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Why the Minutemen failed The Minutmen's appeal to the far right ignored the source of illegal immigration, economic inequality between US and Mexico, instead they focused on the border wall band-aid and appealed to phony nationalism.....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 2:25pm PDT
Honduran Immigrants in New Orleans: Fleeing Mitch, Katrina and Now the U.S. Government It is estimated that 120,000 Hondurans lived in the New Orleans area. Many were refugees from Hurricane Mitch, which devastated Honduras in 1998 killing up to 10,000 people. While many Honduran immigrants were granted temporary legal status, others are undocumented and fear deportation. Democracy Now! travels to Louisiana to speak with some of the Honduran survivors there....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:26am PDT
Need a Ride to the Border for This Weekend's Anti-Minutemen Actions? We Also Need Drivers! People from all over the region have been organizing for the Sep. 16-18 action against the Minutemen, the goal of which is to directly shut down their operations. Need a ride to the action at
the border? The Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen is organizing minivans leaving from San Francisco on Thursday (Sep. 15) and on Friday (Sep. 16). Reserve your space (ASAP!) by emailing: stoptheminutemen@riseup.net...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 9:51am PDT
Immigrants Hurt By Katrina Unsure The Department of Homeland Security has stopped short of reassuring illegal immigrants victimized by Hurricane Katrina that they can seek help from relief agencies without fear of arrest, a promise the federal government made after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 8:23am PDT
JOIN US SEPTEMBER 11 AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA MINUTEMEN IN CAMPO, CA 
Join the Human Rights Coalition of California against the RETURN OF THE CALIFORNIA MINUTEMEN. Jim Chase, California Minutemen Founder has announced a Border Watch to begin SEPTEMBER 11, 2005. Join the Human Rights Coalition of California and other human rights activists at the VFW in Campo, CA to protest the racism of the Minuteman Project....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 1:55pm PDT
Phone jam the Commonwealth Club -- demand the cancellation of the Minuteman forum!! Our culture, history and the lives of those in struggle to cross the so-called “border” every day, are NOT for sale!
Check out the URL and scroll down......
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 12:43pm PDT
SJ Forum on Minutemen Cancelled A public forum scheduled next week at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose on the controversial Minuteman Project was canceled Wednesday, after angry Latino community leaders and immigrant advocates objected to the planned appearance of Chris Simcox, Minuteman's organizer....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 11:23pm PDT
This Thursday--Anti-Minutemen Informational & Educational Forum The Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen is organizing An Informational and Educational Forum against the racist Minutemen Project and its offshoots, which will occur on Thursday, September 8th from 7pm-9pm at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. (nesr 24th + Mission St. BART) San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 2:57pm PDT
From A Buenas Noches Brigade... ...to a Buenas Noches Army!
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Rise of
Fascism and Racism In Our Communities
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Borders
That Capitalism Depends On
This is a call to all people who will be converging on the San
Diego/Tijuana, Campo and Calexico/Mexicali regions to engage in
autonomous direct action to stop the Minutemen, document it and share it
with the world....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 2:15pm PDT
Caravan to the Border to Join the Fight Against the Minutemen on Sep. 16-18 The Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen is organizing a bus to leave San
Francisco on Thursday night, September 15th to go down to San Diego & join
others in shutting down the Minutemen’s operations. The cost is $30 per person
sliding scale (this is to cover the cost of gas and the bus)....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:06am PDT
Information Meeting Against the Minutemen An informational meeting to get people to go to fight the Minutemen will occur on Thursday, September 8th....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:40am PDT
BTL:United Farmworkers Union Organizes at Guimarra Vineyards After...... ...Heatstroke Deaths ~ Interview with Marc Grossman, of the United Farmworkers Union, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:06am PDT
Update from ADC 1) CANCELLED EVENT: Gaza Reflections La Pena 7 Sept. @ 7:30
2) ACTION ALERT: Please call your State assembly member and demand that they support SJR 10- civil rights resolution....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:19pm PDT
Immigrants die in US desert heat Record numbers of illegal immigrants who cross into the US from Mexico have died in the scorching heat of the Arizona desert in the past year....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:02pm PDT
1970: Chicano Moratorium — 2005: Latinos for Peace Thirty-five years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, some 25,000-30,000 people, mostly Mexican Americans, marched through the heart of the East Los Angeles barrios protesting the war in Vietnam. It was the largest Mexican American political demonstration ever until Cesar Chavez’s funeral in 1993. It was a time when young working-class Chicanos and Latinos were beginning to refuse to go to Vietnam, and those on the front lines, along with African American and white soldiers, began to resist the Pentagon’s...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 10:34pm PDT
Shut Down The Minutemen Sep. 16-18! No Borders, No Racists! 
Mobilize to San Diego in September for a movement Against All Borders
We call on people everywhere to converge on the San Diego/Tijuana region
and the Mexicali/Calexico region of the Mexico/US border in order to
stop the vigilante operation being planned there by the Friends of the
Border Patrol, beginning on September 16th. Our goal for Sep. 16th-18th is to take action and directly shut down the
Minutemen operations....
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 5:29pm PDT
Speaking Truth to Power I would like to acknowledge the following professors for taking the time to participate in this dialogue and article about a sensitive issue in the Chicano movement: Mario Barrera of Berkeley, Noam Chomsky of MIT, Chuck O’Connell of UC Irvine, and Jorge Mariscal of UC San Diego....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:12pm PDT
SF Day Labor Program Opens New Doors 
On Saturday, August 27th, members of the San Francisco Day Labor Program will say goodbye to two trailers at Franklin Square Park where they have operated for 15 years, and will inaugurate their new Workers Center at 3358 Cesar Chavez Street. Members will march from the old hiring site to the new one, and the public is invited to a block party....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 2:57pm PDT
July-August 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter and Monthly Actions Digest The only monthly immigrant solidarity newsletter published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 3:19am PDT
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