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Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like "illegals" turns
immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers
to rapists.
Read at AlterNet
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The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, with support from the
Felix Pinckney Community Center and Charleston Peace, will offer
free ESL classes (beginning and advanced) and free beginning
Spanish classes, starting on January 15.
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:30
Location: Felix Pinckney Community Center
. 4790 Hassell Street (at East Montague Ave.)
. North Charleston, SC 29405
Contact: anna(at)charlestonpeace.net: 312-9741, or Yadira Banda: 747-3744
(click below for a flyer with a small map to the Felix Pinckney Center)
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A film by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
Friday, September 21, 6pm
Education Center 118
College of Charleston
MAQUILAPOLIS is a documentary about (and by) workers in Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras. The project is a collaboration between filmmaker Vicky Funari, artist Sergio De La Torre, and Tijuana women's organization Grupo Factor X, with the participation of the human rights organization Global Exchange and the environmental activism non-profit The Environmental Health Coalition.
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The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFÉ) is currently conducting a course in English as a Second Language (ESL). The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30p.m. at the ILA Hall, 1142 Morrison Drive in Charleston. There is interest in a Spanish class to be held at the same time, but we need a volunteer instructor. If you can help, please contact
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by Eduardo Martinez Zapata
Democrat and Republican Senators are working hard to make the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act into an amendment of the 2008 Defense appropriations Bill currently in the Senate.
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Now Leave.
What Could Be Better For Business Than A Workforce That Toils For Next To Nothing, Drives Down Wages For Everyone Else, Can’t Protest or Unionize, Then Goes Away When You’re Done With Them? Your Guide To The Guest Worker Program.
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Female immigrants are drawing increased attention as Congress heads
into debate next week on immigration reform, Cynthia L. Cooper reports
today. Female domestic workers and abused women who fear deportation
are two groups of women high on advocates' radar.
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Gina-Marie Cheeseman: According to the Economic Policy Institute's 2001 report, "Mexican wages have decreased 27 percent since NAFTA, while hourly income from labor is down 40 percent." |
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Operation "Return to Sender": "The cynical name given to this even more cynical operation implies a
sender, a receiver—and an object. The object, or rather objects, are
migrant workers and their families." |
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Joshua Holland: What, the state got tough on immigrants but didn't turn into a workers' paradise? |
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"The International Trade Union Confederation today reiterated its determination to prioritise the fight for the respect of migrants' rights." |
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Justice Deported
By David Bacon
The American Prospect, web edition, 12.14.06
In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border. In haunting lyrics he describes how it caught fire as it flew low overLos Gatos Canyon, near Coalinga at the edge of California's SanJoaquin Valley. -- More |
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"Union density will continue to
decline, unless organizing is escalated and combined with a broad new
social and economic justice vision and agenda." |
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The report titled "Undocumented Immigrants In Texas: A Financial Analysis of the Impact to the State Budget and Economy" found
that "the absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants
in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state
product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58
billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state
services they received." |
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"The body count keeps growing as the crackdown intensifies against
people who were born 'on the wrong side' of a geographical boundary." |
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"The Bush administration has sought to control immigration at the border,
but that's virtually impossible," said Harley Shaiken, director of UC
Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. "The beginnings of immigration
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"Congress cannot effectively address illegal immigration - or any other major domestic economic issue - without first finding ways to strengthen and protect America's middle-class jobs, the backbone of our economy." |
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"...reducing inequality is the only sure way to reduce the threat." |
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Washington Post Comparison of U.S. Senate and House Immigration Bills(The comparison has been copied to this website in case the link does not work): |
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