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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>Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-man-found-in-sol-duc-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Jun 6, 2011 By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News FORKS — The body of Benjamin Roldan Salinas, the West End man who had been missing since May 14 after running from a highway traffic stop, was found in the Sol Duc River three miles east of Sappho, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office confirmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellensburg, WA residents respond to immigration raids</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/ellensburg-wa-residents-respond-to-immigration-raids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7:59 PM, Jan. 21, 2011  &#124;  SHANNON DININNY  Associated Press ELLENSBURG, Wash. — More than 200 people turned out to a church in a central Washington college town Friday to discuss a series of immigration raids that resulted in more than two dozen arrests and left relatives scrambling to care for the children left behind. Those attending [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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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>Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/</link>
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		<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>Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/worker-id-card-spurs-controversy/</link>
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		<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 [...]]]></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>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading List on history of guest worker laws in U.S.</title>
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		<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>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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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO immig. reform helps labor</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/</link>
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		<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>AFL-CIO Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/afl-cio-report-immigration-enforcement-harms-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009 Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers A comprehensive report issued today by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project finds that the federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years &#8212; including a heavy reliance on raids and often inadequately trained enforcement agents &#8212; has severely undermined efforts [...]]]></description>
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