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1/20: Please Sign the Petitions to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bills!
We are asking you for your help in collecting signatures for a petition addressed to the Los Angeles City Council requesting they adopt a resolution in favor of the immigrant community....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 9:03pm PST
EU Threatens Members Over Immigrant Rights
The European Commission threatened on Friday, January20 , firm action against European countries failing to grant rights to long-term immigrants from countries outside the25 -nation bloc....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 5:58pm PST
Australian Government accused of blood on its hands over Papuan Asylum Seekers
Reports from West Papua detail that the Indonesian military are engaging in reprisal killing in response to 43 Papuans seeking asylum in Australia. Five people have been shot by the Indonesian military, two dead, with one of the killed teenagers being a relative of one of the asylum seekers. The survivors of what was described as an unprovoked attack, are in a critical condition....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:25am PST
Bush on Border Wall, Guest Workers, and Amnesty
New America Media, Transcript Excerpt, Jan 19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:37pm PST
A Job Only Immigrants Can Do?
President Bush was never my kind of President. But shortly after he took office in 2001, he caught my attention with an evident desire to make history on an iss...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:38pm PST
Humanitarian Aide Volunteers Face Possibility of Prison
A trial that could set a precedent for volunteers who offer humanitarian aid to undocumented migrants has been postponed until after a federal judge in Tucson, AZ decides whether or not to dismiss the charges....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:43am PST
Immigration Reform: From 'American Dream' to 'Latino Nightmare'
A young man whose mother immigrated from Nicaragua looks at the immigration reform debate and finds frightening changes on the horizon....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:09am PST
EU Meets to Toughen Immigration Laws
Seeking to reduce the number of refugees trying to enter the European Union, EU ministers moved Friday, January13 , to harmonize asylum laws and pledged to strengthen cooperation on deporting illegal immigrants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:24am PST
The 'Paper Ceiling' -- Undocumented Youths Face Barriers at the Brink of Adulthood
At an age when most teenagers are getting their driver's licenses, working their first jobs and applying to college, more and more young people are coming face to face with what it means to grow up without papers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:39am PST
2005: The Year Hatred Went Mainstream Along U.S-Mexico Border
Christian Ramirez is the director of the American Friends Service Commitee in San Diego, a human rights organization offering job placement, legal advice and housing leads to undocumented people crossing into the United States....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:38am PST
Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition Trainings in Feb
Two day training 2/9 and 2/16, 9 to 5pm @ Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 94110 - lunch provided...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:41pm PST
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SPREADS BLOOD LIBEL AGAINST HOLY QURAN, ISLAM & MUSLIMS
"The Cleveland Public Library has a Quran that may have been bound in the skin of its previous owner, an Arab tribal leader. Pam Eyerdam, head of the library's fine arts and special collections department, said he may have wanted to immortalize himself. 'People kept their family histories written in Bibles, and what is a Quran?' she said."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 8:57am PST
1/18: Immigrant organizing meeting against federal proposal
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
12:00 TO 2:00
CENTRO DEL PUEBLO
474 VALENCIA ST. (AT 16TH ST.)
2ND FLOOR AUDITORIUM
SAN FRANCISCO...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:38pm PST
La guerra contra inmigrantes ha sido declarada!
The Peace and Freedom Party of Fesno County joins El Comite No Nos Vamos in calling for an end to the war on immigrants....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:22pm PST
18-year-old shot by Border Patrol
Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:04am PST
oh, hardly
This person has been detained 11 times for people-smuggling. Did you bother to read that? You are defending a criminal who was assaulting a Border Patrol office...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 11:21am PST
Too bad he didn't assault Steve
Now that would earn a reward....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 12:58pm PST
Not being illegal
Not being illegal, I'm not in the problem group. Are you?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 1:22pm PST
Steve is a bad day, being fired sucks
Steve, what is it like to be an irrelevant right wing shill, who can only engage in hit and run trollery, inflammatory commentary and uselessness?
How did that...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 6:34pm PST