by Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media
February 22, 2010
Subhash Kateel thinks impatience with President Obama's immigration agenda has begun to boil over. An immigrant advocate in Florida, Kateel says there is a potent mix of frustration and disappointment percolating through immigrant communities nationwide.
President Obama promised sweeping changes to the immigration system before taking office and raised immigrants’ hopes, says Kateel. Instead of delivering, the administration has maintained the status quo: high-handed enforcement tactics that separate families and funnel immigrants into substandard immigration courts and detention centers.
“Yeah, things are changing,” says Kateel, who works for the Miami-based Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition. “They’re getting worse. That’s what we hear on the ground.” [...]
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=c52cf379fcd5f0404d326d73fc8b06b0
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Brooklyn, Feb. 18: CINEFORO on Immigration
CINEFORO on Immigration
Film: "Al Otro Lado" ("To the Other Side")
Dialogue on immigration facilitated by David L. Wilson (co-author, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers)
There will be particular attention to Haiti; Wilson recently returned from Haiti.
Date/time: Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West near 2nd Street in Park Slope
See a map
Train: 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza; F to 7th Avenue (at 9th Street); Q to 7th Ave (at Flatbush)
Admission: Donation requested $10/$5 low-income, students; no-one turned away!
Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace Latin America Committee
Questions? Call 718-624-5921 or e-mail latinam@brooklynpeace.org
Film: "Al Otro Lado" ("To the Other Side")
Dialogue on immigration facilitated by David L. Wilson (co-author, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers)
There will be particular attention to Haiti; Wilson recently returned from Haiti.
Date/time: Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West near 2nd Street in Park Slope
See a map
Train: 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza; F to 7th Avenue (at 9th Street); Q to 7th Ave (at Flatbush)
Admission: Donation requested $10/$5 low-income, students; no-one turned away!
Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace Latin America Committee
Questions? Call 718-624-5921 or e-mail latinam@brooklynpeace.org
Immigrant Action: NY Road Trip for Our Future; End Violence Against Hunger Strikers; Raids Protested in Baltimore
1) New York Road Trip for Our Future: http://www.nyimmigrationreform.org/
2) Port Isabel Detention Center Action Alert: End the Violence Now!
http://detentionwatchnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/port-isabel-detention-center-action-alert-end-the-violence-now/
3) Raids Protested in Baltimore: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bal-md.raid05feb05,0,3834674.story
[...]
Read the full item:
http://immigrantaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/1-new-york-road-trip-for-our-future.html
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2) Port Isabel Detention Center Action Alert: End the Violence Now!
http://detentionwatchnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/port-isabel-detention-center-action-alert-end-the-violence-now/
3) Raids Protested in Baltimore: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bal-md.raid05feb05,0,3834674.story
[...]
Read the full item:
http://immigrantaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/1-new-york-road-trip-for-our-future.html
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Immigrant Action: Mother Joins Detainees on Hunger Strike at Port Isabel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Indefinite Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, TX:
“Fast For Our Families” in Front of the Port Isabel Detention Center
Press Conference Feb. 08, 2010 @ 1PM in front of Congressman Ortiz Office Building
(1805 Ruben Torres, B-27 Brownsville, TX)
February 08, 2010
CONTACT: Anayanse Garza, 956.207.2571, SWU RGV
Zoila Molina goes on Hunger Strike with son Ronald Molina, who is being detained at Port Isabel Detention Center, to stop the separation of her family. [...]
Read the full item:
http://immigrantaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/mother-joins-detainees-on-hunger-strike.html
Subscribe to the Immigrant Action listserve: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/immigrantaction
Indefinite Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, TX:
“Fast For Our Families” in Front of the Port Isabel Detention Center
Press Conference Feb. 08, 2010 @ 1PM in front of Congressman Ortiz Office Building
(1805 Ruben Torres, B-27 Brownsville, TX)
February 08, 2010
CONTACT: Anayanse Garza, 956.207.2571, SWU RGV
Zoila Molina goes on Hunger Strike with son Ronald Molina, who is being detained at Port Isabel Detention Center, to stop the separation of her family. [...]
Read the full item:
http://immigrantaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/mother-joins-detainees-on-hunger-strike.html
Subscribe to the Immigrant Action listserve: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/immigrantaction
Sunday, February 7, 2010
"Haitian Communities Need to Be Involved in the Distribution"
Margaret Trost Interviewed by David L. Wilson
MRZine, February 6, 2010
The U.S.-led international operation to distribute food, water, and medical supplies in Port-au-Prince after earthquake of January 12 has drawn a good deal of criticism. In contrast, for the past 10 years the Ste. Claire parish in the Petite Place Cazeau (Ti Plas Kazo) neighborhood at the city's northern edge has operated a very successful food program, started by the late Father Gérard Jean-Juste. This week I asked Margaret Trost, founder and director of the California-based What If? Foundation, to describe by email her experiences with this program in the past and in the current crisis. -- DLW [...]
Read the full interview:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson060210.html
MRZine, February 6, 2010
The U.S.-led international operation to distribute food, water, and medical supplies in Port-au-Prince after earthquake of January 12 has drawn a good deal of criticism. In contrast, for the past 10 years the Ste. Claire parish in the Petite Place Cazeau (Ti Plas Kazo) neighborhood at the city's northern edge has operated a very successful food program, started by the late Father Gérard Jean-Juste. This week I asked Margaret Trost, founder and director of the California-based What If? Foundation, to describe by email her experiences with this program in the past and in the current crisis. -- DLW [...]
Read the full interview:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson060210.html
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Suit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws
By Julia Preston, New York Times
February 1, 2010
Immigration authorities worked closely with a marine oil-rig company in Mississippi to discourage protests by temporary guest workers from India over their job conditions, including advising managers to send some workers back to India, according to new testimony in a federal lawsuit against the company, Signal International.
The cooperation between the company and federal immigration agents is recounted in sworn depositions by Signal managers who were involved when tensions in its shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., erupted into a public clash in March 2007.
Since then, hundreds of the Indian workers have brought a civil rights lawsuit against the company, claiming they were victims of human trafficking and labor abuse. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/02immig.html?ref=us
February 1, 2010
Immigration authorities worked closely with a marine oil-rig company in Mississippi to discourage protests by temporary guest workers from India over their job conditions, including advising managers to send some workers back to India, according to new testimony in a federal lawsuit against the company, Signal International.
The cooperation between the company and federal immigration agents is recounted in sworn depositions by Signal managers who were involved when tensions in its shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., erupted into a public clash in March 2007.
Since then, hundreds of the Indian workers have brought a civil rights lawsuit against the company, claiming they were victims of human trafficking and labor abuse. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/02immig.html?ref=us
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Helping Haiti: Our Dollars Aren't Enough
by David L. Wilson
On January 14, two days after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, I finally got a chance to look over my email, courtesy of a small Haitian NGO in a quiet, relatively undamaged neighborhood in the south of the city. After reading and answering personal messages, I noticed that a lot of my mail consisted of appeals for earthquake relief. Some messages were from people asking me to recommend ways to donate to grassroots Haitian groups.
I was moved to see how many people were eager to help, and I certainly knew how desperately Haiti needed help. Although I was in no position then to make up a list of recommendations, by the next day my colleague Jane Guskin had posted some good information. I strongly encourage people to donate to these and many other Haiti-based organizations.
At same time, I got a funny feeling reading all these notes and appeals. I found myself wondering if people would think that their dollars were enough, that making a donation meant they didn't need to do any more to help. Because if that was the case, I thought it would almost be better not to contribute to the relief effort. [...]
Read the full article on World War 4 Report:
http://ww4report.com/node/8273
or Monthly Review's MRZine:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson300110.html
On January 14, two days after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, I finally got a chance to look over my email, courtesy of a small Haitian NGO in a quiet, relatively undamaged neighborhood in the south of the city. After reading and answering personal messages, I noticed that a lot of my mail consisted of appeals for earthquake relief. Some messages were from people asking me to recommend ways to donate to grassroots Haitian groups.
I was moved to see how many people were eager to help, and I certainly knew how desperately Haiti needed help. Although I was in no position then to make up a list of recommendations, by the next day my colleague Jane Guskin had posted some good information. I strongly encourage people to donate to these and many other Haiti-based organizations.
At same time, I got a funny feeling reading all these notes and appeals. I found myself wondering if people would think that their dollars were enough, that making a donation meant they didn't need to do any more to help. Because if that was the case, I thought it would almost be better not to contribute to the relief effort. [...]
Read the full article on World War 4 Report:
http://ww4report.com/node/8273
or Monthly Review's MRZine:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson300110.html
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