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Zirin: Rain, Risk Takers, Racists, and Rancor
Znet Article, August, 18 2010
Dave Zirin
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On Sunday in DC, I attended the 17th ballpark protest of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the 2011 baseball season.
Bacon: Protesters Demand Immigrant Rights and Condemn the Arizona Law
Znet Article, August, 04 2010
David Bacon
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In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local law enforcement to check the immigration status of people they suspect might be undocumented, on the day the law too...
Flaherty: A Movement Rises in Arizona
Znet Article, July, 30 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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Three months ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the notorious SB 1070, a bill that put her state at the forefront of a movement to intensify the criminalization of undocumented immigrants.
Olson: Miracles, Democracy, and the Fight Against SB 1070
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Joel Olson
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One by one we go around the room. We state our name and why we are here at this meeting, seeking the repeal of SB 1070 and other anti-immigrant laws. “I want to keep my family together.” “I believe in human dignity.” “I’m afraid my family will be...
Harris: NAFTA & Political Economy of Immigration
Zmag Article, July, 12 2010
Collin Harris
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The predicatable after-effects of corporate-dictated trade policies
Rodriguez: Dual Crises of Globalization
Zmag Article, July, 11 2010
Cesar Rodriguez
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Recent disasters linked to corporate globalization
Lieberman: Mexico's Distressed-Migrant Visas Reach Few Women
Znet Article, July, 07 2010
Amy Lieberman
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Central American female migrants seeking a better life in the United States risk huge dangers as they pass through Mexico. Human rights researchers say their chances of getting a humanitarian visa for what they suffer are almost non-existent.
Bacon: Another Immigration Policy Is Possible!
Znet Article, July, 04 2010
David Bacon
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Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible." Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"
Zirin: Into the Vacuum: Tony La Russa Loves Arizona’s SB 1070
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
Dave Zirin
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St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has chosen to publicly back Arizona’s odious, anti-constitutional, anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Call me paranoid. Call me delusional. But it doesn’t take a tinfoil hat to intuit that there are larger f...
Nevins: Sitting-in for Human Rights, from Jim Crow to Juan Crow
Znet Article, June, 12 2010
Joseph Nevins
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Sitting-in for Human Rights, from Jim Crow to Juan Crow
Olson: Organizing at Ground Zero
Znet Article, May, 29 2010
Joel Olson
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Joel Olson is a member of the Repeal Coalition in Flagstaff, Ariz. 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-imm...
Guma: Immigration Fight at the AZ Corral
Zmag Article, May, 24 2010
Greg Guma
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Arizona's anti-immigration law and anti-immigrant sentiment
Jamail: Arizona's War on Immigrants
Znet Article, May, 18 2010
Dahr Jamail
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Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law (SB1070) granting law enforcement personnel the right to detain people based on the "reasonable suspicion" that they are undocumented immigrants recently elicited strong condemnation from six UN human rights expert...
Olson: SB 1070: Battle at the Grassroots
Znet Article, May, 12 2010
Joel Olson
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In the struggle over the notorious anti-immigrant, anti-Latino, anti-working class law SB 1070, a person might be tempted to see this as a conflict that plays out among the elites of Arizona politics: legislators, governors, sheriffs, newspaper ed...
Bacon: Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
David Bacon
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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 lo...
Zirin: Los Suns Also Rise: Phoenix Suns Win in More Ways Than One
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
Dave Zirin
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Anyone who believes that sports can’t be an effective platform for social justice, needed only to watch last night’s game between Los Suns of Phoenix and the San Antonio Spurs.
Quigley: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level
Commentary, May, 04 2010
Bill Quigley
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While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign ...
Perera: The Time is Now - A Declaration for a Free Arizona
Znet Article, May, 04 2010
Gihan Perera
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On behalf of a historic and moral imperative to prevent humanity from taking a dire step backward. Enough is Enough!
Zirin: “This is Racist Stuff”: Baseball Players/Union Speak Out Against Arizona Law
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
Dave Zirin
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In the days following the passage of the racist Arizona anti-immigrant bill, SB 1070, Major League Baseball’s Latino players were conspicuous in their silence.
Rodriguez: SB 1070 is Institutional Racial Profiling
Znet Article, May, 01 2010
Javier Rodriguez
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SB1070 promotes mass racial profiling of Latinos as it gives police officers power to detain persons to determine their immigration status based on a racial profile of what an undocumented person looks like. But, at its roots it is ethnic cleansin...
