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Immigrants
Teodoro Aguiluz, Central American Resource Center executive director, drew
loud applause when he told the crowd of almost 800 immigrants and their
supporters: “We’ve had enough.”...
Posted Feb 25, 2010
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“¡Se ve, se siente! ¡El pueblo está presente! (You can see
it! You can feel it! The people are here!)” ...
Posted Jan 21, 2010
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Excerpts from a talk by Teresa Gutierrez to the
WWP National Conference, Nov. 14: To add to the long list of crimes against humanity perpetrated by imperialism,
we can include today’s unprecedented wave of human migration. I speak not
only of the millions of undocumented migrants forced to leave their countries
in hazardous boats or sweltering windowless trucks, transport that too often
becomes the coffins for too many....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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A victory in the fight to end immigrant family detention was won when the Obama
administration announced on Aug. 6 that the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention
center, located 35 miles north of Austin, Texas, would stop incarcerating
families. “Today’s announcement is not just a victory for our Campaign to End
Immigrant Family Detention, but for an entire movement for justice that has
come together to close Hutto and to end immigrant family detention,” said
Bob Libal and Luissana Santibañez, Grassroots Leadership activists in
Austin....
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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Over 150 protesters marched and chanted alongside Albany, N.Y., rush-hour
traffic on Aug. 4, waving signs and banners against the FBI campaign of
entrapping innocent Muslims....
Posted Aug 12, 2009
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The first in a series of Immigrants’ Art Exhibits opened July 10 at the
Rio II Gallery in Harlem, in a beautiful ceremony complete with music,
refreshments and opportunities to meet the artists. The show will be open there
until July 24. It will then move to Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center, also
in Harlem, for another two weeks....
Posted Jul 17, 2009
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There is a war going on inside this country—a war against immigrants,
especially undocumented immigrants. This war is escalating, and like most wars,
it is taking many casualties. The casualties are innocent children, women and
men whose only crime is the need to survive, to find a way to live and work in
the United States....
Posted Jul 2, 2009
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On May 30, three members of the local reactionary Minutemen organization
invaded the home of Raul Flores in Arivaca, Ariz., murdering him and his
9-year-old daughter, Brisenia Flores, and wounding his spouse Gina Maria
Gonzalez. The racists were dressed in military fatigues. They told the family
that they were with the Border Patrol before they ransacked the house and shot
them....
Posted Jun 25, 2009
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Hundreds of activists, including infants and great grandmothers, held a
spirited march and rally in Taylor, Texas, on June 20 to protest the
incarceration of men, women and their children at the T. Don Hutto detention
center....
Posted Jun 25, 2009
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Immigrants and their supporters have marched, rallied, picketed and even met
with the mayor’s staff to express their opposition to the enforcing of
immigration laws by Houston cops.
At a May 20 press conference and picket line outside of the Houston Police
Officers Union, activists made it clear that immigrants were a large part of
the Houston population and must be treated with respect by all city
agencies....
Posted May 28, 2009
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“Immigrant,” a bilingual community event on immigrant rights in
Syracuse, N.Y., held in the Blodgett High School cafeteria, drew a
standing-room-only, multinational crowd of more than 110 people on May 14. Some
participants traveled from as far as Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton and
Manhattan....
Posted May 28, 2009
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On May 9, three members of the Georgia Detention Watch made a second solidarity
trip to the Etowah Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., to deliver hundreds of
pairs of cotton underwear to women immigrant detainees....
Posted May 17, 2009
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While immigrants and their supporters celebrated May Day elsewhere in the U.S.,
an all-white jury in Pottsville, Pa., approved the lynching of Luis
Ramirez....
Posted May 7, 2009
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The May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights held a press conference
on April 27 to announce plans for the May Day rally and march scheduled for
Union Square in New York on May 1. One of the main messages raised at the press
conference is the demand that President Barack Obama pass fair and humane
immigration reform which would include the elimination of deportations and
raids against immigrant workers and their families....
Posted Apr 30, 2009
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On April 14, right-wing racist and anti-immigrant bigot Tom Tancredo came to
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to speak. While Tancredo’s racist speeches have been challenged by students before,
nothing in the ex-congressperson’s career could have prepared him for the
fiercely loud and principled stand taken by UNC students on April 14. More than
300 protesters from various student organizations showed up at Bingham Hall to
give a strong denunciation of Tancredo and everything that these
xenophobic reactionaries stand for....
Posted Apr 29, 2009
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Georgia Detention Watch members are in the final stages of planning a second
solidarity visit to women detainees held in the Etowah Detention Center in
Gadsden, Ala., on May 9.
Organizers chose the Mother’s Day weekend to highlight the cruel
separation of families caused by the immigration policies carried out by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement....
Posted Apr 29, 2009
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The Southern California Immigration Coalition Conference, a coalition of
several dozen organizations, successfully gathered nearly 400 people from
across the region on April 11 with the objective of “building unity
between different sectors of the community to unite around this
struggle—from elected officials, to students, to workers, to
professionals, to leaders from the LGBT community, to teachers and parents, to
community leaders, to union leaders, to intellectuals and to many
more.”...
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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Immigrant small shop owners are coming forward with disturbingly similar
accounts of police drug raids that began with the destruction of private
surveillance cameras and ended with the looting of cash and merchandise from
their shops by members of the department’s undercover Narcotics Field
Unit....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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Emotions ran high as four women, dressed in drab green prison clothes, entered
a conference room at the Etowah County Detention Center in northern
Alabama on March 7 to the cheers and applause of a group of immigrant
rights activists, legal workers and family members...
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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Texas activists carrying colorful signs and banners formed a loud, militant
demonstration in front of the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility on March 7,
chanting, “CCA [Corrections Corporation of America], shut it down!”
“Free the children, shut it down!” and “ICE [Immigration and
Customs Enforcement], shut it down!”...
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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Because of her record of hostility to immigrants, Rep. Kirsten
Gillibrand’s appointment to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton in the U.S. Senate has drawn opposition....
Posted Feb 12, 2009
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The global financial crisis is forcing emerging and underdeveloped economies
throughout Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia to take a double whammy.
Economic instability and corresponding job losses at home are compounded by a
severe decline in remittances from the migrant workers who serve as a
super-exploited segment of the working class in the industrialized capitalist
economies of the United States, Western Europe and Japan....
Posted Feb 12, 2009
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