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Massachusetts rejects Arizona-style copycat legislation, resolutions opposed to Arizona grow in numbers
Posted: June 29, 2010 at 4:38 pm By Dawn MaberyWhile media attention has focused on the 20 or so states where anti-immigrant legislators have said they plan to introduce bills similar to SB1070 in Arizona, there is a growing story nation-wide about the avalanche of opposition against the Arizona law reflected through dozens of resolutions passed at the municipal and state level. State, city [...]
Arizona’s copycats
Posted: June 1, 2010 at 4:02 pm By LloydDespite the threats of boycotts ranging from corporations to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game to the state itself, several states are considering copycatting Arizona’s racial profiling law. Minnesota is considering a law that is reported as requiring law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws; establishing eligibility criteria for federal and state public benefits; requiring possession [...]
The political case for immigration reform
Posted: April 12, 2010 at 5:01 pm By LloydIn today’s Washington Post op-ed pages, Ezra Klein makes the political argument for Democrats to hurry up and bring comprehensive immigration reform to the floor: Actually, [the immigration reform debate] did worse than that: It drove Latino voters toward the Democrats. Obama won 67 percent of Hispanics in 2008 — a much better showing than [...]
Why I’m Marching: Wooten Gough
Posted: March 12, 2010 at 3:13 pm By AdrianaWooten is from Winston Salem, North Carolina and is a college student at the University of North Carolina and a facilitator for Dream Camp (which is a movement building training). Here is his story. My name is Wooten and I went to a very small high school that was split down the middle with white [...]
North Carolina NAACP HKonJ March rally around jobs, comprehensive immigration reform
Posted: March 4, 2010 at 3:39 pm By ErinThousands of people marched to the North Carolina Capitol on Jones Street last weekend for the North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)’s HKonJ (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) March and Assembly. HKonJ’s purpose is to convene a coalition of approximately 90 organizations that support the 14 Point People’s Progressive Agenda, [...]
Our Time to Fight for Immigration Reform is Now
Posted: February 4, 2010 at 4:58 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. Originally posted on the ImmPolitic blog. I spent the last week meeting with people from Texas to New York to California who want our nation’s broken immigration system fixed. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, people of faith and people of conscience, immigrant workers and [...]
Packed houses and prayer vigils: RI4A kicks of 2010
Posted: January 13, 2010 at 1:02 pm By Rachel LaBruyereYesterday kicked off our week of action with over 109 events across the country! In Charlotte, North Carolina, 900 attendees were expected for a meeting of African American and immigrant community leaders at St. Paul Baptist Church. However, more than 2,000 people showed up in support of immigration reform. Organizers of the event had to [...]
Businesses and Unions Face Immigration Reform: The Guest-Worker Dilemma
Posted: December 10, 2009 at 5:26 pm By adminFrom Maribel Hastings. Part 7 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players” In April of this year a coalition of unions, headed by the AFL-CIO and Change to Win (CTW), announced with great fanfare what would have been impossible in 2007: a statement of support for comprehensive immigration reform. Furthermore, their agreement included a [...]
Update: Media Coverage of yesterday’s Family Unity event
Posted: October 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm By adminStories about yesterday’s amazing events are still coming in. We’ll continue to update throughout the day, so stay tuned. NATIONAL COVERAGE: NEW YORK TIMES: Immigration Rally Draws Thousands THE HILL: Democrats face uphill climb on immigration WASHINGTON TIMES: Immigration activists call for reform LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS: Immigration reform rally held outside county building FOX [...]
Museums launch town halls: Past and Present meet to discuss immigration
Posted: October 1, 2009 at 11:30 am By adminBy Rachel LaBruyere, originally posted at Standing FIRM. Yesterday, museums across the country launched a new town hall dialogue program about immigration. “Face to face: immigration Then and Now” offers communities a chance to discuss immigration outside of specific policy measures and the fierce political debates that the issue typically inspires. Most importantly, the discussions [...]
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