3/6/10 Meeting-Stop Homeland Security’s militarizing of NW Washington!
Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Saturday, March 6 at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (Note new time – 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 Read more
“Secure Communities” lets ICE use local police in secret!
Homeland Security Targets “Criminal Aliens”
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Photo: r3v || cls)
A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning “as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened” detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, according to three civil rights organizations that have filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read more
France: 6,000 strike for work permits
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. Read more
Reading List on history of guest worker laws in U.S.
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, Boston 2007 (at library)
Guarding the Golden Door: American immigration policy and Immigrants since 1882, by Roger Daniels, Hill & Wang, New York, 2004 (at library)
New Faces in New Places; The changing geography of American Immigration, Douglas S. Massey, editor, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2008 (at library)
There’s No Jose Here: Following the hidden lives of Mexican Immigrants, Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books, New York, 2007 (at library)
One Hemisphere Indivisible: Permanent revolution and neoliberalism in the americas, Guerry Hoddersen, Red Letter Press, Seattle, 2006 (copies available from Lois Danks for $8.00)
Viva La Raza: A History of Chicano Identity & Resistance, Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, Red Letter Press, Seattle. (www.redletterpress.com), 2008.
Lawsuit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws
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 Read more