ANOTHER IMMIGRATION POLICY IS POSSIBLE!

July 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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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 “Another World is Possible!”  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  “Another Immigration Policy is Possible!” Read more

Canada: What Do We Owe Our Guest Workers?

June 11, 2010 by admin · 1 Comment
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 ”You’re good enough to work here for a while, but now go home.”

 The latest batch of more than 175,000 foreign temporary workers in Canada can expect to hear that message. It’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 nation regularly voted one of the world’s best places to live. Read more

Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill

March 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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WE NEED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE
By David Bacon

    OAKLAND, CA  (3/19/09) – 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. 
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Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil

March 24, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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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 Read more

AFL-CIO says Broken Immig. System benefits corporations

March 24, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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“The broken system is benefiting the very same corporate giants who destroyed our economy. It is allowing those corporations to exploit workers by… Read more

Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy

March 16, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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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 Read more

3/6/10 Meeting-Stop Homeland Security’s militarizing of NW Washington!

February 27, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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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

France: 6,000 strike for work permits

February 25, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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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.

February 15, 2010 by Lois · Leave a Comment
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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.

Current Immigration Reform Legislation – links to info

February 15, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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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; Read more

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