwin, a student at Santa Cruz High, dis...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 6:18pm PST
The Empire Strikes Back! Day 3 of Student Walkouts in Fresno 
Students continued to walk out of school in protest of HR 4437. On Wednesday the police and school administration changed their tactics and began detaining students....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 5:44pm PST
Racism Cause for Worry with Immigrants WASHINGTON D.C. — Legal immigrants are worried about a rising tide of racism in the United States and said the first sign is a proposed law in Congress that would make undocumented aliens criminals and have them deported....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:55pm PST
Faces of the Peregrinacion Por la Paz - Watsonville (3/25) 
On March 25th, between 2,500 to 3,000 members of the Watsonville community joined Gold Star Families for Peace member Fernando Suarez del Solar, and Iraq War resister Pablo Paredes for the 5 mile Watsonville leg of their 241 mile peace march from Tijuana to the Mission District in San Francisco. Along with chants for peace, the marchers were taking a stand against the draconian anti-immigrant bill HR4437. Some say the march was the largest in Watsonville's history....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:50pm PST
Peregrinacion Por la Paz - Watsonville (3/25) 
On March 25th, between 2,500 to 3,000 members of the Watsonville community joined Gold Star Families for Peace member Fernando Suarez del Solar, and Iraq War resister Pablo Paredes for the 5 mile Watsonville leg of their 241 mile peace march from Tijuana to the Mission District in San Francisco. Along with chants for peace, the marchers were taking a stand against the draconian anti-immigrant bill HR4437. Some say the march was the largest in Watsonville's history....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:42pm PST
Hunger Strike Ends with 5000 Marching in SF (audio/x-wav 12.4MB) San Francisco's 7 day hunger strike against HR4437 came to an end with 5000 people marching to Senator Dianne Feinstein's office to break bread and demand legislation that allows citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Organizers delivered thousands of petitions to Feinstein's office, calling for fair and just immigration reform....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:25pm PST
Commentary: Immigrant Movements, Xenophobia, Racism The legislation, entitled the “Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005” lumps different reactionary symbols together creating a powerfully xenophobic, racist, and militaristic trope. All at once it evokes themes of threatening terrorist who seek to destroy America with swift and violent action, alongside the threat of a racial other who will destroy America slowly via a silent invasion....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 12:00pm PST
Immigration March in Farmersville 
In the Central Valley, on Monday and Tuesday students walked out in
several cities. Tuesday evening, 200 marched in the small town of
Farmersville (pop 11,000) and presented the mayor a petition for the
city to reject the anti immigrant proposals in Congress. This march was
called by female farm workers and activists....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 11:24am PST
Watsonville Student Legal Defense Dear Friends,
Students in Watsonville have joined with others across the country in expressing outrage at proposed immigration legislation attacking workers from outside the United States....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 10:47am PST
A Debate on the Senate's Proposed Overhaul of Immigration Laws The Senate is debating an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws this week. We host a debate on various aspects of the bill with Aarti Shahani of Families for Freedom and Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:27am PST
As mass demonstrations continue, Republicans split over anti-immigration bill Demonstrations in defense of the rights of immigrants continued in cities from coast to coast Monday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed to an immigration bill that would remove many of the most draconian provisions demanded by the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:25am PST
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