Border Patrol’s use-of-force problem wasn’t just that agents shot people too often. It was that the agency either supported its agents, or didn’t care about addressing the public’s concerns. In spring 2014, an American Immigration Council report analyzed over 800 complaints filed about Border Patrol misconduct — most of which were about use of force — over the past few years. What they found was alarming,
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Source: www.vox.com
43 for 43: Marchers Demand Justice for Students of Ayotzinapa
43 civil organizations are currently marching 122 miles from Iguala, Guerrero to Mexico City.
Marchers are demanding justice for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students disappeared by the State on September 26 in Iguala.
They arrive on Sunday where thousands are expected to join them in a mega march through the streets of the Mexican capital city.
Stay tuned for updates.
Source: thinkmexican.tumblr.com
A sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York was suspended after an online video showed him sparring with someone who didn’t want his car searched.
Source: www.cnn.com
Glad to see this posted in a local middle school. God knows I could have used this during those years. pic.twitter.com/rbIK2LiqOB
— Arissa Oh (@arissaoh) November 8, 2014
Download the pdf here >> Name It.Claim It.Stop It.
Official: Three men arrested in connection with the disappearance of Mexican students in Iguala, Mexico, have admitted to killing many people.
Source: www.cnn.com
A Pennsylvania jury found Robert Ferrante, a professor who also managed a scientific lab, guilty in the cyanide poisoning of his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein.
Source: www.cnn.com
A woman was punched in the face after telling a mother to ‘go to hell’. Affiliate KPIX reports.
Source: www.cnn.com
CNN tries to twist this story and make it about the screaming child.
This story is about a young white girl who thinks she has the right to tell another adult how to deal with their child, and who thinks she can tell another adult to ‘go to hell’ and not get a beat down.
PS – the oppressor is the White woman who thinks she can talk down to another mom. The beat down is instant justice.
This is the story of how the Green Monster came alive.
The irony of New York’s Statue of Liberty is that the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on its base at its dedication in 1886, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,” marked almost precisely the moment the nation’s borders began to close to new immigrants—especially the tired, the poor and the huddled masses.
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Source: www.politico.com
No one really knows how many people are killed by police because the feds refuse to compile and reveal that information. If the Malcolm X Grassroots Movements is right, a black person is killed extra judicially every 28 hours. That a complete disregard for Black life.
Even in Latino communities lots of value is placed on whiteness over blackness. We need to talk about anti-blackness within Latino communities, so as part of a #DigitalAltar for Dia De Los Muertos we want to celebrate Black life and Mike Brown.
Will you share this on social media and celebrate Black Life today?
Celebrate the life of someone close to you today using #DigitalAltar.
Source: act.presente.org
At least 86 school districts in New York are requiring documents that some immigrant children do not have and discouraging enrollment as a result, a New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) survey found Thursday. Some schools are even reportedly turning kids away. An earlier review found that 139 districts were out of compliance with the law in their 2010 survey, but four years on, the majority of those schools still require information or proof of residency that could have a “chilling effect” on immigrants who are too afraid to register because of their immigration status, a move that could be in violation of federal law.
“Today’s survey demonstrates that the State Education Department (SED) has failed to enforce its own guidelines regarding immigrant student enrollment, despite being aware of the problems for years,” the NYCLU press release read in part.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that public schools cannot deny undocumented immigrants a public education on account of their legal status.
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Source: thinkprogress.org