I just receive this email regarding an upcoming event in East Harlem that I would like share with you.
My name is Nina Cruz and I work with Rooftop Films, a summer film series dedicated to showing new, independent films in unique outdoor locations, and I thought you or your readers might be interested in one [...]
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La Opinión, a Spanish-language newspaper, recently reported that state legislatures considered nearly three times the number of immigration-related bills than this time last year. In April, state legislators in all of the 50 states had introduced at least 1169 bills and resolutions addressing immigration or immigrant-related issues. As of now, there is a total of [...]
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One of the problems being a blogger during a time when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell and democracy here in the US is crumbing faster right before our very eyes, it becomes very difficult exposing everything that that is going on, such as completing a post on the situation down in [...]
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Kyle from Immigration Orange just informed me that on Tuesday August 7th, 2007, Edimar Alves Araujo, a 34 year-old immigrant a Brazilian national, died in federal custody because he was denied access to his medication for his epilepsy. His sister, Irene Araujo, told the Boston Herald his death could have been avoided if Immigration and [...]
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This past weekend I attended another demonstration against this country’s use of the privatized prison complex to detain undocumented immigrants. The protest was the third protest sponsored by Houston Sin Fronteras, which took place outside the Corrections Corporation of America’s (CCA) Houston Processing Center. During the protest, I could not help but think how George [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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