alabama
Alabama’s Law Backfires, Creating A New Civil Rights Movement
By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Alabama’s show-me-your-papers law, HB56, threatens to turn the clock back to a time when hardworking men and women were persecuted because of the color of their […]
Alabama Immigration Law’s Cost: $11 Billion
A new study from researcher Samuel Addy from the Center for Business and Economic Research at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama found that Alabama’s immigration […]
Alabama’s Immigration Law Threatens Federal, Individual Rights
By Christopher Rangel In June of 20122, Governor Robert J. Bentley signed Alabama’s HB 56, also known as the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, into law. The first day of […]
Alabama’s HB 56 Disastrous For Top Industry: Agriculture
By Raul A. Reyes, otherwords.org Ever since Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed the nation’s strictest immigration measure into law, he’s faced criticism from religious leaders and immigrant advocates. Now Bentley […]
AFL-CIO Report Documents “Humanitarian Crisis” Of Alabama’s HB 56
The AFL-CIO sent us a link to their report, “Crisis in Alabama: Investigating the Devastating Effects of HB 56” which “details what a delegation of prominent African American labor leaders saw […]
Alabama GOP Leaders Reconsider Immigration Law
Thanks to Stephen for this tip, from the AP: …amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state’s prized […]
Latino Congregations Unite To Fight Alabama Law
This Thanksgiving won’t be like others in Alabama, at least not in the Latino churches and congregations. Latino churches have managed to slip under the English language radar in that state, and there, almost unnoticed, they’ve […]
We Are All Alabama When Laws Target The Best Of Us
By Dustin Mendus It all began when the kids stopped showing up to school. Hundreds of Latino kids disappeared from school when Alabama began enforcing it’s brutal immigration law, HB […]
13 Arrested In Alabama Protest
A total of 13 pople were arrested yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama after a protest in front of the Alabama State Legislature. The undocumented students, their parents and supporters were protesting […]
Why Aren’t Americans Taking The Dirty Jobs In Alabama?
Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]