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Rodriguez: Sheriff Lee Baca and the 287g Agreement in the LA County JAIL
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
The 287g Federal Agreement Program between the Department of Homeland Security DHS-ICE and the Sheriff of Los Angeles County is in effect in the City of the Angels.
Cooke: Obama’s Dirty War On Immigrants
Znet Article, October, 24 2009
Shamus Cooke
Cooke's ZSpace page
Under Bush, immigrant communities lived in a constant state of fear — terrorized by “Homeland Security†agents arresting anyone who appeared Latino and lacked ID. Families were separated, children left parentless, property abandoned, and lo...
Rodriguez: The political Reality of President Obama and the Struggle for Immigration Reform
Znet Article, October, 13 2009
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
The recent interview of Mauricio Cardenas, an ex Colombian Minister and now Director of the Brookings Institute for Latin America, is a brief but incisive window into the political reality of President Obama.
Bacon: It's Time to be Audacious
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
A talk given at Socialism 2009...
Rodriguez: Legalize LA and La Quinceanera Liency
Znet Article, August, 31 2009
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
There are many human stories that emanate from the struggle of the immigrant rights movement in this country. This is one of them.
Paterson: Troubled Waters in the Mexico-Canada Relationship
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
Kent Paterson
Paterson's ZSpace page
In important ways, the story of Mexico and Canada is a different one than the saga of the United States and Mexico. For decades, thousands of Canadian "snowbirds" have passed winters in tropical Mexican resorts, contributing to the tourism economy...
Rodriguez: The Immigrant Rights Movement in the Obama Era
Znet Article, August, 15 2009
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
If you take the bull by the horns and analyze Obama's DHS policies, they are a softer but never the less vicious approach on the immigration enforcement issue.
Bogado: Immigrant Detainees Staging Hunger Strikes to Protest Deplorable Confinement
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Aura Bogado
Bogado's ZSpace page
When more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA, began a hunger strike last week, in protest of the facility's deplorable conditions, guards at the immigrant detention center placed at least six of them in soli...
Many: Greece Immigrant Repression
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Authors Many
Many's ZSpace page
It has been around a year and a half now since the first attempt of the state to demolish the self-made Afghani refugee camp in Patras, which was prevented due to a vast and eminent solidarity movement. Nevertheless, the public authorities struck ...
Nevins: Deporting Fathers in the Name of Homeland Security
Znet Article, June, 21 2009
Joseph Nevins
Nevins's ZSpace page
As families celebrate Father’s Day, consider the case of Roxroy Salmon. The father of four U.S.-born children, Salmon has lived in the United States for more than 30 years. Yet the Department of Homeland Security now threatens to deport him to J...
Raina: Indians Down Under
Znet Article, June, 03 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Kangaroos have been behaving badly. Hopping mad, you might say.
Nevins: “The Dangers of Not Thinking Politically: A Review of Sin Nombreâ€
Znet Article, May, 24 2009
Joseph Nevins
Nevins's ZSpace page
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the film “[t]ough and beautiful,†the USA Today “a powerful and wrenching thriller,†giving it fours stars out of four. The Denver Post characterizes it as “vivid and haunting,†while The Washington Post...
Goodman: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege
Znet Article, April, 09 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
As President Barack Obama made his public appearance with Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Monday as part of his first trip to a Muslim country, U.S. federal agents were preparing to arrest Youssef Megahed in Tampa, Fla. Just three days earlier, ...
Bacon: Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day
Znet Article, March, 28 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US. This year these May Day marches of immigrant workers will make an important demand on the O...
Zirin: Charles Barkley and the Fight for Immigrant Rights
Znet Article, March, 12 2009
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
If you tuned into CNN last weekend, you may have seen a press conference with NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and a plump, hatchet-faced lawman who calls himself "the toughest sheriff in America," Joe Arpaio. You may have caught Sheriff Joe maki...
Lewis: Illegal People
Zmag Article, March, 01 2009
Ted Lewis
Lewis's ZSpace page
A review of David Bacon's new book on immigrants in the US
Bacon: Labor Needs a Radical Vision
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
During the Cold War, many people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of...
Nevins: Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
Znet Article, February, 04 2009
Joseph Nevins
Nevins's ZSpace page
ZNet Interview with Joseph Nevins about his new book
Barry: Obama's Immigration Challenge: More about Words than Policy
Znet Article, January, 25 2009
Tom Barry
Barry's ZSpace page
President Barack Obama could quickly go a long way toward resolving the immigration policy crisis. But not by taking the path that the leading liberal immigration reformers are pressuring him to follow.
Bacon: Unions Come to Smithfield
Znet Article, December, 21 2008
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They'd just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history.
