Immigration is one of the most important issues facing local governments across the country. A number of cities such as Chicago, New York, and Washington DC have already enacted landmark legislation that protects local government dollars, restores trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities, and promotes family unity. California is at a critical juncture in [...]
Mass Community Meeting Nov 10th 3-6 PM. Life Enrichment Bookstore, 5023 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, Washington. This will be the first public strategizing meeting around deportation and mass incarceration by the group, Who You Callin’ Illegal? We are coming together to support our comrade Dede’s fight against her deportation. Dede is a community organizer and mother [...]
Racism is definitely not a “new fruit” in Greek society and not a unique phenomenon to this country. I have witnessed it with my own eyes as it manifested throughout the years I was living there so I can share with you a little knowledge of how it ripens. In Greece being different is not [...]
Undocumented youth from the Latino community from across the state of Florida will organize hand-in-hand with African American leaders for a large scale march at the Republican National Convention to remind candidates and elected officials that their anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric will not dissuade African-Americans and Latinos from flexing their political muscle despite the fraudulent [...]
The New York Immigration Coalition will provide several informational sessions on President Obama’s June 15th announcement about Deferred Action for certain young people who were brought into the United States through no fault of their own. Come get the latest news on Deferred Action. Learn what Deferred Action is and who is eligible for it [...]
A People Of Color Organize! correspondent recently spent four days on the U.S.-Mexico border, engaging in solidarity work, and connects the struggle over immigrants’ rights with the repression going on both in Arizona and all over the country. There have been 71 reported deaths on the US-Mexican border in Arizona since October 1, 2011 (1). [...]
Anti-immigrant politicians are going on the offensive against one of Canada’s most outspoken immigrant rights organizations. NOII’s (and POCO contributor) Harsha Walia is quoted here. Originally from rabble.ca. Joint release from No One Is Illegal – Toronto and No One Is Illegal – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Canada, Turtle Island – Immigrant and refugee rights groups [...]
March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid’s passbook laws, killing 67 and wounding 186. Collectively, we join friends and allies around the world to mark this day and to speak the truth about racism. [...]
On Saturday June 12th, a hundred anti-racist and democratic-minded folks descended on the south gate of the Texas State Capitol, protesting a rally held by supporters of Arizona’s SB 1070 and who want to enact a similar law in Texas. Supporters numbered around 200-250 and were made up of Republicans, Tea Party folks, Texas Nationalists, [...]
If for some reason it had not yet been time to really address the concept of citizenship, now is the time. Once congress is back in session, birthright citizenship will be the next hot topic of debate. The 14th amendment gave ex-slaves and their children the citizenship they did not have before, and has since [...]
On Labor Day weekend (Sep 3-5, 2010), the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign undertook a “Freedom Ride: Immigrants’ Caravan” through the vast suburban sprawl of the Chicago metropolitan area. The 3-day, 100 mile bike ride, as well as the actions, rallies and meetings along the way, addressed the collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs [...]
[youtube N4qXG7rAljY] In a small, crowded theater in New York’s West Village the night of August 8, a group of thirty indigenous women from central Mexico finally got a chance to perform their play before a U.S. audience. The cast, members of the community group Soame Citlalime (“Women of the Star” in Náhuatl), had spent [...]
An investigative report released this month by In These Times details how Arizona’s anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law not only promises dramatic financial benefits for the private prison industry, but that lobbyists and administrators working for private prison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Geo Group, played substantial parts in drafting and ensuring [...]
The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an individual who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. In a list of demands he apparently posted before invading the Discovery building, Lee, whose MySpace [...]
Emerging socio-political ideology Political ideology is a certain set of ideals, principles or doctrines of a social movement, class or group of people that explain how society works, offers a vision of how society should be different, and proposes certain methods of achieving that vision. We know of political ideologies such as anarchism, socialism, communism, [...]
On Monday, July 26 at 2:00 p.m., Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) and Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) will protest in front of the Weeden Foundation at 747 Third Avenue and 47th Street. On the week that SB1070 goes into effect in Arizona, SBU and NWBCCC expose the anti-immigrant think tank behind this [...]
Anakbayan New York/New Jersey will join a statewide protest called “Let my People Go” today, July 1, 2010, to protest immigrants’ detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-Police Collaboration. The progressive Filipino youth organization will be joining Philippine Forum-NJ, alongside NJ Forum for Human Rights and other progressive organizations in Journal Square to represent thousands [...]
Five Arizona women painted a picture of abuse, terror, and civil rights violations during a special hearing Thursday before Congress about the impact of a state law that would make it a crime to be undocumented. Fighting back tears, Celia Alejandra Alvarez, 30, described how she was detained in a workplace raid, physically abused, and [...]
It took the passage of an anti-immigrant bill by rightwing forces in Arizona for the Obama administration to refocus on the question of immigration law, now boiling over on its back burner. The Latino community has been reinvigorated by this latest shameless attempt to step up policing of those who look like they might be [...]
Ok, I’m back at it again! Ikonoklast! Yes, I shall continue to disabuse the masses with the same effort that Obama makes Imperialism look appealing. Let me rewind before I start to go on one of my famous diatribes you have grown to love me for; what prompted this post was a polemic I was [...]
RT @pocorganize: Colombia: narco-terrorist card in political play http://t.co/Ij75qJSJod #classwar #latism #latam
Colombia: narco-terrorist card in political play http://t.co/Ij75qJSJod #classwar #latism #latam
RT @pocorganize: Federal Judge orders release of names of School of Americas graduates http://t.co/Wa1Bo34g8w #classwar #latism #latam #atlat #revsoc
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