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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; guestworkers</title>
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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>Ellensburg, WA armed federal raids detain 30.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/ellensburg-wa-armed-federal-raids-detain-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody By DAILY RECORD STAFF Daily Record &#124; 15 comments Federal agents early Thursday morning arrested 14 Ellensburg area residents related to criminal charges of manufacture and purchase of counterfeit identity and employment documents, according to a news release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Workers in U.S. Keep Up Fight for Their Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/12/guest-workers-in-u-s-keep-up-fight-for-their-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted By James Parks On December 16, 2010 @ 4:21 pm In In the States, Legislation &#38; Politics &#124; 8 Comments     Indian workers from the Signal International shipyard rallied in front of the White House in 2008.         In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of guest workers with H-2B [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rally Sept. 29th-Labor Unity Across Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/09/rally-sept-29th-labor-unity-across-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/09/rally-sept-29th-labor-unity-across-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, to Border Divisions Based on Discrimination, Harassment, and Militarization .. Yes, to Border Unity for Peace, Justice, and Workers&#8217; Rights&#8230; On Wednesday, September 29, at 5 pm, a rally will be held at the corner of First and Race streets in Port Angeles. This event is to express solidarity with the massive number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANOTHER IMMIGRATION POLICY IS POSSIBLE!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/07/another-immigration-policy-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Bacon Truthout Report http://www.truth-out.org/another-immigration-policy-is-possible60995         Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner &#8220;Another World is Possible!&#8221;  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  &#8220;Another Immigration Policy is Possible!&#8221;         This theme was especially popular among grassroots organizations in immigrant communities.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada:  What Do We Owe Our Guest Workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/canada-what-do-we-owe-our-guest-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;You&#8217;re good enough to work here for a while, but now go home.&#8221;  The latest batch of more than 175,000 foreign temporary workers in Canada can expect to hear that message. It&#8217;s the deal. We get workers we need to make our economy function better. They get pay and a limited taste of life in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Meeting April 3, 2pm in Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/next-meeting-april-3-2pm-in-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/next-meeting-april-3-2pm-in-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop The Checkpoints will meet in Port Angeles on Saturday, April 3rd, at 2:00 pm.  Due to Library furlough of workers for a week due to budget cuts, the meeting will be held in a home near the Library.  Please email info@stopthecheckpoints.com or call 360-452-7534 for the meeting location.  Topic will be:  What real immigration reform should look like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WE NEED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE By David Bacon     OAKLAND, CA  (3/19/09) &#8211; Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform.  Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years.  In some ways, their proposal is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/immigrant-rights-group-slam-obama-democrats-for-slow-action-with-legalization-bil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By N.C. Aizenman and Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 9, 2010; A02 Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants and citing a record number of deportations in 2009. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO says Broken Immig. System benefits corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/afl-cio-says-broken-immig-system-benefits-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The broken system is benefiting the very same corporate giants who destroyed our economy. It is allowing those corporations to exploit workers by&#8230; Some 200,000 people turned out in Washington, D.C., Sunday for a massive rally in support of immigration reform. Among the speakers, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker thanked the organizers of the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/reading-list-on-history-of-guest-worker-laws-in-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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