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  • The Roots of May Day: Today’s marchers are liberals’ best hope.
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nelson Lichtenstein
    Today’s May Day marches are putting hundreds of thousands on the street and have politicized more people than anything since the height of the civil rights movement. Like every other massive social protest in American history, the events have generated their share of fear. Democrats and some leaders of D.C.-based immigrant groups worry that the call to boycott work and shut down Latino-dependent businesses will generate a backlash. Republicans and nativists see them (…)

  • ’The Power of Their Numbers’
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    This morning, for the first time in two months, it will be a day with immigrants at the University of Miami. On Monday the university’s janitors — almost all of them immigrants, and the vast majority refugees from Fidel Castro’s Cuba — won a nine-week battle with the university and its janitorial contractor over their right to be represented by a union. Today they report back to work. When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) set out to organize the janitors, (…)

  • Solidarity from Barrio to Barbershop
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Laura S. Washington
    “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women-full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work-are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.”
    Mexican President Vicente Fox’s comments last year to a group of Mexican businessmen ignited a political firestorm across the Americas. Fox also foreshadowed a powerful divide in the national debate over immigration reform.
    He was defending Mexican immigrants, arguing they are hard-working, (…)

  • INT’L LABOUR DAY: Migrants Flex Muscle With National Boycott
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - In more than 100 years, people in the United States have not seen what they are likely to witness this May Day, with massive rallies and protests against the treatment of undocumented workers expected to take place all over the country.
    "No work, no school, no buying, no selling," vow posters in cities and towns across the U.S., as campaigners for immigrant rights plan to hold a nationwide strike on Monday, May 1.
    Every year on May 1, workers (…)

  • USA : Join in the May 1st Boycott and Day of Action for Immigrant Rights!
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, May 1, International Workers Day, we will all be participating in one of the most momentous political events as millions of immigrant workers and students, and hopefully a large number of their allies, participate in the Great May 1st Boycott. Initiated from within the immigrant workers movement itself, the call for the May 1 Boycott has received the active support of organizations throughout the country.
    For the last six weeks ANSWER chapters, organizers and volunteers have (…)

  • Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by the Financial Times Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’ by Adam Thomson Millions of people throughout Mexico are threatening to turn their backs on US products and businesses on May 1 as part of a protest that is being dubbed “the great American boycott”.
    Teachers, telephone operators, housewives and farmers are just a handful of the groups that have decided on the boycott as a way to support Latin Americans living in the US who (…)

  • All Eyes on May Day A Real Day Without Mexicans?
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN ROSS
    Outgoing Mexican president Vicente Fox’s long-treasured pipedream of an immigration agreement with Washington went up in smoke in early April when Republican senators torpedoed a compromise measure that would have legalized millions of undocumented workers living north of the border and guaranteed hundreds of thousands of unemployed Mexicans short-term jobs in the U.S.
    But the proposed reform carried by Senators Ted Kennedy (Dem Ma.) and John McCain (Rep. Ariz.) would have (…)

  • Resistance: the Remedy for Fear By RON JACOBS
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Antiwar Movement Needs to Take a Look Around
    Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
    By RON JACOBS
    The French students and workers force the repeal of a law that would have provided employers complete control over the work lives of French youth. Immigrants and their supporters maintain a growing series of protests across the United States to oppose proposed legislation that would criminalize the existence of any US residents without the proper papers and those that assist them. On a (…)

  • THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Lendman
    "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and know well are fading into memory. If we’re honest, they should be removed from "Lady Liberty" and be replaced with something like: We’ll take your Anglos, especially well-off ones, and the ones we choose with needed skills; you keep the (…)

  • U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s deportations
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
    His father and oldest sister were farming sugar beets in the fields of Hamilton, Mont., and his mother was cooking tortillas when 6-year-old Ignacio Piña saw plainclothes authorities burst into his home.
    "They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, Calif., of the 1931 raid. "They didn’t let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that he and his five siblings were (…)