by Pramila Jayapal
July 15, 2008
http://www.hatefreezone.org/article.php?id=265
We released our report today. Voices From Detention: A Report on Human Rights Violations in the Northwest Detention Center details the many abuses of international human rights law and Constitutional protections at the detention center in Tacoma.
I have been doing this work enough that I didn't expect to be emotional—and certainly I never have been when at the podium at a press conference.
But as I listened to the young woman who had to speak by speaker phone because she was so afraid of deportation; as I read excerpts from the report describing how immigrants are treated like animals; as I spoke of the abuses, such as a hood put over the head of a mentally ill detainee; or of pregnant women being denied medical care; or detainees refused use of the bathroom so they were forced to defecate in their seats on an airplane, I could not help the emotion that came.
I believe America is so much better than this. And I believe that most Americans, if they knew what was happening in their name at our detention centers across the country, they would stop this injustice. Most Americans want people to be treated fairly and humanely.
Join the growing chorus of our voices calling for change. Please read our report here:
http://www.hatefreezone.org/article.php?list=type&type=56
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Our people’s labor struggle in the U.S.
La Labor de Nuestro Pueblo Indocumentado en EE.UU
By Flor Crisóstomo, June 25, 2008
...We the undocumented emigrants are the objects of all types of abuse by our employers. The employer’s financial power creates the base of our exploitation. On the other hand these broken laws permits this cycle of abuse....
...Nosotros los emigrantes indocumentados, somos los objetos de todo tipo de abusos por parte de nuestros empleadores. El abuso del poder de dinero que tienen es la base de nuestra explotación; por el otro lado estas leyes rotas permiten este ciclo de abuso....
Read the full article:
http://floresiste.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/la-labor-de-nuestro-pueblo-indocumentado-en-eeuu-our-people’s-labor-struggle-in-the-us/
[Flor Crisóstomo is a Mexican immigrant who is resisting inside Adalberto Church in Humbolt Park, in Chicago, Illinois. Flor Crisóstomo es una inmigrante mexicana que resiste en la iglesia Adalberto en el barrio de Humbolt Park, en Chicago, Illinois.]
By Flor Crisóstomo, June 25, 2008
...We the undocumented emigrants are the objects of all types of abuse by our employers. The employer’s financial power creates the base of our exploitation. On the other hand these broken laws permits this cycle of abuse....
...Nosotros los emigrantes indocumentados, somos los objetos de todo tipo de abusos por parte de nuestros empleadores. El abuso del poder de dinero que tienen es la base de nuestra explotación; por el otro lado estas leyes rotas permiten este ciclo de abuso....
Read the full article:
http://floresiste.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/la-labor-de-nuestro-pueblo-indocumentado-en-eeuu-our-people’s-labor-struggle-in-the-us/
[Flor Crisóstomo is a Mexican immigrant who is resisting inside Adalberto Church in Humbolt Park, in Chicago, Illinois. Flor Crisóstomo es una inmigrante mexicana que resiste en la iglesia Adalberto en el barrio de Humbolt Park, en Chicago, Illinois.]
Monday, July 28, 2008
July 27: 1,000 March in Postville
Many residents appeared largely supportive of the workers. Cindy Moser, 53, from nearby Elkader, said her daughter and son-in-law were marching while she watched her two grandchildren. "If they want to come and work here I say fine," Moser said. "We all saw the effect of this. My grandson, he told me, 'Grandma, they took my friends away.' I hope this stops."
Iowa Rally Protests Raid and Conditions at Plant
By Julia Preston, New York Times
July 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/us/28immig.html?th&emc=th
Marcha contra redada en Iowa: Exigen frenar arresto de indocumentados
Univision Online y Agencias
28 de Julio de 2008
http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=3&schid=278&secid=12134&cid=1613960&pagenum=1
1,000 rally against immigration raid in N.E. Iowa town
By Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press
Iowa Rally Protests Raid and Conditions at Plant
By Julia Preston, New York Times
July 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/us/28immig.html?th&emc=th
Marcha contra redada en Iowa: Exigen frenar arresto de indocumentados
Univision Online y Agencias
28 de Julio de 2008
http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=3&schid=278&secid=12134&cid=1613960&pagenum=1
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
They Work Here, They Live Here, They Stay Here!
French Immigrants Strike for the Right To Work
--And Win
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly, Dollars and Sense
July 20, 2008
France has an estimated half-million undocumented immigrants (8% of the population, compared to 4% in the United States), including many from France's former colonies in Africa. The sans-papiers (literally, "without papers"), as the French call them, lead a shadowy existence, much like their U.S. counterparts. And as U.S. immigrants did in 2006 with rousing mass demonstrations, the French undocumented have recently taken a dramatic step out of the shadows. But the sans-papiers did it in a particularly French way: hundreds of them occupied their workplaces.
Read the full article:
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0708kennedytilly.html
--And Win
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly, Dollars and Sense
July 20, 2008
France has an estimated half-million undocumented immigrants (8% of the population, compared to 4% in the United States), including many from France's former colonies in Africa. The sans-papiers (literally, "without papers"), as the French call them, lead a shadowy existence, much like their U.S. counterparts. And as U.S. immigrants did in 2006 with rousing mass demonstrations, the French undocumented have recently taken a dramatic step out of the shadows. But the sans-papiers did it in a particularly French way: hundreds of them occupied their workplaces.
Read the full article:
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0708kennedytilly.html
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Economics of Immigration: Chicago, July 26-August 2
Jane Guskin, co-author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, will be speaking and facilitating at The Center for Popular Economics' 28th Summer Institute, July 26-August 2, 2008, at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois.
Special Track: Economics of Immigration & Migration
Co-sponsored by Chicago Jobs with Justice, ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights) and CAAAELII (Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European & Latino Immigrants of Illinois) and the Department of Economics/Program in Social Justice Studies at Roosevelt University
Sunday July 27th
7-9 PM: Plenary - Immigration: Myths & Realities, at Faiman Lounge
Jane Guskin, co-author, The Politics of Immigration
Phil Hutchings, Black Alliance for a Just Immigration, Oakland
Esther Lopez, US Food and Commercial Workers
Monday July 28th
3:30-5 PM: Workshop 3 - Immigration Dialogue Part 1 Room 440 - Jane Guskin, co-author of The Politics of Immigration
Thursday July 31st
1:30-3 PM : Workshop 2 - Immigration Dialogue Part 2 Room 434 Jane Guskin, co-author, Politics of Immigration
For more information or registration form, please visit the CPE website:
http://www.populareconomics.org/
or contact : programs@populareconomics, phone (413) 545-0743
Special Track: Economics of Immigration & Migration
Co-sponsored by Chicago Jobs with Justice, ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights) and CAAAELII (Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European & Latino Immigrants of Illinois) and the Department of Economics/Program in Social Justice Studies at Roosevelt University
Sunday July 27th
7-9 PM: Plenary - Immigration: Myths & Realities, at Faiman Lounge
Jane Guskin, co-author, The Politics of Immigration
Phil Hutchings, Black Alliance for a Just Immigration, Oakland
Esther Lopez, US Food and Commercial Workers
Monday July 28th
3:30-5 PM: Workshop 3 - Immigration Dialogue Part 1 Room 440 - Jane Guskin, co-author of The Politics of Immigration
Thursday July 31st
1:30-3 PM : Workshop 2 - Immigration Dialogue Part 2 Room 434 Jane Guskin, co-author, Politics of Immigration
For more information or registration form, please visit the CPE website:
http://www.populareconomics.org/
or contact : programs@populareconomics, phone (413) 545-0743
Two New Articles by the Authors of "The Politics of Immigration"
[These two op-eds appeared on the MRzine.org website July 20-21. If you think they will be useful, please feel free to repost or reprint them. We only ask that you give credit to MRzine and include the URL. Thanks.]
Union-busting by Any Other Name...
If this had happened in another country, many of us would condemn it as an effort by an authoritarian regime to smash a unionization drive. But it happened in Postville, Iowa, so we call the massive May 12 raid by the U.S. government's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant a "workplace enforcement operation."
by David L. Wilson, MRzine
July 20, 2008
The huge meatpacking plant had been cited by government agencies for numerous violations of environmental and labor laws and for "acts of inhumane slaughter" of animals. New inquiries were under way into allegations of wage violations and the illegal employment of minors. A large national union was trying to organize the factory's 970 workers. But all this was put on hold the morning of May 12, 2008. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wilson200708.html
Tears of Rage, Tears of Hope
Then there's Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a friend and colleague... Farouk would be 60 now, but he died four years ago today--on July 21, 2004, his 100th day of freedom after two years in immigration detention.... [H]is entire detention was a farce, since the government already knew Farouk was a man without a country who couldn't be deported.
by Jane Guskin, MRzine
July 21, 2008
Nurses see everything in a day's work. But at the maternity ward of Nashville General Hospital, nurses caring for an immigrant woman in labor broke down and cried when the sheriff's deputy guarding the woman refused to remove the shackles chaining her leg to the bed. The undocumented woman was detained by local authorities because of a cooperation agreement between the county sheriff's department and the immigration enforcement agency, ICE. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/guskin210708.html
Union-busting by Any Other Name...
If this had happened in another country, many of us would condemn it as an effort by an authoritarian regime to smash a unionization drive. But it happened in Postville, Iowa, so we call the massive May 12 raid by the U.S. government's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant a "workplace enforcement operation."
by David L. Wilson, MRzine
July 20, 2008
The huge meatpacking plant had been cited by government agencies for numerous violations of environmental and labor laws and for "acts of inhumane slaughter" of animals. New inquiries were under way into allegations of wage violations and the illegal employment of minors. A large national union was trying to organize the factory's 970 workers. But all this was put on hold the morning of May 12, 2008. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wilson200708.html
Tears of Rage, Tears of Hope
Then there's Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a friend and colleague... Farouk would be 60 now, but he died four years ago today--on July 21, 2004, his 100th day of freedom after two years in immigration detention.... [H]is entire detention was a farce, since the government already knew Farouk was a man without a country who couldn't be deported.
by Jane Guskin, MRzine
July 21, 2008
Nurses see everything in a day's work. But at the maternity ward of Nashville General Hospital, nurses caring for an immigrant woman in labor broke down and cried when the sheriff's deputy guarding the woman refused to remove the shackles chaining her leg to the bed. The undocumented woman was detained by local authorities because of a cooperation agreement between the county sheriff's department and the immigration enforcement agency, ICE. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/guskin210708.html
INB 7/20/08: Raids Protested in Rhode Island, Colorado
Immigration News Briefs
Vol. 11, No. 17 - July 20, 2008
1. Rhode Island Court Raids Protested
2. Colorado Concrete Company Raided
Immigration News Briefs is a weekly supplement to Weekly News Update on the Americas, published by Nicaragua Solidarity Network, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012; tel 212-674-9499; weeklynewsupdate@gmail.com. INB is also distributed free via email; contact immigrationnewsbriefs@gmail.com to subscribe or unsubscribe. You may reprint or distribute items from INB, but please credit us and tell people how to subscribe. Immigration News Briefs is posted at http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com.
*1. RHODE ISLAND COURT RAIDS PROTESTED
On July 15 at 5pm, 50 agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and 12 detectives from the Rhode Island state police simultaneously raided all six of the state's courthouses, arresting 31 immigrants employed as maintenance workers by two contractors hired by the state. Those arrested were 16 women and 15 men, immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil and Mexico. [Providence Journal 7/17/08] [...]
Read the full INB:
http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/07/inb-72008-raids-protested-in-rhode.html
Vol. 11, No. 17 - July 20, 2008
1. Rhode Island Court Raids Protested
2. Colorado Concrete Company Raided
Immigration News Briefs is a weekly supplement to Weekly News Update on the Americas, published by Nicaragua Solidarity Network, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012; tel 212-674-9499; weeklynewsupdate@gmail.com. INB is also distributed free via email; contact immigrationnewsbriefs@gmail.com to subscribe or unsubscribe. You may reprint or distribute items from INB, but please credit us and tell people how to subscribe. Immigration News Briefs is posted at http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com.
*1. RHODE ISLAND COURT RAIDS PROTESTED
On July 15 at 5pm, 50 agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and 12 detectives from the Rhode Island state police simultaneously raided all six of the state's courthouses, arresting 31 immigrants employed as maintenance workers by two contractors hired by the state. Those arrested were 16 women and 15 men, immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil and Mexico. [Providence Journal 7/17/08] [...]
Read the full INB:
http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/07/inb-72008-raids-protested-in-rhode.html
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