By Louie Rocha, Labor Notes
May 28, 2010
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 undocumented.
When will organized labor raise its voice loudly in opposition to this attack on civil and human rights?
Read the full article:
http://www.labornotes.org/2010/05/injury-one-still-injury-all
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Arizona: Grassroots Organizing to Repeal All Anti-Immigrant Laws
Joel Olson Interviewed by Ashley Smith, MRzine
May 28, 2010
Joel Olson is a member of the Repeal Coalition in Flagstaff, Arizona. Repeal spearheaded the grassroots mobilization that successfully pressured the Flagstaff City Council to pass an injunction threatening a lawsuit against the state for its anti-immigrant law SB 1070. [...]
Read the full interview:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/olson280510.html
May 28, 2010
Joel Olson is a member of the Repeal Coalition in Flagstaff, Arizona. Repeal spearheaded the grassroots mobilization that successfully pressured the Flagstaff City Council to pass an injunction threatening a lawsuit against the state for its anti-immigrant law SB 1070. [...]
Read the full interview:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/olson280510.html
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Mexico’s Other Disappeared -- 31 Migrants Go Missing
By Frontera NorteSur, New America Media
May 25, 2010
A Mexican lawmaker is demanding that government authorities pay more attention to a case of 31 missing migrants. Juan Fernando Rocha Mier, a state legislator for the National Action Party (PAN) in the central state of Queretaro, said the same “emphasis” should be placed on locating the disappeared migrants as on safely returning former presidential candidate and millionaire lawyer Diego Fernandez de Cevallos. [...]
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/mexicos-other-disappeared----31-migrants-go-missing.php
May 25, 2010
A Mexican lawmaker is demanding that government authorities pay more attention to a case of 31 missing migrants. Juan Fernando Rocha Mier, a state legislator for the National Action Party (PAN) in the central state of Queretaro, said the same “emphasis” should be placed on locating the disappeared migrants as on safely returning former presidential candidate and millionaire lawyer Diego Fernandez de Cevallos. [...]
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/mexicos-other-disappeared----31-migrants-go-missing.php
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Action Alert: Stop O'Reilly's Immigrant Crime Slurs
Blaming immigrants for nonexistent Arizona crime wave
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
May 17, 2010
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly singled out one reason to support Arizona's draconian new immigration law: the state's exploding crime rate. But there is no documented crime wave in Arizona, and O'Reilly's attempt to link immigrants to crime is equally unfounded. [...]
Read the full alert:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4075
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
May 17, 2010
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly singled out one reason to support Arizona's draconian new immigration law: the state's exploding crime rate. But there is no documented crime wave in Arizona, and O'Reilly's attempt to link immigrants to crime is equally unfounded. [...]
Read the full alert:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4075
Monday, May 24, 2010
Public Justice E-lert: Supreme Court Finds Public Health Officials Immune in Castaneda Case
May 4, 2010
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) officials are immune from suit for violating the Constitution and causing Francisco Castaneda's death.
Castaneda was the El Salvadoran native whose penis was amputated after state and federal immigration officials in California repeatedly ignored or downplayed his medical needs, refusing to follow their own doctors' recommendations for a biopsy.
Eventually, Castaneda got the biopsy on his own, following his abrupt releaTse in February 2007. he amputation was intended to save his life, but the cancer had metastasized. Castaneda died in February 2008. He was 36 years old.
The U.S. government, one of the defendants in the lawsuit filed by Public Justice in 2007, has admitted medical negligence in Castaneda's case. Public Justice maintained, however, that the PHS officials responsible for Castaneda's treatment could be held personally accountable for violating his Eighth Amendment rights. Monday's Supreme Court ruling eliminates that prospect.
We are, of course, disappointed, but this case is far from over. The Supreme Court held that the Castaneda family cannot pursue claims under the U.S. Constitution, but the U.S. government has already conceded liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act and we are actively pursuing claims against the state of California and the state officials involved for denying Castaneda treatment while he was in state custody.
Click here to read the Supreme Court ruling in Hui v. Castaneda: http://www.publicjustice.net/repository/files/Castaneda-SupremeCourtRuling-050310.pdf
Click here to read the Associa ted Press article about the ruling:
http://www.publicjustice.net/repository/files/Castaneda-AP-SupremeCourtRuling.pdf
We are grateful for the tireless and determined work of everyone who worked on this appeal -- lead counsel Conal Doyle, our Board Member who argued the case before the Supreme Court, Public Justice Managing Attorney and Supreme Court Counsel of Record Adele Kimmel, Goldberg Waters & Kraus Fellow Amy Radon, Board Member Tom Dempsey, Staff Attorney Leslie Brueckner, Brayton-Baron Fellow Melanie Hirsch, Budd-Kazan Fellow Matt Wessler, and me.
With your help, we will keep fighting for justice. Thanks so much for making that possible.
Arthur Bryant
Executive Director
Public Justice and the Public Justice Foundation
email: abryant@publicjustice.net
voice: 202-797-8600
web: http://www.publicjustice.net
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) officials are immune from suit for violating the Constitution and causing Francisco Castaneda's death.
Castaneda was the El Salvadoran native whose penis was amputated after state and federal immigration officials in California repeatedly ignored or downplayed his medical needs, refusing to follow their own doctors' recommendations for a biopsy.
Eventually, Castaneda got the biopsy on his own, following his abrupt releaTse in February 2007. he amputation was intended to save his life, but the cancer had metastasized. Castaneda died in February 2008. He was 36 years old.
The U.S. government, one of the defendants in the lawsuit filed by Public Justice in 2007, has admitted medical negligence in Castaneda's case. Public Justice maintained, however, that the PHS officials responsible for Castaneda's treatment could be held personally accountable for violating his Eighth Amendment rights. Monday's Supreme Court ruling eliminates that prospect.
We are, of course, disappointed, but this case is far from over. The Supreme Court held that the Castaneda family cannot pursue claims under the U.S. Constitution, but the U.S. government has already conceded liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act and we are actively pursuing claims against the state of California and the state officials involved for denying Castaneda treatment while he was in state custody.
Click here to read the Supreme Court ruling in Hui v. Castaneda: http://www.publicjustice.net/repository/files/Castaneda-SupremeCourtRuling-050310.pdf
Click here to read the Associa ted Press article about the ruling:
http://www.publicjustice.net/repository/files/Castaneda-AP-SupremeCourtRuling.pdf
We are grateful for the tireless and determined work of everyone who worked on this appeal -- lead counsel Conal Doyle, our Board Member who argued the case before the Supreme Court, Public Justice Managing Attorney and Supreme Court Counsel of Record Adele Kimmel, Goldberg Waters & Kraus Fellow Amy Radon, Board Member Tom Dempsey, Staff Attorney Leslie Brueckner, Brayton-Baron Fellow Melanie Hirsch, Budd-Kazan Fellow Matt Wessler, and me.
With your help, we will keep fighting for justice. Thanks so much for making that possible.
Arthur Bryant
Executive Director
Public Justice and the Public Justice Foundation
email: abryant@publicjustice.net
voice: 202-797-8600
web: http://www.publicjustice.net
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
By David Bacon, truthout
May 7, 2010
San Francisco, Ca.
Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lose their jobs in the near future.
ABM has been a union company for decades, and many of the workers have been there for years. "They've been working in the buildings downtown for 15, 20, some as many as 27 years," said Olga Miranda, president of Service Employees Local 87. "They've built homes. They've provided for their families. They've sent their kids to college. They're not new workers. They didn't just get here a year ago." [...]
Read the full article at:
http://www.truthout.org/hundreds-union-janitors-fired-under-pressure-from-feds59210
May 7, 2010
San Francisco, Ca.
Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lose their jobs in the near future.
ABM has been a union company for decades, and many of the workers have been there for years. "They've been working in the buildings downtown for 15, 20, some as many as 27 years," said Olga Miranda, president of Service Employees Local 87. "They've built homes. They've provided for their families. They've sent their kids to college. They're not new workers. They didn't just get here a year ago." [...]
Read the full article at:
http://www.truthout.org/hundreds-union-janitors-fired-under-pressure-from-feds59210
NY Dream Act Hunger Strike Postponed; Meeting Set for Wed. 5/26
***POSTPONED*** NY Dream Act hunger strike at Sen. Schumer's office (was Mon. 5/24)
http://www.nysylc.org/2010/05/meeting-this-wednesday-may-26-630pm/
http://www.nysylc.org/2010/05/meeting-this-wednesday-may-26-630pm/
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