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Written by The Organizer
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 |
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The Workers Will Not Be
Fooled!     
On three occasions during the month
of July 2010, the Sarkozy-Fillon government took or announced legislative measures aimed
at finding scapegoats for its policies.
- In early July, with the Law on the
Burqa, the State, under the guise of misleading references
to
secularism and the rights of women,
intervened in a domain that it is not its purview -- that of the
private life of its citizens. This law is clearly intended to
ostracize a segment of the population. It aims to encourage communalism and to
foster communal tensions.
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Written by Rodrigo Ibarra, Alejandra Juarez and Al Rojas
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 |
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 On April 1, 2010 it was publicly announced
that the district attorney for Yolo County, California, has reopened
the investigation into the death of young Luis Gutierrez Navarro. The
announcement reveals the institutional cover-up of a case of flagrant
injustice.
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Written by The Organizer
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 |
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The
reality is that the Obama administration and the Democratic Party have
not resolved the crisis for undocumented workers in this country. Our
families are being deported and now we face unprecedented institutional
racism in Arizona. But these attacks are not only the
fault of the Republicans and a minority of racists in Arizona. SB 1070
has been made possible because the Democrats have failed to promote and
pass an amnesty law that would give papers to all. |
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Written by The Organizer
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
As activists rooted in the struggles of immigrant workers, we will be
in the streets to express consciously the aspirations and demands of a
movement that burst onto the political scene in March-May 2006 with a
force unequaled in the history of this nation.
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Written by Alain Larranaga and Rico Blanc
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
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Latino voters played a
crucial role in the election of Barack Obama in 2008. The mandate of their vote
was clear: legalize the undocumented and stop the ICE raids, deportations, and
governmental repression. But Obama has so far betrayed this mandate.
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Written by The Organizer
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
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International Workers Day this
year in a way exemplifies the new, more dynamic, situation that we are
entering in this country. May Day this year reflected the beginning
stages of an awakening of the working class.
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Written by Luis Zapata
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 |
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In the city of Berkeley, International Workers Day was,
first and foremost, a day of protest against the ongoing I.C.E. raids
and deportations but wasn‘t circumscribed to it.
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Written by Al Rojas
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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This coming May 14 marks the one-year anniversary of the
tragic death in Lodi, California, of farmworker Maria Isabel Vasquez
Jimenez, an undocumented 17-year-old girl from the state of Oaxaca.
Maria, who was pregnant at the time of her death, was determined to
have died from working in the fields in extreme heat conditions.
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Written by Eric Blanc
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Sunday, 15 March 2009 |
Every day in cities across the country, ICE agents
continue to use racial profiling and checkpoints to arrest undocumented
immigrants, seize their cars, and deport them. Why hasn’t Obama called for an immediate end to the ICE raids?
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Written by Claudio Romano
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
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American unions have always had a powerful, and at times dominant, immigrant component. Here is a brief history of their importance.
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Written by Al Rojas & Rodrigo Ibarra
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
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The near slave-like conditions in the fields have been exposed and
denounced widely, but little to nothing has been done to remedy the
situation. And the laws continue to favor the employers.
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Written by Claudio Romano
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
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On May 12, 2008, an operation involving some 900 ICE
agents, helped by Federal marshals and federal prosecutors, executed a
raid upon Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s largest kosher food
processor located in the town of Postville, Iowa. I
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Written by Rodrigo Ibarra
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
More than 1,000 people were gathered and marched towards the ICE office. The slogans were concentrated against the raids and deportations.
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Written by The Organizer
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Written by The Organizer
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Immigrants Rights