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Largest Demonstration in California History 
Over 1 million street filled the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday as waves of demonstrations take place in major cities across the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 9:35pm PST
Massive protest in LA over anti-immigration proposals Los Angeles witnessed the biggest public protest in its history over the weekend as hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators of all races thronged the downtown streets to demand justice and legal recognition for the country's 12 million undocumented immigrant workers....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 9:09pm PST
LATINO PEACE MARCH-RAIN OR SHINE!/NOON RALLY UPDATE Can you join us tommorrow rain or shine, Monday March 27 to support the Latino Peace March's final miles of walking from Tijuana to San Francisco? I marched with them and about a thousand supporters with incredible energy both in Watsonville and Salinas yesterday. WOW! Check out the video below!
UPDATE: THE NOON RALLY TO SUPPORT THE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS HUNGER STRIKE IS AT MONGOMERY AND MARKET (MOVED FROM CIVIC CENTER)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 4:30pm PST
Short Interviews about the Watsonville March for Peace and Immigrant Rights (audio/mpeg 707.9KB) On March 25th, I recorded three short interviews during the march for peace, justice and immigrant rights which took place in Watsonville. The first mp3 is in spanish and has two interviews. The second mp3 (scroll down!) is an interview in english with Carlos of the Watsonville Brown Berets....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 4:28pm PST
Immigrant Rights Protests Spread -- New Chapter in Civil Rights Movement Hispanic media report that hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters are marching in cities across the country on behalf of immigrant rights....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:18am PST
Are Some Human Beings Illegal? Last Week's BC cover story raised the subject of the relationship between African Americans and Latinos, blacks and browns. We singled a particularly contemptible maneuver by Kasim Reed, a black DLC Georgia state legislator from Atlanta who tried to outdo Republican viciousness when it came to proposing punitive measures against immigrants. Reed authored a bill which would imprison anyone convicted of using a false ID to get a job for five years. Predictably, his proposal was embraced by lead...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:16am PST
Where Are Latino Elected Leaders in Immigration Reform Fight? A controversial proposal on immigration reform which could allow more non-citizens legal entry to the United States as guest workers began taking shape in the U.S. Senate this past week....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:15am PST
Act Now! Police File Charges Against Watsonville Brown Berets for Peaceful Protest Watsonville Police charge Brown Berets for peaceful action!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 9:48am PST
Nelson Mandela and the Resurrection Babylon, captivity and estrangement is not only a place in the ancient orient.. Those who wait for God can expect something other than the law of the stronger that economizes away the weakest, the children in the heavily indebted countries of the third world in their daily milk ration.. God gives us strength for the years in Babylon....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 5:34am PST
3/25: Los Angeles: Half to 1 Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law! Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 1:48am PST
Marching Through The Streets of Watsonville to Stop HR 4437 
On March 25th, thousands of people marched through the streets of Watsonville as part of the 241 march for peace from Tijuana to the Mission District in San Francisco. While calling for an end to war in Iraq, most people were focused on calling attention to HR 4437; one of many anti-immigrant bills making its way through Congress....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 7:47pm PST
Thousands March For Peace and Immigrant Rights in Watsonville 
On March 25th, thousands of people marched through the streets of Watsonville as part of the 241 march for peace from Tijuana to the Mission District in San Francisco. While calling for an end to war in Iraq, most people were focused on calling attention to HR 4437; one of many anti-immigrant bills making its way through Congress....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 7:28pm PST
Huge Immigrants Rights March in Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara – March 25
Approximately 3,000 marchers braved the rain to make their voices be heard: “We want fair immigration laws which do not criminalize us!”. Responding to the most radical anti-immigrant bill in years, HR4437 just passed the House of Representatives in December 2005 after only two weeks of debate....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 7:13pm PST
241 MILE LATINO PEACE MARCH IN OAKLAND/SF: MON MARCH 27 MON MARCH 27: Oakland and San Francisco: JOIN IT!
Final leg of the 241 mile Latino Peace March-- that aims to raise Latino voices of opposition to the War in Iraq-- will march through Oakland and San Francisco all day, joining the immigrant rights hunger strike and culminating in a 5pm Culmination Ceremony at Dolores Park. Join us!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 12:21am PST
Monday: Latino anti-war marchers join immigrant rights hunger strikers Joint event at Feinstein's office @ noon this Monday: 241-mile Latino war resisters march ends in San Francisco, joining up with the immigrant justice hunger strikers who are camped at the Federal Building all this week demanding human rights for undocumented people in the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 6:45pm PST
The Racist War on Immigrants: Jim Crow Goes Fishing Speaking in Cleveland, President Bush called on Congress to end "catch and release" practices on the border with Mexico. He wasn't referring to recreational fishing enthusiasts who catch large mouth bass, snap a picture and then release them back into the water. He was talking about INS (now Homeland Security) agents who round up undocumented workers trying to cross the border, harass and threaten them, and then issue them summons to appear in American court. President Bush and Cong...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:50pm PST
IMMIGRATION MATTERS -- Fortress America Is Not the Solution Virtually unnoticed in the immigration debate is the proposed expansion of the current immigrant detention system that is already rife with abuse, writes New America Media contributor Andrea Black, coordinator for the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to reform the U.S. immigration detention system. She was the executive director of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:40pm PST
March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity! March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 2:42pm PST
Hunger Strike begins to oppose HR4437 (video/x-pn-realvideo 16.7MB) An opening rally and march kicked off this next week of actions against federal proposals that target immigrants. The legistation HR4437, proposed by Senator Specter and Representative Sensenbrenner, will destablize working class people and communities of color by criminalizing undocumented immigrants as felons, and threatening to charge their families and other supporters with charges of "aiding and abetting a felon." If passed, this legislation will impact more than 12 million ind...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 6:20pm PST
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