Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’

Thousands defy heat, walk winding route to protest SB 1070 in Phoenix

Thousands of people marched from Steele Indian School Park to the State Capitol. The march took place exactly two months before SB 1070 in implemented, and more actions against it are expected in the next 60 days. Marches and protests in Arizona have been the rule rather than the exception. In 2006,...

June 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

Israel, ideology of trauma

Originally published on the Unapologetic Mexican MANY AMERICANS OF JEWISH DESCENT find themselves torn in two by the tyrannical and cruel actions Israel levels upon the Palestinians. Perversely, for these people, it is not so much rampant Anti-Semitism that causes us shame at our roots, but the actions...

June 1st, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Chuck D on the fight in Arizona

Chuck D. The Hard Rhymer. The man on the mic for the most politically explosive hip-hop group in history, Public Enemy. With albums like “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,” “Fear of a Black Planet,” and anthems like “Fight the Power” and “Bring the Noise” along with the...

May 19th, 2010 | Featured, Sports | Read More

The unsung heroes of workplace safety

By Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant at the Kirwan Institute In the midst of the uproar surrounding comprehensive immigration reform and the devastating new law in Arizona that seemingly legalizes racial profiling, immigrants and their advocates and organizers are shouldering the strains of these significant...

May 14th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Why immigrant rights advocates need to understand history

By Lilia Fernandez, Department of History, Ohio State University As immigrants rights activists and organizers know well, immigrants do much of the labor that feeds the nation—from the migrant workers who pick our strawberries, spinach, and grapes to those who process those foods and others, immigrants...

May 13th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

An introduction to Mississippi Chicken and the immigration issues it portrays

This essay first appeared in the Mississippi Chicken DVD insert. Reprinted with permission of the author and filmmaker. By Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University of New Orleans Mississippi Chicken is a true gem. By letting us into the lives of immigrant poultry workers...

May 12th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Thanking Arizona

WE OWE ARIZONA OUR THANKS for passing a series of persecutory laws over time that finally culminate in today’s cultural crisis. Boycotts, civil disobedience, and righteous outrage are sweeping the country as this self-proclaimed nation of immigrants is engaged in a fight over its heart and soul. News...

May 11th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Done right, immigration reform will boost the U.S. economy

By Victor Corral, Program Manager, Insight Center for Community Economic Development (photo credit: celikins) The U.S. economy needs immigrants. According to the Center for American Progress, if we passed immigration reform that included legalization, there would be an estimated $1.5 trillion boost...

May 11th, 2010 | Economics, Immigration | Read More

Regardless of our stance on immigration, the SB1070 is unconstitutional

By Jeffrey Cohen, associate professor, Ohio State University Governor Brewer’s signing of Arizona law SB1070 late last month has shifted the debate concerning immigration reform in our country and changed the very environment into which migrants (legal and extra legal) now live. The law, which at...

May 10th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Social justice for Latino immigrants is social justice for everyone

by Theresa Delgadillo, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University In the area of Latino/a Studies, which I teach, it is well known that immigration policy affects all Latino/as. This is true not because all Latino/as are immigrants – indeed, both Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans became U.S. citizens...

May 10th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

The Border Network for Human Rights: Building an immigrant movement in the besieged borderlands

By Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso The Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) is an immigrant community based organization working for human rights in the El Paso and southern New Mexico area of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It consists of a small central staff...

May 10th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice

From Special Guest Race-Talk Editor, Angela Stuesse This week the film Mississippi Chicken makes its Ohio premier: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise...

May 8th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

“A New Era”: Here come the Suns

Originally published in the Nation A battle has been joined for the very soul of Arizona. On one side, there are the Minutemen, the craven state Republican lawmakers, Governor Jan Brewer, and the utterly unprincipled John McCain, all supporting SB 1070, a law that codifies racial profiling of immigrants...

May 4th, 2010 | Sports | Read More

Bud Selig: The choice is yours

In the wake of the passage of Arizona’s anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070, Major League Baseball has been under an increasingly hot spotlight. Boycotts and protests have been called against MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...

May 4th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Sports | Read More