Posts Tagged ‘ Immigration ’

Noel Perez sits in the office of the Freedom Socialist Party in Los Angeles. The space is part meeting room, part library, part war room and part kitchen. Perez is enjoying a bowl of posole, a Mexican soup, that FSP members are serving up. It is the FSP’s monthly meeting. The atmosphere is friendly,...
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With a police escort, they marched down Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles yesterday, just like their predecessors did nearly 40 years ago. Their was a sense that history is repeating itself. Back then it was about ending the Vietnam War. Now, it’s about ending the Afghan War. And just like then, it’s also...
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At the high-traffic intersection of Sepulveda and Santa Monica Boulevards, a multicolored hodge-podge of tents and tarps line the sidewalk. Ten students from the Los Angeles and Orange County areas have chosen to make this spot of concrete their frontline of action. On July 30, national alien-rights activist group The Dream Is Coming held...
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Arizona’s hotly contested immigration law will go into effect tomorrow with some of its teeth missing. A federal judge has temporarily blocked parts of SB 1070 today – a win for the Obama administration, but a frustration for the supporters and ardent opponents of the law. An injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge...
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