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Wells Fargo Courts Latinos While Investing in Private Prisons That Profit From Detaining Immigrants: Report Calls for Bank to Break Ties
This cycle involves profiting from the detention of vulnerable immigrant communities by understaffing the prisons and cutting costs so that basic food and medical needs are not met. The …
As Anti-Immigrant “Papers, Please” Law Takes Effect, Journalist Jeff Biggers on Arizona, the “State Out of the Union”
An interview on the reaction to a federal judge's lifting last week of an injunction against a key component of Arizonau2019s controversial anti-immigrant law, S.B. 1070, requiring police to …
A Dissident Voice for Democratic Schooling: Writer Gabriel San Roman Interviews Radical Educator Antonia Darder
I was forced to contend with a variety of inequalities that placed huge constraints upon me, and others like me, as a direct result of poverty, racism and sexism.
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The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
The movement to unionize carwash employees in Los Angeles arrives in New York.
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Immigrants Are Losing the Policy Fight, but That’s Beside the Point
"The immigrant rights movement, for all its vibrancy and depth, has been losing the policy fight," says Colorlines reporter Rinku Sen.
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“Show Me Your Papers” Provision Goes Into Law in Arizona
The show me your papers provision, as section 2b of the measure has been called, is seen as one of the most egregious parts of the law that effectively …
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As Arizona’s “Papers, Please” Law Starts, Immigrant Women Speak Out
As the u201cshow me your papersu201d provision of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 begins to take effect, immigrant women share their stories at a recent panel.
“Targeting” the Poor in Thailand
u2018Inflation targetingu2019 has become the cause for much controversy in Thailand. The issue in question is clear. When a countryu2019s central bank functions with the belief that it can …
Are There Borders for the 99%?
The power of the caravan rests on a different framework, one that challenges our understanding of international borders in an era when transnational corporations are increasingly overshadowing the primacy …
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Anti-Drug War Caravan Comes to the Midwest, Heads East
Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …