Westport Country Playhouse presents:
Sunday Symposium on "Past and Present Views of Immigration"
with Victoria A. Donoghue, immigration lawyer; Margaret (Maggie) Seligman, Steinbeck expert; and David Wilson, co-author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers
The symposium follows a matinee performance of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men"
Sunday, October 12, 2008
3 pm
Westport Country Playhouse
25 Powers CourtWestport, CT
Steinbeck's 1937 classic treats the plight of migrant workers during the Depression, and the symposium will discuss similarities to the situation of immigrant workers today. The Westport Country Playhouse's production runs from October 7 to November 1. It is dedicated to the memory of Paul Newman, a longtime Westport resident and supporter of the playhouse. He had intended to direct the production but withdrew last spring because of his health problems.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Tickets for the performance range from $30 to $55 and can be purchased by calling 203-227-4177 or going to http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=22252&schedule=list
For more information go to:
http://www.westportplayhouse.org/
See also:
http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/Entertainment_12/Symposium-on-Immigration-enhances-Of-Mice-and-Men-at-Westport-Country-Playhouse3572.shtml
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
INB 9/5/08: Another Construction Raid in Hawai'i; More "Fugitive" Raids
A joint program of the 6,000-member Hawaii Carpenters Union, Local 745, and its 220 signatory contractors across the state has been pushing for increased enforcement and recently launched an advertising campaign on the subject of unauthorized immigrant labor.
Immigration News Briefs
Vol. 11, No. 24 - October 5, 2008
1. Another Construction Raid in Hawai'i
2. Hawai'i: Workers Released Under Plea Bargain
3. Raid at Louisiana Cement Plant?
4. Texas Donut Company Pleads Guilty
5. More "Fugitive" Raids: CA, PA, DE, NJ, NY, FL, OK
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; http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.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. ANOTHER CONSTRUCTION RAID IN HAWAI'I
On Sept. 22, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 21 workers at the Honua Kai construction site in Kaanapali, on the island of Maui in Hawai'i. Twelve of the workers were from Mexico, eight were from Brazil and one was from Slovakia. All were placed in deportation proceedings. The Maui Police Department assisted in the raid.
ICE coordinated the arrests with Ledcor Construction, the general contractor for the Honua Kai project. According to ICE, all 21 workers arrested in the raid worked for Global Stone Inc., a subcontractor based in Orem, Utah. [...]
Read the full INB:
http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/10/inb-9508-another-construction-raid-in.html
Immigration News Briefs
Vol. 11, No. 24 - October 5, 2008
1. Another Construction Raid in Hawai'i
2. Hawai'i: Workers Released Under Plea Bargain
3. Raid at Louisiana Cement Plant?
4. Texas Donut Company Pleads Guilty
5. More "Fugitive" Raids: CA, PA, DE, NJ, NY, FL, OK
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; http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.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. ANOTHER CONSTRUCTION RAID IN HAWAI'I
On Sept. 22, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 21 workers at the Honua Kai construction site in Kaanapali, on the island of Maui in Hawai'i. Twelve of the workers were from Mexico, eight were from Brazil and one was from Slovakia. All were placed in deportation proceedings. The Maui Police Department assisted in the raid.
ICE coordinated the arrests with Ledcor Construction, the general contractor for the Honua Kai project. According to ICE, all 21 workers arrested in the raid worked for Global Stone Inc., a subcontractor based in Orem, Utah. [...]
Read the full INB:
http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/10/inb-9508-another-construction-raid-in.html
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Border Wall: A Foundation of Lawlessness
It would seem that DHS has its own wall to overcome before it can start building one in Brownsville. Of course, these days anything can happen. But given these new hurdles, it seems the border wall issue will be left for the next president to resolve.
by Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer
September 26th, 2008
Even with Congress embroiled in the country's financial meltdown this week, the Department of Homeland Security managed to get its $400 million to keep building the border wall.
This week, the department also awarded three contractors $37 million in contracts to build border fence in Cameron County. The three companies chosen were the Texas-based Jaco Construction, Colorado-based MCC Construction and the Omaha-based Kiewit Corp. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/09/26/a-foundation-of-lawlessness/
by Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer
September 26th, 2008
Even with Congress embroiled in the country's financial meltdown this week, the Department of Homeland Security managed to get its $400 million to keep building the border wall.
This week, the department also awarded three contractors $37 million in contracts to build border fence in Cameron County. The three companies chosen were the Texas-based Jaco Construction, Colorado-based MCC Construction and the Omaha-based Kiewit Corp. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/09/26/a-foundation-of-lawlessness/
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Great Wall of Boeing
The 670-mile physical fence on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico could cost as much as $46.9 billion by 2030, and that's not including the still nonexistent Boeing "virtual fence."
by David L. Wilson, MRzine
September 27, 2008
On September 10 the U.S. government acknowledged that its Secure Border Initiative (SBI) was behind schedule and over budget. Promoted in 2005 as a new way to block unauthorized immigration, the $2.7 billion project was supposed to create a 670-mile physical and "virtual" fence by the end of this year along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
After three years, the government's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has only completed 341 miles of the physical fence -- 187 miles of wire-mesh fencing to stop pedestrians and 154 miles of shorter barriers to block vehicles. The cost for the pedestrian barriers has risen to $7.5 million a mile from earlier estimates of $4 million; the cost for the vehicle barriers has gone up from $2 million to $2.8 million a mile. The physical fence is already $400 million over budget. The "virtual fence" -- SBInet, an electronic monitoring system being constructed by Boeing Co., the giant military contractor -- is now on hold. Its cost so far has been $933 million; the official estimates are that it will cost $8 billion through 2013, and that number may triple, according to the DHS inspector general.
None of this is really news, of course. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wilson270908.html
by David L. Wilson, MRzine
September 27, 2008
On September 10 the U.S. government acknowledged that its Secure Border Initiative (SBI) was behind schedule and over budget. Promoted in 2005 as a new way to block unauthorized immigration, the $2.7 billion project was supposed to create a 670-mile physical and "virtual" fence by the end of this year along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
After three years, the government's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has only completed 341 miles of the physical fence -- 187 miles of wire-mesh fencing to stop pedestrians and 154 miles of shorter barriers to block vehicles. The cost for the pedestrian barriers has risen to $7.5 million a mile from earlier estimates of $4 million; the cost for the vehicle barriers has gone up from $2 million to $2.8 million a mile. The physical fence is already $400 million over budget. The "virtual fence" -- SBInet, an electronic monitoring system being constructed by Boeing Co., the giant military contractor -- is now on hold. Its cost so far has been $933 million; the official estimates are that it will cost $8 billion through 2013, and that number may triple, according to the DHS inspector general.
None of this is really news, of course. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wilson270908.html
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Latinos Are the Fastest Growing Group in the U.S. Labor Movement
Report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
September 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. - To mark the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documents a large wage and benefit advantage for Latino workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts.
The report, "Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers," found that unionized Latino workers earned, on average, 17.6 percent more than their non-union peers. In addition, Latino workers in unions were much more likely to have health insurance benefits and apension plan.
"Latinos are the fastest growing group in the U.S. labor force and the fastest growing group inside the U.S. labor movement," said John Schmitt, a Senior Economist at CEPR and the author of the study. "The data show that unions make a big difference in wages and benefits for Latino workers."
Read the report:
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/latino_union_2008_09.pdf
September 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. - To mark the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documents a large wage and benefit advantage for Latino workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts.
The report, "Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers," found that unionized Latino workers earned, on average, 17.6 percent more than their non-union peers. In addition, Latino workers in unions were much more likely to have health insurance benefits and apension plan.
"Latinos are the fastest growing group in the U.S. labor force and the fastest growing group inside the U.S. labor movement," said John Schmitt, a Senior Economist at CEPR and the author of the study. "The data show that unions make a big difference in wages and benefits for Latino workers."
Read the report:
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/latino_union_2008_09.pdf
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Justice for Ana Romero
Click the link below to sign a petition demanding a full investigation of the death of Salvadoran immigrant Ana Romero Rivera on August 22 while in immigration detention in Kentucky:
http://www.anaromero.org/
Immigrant Had Been Put in Isolation for Not Eating
Romero's death in jail to be reviewed
By Valarie Honeycutt Spears and Steve Lannen
Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), September 24, 2008
Ana Romero Rivera was due to be deported in three to six weeks. Franklin Commonwealth's Attorney Larry Cleveland said Tuesday that he will review the Kentucky State Police investigation into the death of a Salvadoran immigrant at the Franklin County Regional Jail to see whether further action is warranted.
Ana Romero Rivera, 44, was awaiting deportation at the jail when she died Aug. 22. Family members said that she had been placed in isolation for not eating just before her death.
Read the full article:
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/533843.html
http://www.anaromero.org/
Immigrant Had Been Put in Isolation for Not Eating
Romero's death in jail to be reviewed
By Valarie Honeycutt Spears and Steve Lannen
Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), September 24, 2008
Ana Romero Rivera was due to be deported in three to six weeks. Franklin Commonwealth's Attorney Larry Cleveland said Tuesday that he will review the Kentucky State Police investigation into the death of a Salvadoran immigrant at the Franklin County Regional Jail to see whether further action is warranted.
Ana Romero Rivera, 44, was awaiting deportation at the jail when she died Aug. 22. Family members said that she had been placed in isolation for not eating just before her death.
Read the full article:
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/533843.html
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Review: Confronting Myths About Immigration
by Orlando Sepulveda, International Socialist Review
Issue 61, September–October 2008
MANY QUESTIONS about immigration politics—the causes and effects of immigration, its economics and so on—have emerged in the national political debate since 2006, when a legislative attempt to criminalize undocumented immigrants met with a massive response that halted the proposed law.
Although some of these questions are legitimate, many are products of racist ideas pushed by well-funded anti-immigrant organizations and passed on by fear-mongering politicians and compliant media pundits. In their quick-read book, The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, Jane Guskin and David L.Wilson round up many of these questions and honestly answer them from a strong pro-immigrant position, thus setting the stage to tackle bigger questions about the futility of borders and immigration laws.
Read the full review:
http://www.isreview.org/issues/61/rev-immigration.shtml
Issue 61, September–October 2008
MANY QUESTIONS about immigration politics—the causes and effects of immigration, its economics and so on—have emerged in the national political debate since 2006, when a legislative attempt to criminalize undocumented immigrants met with a massive response that halted the proposed law.
Although some of these questions are legitimate, many are products of racist ideas pushed by well-funded anti-immigrant organizations and passed on by fear-mongering politicians and compliant media pundits. In their quick-read book, The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, Jane Guskin and David L.Wilson round up many of these questions and honestly answer them from a strong pro-immigrant position, thus setting the stage to tackle bigger questions about the futility of borders and immigration laws.
Read the full review:
http://www.isreview.org/issues/61/rev-immigration.shtml
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