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Civil Rights Groups Take Georgia Immigration Law To Court
Georgia’s anti-immigrant law inspired by Arizona’s SB 1070 is facing a lawsuit from several civil rights groups that oppose the measure calling it “hate rhetoric.” The groups that have banded […]
Latina Students Fight Pesticides In California
And now for a great story out of California, where a group of young Latinas and other high school students organized to protect their families from a harmful pesticide, convincing […]
North Carolina Checkpoints Accused Of Racial Profiling
If you’re Latino and traveling anywhere near Asheville, North Carolina, you may want to be aware of the checkpoints – you could be an automatic suspect. According to a recent article […]
Puerto Rican Student Protestors Beaten, Assaulted
[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from the ACLU.] While the world celebrates the democratic revolution in Egypt, major violations of basic human rights are occurring in our own […]
Racial Profiling Feared in New Mexico
One of the first things that Susana Martinez, the newly elected and installed Republican Governor of New Mexico, did was undo what her predecessor had done. Five years ago then […]
New Law Challenges Voters Rights
Here’s one I didn’t see coming this soon. The soon to be minted legislators in Kansas are going after voter ID. Specifically, according to the Lawrence Journal, Secretary of State-elect […]
Federal Immigration Raids Growing Under Obama
In a very detailed analysis, David Bacon points out that the Barack Obama administration has upped the ante of enforcement against immigrant workers in ways that are either comparable, or […]
Foundation head calls on Corporate America to quit sponsoring hate speech
It was popular revulsion that took immigrant-basher and über hypocrite Lou Dobbs off national TV. It is time to do it again. It is time to force corporate America to […]