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May Day 2013 National Immigrant Workers Rights March! Lee Siu Hin Immigrant Solidarity Network 2013-04-30 11:24 AM
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights! (text/plain + 1 comment)

Director’s Note: The Girl Admin LA Progressive 2013-03-13 11:30 PM
I began to think about what it means to live in the very epicenter of the American Dream, and feel not hope – but trapped. My focus shifted, and I began to imagine a film not simply about the borders of geography, but about human borders – of class, culture, attitudes, and ideas.' (text/plain + 1 comment)

Immigration Story in Long Beach, CA 3-minute video. Michael Lozano 2013-02-22 9:32 AM
We hear a 3-minute story of an activist from Long Beach. After witnessing his parents’ long struggle in the U.S., he decided to join the immigrant rights movement. (text/plain)

Well If It Really Bothers You That Much Sudhama Ranganathan 2013-02-12 9:59 AM
In the debate over what to do over illegal immigration here in the US, as with similar debates in other nations, the issue is often presented as having two main sides – those for it and those against it. Like most things in our busy fast paced lives we get the fifteen to thirty second version of the debate we catch on the news or whatever we have time for online, be it something linked to on Facebook, twitter or our favorite news aggregator. That typically gives us two sides of the issue to look at, as more in depth discussion is for people with more time on their hands quite often. But, in truth the issue is more complicated than just the two conclusions we are typically presented with – pro or against.</ (text/html + 1 comment)

The Argument for Amnesty: An Immigration Policy That Works for All Mark Vorpahl 2013-02-06 1:20 PM
Millions experience the repressive nature of the U.S. immigration system on a daily basis, lifting its need for reform to a level of urgency. And fixing this broken program is integral to building the unity among U.S. workers that is required to challenge corporate America’s attacks on our wages, rights, public social services, and living conditions. (text/html)

Waging War on Immigrants Stephen Lendman 2013-01-30 11:36 PM
immigration (text/plain + 1 comment)

Fall 2012 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Alert! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2012-11-09 9:29 PM
The Election Over! Where’s Our Change? Our Demands to the President Obama at the Second Term! In This Issue: 1) CCR Commentary 2) FAMILIA LATINA UNIDA Commentary 3) NILC Commentary 4) Petition to Support Sergio 5) Latino voters in 2012 election 6) New Mexico, Border Election Highlights 7) LA council approves ID cards for city residents 8) Anti-Latino Laws Ignite The South (text/html)

S.A.M.E. & Centro Cultural Present Joint Event on Queer Immigrants San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality 2012-09-17 3:45 PM
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (S.A.M.E.) and the Centro Cultural
 de la Raza are presenting their first joint event on immigration issues and the Queer community Saturday, September 29, 6 to 9 p.m., at the
Centro Cultural,
2004 Park Boulevard in Balboa Park. (text/plain)

Letter to Governor Jerry Brown from immigrant youth led groups across California repost 2012-09-14 5:48 PM
Governor Brown: Sign the TRUST Act! Don't sign a symbolic driver’s license bill. (text/plain)

Retenes fin de semana de la Independencia / Independence Day checkpoints (14-15/sep/2012) Checkpoint response 2012-09-13 3:15 PM
Muy pocos retenes se anuncian para este fin de semana pero seguro que habrá más de los anunciados. Si miras un retén en su vecindario, usa esta información para avisar a la gente de tu comunidad. Lo que hemos notedo en Checkpoint response es que en base de estas redes de comunicación, se ha podido forjar comudidades que resisten activamente estas práticas policiales y que avanzan la causa de derechos humanos. Para mayor información , escribe al correo electrónico noretenes@gmail.com <br><br> Few checkpoints are announced this weekend but there are certain to be more. If you see a checkpoint in your neighborhood, use that information to warn those in your community. What we've noticed at Checkpoint response is that communities that actively resist these police practices and that advance human rights can be built upon upon those communication networks. For more information, write to noretenes@gmail.com (text/html + 1 comment)

Licenses for All! • Townhall Jorge Lopez 2012-08-06 10:09 PM
Licenses for All Townhall Meeting Stop Deportations Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:30pm until 2:30pm Please come and learn about the campaign to pass a new law: driver’s licenses for all. Defend our rights & stop the car impounds. LAPD, Sheriff Baca stop cooperationg with ICE! Also come and learn about immigrant rights & the struggle for legalization. Free T-shirts for first 10 people. Where: Benjamin Franklin Library 2200 East 1st. Street & Chicago St. LA, CA 90033 Centro CSO: (Community Service Organization) and Southern California Immigration Coalition www.csosite.org www.immigrationcoalition.org www.facebook.com/Centro CSO (text/html + 2 comments)

Summer 2012 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Alert! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2012-07-01 12:04 AM
Dream Come True: Obama Administration Announces Relief for DREAMers! BUT SB 1070 Continue, DREAM Still Long Ways to Go ! (text/html + 1 comment)

The Unstoppable Dreamers Mark Engler 2012-06-21 11:37 AM
"Courage begets more courage. One sacrifice inspires another... instead of deciding it was advantageous to cave to anti-immigrant racists, Obama looked for a way to please a mobilized and dissatisfied Latino base. We have the DREAMers to thank.." (text/plain + 6 comments)

May Day 2012: National Mobilization For Immigrant Workers Rights! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2012-03-12 2:29 PM
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights! (text/plain)

Spring 2012 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Alert! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2012-03-07 11:09 AM
In This Issue: 1) May Day 2012 Call To Action! 2) The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty 3) ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal 4) ICE Detainee Death in CA 5) Immig detention is no hospitality suite 6)3/23 Newark, NJ :Conf on Immigrant Detainees (text/html)

Protest: ELA Police Checkpoint Jorge 2012-02-03 11:03 AM
Protest: ELA Police Checkpoint Friday, Feb. 3: 7:00 pm Stop Car Impounds in ELA; Whittier and Hoefner Ave. (text/plain)

Sinai Torture Camps Stephen Lendman 2012-01-16 12:26 AM
torture (text/plain)

Under Obama, guest-worker visa policy creates left-right conflict The Daily Caller 2012-01-11 6:07 PM
Under the Obama administration, skilled foreign professionals like doctors and software engineers find dim hope in Emma Lazarus’s poetic lamp lifted “beside the golden door.” (text/plain)

Israel deports flotilla activists Huwaida 2011-11-05 12:04 PM
Israel is deporting eh 27 activists from the freedomwaves flotilla (text/plain + 27 comments)

November 2011 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Alert! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2011-10-27 3:58 PM
Occupy the Wall Street Occupy the ICE!! Many activist across the county are occupying their community to protest again the greedy top 1% and the corrupted U.S. government policies, immigrant rights activist should also joining this powerful movement to occupy their local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to protest against their racist anti-immigrant policies! (text/html)

Brazilian in the USA x Americans in Brazil F?bio de Oliveira Ribeiro 2011-10-13 10:17 AM
Brazil should begin to study legislation to restrict the entrance of Americans here, as well to impede them of they have access to our job market. (text/plain)

Immigrants Are Undocumented, Not "Illegal" Leo E. Laurence, J.D. 2011-09-17 7:47 PM
The following resolution, principally authored by Zenger?s associate editor Leo E. Laurence, was unanimously approved by the Committee on Diversity of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) August 18 and will be presented to the SPJ at its national convention in New Orleans September 25-27. (text/plain)

Fall 2011 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Digest and News Alert! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2011-08-28 6:28 AM
In This Issue: Obama skewers the immigrant justice movement (Pg 1); Obama Puts Bandage on Broken Immigration System (Pg 2); Obama's new deportation policy is PR spin (Pg 3); Immigration Appeals (Pg 4); Immigration and Mass Incarceration in the Obama Era (Pg 4); (text/html)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Civil Rights Violations at U.S. 9th Cir. - San Francisco scott huminski 2011-08-18 9:01 AM
Sheriff Joe's behind the scene scheming with a close lifelong friend is exposed in the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (text/plain)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Corruption, Profiling and Abuse of Power scott huminski 2011-07-20 2:56 PM
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Corruption, Profiling and Abuse of Power Read the text of the below breakfast meeting that appears to be a custom of Sheriff Arpaio. He uses these breakfasts to target his political enemies. (text/plain)

Summer 2011 NISN U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2011-07-06 4:50 PM
Fighting injustice: Anti-immigrant laws blocked in Arizona, Utah, Indiana, and Georgia! (text/html)

May Day March Videos wildgift 2011-05-04 2:09 AM
This was an impromptu, unplanned video. (text/plain + 3 comments)

May Day 2011 Call to Action! Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network 2011-04-25 8:18 PM
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights! (text/html)

2 May Day Marches Jorge 2011-04-23 8:48 PM
This year, there will be two May Day marches in Los Angeles. WHY?? Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC) (text/html)

L.A. Social Media Strategy Proposal Proposer 2011-04-11 10:16 PM
This is an idea for boosting the turnout for the immigration march on May first. There may be a few different ones due to the annual realignments and fights between sectarians, but all that matters is that people show up in huge numbers! (text/plain)

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