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El Gran Paro | General Strike | 1o de Mayo, 2006 | San Francisco
El Gran Paro | 1o de Mayo, 2006 | San Francisco
No Trabajo, No Escuela, No Ventas, No Compras!
Hacia un mundo sin fronteras, donde nadie es "ilegal"!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:05am PDT
El Gran Paro Americano 2006/The Great American Boycott 2006
El Gran Paro Americano 2006/The Great American Boycott 2006
'Un dia sin immigrante'/'A Day Without an Immigrant'
Nationwide Immigrant General Strike
No Work, No School, No Sales, No Buying...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:28pm PDT
4/23: Bay Area Day of Action - Stop Anti-Immigrant Bills in Congress
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2006
Show your solidarity with immigrants!
12:00PM - RALLY AT DOLORES PARK
(19TH & Dolores, near 16th St BART station)
2:00PM - March to SF Federal Bldg
(Golden Gate & Polk, near Civic Center BART station)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:09pm PDT
Illegal Immigrants in Paris Hunger Strike
More than 130 illegal immigrants being held in a detention centre near Paris went on a hunger strike on Tuesday in protest at their living conditions, a migrant support group said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 5:07pm PDT
A Day Without Organizers: Youths Honor Their Parents in a Movement of Families
Advocacy groups are scrambling to lead and channel the energy sparked spontaneously by immigrants in marches across the country. They risk ruining the intimate, familial nature of the movement. Raj Jayadev is the editor of Silicon Valley De-Bug (www.siliconvalleydebug.com), a project of New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:16am PDT
THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES - STOP DEPORTATION NOW! MOBILIZATION - April 24, 2006 WASHINGTON DC
Nationwide Immigrant Rights Mobilization to D.C.-Register Now!
On the 10th Anniversary of the Worst Immigration Laws in United States
History...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:28am PDT
support the LA trucka and taxi drivers on May1
In Laa on May1 truck and taxi drivers will add to the nationwide strike to support immgrants....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:10am PDT
File a tax return to prove you would be good citizen
Here Illegally, but Choosing to Pay Taxes...
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2006 10:09am PDT
Radio Report Back from April 10 Immigrant Rights March from Davis to Capitol (audio/mpeg 7.9MB)
An 8 minute audio report back/sound montage from the 100+ participant, 9 mile Immigrant Rights march from Davis to Sacramento on April 10. THe mobilization was against HR 4437, and for a more just immigration policy. Interviews with student participants as well as interview with an immigrant & Sac resident I met at the Capitol rally....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 11:09pm PDT
Protest song: El PRIMERO DE MAYO
Download the FREE mp3
http://calacapress.com/gigantedespierto/mp3/PrimeroDeMayo.mp3...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 7:19pm PDT
Sacramento Joins Cities Throughout the Nation In Opposing Anti-Immigrant Legislation
Over 10,000 immigrant rights activists marched in Sacramento on Monday, April 10 against legislation in the U.S. Senate that would make assisting an undocumented immigrant a felony....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 7:16pm PDT
The Plight for Freedom, Bay Area April 10
The San Francisco contingency of the April 10 nation mobilization in support of immigrant rights....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 2:07pm PDT
U.S. Denies Healthcare to Non-Citizens
Congress hides anti-immigrant law inside deficit reduction legislation....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 9:15am PDT
Missing in Immigration Debate, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee’s Bill
Race in America is such a sickness driving sickness that most people, Black and white, fail to see clearly. Instead of seeing “us” or people, they see only “Black” or “white” – usually at odds with one another, using one another for their own racialist and divisive purposes....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:25am PDT
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: Politics Trumped Substance in Senate
WASHINGTON, DC -- Politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties failed immigrants and their advocates last week, as the Senate failed to reach an agreement that would allow immigration reform legislation to come to a vote....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:24am PDT
Groups Calls for ‘A Day Without an Immigrant’
LOS ANGELES -- Activists with the March 25th Coalition, organizers of the massive immigration rights protest which took place in Los Angeles two weeks ago, are now calling for an economic boycott to take place next month....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:23am PDT
The Power of Latinos
In the last weeks, the sleeping giant of American politics has growled: the young immigrant generation, the Latino population.. E pluribus Unum - one out of many - is the national motto of the United States inscribed on all kinds of public buildings....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 5:03am PDT
Can Marches Stop the Scapegoating of Immigrants?
An editor at a Spanish-language newspaper remembers with trepidation the harsh legislation and rhetoric that came on the heels of California's last big immigrant-rights mobilizations. Pilar Marrero is a columnist for the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, where this commentary first appeared. Translated by Daffodil Altan....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:25pm PDT
BTL:Some AntiImmigrant Activists Have Known Connections with Racist Hate Groups
Interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 5:01am PDT