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Ex-BET Host Takes Stand On Immigration

 

The former host of ‘106th + Park’, Rocsi Diaz, is making her directorial debut in “The Secrets of Strangers,” a public service announcement that chronicles undocumented immigrants who share their illegal status with American strangers.

It is the first to premiere from a three part Youtube series launched by Welcome.us, a nonprofit organization, that’s celebrating this June as the first annual Immigrant Heritage Month.


Welcome.us seeks to inspire Americans to share their stories of how their personal or their family stories of immigrating into the country.

 

Source: newsone.com

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Border detention of children shames America

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Ruben Navarrette says when hordes of youngsters from Central America are being held by the U.S. in reportedly inhumane conditions the nation has lost itself

 

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See on www.cnn.com

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Immigrant from Fiji confronts twisted U.S. Immigration Laws

 

Awesome speech by +Prerna Lal

 

“Prerna Lal is a law student at The George Washington University Law School. She was born in the Fiji Islands, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was 14, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area…”

 
See on www.youtube.com

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Border agency ousts head of internal affairs, will investigate unit

 

The head of internal affairs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection was removed from his post Monday amid criticism that he failed to investigate hundreds of allegations of abuse and use of force by armed border agents, officials said.

 
See on www.latimes.com

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Undoing Border Imperialism: Harsha Walia

 

“Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I’ve started reading this book and I highly recommend it.

 

@getgln

See on www.amazon.com

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Video interview: Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible Allyship

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“Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.

Non-natives must be able to position ourselves as active and integral participants in a decolonization movement for political liberation, social transformation, renewed cultural kinships and the development of an economic system that serves rather than threatens our collective life on this planet.
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A growing number of social movements are recognizing that Indigenous self-determination must become the foundation for all our broader social justice mobilizing.”

– Harsha Walia, from the article Decolonizing Together

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Harsha Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism

 

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At Last, US Border Agency Releases Critical Report of Deadly Force Practices

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“…some agents had intentionally stepped in front of moving vehicles to justify shooting at them. Other agents appeared to have fired their weapons at rock-throwers, when simply moving away from the projectiles was an option.”

 
See on www.thenation.com

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Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor

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“Every day, about 5,500 detained immigrants work in the nation’s immigration detention centers. Some are paid a dollar a day; others earn nothing. The locations shown are facilities that the federal government reimburses for this work.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Is this not exactly how SLAVERY operated?

 

Forced labor with no wage.

 

Freedom?

 

For who?

See on www.nytimes.com

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Alabama schools violating federal law by discouraging enrollment of immigrants

SPLC

SPLC

“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today notified 96 Alabama school systems that their enrollment practices violate federal prohibitions against denying or discouraging the enrollment of children based on their immigration status or that of their parents.

 

In many cases, school enrollment forms require a Social Security number or a U.S. birth certificate, without explaining that such disclosure, under federal law, is voluntary and not necessary for enrollment.

 

The SPLC also urged Alabama School Superintendent Thomas R. Bice to ensure that all schools within the state’s 135 districts comply with federal mandates by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.

“It is well-established law that all children, regardless of their immigration status, have a right to attend our public schools,” said SPLC attorney Jay Singh. “Too many schools in Alabama, however, are not living up to their legal responsibility.”

 

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See on www.splcenter.org