Tag Archive for immigration

Nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to say: How the broad climate movement has failed us

 Graffiti from Havana, Cuba By James Jordan (Originally published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) January 13, 2016 – It has been a month since the UN climate summit in Paris, aka COP 21. One might expect the kind of ebb and flow we often see in popular movements. Interest in climate issues, the…

Act for Migrant Day Justice!

Tear Down the Walls! Support the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) on International Migrants Day Join the Migrant Day ‘Tweet Storm’ Tomorrow Tomorrow, December 18,  International Migrants’ Day will be celebrated around the world. Please join us in organizing activities to call for Justice and Dignity for ALL migrants in the U.S. and…

Not One More.

Today’s NY Times editorial calls on Obama to act now without waiting for Congress to fix immigration and stop needless deportations. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 TELL THEM: NOT ONE MORE DEPORTATION!  SHUT DOWN STREAMLINE! End Operation Streamline! Stop the Deportations! We want real immigration reform with legalization for all! No more militarization of the…

Act Now to End Operation Streamline and the Criminalization of Migrants

by Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice   Operation Streamline is the “best kept secret” of federal immigration policy according to Tucson, AZ attorney and immigrant rights activist Isabel Garcia. In the early morning of Oct. 11, twelve activists, including me, chained themselves around the front tires of two Border Patrol buses which…

Tell Arizona to Veto Racial Profiling!

The House and Senate of Arizona have passed a bill which would be the toughest anti-immigrant legislation in the nation, with at least ten states planning to introduce copy cat legislation. All that remains to be done is for Gov. Jan Brewer to sign the bill into law. Among many dangerous precedence, the law would…