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QUEERS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE DAY OF ACTIONTHURSDAY APRIL 17TH TO RALLY, MARCH We demand accountability from the HRA and city agencies who refuse to follow the law and comply with providing non-discriminatory services for LGBT/GNC folks;Recognition that the fight for state-sanctioned marriage has eclipsed more pressing issues such as homelessness, unemployment, healthcare, immigrant-rights, police brutality;We oppose the effort to gentrify and privatize the public spaces homeless people call home, which leads to the targeting of the poor and homeless by the NYPD;We condemn the racist and xenophobic "immigration debates" in congress and oppose indefinite and mandatory detention of non-citizens.

a beautiful action, a lot of love, fierce young folks organizing for justice...

Bay Area demonstration supports Day Laborers in Arizona in their challenge to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County Four-minute QT movie. 57MB.

Two-minute QT movie. 34MB.

Este es un show de radio en Radio Libre Santa Cruz, escuchen a 101.1 FM o freakradio.org todos los martes de 6-7:30 pm. Durante este show hablamos sobre AFSCME Local 3299 y las ultimas noticias de la pelea por un contrato. Tambien hablamos de los trabajadores de la union UNITE HERE! en Oakland y la accion que el 8 de Agosto van a tener en el aeropuerto de Oakland. Y de la accion que los Teamsters tubieron hace como dos semanas en los Puertos de Oakland. Y finalmente tuvimos una entrevista con James sobre los trabajadores de El Balazo que fueron detenidos por la migra, escuchen! Listen!

The indynewswire show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites. For August 8th, we hear about local organizing in the face of ICE raids and get a Mexico news roundup. All that and more: 1 hr. 06 min., mono, MP3 format.

Hear Eric Vega, Professor of Chicano Studies at CSUS as he spoke to the Sacramento United Nations Association on June 23, 2008.

Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney with the ACLU, discusses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in an attempt to learn more about the Homeland Security agency ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Interviews with Peace and Dignity Journeys Runners from San Diego, Part 3 - Abel and Oscar for more information about Peace and Dignity Journeys, see: http://peaceanddignityjourneys.com 18 min 28 sec, 53 mbytes

Around 2 dozen people gathered Saturday Morning at the Houston Processing Center, an immigrant detention facility run by the private corporation Corrections Corporation of America, to protest the recent raid and detention of more than 150 workers at Rags USA in East Houston. read more

Plan Mexico, officially called the Merida Initiative, is a $1.4 billion U.S. aid package to Mexico in order to "fight drugs." Mexico's law enforcement is extremely corrupt; its members consume the drugs themselves and commit hundreds of human rights violations with impunity. This video shows a peaceful community in southern Mexico that was recently invaded and threatened by Mexican law enforcement, shortly after the U.S. House voted to approve Plan Mexico. Our tax dollars would be spent on these kinds of abuses. It's important to urge the Senate to stop this initiative.

LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2008 - About 50 people marched to the downtown federal building this Saturday to protest the ICE raids in their communities.

An interview with david from the friendly fire collective on the protests outside the annual shareholders' meeting at Chevron's San Ramon headquarters: 32 min. 38 sec.

Renée Saucedo introduces El Balazo worker Juan Francisco to speak to supporters at ICE headquarters in San Francisco on May 27, 2008, and who later, along with Todd Chretien, is interviewed for KPFA by Max Pringle. Alex Franco of the Rapid Response Network translates. Four-minute QT movie. 57MB.

Four-minute QT movie. 53MB.

In this third part of a six-part series, journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon, author of the forthcoming book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, explains how the U.S. Mexico border helps create cheap labor for U.S. corporations. (9:31)

In this third part of a six-part series, journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon, author of the forthcoming book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, explains how the U.S. Mexico border helps create cheap labor for U.S. corporations. 9:31

Rochester Indymedia interviews Roberto Resto of the Rochester Alliance for Immigrant Rights and Librada Paz of Rural Migrant Ministries about the Immigrant Rights Stuggle in Upstate New York.

Rubble interviews Chicano activist Yolanda Alaniz, visiting from LA for a talk promoting her recently published book, Viva La Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistence ;. She first describes the LA May Day immigrant march, then goes in depth into Chicano coalition-buidling and organizing, including challenges and necessity for leftist, anti-capitalist strategies and countering sexism in the Chicano movements. (23 minutes)

This news show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites.

Five-minute QT movie. 63MB.

On Friday, May 2nd - the day after thousands of Bay Area residents marched for immigrants' rights - immigration agents conducted a large-scale raid at taquerias across San Francisco and the East Bay. Agents arrested about 60 employees at several locations of the El Balazo chain. Some of the workers have been released, but forced to wear electronic ankle bracelets while they await deportation hearings. Others are still imprisoned. Many were interrogated without legal representation. ICE claims that it targets those involved in criminal activity and doesn't do random enforcement. But most of the Balazo employees had no criminal records. They were arrested for the crime of working to support their families. Four-minute QT movie. 54MB.

On April 25th, Centolia Maldonado Vasquez and Bernardo Ramirez Bautista, Oaxaca-based members of the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations, gave a presentation at UC Santa Cruz on indigenous Mexican migration to the U.S. and its impact in the communities of origin, the current political situation in Oaxaca, the role of women in the movement for social justice in Oaxaca, and current challenges of indigenous governing community institutions in Oaxaca. Audio recordings of the presentations by Centolia and Bernardo are available for download at the links below. Each recording is approximately 40 minutes (81 minutes total) and the language is Spanish.

A small group of Minutemen goons cause a scene at City College Mayday protests. This video is just under 3 minutes.

may 1st at UCSC. Students rallied at the bookstore, then marched to the beach flats and celebrated may day some more.

5:11 minute video from the 2008 May Day Immigrant Rights March in Fresno.

A Brief history and continuation of May Day

In this second part of a six-part series, journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon, author of the forthcoming book Illegal People: ow Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, explains how neoliberal reforms wreak havoc with the economies of developing countries. 8:48

Journalist and documentary photographer, author of Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, David Bacon, provides a thoughtful analysis of the causes and consequences of the great waves of migration at the turn of the twenty-first century. Chapter 1 of a six-part series. 9:54

31 min audio of opposing Press Conferences at State Capitol concerning Immigration issue.Rep Mirana vs Rep Pearce.