WHO FAILED RIZANA NAFEEK? from http://www.migrant-rights.org/
Rizana Nafeek Rizana Nafeek was beheaded on January 9, less than two days after a final appeal made by Sri Lankan President Rajapakaa. The several clemency appeals made by Sri Lanka, other states, and...
View Article7 Numbers That Tell the Story of Obama on Immigration
By TED HESSON (@tedhesson) Jan. 21, 2013 When President Barack Obama took the oath of office four years ago, immigration reform seemed possible, if not a high priority on the president’s agenda. But...
View ArticleLos Invisibles, a film by Marc Silver & Gael Garcìa Bernal
Every year, tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As “invisible” migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from...
View ArticleHard Crossings – Al Jazeera World – Al Jazeera English
Hard Crossings – Al Jazeera World – Al Jazeera English. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2012/06/2012627112840388494.html#.UQ9Ejzch0ZQ.wordpress Filmmaker: Muhammad Salama Israeli...
View ArticleNative American Shuts Down Anti-Illegal Immigrant Protest in Tucson, Arizona
At a Tucson, Ariz., anti-illegal immigrant rally, a group of self-righteous protesters were literally put on mute after a Native American decided to drop some knowledge on who the real “illegals” are....
View ArticleInvitation to the WYR 2013
Greetings, I hope this email finds you well. As you may be aware we are organizing a number of activities to get the perspectives on their experience in the migration process ( i.e. when they prepare...
View ArticleDeportation’s forgotten children, from the L.A. Times
The Help Separated Families Act will help end the suffering that our broken system causes children and immigrant parents who are torn apart. According to the Applied Research Center’s report “Shattered...
View ArticleThe Migration and Labor Question Today: Imperialism, Unequal Development, and...
2013, Volume 64, Issue 09 (February) Raúl Delgado Wise is president of the International Network on Migration and Development; UNESCO Chair on Migration, Development and Human Rights; and Professor of...
View ArticleNational Leadership Summit for Immigration Reform, March 16, University of...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Scholars, policymakers and community organizers from across the country will convene at UC Riverside for an all-day summit on immigration reform on Saturday, March 16. Organized by...
View ArticleCoalinga ‘Deportee’ Plane Crash Sparks Search, 65 Years Later
A simple, tarnished plaque marks the grave of 28 ‘deportees’ who died in a plane crash near Coalinga in 1948 Author Tim Z. Hernandez was digging through old newspapers at the Fresno County library when...
View ArticleFolded Space: Espacios Abatidos, photos by Julio César Barrita Sierra
Fotografías realizadas en la mixteca de Oaxaca, una de las zonas más golpeadas por la migración a nivel nacional. Esta dinámica social ha fracturado a las familias de la zona, dejándolos en el...
View ArticlePetition Against Texas Copycat Bill To Ban Ethnic Studies (Stop Senate Bill...
Senate Bill 1128 is a bill by which college courses in Mexican American history and African American history would not count towards a college degree in Texas public universities. We must stop this...
View ArticleCuéntame Releases New 30-Minute “Immigrants for Sale” Video About Private...
As more and more details are being reported about GEO Group’s private prison and immigrant detention business, Cuéntame has now produced an extended 30-minute video of its’ original viral “Immigrants...
View ArticleANONYMOUS TAUGHT TWITTER ABOUT THE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE by Dell Cameron
photo by no_direction_home Yesterday, for a few hours at least, the plight of a small indigenous people was given center stage on Twitter. The Rohingya people—inhabitants of Burma, known officially as...
View ArticleCan You Imagine Going Through Something Like This When You Were In High School?
You’d think the government would have bigger priorities than treating honors students like criminals, yet here we are.
View ArticleTime to Rethink Immigration Detention
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Border Wars, from http://nacla.org/blog/2013/3/27/time-rethink-immigration-detention March 27, 2013 Last month’s sequester-related release of immigrants from...
View ArticleHow Queer Undocumented Youth Built the Immigrant Rights Movement
How did we build an immigrant rights movement? As undocumented queer immigrants, we learned from our own experiences. Frank Sharry’s latest opinion piece in The Washington Post extols the gay rights...
View ArticleThe Mesoamerican Migrant Movement: An Interview with Ruben Figueroa
In the face of thousands of kidnappings and an inept government, Ruben Figueroa dedicates himself to finding disappeared Central American migrants in Mexico. Ruben Figueroa, center On February 14th,...
View ArticleThe Undocumented (Independent Lens, PBS Video)
see the video here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365003064 Marcos Hernandez lives and works in Chicago. He came to the United States from Mexico, after a life-threatening border crossing through the...
View ArticleA day in the strawberry fields seems like forever, by Hector Becerra, L.A. Times
Los Angeles Times writer Hector Becerra picks boxes of strawberries alongside workers in a Santa Maria, Calif., strawberry field He finds kindness and camaraderie with Mexican immigrants picking...
View ArticleNational Archive Adds Recordings of the “Last” Yahi, Ishi, Who Lived at UCSF
Ishi By Jeffrey Norris on April 07, 2011 Some of California’s past glories live on in historical memory – Grizzly bears, for instance, and the Native American civilizations that ruled for millennia...
View ArticleVariedades: The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón
Variedades: The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón Variedades: The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón presents this story as the deep roots of the Occupy movement. The performance is inspired by the Mexican...
View ArticleSin Pais (Without Country, award-winning student video)
Winner of a Student Academy Award, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting. watch the 20...
View ArticleCountry without Parents: Labor Migration from Moldova
“Whose parents are living in Italy?” asked the teacher as she stood in front of a first grade class in Cirpesti, a small village in southeast Moldova. With a mixture of pride and embarrassment about...
View ArticleDon Bartletti on “Enrique’s Journey”
Don Bartletti wants to be invisible. He wants you to see through him and his art, to fix upon the images he has created and to ask: “How can such things be?” He credits this vision of photography to...
View ArticleFresh Fruit, Broken Bodies – A Doctor’s Journey among Migrant Farmworkers
Editor’s Note: After spending two years among indigenous farm workers in Mexico and in labor camps in the United States, medical anthropologist Dr. Seth M. Holmes documents how market forces,...
View ArticleAcross the Border, sung by Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris
Across The Border. Performed by Linda Ronstadt – lead vocal, Emmylou Harris – harmony, from the Western Wall, Tucson Sessions album. With Neil Young – harmonica, Bernie Leadon –...
View ArticleYoung Immigrants Fight for a Place, and for Access to Health Care
“Thousands of young people throughout California can only dream about health care. They want to live healthy responsible lives. But that’s hard to do when you can’t see a doctor or you don’t have...
View ArticleWatch: Ghosts of the Canyon: Deportee Mystery Comes to Light After 65 Years
for video see http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ghosts-canyon-deportee-mystery-light-65-years/story?id=20112935&singlePage=true Woody Guthrie must have known that immigrants were more than just...
View ArticleA virtual way to be with their deported friend
BY CHRIS O’BRIEN for the Los Angeles Times REPORTING FROM BERKELEY Sept. 2, 2013 Kyle Kuwahara, left, and Jude Kratzer use the video game Minecraft to stay in touch with classmate Rodrigo Guzman, 10,...
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