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For Many Hmong in Laos, the Fight Goes On Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 : Recent bloody reports of the ongoing massacre of Hmong people in Laotian jungles leads back to their ties to the U.S. government during the Vietnam War. Mai Der Vang, a Hmong American, wonders what her life would be like if her parents had not escaped. Vang is a youth media coordinator in Fresno....
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 6:16am PST
Enero Zapatista Opening Night: Video Part Three (video/quicktime 41.9MB) Video, in three parts, from the opening night of Enero Zapatista, including introduction, music by Son Sin Fronteras and dance by Mujeres en Resistencia. Part Three: 11 min 15 sec 41.9 mbytes....
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 12:40am PST
Enero Zapatista Opening Night: Video Parts One and Two (video/quicktime 44.7MB) Video, in three parts, from the opening night of Enero Zapatista, including introduction, music by Son Sin Fronteras and dance by Mujeres en Resistencia. Part One: 12 min 3 sec 44.7 mbytes. Part Two: 16 min 46 sec 62.5 mbytes....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 11:19pm PST
INB 1/6/08: Ex-Detainee Wins Settlement Four days later, medical staff finally took Carranza-Reyes to the Denver Health Medical Center; by then he had developed pneumonia and his legs were black with gangrene. The infection led to a heart attack and coma; doctors reportedly gave Carranza-Reyes a 2% chance of survival....
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 6:46pm PST
Sherman Heights Resists Border Patrol Violence (video/quicktime 35.1MB) On Saturday, over forty community members in Sherman Heights met in the cold rain and wind to protest the reckless, violent apprehension and beating of a young man by the border patrol the previous day. Video: 35 mbytes, 9 min 53 sec....
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 12:41pm PST
Koch stokes the flames of racism. German state premier campaigns against "foreign criminals" Monday, January 7, 2008 :Broad sections of the German population have not yet forgotten the images of the burning homes of asylum seekers just a few years ago. And six months have not yet passed since the attack agai nst a group of Indian immigrants by right-wing thugs in the small German town of Mügeln. Attacks by neo-Nazis and right-wing skinheads against foreigners, asylum seekers and left-wing youth are a daily occurrence in Germany....
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 7:10am PST
People Entitled to Subsidized Meds Not Getting Them Originally From New America Media
Sunday, January 6, 2008 :Medicare Part D's low-income subsidy program is not taken advantage by many who qualify for it, putting themselves at risk, say AARP officials. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health care editor....
Posted: Sun, Jan 6, 2008 10:19am PST
The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat "Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position."
American Nazi Party Commander, Bill White...
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 11:27am PST
Detained immigrants on hunger strike in France: "We refuse to be treated as sub-humans" Friday, January 4, 2008 :Undocumented immigrants (sans-papiers) have been staging protests since December 20 against their conditions of arrest and detention at the administrative detention centre in Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et-Marne) near Paris. Many are on a hunger strike, demanding to be treated as “human beings,” not “numbers.” After at first denying the existence of the protest, the authorities were forced to admit, according to Philippe Portal, a senior police authority official, that “half...
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008 9:58am PST
THE PLANET AS HOMELAND 
This review highlights the global positioning of current and future discourse/writing on the emergent Filipino diaspora, given the neocolonized and subjugated/subalternized situation of Filipinos whether overseas or in the homeland, as migrants, exiles, refugees, OFWs, etc. Unless this historic but permanently contested subordination to U.S. imperial hegemony is acknowledged, and the vicissitudes of the revolutionary resistance to it fully recognized and appreciated, any reflection on the co...
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 12:39pm PST
SPAZ bus raided: one jailed and one deported Driving home from a New Years festival in Slab City, a bus-load of party-goers was stopped at an internal U.S. border patrol checkpoint within California. After refusing to have their bus searched, the border patrol got a drug dog and – claiming probable cause – proceeded to search the bus and every person on board. One passenger was arrested and another deported....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 12:22pm PST
INB 12/30/07: Detainee Killed in Workplace Accident On Dec. 5, Cesar Gonzales-Baeza, a Mexican immigration detainee at the Mira Loma detention Center in Lancaster, California, was electrocuted when the jackhammer he was using struck a high-voltage power line....
Posted: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 3:55pm PST
France ethnic Purge ? 
The Prefect of the Rhone hastily expels the adoptive black son of a French "native family"....
Posted: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 5:52am PST
Immigrant Children at Greater Risk of Lead Poisoning Originally From New America Media
Sunday, December 30, 2007 : NEW YORK -- A new study conducted by the New York Department of Health revealed that immigrant children, particularly those from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Pakistan are most vulnerable to lead poisoning. The study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health found that children who have lived overseas during their first six months are eleven times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than U....
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 9:15am PST
Huckabee Obsesses about 660 Pakistani Aliens; Clinton's 5 Point Plan From a Saturday, December 29, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 12:36pm PST
O Christmas Tree, How Toxic Are Your Branches? 
Do you ever wonder where your tree came from or about the environment in which it grew?...
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 5:40pm PST
INB 12/16/07: Hartford March; NYC Workers Fired; More Raids Teamsters president Pope said on Dec. 12 that the suspensions at Fresh Direct seemed to be an effort to thwart the union, and that the company's lawyers might have invited ICE to scrutinize employment documents in an effort to weaken the union drive....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:16pm PST
Envisioning a Solidarity-Based Response to Disaster (video/quicktime 60.5MB) On December 10, Activist San Diego hosted a discussion about an activist strategy for approaching disaster, reflecting on the racist response to the October wildfires in San Diego County, in which migrant and indigenous workers and families were ignored by government-sponsored aid organizations and targeted by law enforcement.
Participants talked about the successes and frustrations of the impromptu efforts to provide for the migrant communities affected by the fires, the role of the Red C...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 2:07pm PST
Report Condemns DHS's Human Rights Record Originally From New America Media
Thursday, December 20, 2007 : LOS ANGELES -- The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) will release a report on on Jan. 18 analyzing more than 100 human rights abuses committed against immigrants in the United States, according to La Opinión. Immigration enforcement policies place immigrant communities "under siege,” according to Director Arnoldo Garcia, causing "untold suffering, deaths and disappearances of hundreds of immigrants ev...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 9:55am PST
SCAR MEDIA COLLECTIVE >>> No Borders Camp Trailer (video/quicktime 43.0MB) 5 min. trailer of No Borders Camp 2007.
No Borders Camp 2007 video arriving early 2008....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 12:14pm PST
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