Call for poetry and art submissions for upcoming xican@ anthology
This is a call out to the entire Xican@ art community of all ages and backgrounds for the submission of poetry and visual art pieces. We are looking for work that will be medicine for our community and give strength to our people.
(Houston) From May 14 to
May 18, La Asociacion Inmigrante Para La Igualdad has organized a pilgrimage of
the Virgin Guadalupe to bring unity, hope and protection to the pain and
suffering from unjust immigration laws, repression and hate against
immigrants.Beginning in Mexico City
with relatives of Mexican immigrants, the Pilgrim Virgin has come to the city
to invite all to work together to defend human rights.
At the Death House Door
is a personal and intimate look at the
death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll
Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the
infamous
"Walls" prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's career, he presided
over 95
executions, including the world's first lethal injection. After each
execution, Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his trip to the
death
chamber.
Last Thursday, May 1, we
marched in front of the Travis County Jail to oppose Sheriff Hamilton's recent
voluntary decision to expand its collaboration with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE).
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit ordered that oral arguments on a series of border wall lawsuits will
begin the week of July 7.
For people interested in
starting a Cop Watch in their neighborhood or in their city, we're providing a
couple of training manuals from different cities to help you. We understand
that different neighborhoods, cities and regions have different conditions so
you might not be able to apply these things to your specific area, so just use
these as ideas so you can create something that is effective to you.
Santa Fe, New Mexico—For
the first time in United States history, theNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be challenged in Federal appeals court for its approval of a source
materials license for an in situ leach
uranium mine.
Hispanic business
leaders, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa and Rice University sociologist Stephen Klineberg will gather at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management for the Hispanic/Latino Summit May 14 from 1 to 7 p.m. to discuss some of the most pressing social issues affecting Hispanics in Texas.
On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida
Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The
initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable
binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach
will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Berkeley High senior Chase Stern said he was taking an
Advanced Placement test May 6, when he noticed that his classmates were
fidgeting in their seats and seemed distracted.
How
many times have I spoken to friends who speak of a massive hurt that does not
go away because of words left unspoken, because of never having reconciled with
ones' parents, because of never having had that conversation? How many times
have I heard friends speak highly of their parents and how many funerals have
we all attended where the most beautiful of words flow freely… but always
spoken with a deep regret of never having told them so while they were alive?
ReViva Collective (revivacollective.org)
will be hosting a Big Bend Border Wall Conference in Alpine, TX May 17th from 9:00am - 6:00pm at the Alpine Civic Center.
The Mexican Revolution of
1910 is currently travelling through the American Continent. The Casasola
Museum is presenting a historic and unique exhibition that recounts in detail
about what happened --and is presently happening-- in Mexico in relation to the
100th anniversary of the first revolution of the 20th
Century. We’re talking here about an independent project to display this
exhibit throughout cities and towns of the continent, without the interference
of official history during these celebrations.
A
bill would require the secretary of the Homeland Security Department to report
all deaths in immigration detention within 48 hours to the Justice Department’s
inspector general as well as its own.
Word spread quickly
inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration
jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become
incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an
ambulance had taken him away more dead than alive.
Commissioners Court today
voted in favor of a resolution to support comprehensive immigration reform and
denounce the construction of a border wall and the enforcement of federal
immigration laws by local law enforcement.
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is seeking an Education Policy Field and
Campaign Organizer in its Washington, DC office. The Education Field and
Campaign Organizer will work as part of the Education Policy team to advance
NCLR's Latino High School Reform Project
INCITE! Women of Color
Against Violence New Orleans
Chapter and the New Orleans Women’s Health & Justice
Initiative Seeks Books by Women of Color authors for a Radical Women of Color Lending Library Project
TO ALL COMMUNITY
ACTIVISTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS: Houston ARAMARK workers NEED YOUR
HELP!!!
For the last few months, Houston ARAMARK workers have pleaded with politicians,
filed lawsuits against ARAMARK for non-payment of wages, and worked with the
Federal government to enforce Federal labor law, YET ARAMARK CONTINUES TO
DENY IT'S WORKERS A LIVING WAGE, HEALTH BENEFITS, AND DIGNITY ON THE JOB!
On April 29 a
Congressional Field Hearing was held in Brownsville, Texas. Titled Walls and
Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and the Collateral
Impacts on Communities and the Environment, it was intended to investigate
the impacts that the border wall will have on border communities if it is
constructed.
In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and
2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it
was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd
just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking
grapes.
LUBBOCK - "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT" read the T-shirts' fronts. "CATCH
ME IF YOU CAN" read the backs.
Students in the Texas Tech chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas wore the
T-shirts on campus one day as part of a game, "Catch the Illegal
Immigrant."
As the Mayday marches approach, I hear the pattering of well-meaning, but
worried hearts. Some have told me that they are worried that Mayday may become
low-turnout day. Though normal and to be expected, especially in a climate so
toxic with state and corporate media-sponsored hopelessness, such fears need to
be recognized and dealt with, for such personal, internal negotiations in times
of global crisis are the stuff that the best political dreams are made of.
A week ago the Harlingen Police Department arrested
6 women in a undercover "prostitution sting", and not a single
"john" what we call men was arrested and his name, age and picture
was not plastered on the front page of the Valley Morning Star, unlike the
women. Join us as we DEMAND that the Harlingen Police Department address the
real problem: THE DEMAND (men) who believe that women's bodies can be bought
and sold for sex and dispel the erroneous myth that "...it (prostitution)
presents a serious health hazard due to the various diseases associated with
these sex acts," HPD spokesman David Osborne said. The serious health
hazard are the men who sometimes force or pay more for the women not to
use protection and MEN spread STD's or HIV to the women. We also want the
police, media and the City of Harlingen to address the poverty, rape culture,
and oppression that forces women especially women of color into prostitution!
More than 10-million people live in the U.S.
without legal immigration status. The reasons they are here are as varied and
complex as our current U.S. immigration policy. But most will agree...
immigrants risk their lives crossing borders to come to the U.S. hoping to
create a better future for themselves and their loved ones back home. Yet these
undocumented workers live in constant fear of being arrested, jailed and deported.
Why is it this way?
Sean
Penn’s Dirty Hands Caravan and Pat Padraja, winner of The CNN Heroes Viewers'
Choice Award and Founder of Driving for Donors Team Up with Houston Environmental
Groups to Perform Massive Clean Up and Bone Marrow Donor Driv
For
five generations, the Benavidez family has lived on a seven-acre plot of serene
farmland near the U.S.-Mexico border west of Brownsville,
Texas.
They've harvested cotton and squash and raised goats and pigs. They've helped
sculpt the levee that snakes across the rear of the property. They've given
birth there, married there and died there. Their connection to the land runs so
deep that they can't imagine parting with even a piece of it. So two weeks ago,
when federal employees arrived asking to purchase a rectangular slice abutting
the levee for $4,100 to make way for a border fence aimed at deterring illegal
immigrants, they refused.
Blueprint Schools Documentary Project: We are currently deep in production and research. With the possible closures of
Johnston High School and Pearce Middle School, there has been much needed
attention and energy in the community. The Blueprint Project is committed to
uncovering both the current and historical trends that have caused these and
other East Austin schools to be in these states of crises.
As
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers prepares to deliver more than 60,000
petitions to Burger King headquarters in Miami today, the daughter of Burger
King's vice-president Stephen Grover confirmed her father is responsible for
online postings vilifying the coalition.
JACKSON,
MS(4/20/08) - On March 17, Mississippi
Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer
sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S.Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers
from hiring immigrants who don't have legal immigration status in the U.S.That provision was part of the Immigration
Reform and Control Act, passed by Congress in 1986, which for the first time in
U.S. history required employers to verify the immigration status of employees.
WASHINGTON -- At a cost
of up to $4 million a mile, the concrete and steel fence rising along the
Southwest border constitutes one of the most ambitious public works projects in
years, encompassing legions of federal bureaucrats and a lineup of blue-ribbon
contractors.
Cipriana Jurado, a prominent Ciudad Juarez women's
rights activist, is now free after posting a $700 bond. The director of the
Worker Research and Solidarity Center, Jurado was arrested by Mexican federal
police outside her home on Wednesday, April 2. The veteran activist was charged
with blocking a public roadway during an October 2005 protest.
Mohawks surrounded at the quarry in Tyendinaga. Ontario Provincial Police OPP
fully armed with guns drawn. They are yelling through blow horns ordering the
Rotiskenekete to come down with their hands up, or else they are going to take
them out.
