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Organizations Call for Historic National APA Mobilization for Just and Humane Immigration Organizations Call for Historic National APA Mobilization for
Just and Humane Immigration Reform...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 2:47pm PDT
Resistance to ICE Raids in San Rafael, CA Resistance to ICE Raids in San Rafael, CA -"They came for the immigrants, and we were all there" a specific account of many different kinds of resistance going on against the ICE raids....
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 2:47pm PDT
DEFEAT THE "SON OF SENSENBRENNER"....HR1645 STRIVE ACT > It seems that the "WE ARE AMERICA/SOMOS AMERICA" .......CROWD ARE
> GOING ON A FULL COURT PRESS TO SUPPORT THIS "SON OF SENSENBRENNER"
> BILL.
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> Reports are coming in from across the country, Gutierrez is going to
> the Bay Area in the next few days to speak at a rally being organized
> by supporters of his HR 1645.
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Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 1:25pm PDT
Resistance to ICE Raids in San Rafael Resistance to ICE Raids in San Rafael...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 8:23am PDT
JOIN US! film screenings about immigration: through thick and thin & sentenced home Dear Friends,
As you know, our current immigration system is broken. It separates families and
communities. I invite you to join us for the film screenings below that share the
painful stories of separation created by our deficient immigration system and learn
how to get involved and take action against these injustices!
Peace,
Larisa...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 9:20pm PDT
Iraqi Refugees Voluntary agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), are providing outreach services to Iraqi nationals who wish to apply for family or friends (who are refugees now in Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) to enter the US Refugee Program....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 11:13am PDT
‘Amigo Checking’: Wave of Muggings Targets Immigrant Workers OAKLAND – It was a day like any other. Juan García, 29, was walking with his cousin when they were intercepted by a young man on a bicycle. The man stabbed Juan so he could rob him....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:51am PDT
Zimbabwe refugee: 'I could not take the torture if I am forced back' When Tendayi Goneso fled Zimbabwe fearing death at the hands of Robert Mugabe's brutal henchmen, he thought Britain would offer him sanctuary from the violence tearing his country apart....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:38am PDT
Major Mobilization for Farmworker Justice - Three weeks to go! In just a few short weeks, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their allies will travel from Immokalee, FL – home of one of the largest farmworker communities in the country – to Chicago, IL, home of the world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s. The "2007 Truth Tour: Behind the Golden Arches” will culminate in two national days of action on April 13th and 14th in the Chicago area marking a new phase in the Campaign for Fair Food. Now is the time to finalize plans...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 3:47pm PDT
9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen and Iranian Parents Arrive in Toronto After Six Weeks in Texas Immigration Jail After six weeks in a Texas immigration jail, a nine year-old Canadian citizen and his Iranian parents were released and allowed back into Canada last night. Canadian immigration authorities have granted the boy's parents temporary residency. We speak with their attorney....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:03am PDT
Australian government condemns Tamil refugees to years of incarceration The Australian government’s treatment of 83 Tamil asylum seekers fleeing from war-torn Sri Lanka is barbaric and criminal. Far from providing them with the necessary material and psychological support, the government has treated them as criminals. Last Sunday they were dumped in a detention centre on the remote and desolate Pacific island of Nauru....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 6:25am PDT
Domestic Immigrant Workers Face Exploitation, Unprotected by Laws the women workers who clean, cook and care for families in the United States are being exploited.
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Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:56pm PDT
Poverty Drives Pakistanis Away KARACHI — Grinding poverty and soaring unemployment are forcing thousands of Pakistanis to seek a better life elsewhere, mostly through the booming illegal immigration business that reportedly involves corrupt officials and lawmakers....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 9:00am PDT
Jailing Immigrant Mothers in El Paso "We are drawing attention to a humanitarian crisis," says Penny Anderson, speaking from a Saturday morning protest outside the El Paso immigrant jail (March 17). She is the first person to take the cell phone being passed around by activist Amber Clark....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 12:32pm PDT
Close to Slavery: Report Finds Labor Abuses Under Guestworker Programs As President Bush renews his call for legislation that allows more immigrants to come to the United States as so-called guestworkers, a new report based on thousands of interviews finds widespread worker abuses under the program. We speak with the author of the report and we go to Guatemala to speak with a former guestworker....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:26am PDT
Indian Guestworker Slits Wrists After Being Fired for Complaining About Squalid Work Condi Hundreds of guest workers from India have begun protesting work conditions at a shipyard in Pascagoula Mississippi owned by the company Signal International. We hear from one Indian guestworker who tried to commit suicide after he was fired and told he was being shipped back to India after going public with his complaints. We also speak with a Mexican guestworker who says his Louisiana employer confiscated his passport and subjected him to humiliating conditions and treatment....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:26am PDT
9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen and Iranian Parents Imprisoned in Texas Immigration Jail To Be Allowed Back Into Canada Three weeks after Democracy Now! first aired the voice of a nine-year-old Canadian boy named Kevin being held in a U.S. immigration prison, the Canadian government has taken steps to allow the boy and his Iranian parents back into Canada. We get an update on Kevin's story....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:24am PDT
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
SF Irish Mobilize for Legalization of Immigrants As Congress prepares to soon take up immigration reform, the 8-12 million Latino residents seeking legalization have a powerful ally: America’s Irish community. San Francisco’s Irish community recently sent a large delegation to Washington D.C. to lobby for legalization, and received strong commitments from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Ted Kennedy to do everything in their power to pass a progressive bill this year....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:17am PDT
Deported Pakistanis Blast US ISLAMABAD — Around 2000 Pakistanis have been deported from the US since the 9/11 attacks, many of them accuse American authorities of inhuman treatment in confinement cells, including mental torture....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:59am PDT
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