NEWS: NILC, MALDEF, ACLU Will Challenge Arizona Racial Profiling Law in Court

Share     NEWS: For Immediate Release Thursday, April 29, 2010 Please send any reply only to delatorre@nilc.org.     CONTACT: Adela de la Torre, NILC:  213-674-2832; 213-400-7822 (cell) Laura Rodriguez, MALDEF:  310-956-2425 Grace Chang, MALDEF:  909-706-5147 Donald Gatlin, MALDEF:  202-821-7923 Maria Archuleta, ACLU:  212-519-7808 or 549-2666; media@aclu.org...

Fight to Win contingent at Everett–>Eastie march

Share Resist the Raids! has been invited to participate in the "Fight to Win" bloc at the Everett/Chelsea/East Boston march and rally. This contingent is made up of people helping to organize in the housing justice and immigration movements, and they wanted to extend a welcome to any RTR! members planning to participate in that march. Their invitation is below:...

TAKE 2 MINUTES to vote NO on GA following AZ’s lead: NO to SB 1070

Share Click on the link below and VOTE NO NOW!!!!!  Just 50 of us can change the poll outcome.  SPREAD THE WORD! This is an online in the Gwinnett Daily Post (www.gwinnettdailypost.com) in Georgia, the most recent county in Georigia to bring in the 287(g) program.  Don't let Georgia become another Arizona.    ********************************************    Currently: Results:...

APRIL 18TH DIRECT ACTION W/ 3RDSUNBATEY PHOTOS

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NALACC-Massachusetts Calls for Protest Against Racist, Anti-Immigrant Law Passed in Arizona

Share NALACC – Massachusetts Calls for Protest Against Racist, Anti-Immigrant Law Passed in Arizona WHERE: Park Street Station, Boston Common WHEN: Saturday 24 April, 12:00 pm Contacts: Patricia Montes, Centro Presente, 617.959.3108 Antonio Amaya, La Comunidad, 781.307.3962 The organizations of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC-MA)...

Quaker Group Warns Raids, Police Stops Violate Human and Civil Rights

Share For Immediate Release                                                      Contacts: Gabriela Flora or Jordan Garcia                                                                                                       720-841-9608     303-919-8798 ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW IMMORAL Quaker Group Warns Raids, Police Stops Violate...

May Day on the Boston Common — May 1, 12:00 Noon

Share On May 1, 2010, the Boston May DayCommittee is organizing a march and rally starting on Boston Common at 12 noon. It will be joined by a procession from Boston’s North End featuring large cut-out images of the 8 immigrant workers known as the May Day martyrs. In the Common, we are proud to announce a special performance of the famous radical theater group Bread and Puppet and a series of speakers that...

SENATORS McCAIN AND KYL ANNOUNCE BORDER SECURITY PLAN

Share SENATORS McCAIN AND KYL ANNOUNCE BORDER SECURITY PLAN 10-Point Plan To Better Secure The U.S.-Mexico Border In Arizona April 19, 2010 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) were joined today by Arizona Sheriffs Larry Dever, Cochise County and Paul Babeu, Pinal County in introducing a 10-point comprehensive border security plan to combat illegal immigration, drug and...

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s visit to Cambridge, MA Sparked Pro-Immigrant advocates to highlight Immigration Enforcement flaws

Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, April 16, 2010 Contact: Dimple RanaDeported Diaspora, Member Organization of Resist the Raids! Network(617) 299-1996, Dimple.Scorpio@gmail.com Urmi ChakrabartiMataHari Eye of the Day, Member Organization of Resist the Raids! Network817-999-2388, urmich@gmail.com DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s visit to Cambridge, MA  Sparked Pro-Immigrant advocates to highlight Immigration...

Release to All Immigration Rights Activists RE: Colin Roach

Share April 20, 2010   Release to All Immigration Rights Activists   Who: Colin Roach is a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee who started a hunger strike, with fellow activists Rama Carty and another former detainee, at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas on April 15, 2009. Colin was detained for two years and three months. He has two American children.   What:...