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Slim & None for Immigration Reform

Dallas Organizers involved in immigration reform were talking throughout the week about what strategy and tactics they could devise to have a chance to win real reform in 2010.  It’s probably the wrong question and with any frankness no one would like the answer since the odds are so improbable for any real reform [...]

Arizona: Immigration Alamo or Selma?

Detroit Mark Brenner of Labor Notes hit the nail on the head in talking with me: they were doing great, he said, but the labor movement was doing terribly. The point is worth more thought and discussion, but it also made me think about other movements that are at [...]

Graham-Schumer Immigration Beatdown

Silver Spring The long awaited immigration “framework” for a bill to bring what was hoped would be comprehensive immigration reform made its debut in a late afternoon op-ed by Republican Senator Graham (NC) and Democratic Senator Schumer (NY).  A woman working next to me on turnout for the Sunday rally and march for immigration [...]

Biggest March of Obama Term

New Orleans Don’t take my word… how about a sample from Randy Shaw’s piece from Beyond Chron today entitled, “New Immigrant Rights Campaign to Launch Largest March of Obama Era:”

“Having written about how the immigrants rights movement was built, and then exploded onto the public stage in 2006, the reassembling of this movement in [...]

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