From Immigration Prof Blog: In an interesting online article in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Robert Castro [pdf] analyzes how imageries based on the historical typification of Indians have been projected onto Latina/o immigrant populations that are in the United States without proper documentation. [He] also explore[s] the…
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From Progressive POC: Is it just me or has there been an uptick in the usage of metaphors, analogies and claims regarding Slavery as it relates to present day people? I can’t help but to notice the prevalence of the topic recently. Maybe it is just because I’ve been doing…
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The American Friends Service Committee (Arizona) was denied a temporary restraining order to halt the Arizona Department of Corrections from awarding contracts for new private prisons. The Dept. of Corrections has said it would award contracts immediately. AFSC has also filed an injunction to halt the award of contracts. The…
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Sex, Power & Speaking Truth 20 yrs later From anitahill20.org: Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at Hunter College in New York City. The conference will bring together three generations to witness, respond and analyze present day realities…
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From Kickstarter.com: Rising Souls, Singing Scorpions is a documentary film by award-winning filmmakers Paul Espinosa and Mark Day about Ramón “Chunky” Sanchez, a southern California musician and community organizer based in San Diego. It’s a moving story of individual perseverance and an engaging tale of how art and culture can…
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From People of Color Organize: Over the years long standing organizing efforts by class conscious prisoners in the Virgina state system’s two maximum security facilities (Red Onion and Wallens Ridge) have been met with systematic repression including beatings, assaults with electrical and chemical weapons, isolation in special segregation units, interdiction…
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Criminal Injustice Criminal Injustice will be posted tonight at 6 CST. Criminal Injustice is a weekly series devoted to exploring the myths of “crime”, “criminals”, and criminal justice and the intersection of race/ethnicity/class/gender/sexuality/age/disability in policing and punishment. Follow CMP on Facebook CMP just created a facebook page. Please show some…
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From the The Center for American Progress: This week the House Judiciary Committee will be marking up a bill to make E-Verify, the government’s Internet-based system that checks whether prospective employees are authorized to work, mandatory for all employers in the United States. E-Verify is an immigration enforcement tool—it is…
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