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2/3: Riverside Border Patrol shifts focus, union and community activists say
By DAVID OLSON
A year after a U.S. Border Patrol sweep of a Riverside day-labor site unleashed street protests and condemnations by immigrant-rights groups, the Riverside Border Patrol office may have shifted tactics. 2/1: Obama beef up militization the border/anti-immigrant policy in 2011 budget
By Meredith Simons
The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a $56.3 billion budget Monday that includes funding for the virtual border fence, E-Verify, and an increase in the number of border patrol officers and intelligence analysts along the southern border. 1/18: NY Times: Guatemala Protests Arrest of 3 in Florida Over Passports
By JULIA PRESTON
The Guatemalan government has issued a public protest after three Guatemalans were arrested this month by immigration agents at a Federal Express office in Florida, when one of the immigrants went to pick up a package containing his newly issued Guatemalan passport. 1/27: Projo: Alleged police brutality victim faces deportation
By Gregory Smith
The U.S. government is moving to deport Luis Mendonca, 20, of Pawtucket, the man who is at the center of investigations of alleged brutality by the Providence police, according to his lawyer. |
1/27: 2/19-21 Herndon, VA: Shut Down The Racist American Renaissance Conference!!
By SiuHin
Beginning on Monday, January 18, a campaign to call the Dulles Airport Westin generated so many calls that the hotel assigned someone to deal with the complaints. Initially, the situation was promising. The Westin promised us that it was going to cancel the contract with the America Renaissance group, also known as the New Century Foundation. By the end of the day, numerous individuals left messages, made complaints and the Sales Director, David Catalan (sp?), stopped answering his phone nor did he return voicemails. 1/15: Haiti Didn't Become a Poor Nation All on Its Own -- The U.S's Hidden Role in the Disaster
By Carl Lindskoog
In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster. 1/19: Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States. 1/21: Retired 3-star: U.S. should take Haiti refugees
By Cain Burdeau - The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who was credited with restoring order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is calling on the United States, and in particular the governors along the Gulf Coast, to offer refuge to the most vulnerable Haitians affected by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake. |
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May Day 2009 National Immigrant Workers Mobilization
Over Hundred Cities Across The U.S. with Hundreds of Thousands of People March for Justice!
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National Immigrant Solidarity Network http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2009/
WE ARE ALL HUMANS! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!
Photos & Essay Reports from around the World
Download the PDF formated Report:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2009Report/MayDay2009Report.pdf
Please Post Your May Day 2009 Video at our ActivistVideo.org
Based on the news reports from across the world, there’s at least hundred cities and communities across the U.S. had organize their May Day actions to support workers rights and immigrant rights. Globally, there’s at least several hundred cities had organized tens of millions of people for march/protest/community events to celebrate the May Day 2009.
While the number of people participated in U.S. on May Day had been declined due to weather, economic reason, factional fights in some cities had created major confusion, and corporate America/government continue their campaign to against celebrating the May Day and exploiting H1N1 Influenza A virus (aka swine flu) “crisis” to scare people participating this year—none-the-less, the numbers of people participated at May Day actions across the global still stay very strong, and at some countries even grown bigger due to the working class angry about the current economic crisis.
We have compiled you a following report from May Day 2009 mobilization across the World. Visit CLICK HERE
Download the PDF formated Report
Always reminder: Think Globally, Act Locally; Injustice Never Sleeps, and People’s Struggle Never Ends!
About May Day 2009
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!
1) No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the immigrant communities.
2) No to militarization of the border.
3) No to the immigrant detention and deportation.
4) No to the guest worker program.
5) No to employer sanction and "no match" letters.
6) Yes to a path to legalization without condition for undocumented immigrants NOW.
7) Yes to speedy family reunification.
8) Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law.
9) Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers.
10) Yes to the education and LGBTQ immigrant legislation.
We encourages everyone to actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child solider; as well as multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the struggle together at this May Day 2009!
Please send your May Day 2009 reports to: info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org |
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National Immigrant Solidarity Network
4th National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
& Immigrant Rights Film Festival
April 10-12, 2009 Chicago, IL
Stop Immigrant Raids! Support Immigrant Workers Rights!
Together We Build A New Immigrant Rights Movement!
Successful Ending! Together We Build A New Immigrant Workers Rights and Justice Movements of 2009!
Conference Report, Campaign Proposals
National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN) is a grassroots, broad-based, multiethnic coalition of community, immigrant, labor, human rights and student activist groups, founded in 2002 in response to the urgent needs for the national coalition to fight immigrant bashing, support immigrant rights, no to the sweatshops exploitation and end to the racism on the community! We also actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child solider; as well as multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the struggle together.
Between April 10-12, 2009 on Chicago, IL; over 110 organizers, activists and community members from African American, Native American, African immigrant, European Immigrant, Asian American, Latino/Latina, Arab-Muslim-North African, progressive labor, interfaith, LGBT, student, anti-war/peace and global justice groups from across the country. To meet face-to-face at to discuss how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights movement, and to set our 2009-2010 national grassroots immigrant campaign strategy.
We agrees together we’ll focus on building all multi-ethnic, multi-constituent, broad-based grassroots immigrant rights movements run by de-centralized volunteer-based community-rooted immigrant rights activists from youth, workers and community members who can play more active role on campaign formulation and decision making for local coalition building to organize popular education campaigns, such as: campaign to against immigrant dentition, deportation & raids; immigrant labor rights movement; campaign against local anti-immigrant ordinance; comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) and linking the immigrant rights movement with other struggles, such as: anti-war and anti-globalization movements.
We welcomes our new steering committee member Alex Franco from Movement for Unconditional Amnesty, Philadelphia, PA.
We'll also discuss the lessons from the 2008 election and what we should expect from the new President and the Congress affecting immigrant legislation for the next two years.
We acknowledges that different people from different organizations, backgrounds have different believes on how to achieve the justice and better future for the tens of millions of immigrants across the country, and how immigrant rights movements can link to the broader peace and justice movements.
We had agreements, we have difference and even heated debates; after three days conference, at Sunday April 12th based on the feedbacks and proposals submitted to the conference, we had draft our new points of unity and strategic immigrant campaign proposals.
For those didn’t able to come, we welcome your feedback and any suggestions of additions/modifications to siuhin@aol.com or info@immigrantsolidarity.org no later then Friday April 24, 2009.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org/2009Conference/
E-mail: info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org
Phone: (773)942-2268
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Immigrant Detention News
Detention News Main Page
January-April 2009: 100 Days Campaign To Close Guantanamo and End Torture!
CALL TO ACTION
With Obama taking office, we have a historic opportunity to reverse the disastrous torture policies of the last eight years.
We begin on Sunday, January 11, 2009, which marks seven years of detention and torture at Guantanamo. We want this to be the last time we come to Washington to demand the closing of the detention camp at Guantanamo and an end to torture!
January 11, 12:45pm at Dupont Circle in DC: Theater, Procession and Rally.
January 11 - January 20 in DC & elsewhwere: Fast for Justice
January 20 - April 30 in DC & the US: 100 Days to Close Guantnamo & End Torture
For up-to-date details as well as information about housing, food, rides and directions, legal support and more, visit www.100dayscampaign.org.
12/18: Take "Homeland Security USA" OFF the Air!
[Tina Shull - Detention Watch Network] In an effort to mobilize a group to start a letter-writing campaign to ABC to stop production of the new reality series "Homeland Security USA" that is set to air on January 6th, please join and invite others to this Facebook group. >> Read More
Immigrantion News
2008
The Obama-Biden Plan on Immigration
[From Change.gov] Create Secure Borders, Improve Our Immigration System, Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally, Bring People Out of the Shadows, Work with Mexico >> Read More
12/22: Area Immigrants Go Home for Christmas Only in Their Dreams
A year ago, Yunis Sandivar's travel agency in Arlington County was doing a brisk business in round-trip holiday tickets to Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and El Salvador. This season, she says, those ticket sales have fallen by 40 percent compared with last December, and a surprising number of customers are buying one-way tickets home -- temporarily giving up on the U.S. economy after years of legal residency >> Read More
12/24: Texas County Continues Detention Center Contract
Officials in a central Texas county renewed a contract Tuesday for a private prison firm to operate a detention center that has been criticized by advocates for the immigrant families who are sent there >> Read More
12/24: Immigrants reshape post-disaster New Orleans
In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, immigrant laborers drawn to the construction and service industry jobs created by the storm have transformed this rebuilding city >> Read More
12/20: Kyl reluctant to take lead on immigration plan again
President-elect Barack Obama is an immigration-reform supporter who promised Latino voters during the campaign that he wouldn't wilt under public opposition. But the support of high-profile conservatives such as Kyl, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, would help blunt the impact of a voter backlash >> Read More
12/18: Fact Sheet: DHS 2008 END-OF-YEAR "ACCOMPLISHMENTS"
We should all call the DHS Press Office express what do we feel about the DHS and their report! >> Read More
For the complete PDF report: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/2008End-of-YearAccomplishmentsFactSheet.pdf
12/6: Pentagon to recruit foreigners and immigarnts
Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status >> Read More
12/1: Immigrants Drive Prison Profits
Immigrants are behind one of America's fastest growing, most profitable industries. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Immigrants have always been a core factor in U.S. economic development >> Read More
11/20: $44+ million contract for Northrop-Grumman for ICE detainees
Department of Homeland Security Awards Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Infrastructure System Task Order to Northrop Grumman >> Read More
11/20: Comprehensive Immigration Law Not Likely Before 2011, but Other Changes Expected
Comprehensive immigration legislation is unlikely to pass before 2011, but changes in immigration policy are expected soon after President-elect Obama takes office, speakers said at a Nov. 19 forum sponsored by Cornell Law School >> Read More
11/20: Anti-Immigration Forces Ready to Challenge Obama
While pro-immigration groups are hailing the Obama victory and the Latino turnout as a victory for liberal immigration reform, immigration restrictionists are reshaping their messaging for the Obama era >> Read More
Past and Recent National Immigrant Solidarity Network Campaigns
Jan 29, 2007 Washigton
D.C. Congressional Lobby
and National Call-In Day for Immigrant Rights
Organized
by: National Immigrant Solidarity Network
On Monday, January 29, a group
of us, representatives from San Francisco La Raza Legal
Centro, National Organization of Women, veterans and I met
with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff on immigration and present
our open letter and exchanges ideas on the immigration issues.
In addition, thank you for everyone who had visited and
call your representatives at the Call-In day, at dozen states.
>> Read
the Congressional Lobby Day Report
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May
Day 2006 - We Have Made History!
Ten Millions Across
the Country Take to the Streets to Demand Immigrant Rights!
http://www.NoHR4437.org http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org
Today was one of the
most important days in U.S. history: ten millions of immigrants,
activists and allies in over 200 cities from across the
country chose to skip work, school, and the normal daily
routine to participate in "A Day Without Immigrants."
We held a national boycott, general strikes, rallies and
symbolic actions in order to demand basic rights for all
immigrants, and to build a new multi-ethnic united civil
rights movement for the 21st century!
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