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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; immigrant workers</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>Border patrol proposal draws support, criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KONP Radio News &#8211; August 20th, 2010 &#8211; 6:09 am
(Port Angeles) &#8212; A proposal that would move the local border patrol headquarters into what is now the Eagles Building has drawn support and ire in the community.
Earlier this week members of &#8220;Stop the Checkpoints&#8221; a group critical of the U-S Border Patrol took picket signs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Immigrant Zealot Becomes GOP&#8217;s Colorado Senate Nominee</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ari Berman &#124; August 11, 2010  &#124; The Nation
At dawn on December 12, 2006, the holiday of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, a heavily armed fleet of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the JBS Swift Greeley Beef Plant, the largest employer in the sleepy city of Greeley, Colorado. They arrived in riot gear, arresting [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/07/another-immigration-policy-is-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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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.  Today non-traditional worker centers [...]]]></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 a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn&#8217;t so dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Associated Press Writer Martha Mendoza,– Thu Jun 3, 11:38 am ET
It&#8217;s one of the safest parts of America, and it&#8217;s getting safer.
It&#8217;s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn&#8217;t so dangerous after all.
The top four big cities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupation of Arizona Border Patrol station!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/occupation-of-arizona-border-patrol-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/occupation-of-arizona-border-patrol-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[21 May 2010
Tucson, AZ – More than a dozen people occupied Border Patrol headquarters
at Davis-Monthan Airforce Base today in an act of peaceful resistance. The
group includes members of Indigenous Nations of Arizona, migrants, people
of color and white allies. Six people used chains and other devices to
lock themselves in the building. These Arizona residents disrupted the
Border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizenship Law Fans Women&#8217;s Fears in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/citizenship-law-fans-womens-fears-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By  Sharon Johnson
WeNews correspondent
Arizona&#8217;s new law on checking immigration papers rings special alarms
for women whose new names after marriage or divorce might not match
electronic records. Others in mixed-status relationships fear their
families could get torn apart.
 
http://www.womensenews.org/story/the-nation/100504/citizenship-law-fans-womens-fears-in-arizona 
Full article below:
 Citizenship Law Fans Women&#8217;s Fears in Arizona
By Sharon Johnson
WeNews correspondent
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Arizona&#8217;s new law on checking immigration papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New immig. reform proposal based on human rights &amp; a comparison chart</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from David Bacon &#8211; April 26, 2010)  see comparison chart following letter
Dear friends,
A year ago many organizations and individuals in northern California came
together to affirm the need for an immigration policy based on human rights.
At that meeting, we resolved to work on a strategy for meaningful
immigration reform, centered around an alternative to the kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Make It Real! Planning meeting-Apr. 12</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the April 3rd meeting of Stop The Checkpoints it was decided to hold a Planning Meeting on Monday, April 12th at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (their week-long furlough days are over now).
 
Planning will take place for actions on May 1st to promote real immigration reform based on human rights and workers&#8217; rights instead [...]]]></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 and [...]]]></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 even worse. 
       [...]]]></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.
 &#8221;Our community is angry. [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/afl-cio-says-broken-immig-system-benefits-corporations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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 rally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/worker-id-card-spurs-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/worker-id-card-spurs-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
By LAURA MECKLER,  MARCH 8, 2010
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
 Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy
Lawmakers working to [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/france-6000-strike-for-work-permits/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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 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>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/current-immigration-reform-legislation-links-to-info/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/current-immigration-reform-legislation-links-to-info/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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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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