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March 22, 2010 by Pedro Rios Originally published on Detention Watch Network Detention Watch Network chose the image of San Diego’s Friendship Park to represent our “Dignity not Detention” campaign (see on left). To explain its significance, we asked Pedro Rios of American Friends Service Committee in San Diego to […]
WE NEED YOU and YOUR CHILD on TUESDAY– COME and SPEAK OUT in SUPPORT OF THIS POLICY! Pass the Policy to Regulate Recruiting in San Diego Schools! ¡Aprueben el reglamento que regule el reclutamiento en las escuelas de San Diego! CONTACT: Education Not Arms Coalition educationnotarms@gmail.com 760-634-3604 http://www.projectyano.org/educationnotarms/ San Diego […]
Sierra Club unites with Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference November 2, 2010 Contact: Bill Chandler, MIRA, (601) 968-5183 Sean Sullivan, Sierra Club Borderlands Team, (520) 250-9040 JACKSON, MS – At this year’s 5th annual Unity Conference, sponsored by the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) and […]
From the San Diego Union Tribune Monday, December 14, 2009 by J. Harry Jones U-T Multimedia: For a slide show of La Posada at the border, go to Posada sin Fronteras Photos by Peggy Peattie IMPERIAL BEACH — Faith groups from the United States and Mexico gathered yesterday afternoon at […]
Barrio Logan, San Diego-The San Diego City Council voted today to approve agreements with two developers to complete the long-awaited Mercado Project at the foot of the Coronado Bridge near Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. The project will include a 35,000 sq.ft. Northgate Gonzalez supermarket and 92 units of affordable […]
Two Musicians playing the wall, accompanied by U.S. Border Patrol on helicopter [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GsfNyXEi4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
San Diego organizations join a borderwide network Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (760) 468-4519 communicate@immigrantsandiego.org. Louie Gilot Policy Director, Border Network for Human Rights 2115 N. Piedras, El Paso, TX 79930 (915) 274-0541 lgilot@bnhr.org. May 26, 2010 — Organizations representing border communities from San […]
A big thanks to Megan Zapanta from Amherst College for creating this lovely video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpLMumHGonI&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
–Jill Holslin, San Diego State University Originally published in Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 1, no. 3-4. (June 2008) Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam Cooke. 2007. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 196. £46.99 “Our literature never leaves the country.” These words of Syrian women writers clarify a […]
March 9, 2010 Over 200 organizations appeal to President Obama and the Department of Homeland Security to Suspend Immigration Enforcement Activities for Census 2010 Encouraging hard-to-count populations to participate in the Census means reducing the climate of fear and distrust in immigrant communities Oakland, CA | As Census 2010 gears […]