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Including a report back from the delegation to the Arizona Border to confront the racist "Minutemen"...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 1:34pm PDT
WHEN: Wednesday, May 18, 11:00 am.
WHERE: San Francisco DMV, 1377 Fell St. (between Baker and Broderick)....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 5:26pm PDT
Emilia de la Cruz & Van Jones
Five-minute QuickTime movie. 21MB....
Posted: Tue, May 10, 2005 9:20am PDT
More than 40 members and supporters of San Francisco’s immigrant community celebrated Cinco de Mayo yesterday by blasting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for supporting the Minutemen, an all-volunteer organization committed to using armed force to stop Latinos from crossing the U.S.’s southern border. Standing at the front door of the State building, protestors decried the Governor for criminalizing the Latino immigrants who provide the economic backbone to large sectors of California’s econom...
Posted: Sat, May 7, 2005 12:46pm PDT
Poverty is local and it's global.
Lisa Garcia-Gray
Two-minute QuickTime movie. 9MB....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 9:39pm PDT
Immigrant communities in San Francisco joined labor, teachers, nurses and others in the fight-back against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a rally May 5th at the State Building Schwarzenegger was pilloried for his call to close the border and his invitation to Arizona vigilantes to come to California....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 12:37pm PDT
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s recent off-the-cuff statement that he supports the work of a handful of vigilantes in Arizona staked out on the Mexico-U.S. border without the support of the U.S. government, the Border Patrol or even President Bush is bad governance...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 5:03pm PDT
The San Francisco-based coalition held a press conference Friday. Today (April 18th) their 15-person delegration is in Arizona supporting immigrants against racist vigilante groups. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 17MB....
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 11:16am PDT
When: Friday, April 15, 10:30am, Press Conference and
Despedida
447 Valencia St, San Francisco (in front of the
Sunrise Hotel...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 6:25pm PDT
On April 17-18, a California delegation of immigrant rights and human rights
activists will be in Douglas, Arizona to respond to the presence of
vigilantes on the US/México border, and to their hate messages....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:45pm PDT
WHERE: In front of the State Building, 100 Paseo de San Antonio (facing the Starbucks and light rail).
WHEN: Thursday, April 7th at 12:00 pm. Rain or shine....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 1:42am PDT
Thursday, April 7, 2005
12:00 PM
In front of the State Building (in San Josè, CA)
(100 Paseo de San Antonio)...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 12:40am PDT
On Sunday April 3, more than 1,200 people marched through the streets of Salinas and rallied at the Cesar Chavez Library. While we honored the life struggle of Cesar Chavez, we too struggle to keep the Libraries open in Salinas. Conncetions were easily made between the US government policy of endless war around the world and the closing of community resources such as the entire library system....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 11:47pm PDT
While Governor Schwarznegger honored civil rights leader Cesar Chavez by threatening to eliminate the state holiday honoring the struggle he led for the rights of farmworkers. And while hundreds rallied to save a library bearing his name in Salinas, hundreds marched in his honor in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:05pm PDT
Here are some photos from today's Cesar Chavez Parade in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2005 6:28pm PDT
Photos from the Cesar Chavez march held in Fresno on April 2, 2005...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 7:04pm PST
"Critical Filipino Perspectives on Resisting Homeland Security Racism"
(Public Symposium)
Friday, April 1, 2005
2:00 - 4:00 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:30am PST
el 10 de abril todos a la honrar la lucha del GENERAL EMILIANO ZAPATA
ZAPATA VIVE, LA LUCHA SIGUE
VIVA ZAPATA...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 2:35am PST
On March 19-20, BAYAN USA organizations marched proud with allies and supporters in Seattle, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles carrying the same call "From Iraq to the Philippines, End U.S. War Now!" Hundreds of peace-loving Filipinos held high many bright blue and red BAYAN USA flags which represent Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) in the Philippines, the mass movement for a just and lasting peace through genuine national sovereignty....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:18am PST
"Senator Diane Feinstein came out in favor the Real ID Act, which, among other things, will deny undocumented immigrants driver's licenses at a national level. If this law passes (it has already passed the US House of Representatives and will be considered by the US Senate in the next few weeks), it will destroy our efforts to obtain driver's licenses for immigrants here in California...'...
Posted: Sun, Mar 20, 2005 10:41pm PST