Here in Minneapolis we had a *huge* rally in support of worker and migrant rights on May Day.  Here is the poster for the event: We all know about the horrid events that have transpired recently in Arizona: - the passage of SB 1070 - the outlawing of ethnic studies programs - the firing of [...][...]
Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
April 30th, 2010 - 7:28 am § in Immigration
I Told You So!
So, everyone knows how I feel about the new SB1070 law in Arizona.  If you don’t, you can see it here.  As predicted, this man, a legal citizen, was detained, handcuffed and arrested while at work (driving a truck) simply for being brown.  Read the article and be raged. Arizonas anti-[...]
SB 1070 – Veto, Veto, Veto!
In Arizona a bill has been approved in congress (the governor still has to pass or veto it) that would make it legal to stop any person for whom there is “reasonable suspicion” that they may be an undocumented immigrant.  If that person does not have papers on them, even if they are a[...]
The Blind Side
We all know that Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress this year for her work in The Blind Side. In all honesty, I haven’t seen the movie.  I decided that I had to boycott it, as it was yet another film, in a long line of movies, about white people saving poor black [...][...]
February 8th, 2010 - 8:03 am § in Immigration
Robert Erickson, True Patriot
Banned Robert Erickson Ad These folks are great. If you haven’t heard about Robert Erickson, he is a true patriot, keen on getting all illegal [read: European] immigrants out of this nation. A few words from his facebook page: I am AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! European Immigrants are responsib[...]
Hospital Mixup Four Years Later
Reuters published an article in their ‘oddly enough’ section about a recent discovery. A hospital in Saudi Arabia had mixed up to children, giving them to the wrong parents. Because the parents were off the wrong skin tone the fathers became angry and had DNA tests done to test their pat[...]
A BBC Article supporting my immigration ideas
Again, we need to work on our foreign policy first … so that we stop participating in the perpetuation of poverty in other nations. BBC Article: The Migrant Trail Through Mexico [...]
June 27th, 2007 - 8:12 am § in Hodge Podge, Immigration
Not your regular blog post – immigration
This is an email I sent about today’s washington post article “Deportees’ Bittersweet Homecoming‘. Ah!  I simply don’t understand why we NEVER hear, in the immigration debates, how OUR foreign policy creates and/or heightens the incredible poverty in other nations. Â[...]
Immigration, Compassion, and Self-righteousness – repost
I wanted to repost this (it is from September) because I think it is still a very pressing issue and didn’t want it to get buried… ————– I could go on for hours about the current immigration debate. The part of this that really shocks me is the disregard for[...]