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	<description>Defending civil liberties &#38; immigrant workers on the Olympic Peninsula of WA. Say NO to a police state &#38; racial profiling!</description>
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		<title>3/6/10 Meeting-Stop Homeland Security&#8217;s militarizing of NW Washington!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/3610-meeting-stop-homeland-securitys-militarizing-of-nw-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Saturday, March 6 at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (Note new time &#8211; 4:00 pm) will plan actions to protest the increasing police state tactics in northwestern Washington State.  Senator Murray wants funding to keep the huge homeland security headquarters in Bellingham open indefinitely.  It was set up &#8220;temporarily&#8221; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; lets ICE use local police in secret!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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Homeland Security Targets &#8220;Criminal Aliens&#8221;
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t &#124; Report

(Photo: r3v &#124;&#124; cls)

A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning &#8220;as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened&#8221; detention and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France: 6,000 strike for work permits</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/france-6000-strike-for-work-permits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film industry seeks to highlight plight of illegal workers 2/17/2010  A few days before French regional elections, a screenwriters’ collective has launched a movement to fight for legal status for those working in the country without the proper papers. By Priscille LAFITTE (text)
 A screenwriters guild in France has launched a movement demanding that many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading List on history of guest worker laws in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/reading-list-on-history-of-guest-worker-laws-in-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources used for “History of guest workers laws in the U.S”
Educational talk by Lois Danks at Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Jan. 9, 2010 in Sequim, WA
Illegal People: How globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants, by David Bacon, Beacon Press, Boston, 2008
They Take Our Jobs and 20 other Myths about Immigration, by Aviva Chomsky, Beacon Press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/lawsuit-points-to-guest-worker-program-flaws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/lawsuit-points-to-guest-worker-program-flaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws 
By JULIA PRESTON  February 2, 2010  New York Times
Immigration authorities worked closely with a marine oil-rig company in Mississippi to discourage protests by temporary guest workers from India over their job conditions, including advising managers to send some workers back to India, according to new testimony in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Immigration Reform Legislation &#8211; links to info</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Luis Gutierrez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources on Current Legislation in 111th Congress                     Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP Act), H.R. 4321, creates an earned legalization program for undocumented immigrants; includes AgJOBS and DREAM Act, provides resources for the integration of immigrants; promotes family unity and addresses backlogs; creates a labor commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some farmworker protection rules restored</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/some-farmworker-protection-rules-restored/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/some-farmworker-protection-rules-restored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmworker protections taken away by Pres,Bush have been restored 2-13-2010]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 13, 2010 Meeting in Forks, WA</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/feb-13-2010-meeting-in-forks-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/feb-13-2010-meeting-in-forks-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Hello all!
Since we hear reports of stepped up detention activity by plainclothes agents (I.C.E.? or Border Patrol?) in the Forks area,
 
the Stop The Checkpoints&#8217; February meeting will be in Forks at 2:00 pm on Saturday, Feb. 13th . 
 
We&#8217;ll gather at Cafe Paix: A Work in Progress at 71 North Forks Avenue &#8211;  It&#8217;s only a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO immig. reform helps labor</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report shows that comprehensive immigration reform would help American workers and the U.S. economy. Reform that offers a path to citizenship for currently unauthorized workers and enforces workers' rights would raise the "wage floor" for the entire U.S. economy and increase the total gross domestic product (GDP) by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade, the report says.]]></description>
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		<title>Video Showings-Dec. 1st and 5th</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/video-showings-dec-1st-and-5th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/video-showings-dec-1st-and-5th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30 pm, Sequim Library, 630 N Sequim Ave. 
Saturday, December 5th at 2:00 pm, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S Peabody St.
  “Farmingville” documentary showing in Sequim and Port Angeles 
 The Stop the Checkpoints Committee will hold two showings of “Farmingville”, a documentary which puts a human face on the current debate around “guest [...]]]></description>
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