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This Week In Pictures

October 5, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Education, Energy, Environment, Government, Health Care, Housing, Immigration, Israel

Each week we are collecting photos from twitter of actions around the country and around the world. Here are photos from Sept 28 to Oct 5. Many of these events were not covered by articles on PopularResistance.org. This week includes BDS protest in London against Sodastrean, a fracking protest in Texas, Tea Time in the streets of Berlin to stop evictions, Arab women calling for safe abortions, health benefit cuts to women health services, First Nation's peoples taking back their lands to stop fracking, government workers on furlough sitting in at the Capitol, Light Brigade pink's slips Congress, free health care attracts over 1,000 in Virginia, immigration reform protests outside ravaged Sandy building, students and workers unite at UCLA for better schools, and protest in Spain against the "political mafia." It is great to see so much happening!

Immigration Activists Escalate: Undocumented & Unafraid

October 3, 2013 Camila Ibanez, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Immigration

At 11:30 Monday morning, more than 3o young people began to walk across the first bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border entry port in Laredo, Texas. “Undocumented and unafraid!” the group chanted in unison, alternating between Spanish, the group’s native language, and English, the language that all 30 had learned as children raised in the United States. Ranging between the ages of 13 and 33, everyone in the group had been brought to live in the United States before the age of 16, qualifying them as “Dreamers” under the Dream Act legislation that, if passed, would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented youths currently living north of the border. Instead, many of these young people had been deported back to Mexico, or they had returned — to attend a funeral for family members, for example — and were then unable to re-enter the United States.

A Landmark Protest On The U.S.-Mexico Border

October 1, 2013 Ted Hesson, www.abcnews.go.com Resist! Democracy, Human Rights, Immigration, Worker Rights and Jobs

" A protest expected at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday will set an unprecedented standard in the modern immigration debate. Thirty activists will attempt to cross into Laredo, Texas under the banner of the Dream 30, an effort meant to bring attention the 1.7 million-plus people deported during President Barack Obama’s first term in office. The crossers are mostly Mexican immigrants who have either been deported or chosen to leave the country and return to Mexico. Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at University of California, Irvine, said the action is historic. “There's certainly never been a border crossing of DREAM activists of this size,” he wrote via email. “It reflects a steady growth and diversification of the challenges that the DREAM activists are mounting to U.S. immigration policy.”

Immigration “Reform” Won’t Stop Parent-Child Separation

September 28, 2013 Erika L. Sánchez, www.truth-out.org Educate! Human Rights, Immigration

"While our government continues to brush immigration reform to the side this fall, millions of families wait to learn their fate. And even if the watered-down immigration reform - officially titled the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - does pass this year, children all over the United States will live in fear of being separated from their parents. Although the Obama administration stopped the deportation of some young undocumented immigrants, there is no sign that it will halt deportations altogether. The Obama administration has deported a record number of undocumented immigrants. In 2012, deportations totaled 409,849. Additionally, the bill that recently passed in the Senate doesn't guarantee a way for undocumented immigrants to bring their family members who have been removed back to the US. Although current law does allow some unauthorized immigrants to avoid deportation by showing that a separation would result in "extreme hardship" to their US citizen or legal-resident families, and the Senate bill would allow judges to waive an immigrant's removal in light of the "hardship," the granting of such exceptions would be subject to the discretion of the courts."

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Celebrate The Culture Of Resistance

September 20, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Newsletter Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Immigration, Occupy, Poverty, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week we reflect on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse. There are reasons to celebrate despite continued economic stagnation and growing debt: the culture of resistance in the US is here and it’s having an effect. There are cracks in the pillars of power, and it’s up to us to pry them open and shine light on the lies and corruption that have been used to steal our future. We see a movement that is building momentum. We look back over the events of the past two years and feel cautiously optimistic. As we met to organize the occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, there was a strong sense of suspense. Some said that Americans weren’t feeling enough pain, that we hadn’t reached the tipping point. Similarly, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street acted out of anticipation.

More Than 100 Women Arrested Blockade Congress On Immigration

September 16, 2013 Staff, www.webelongtogether.org Resist! Immigration

More than 100 women were arrested this morning after blockading the intersection outside the House of Representatives to protest the House’s inaction on comprehensive immigration reform that treats women and children fairly. The act of civil disobedience included the largest number of undocumented immigrant women to willingly submit to arrest. The 104 women who were arrested came from 20 states across the country to draw attention to the fact that women and children constitute three-quarters of immigrants to the U.S. and disproportionately bear the burden of the failed immigration system. An additional 200 supporters stood witness for the group and called on the House to match their courage by passing fair and inclusive immigration reform. “Each one of us here today understands what incredibly high stakes we are talking about—immigration reform is not just a piece of legislation but the ability for us to take care of our families,” said Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of We Belong Together: Women for Common-Sense Immigration Campaign.

Angela Davis On 16th Street Church Bombings 50 Years Ago

September 15, 2013 Davey D. www.hiphopandpolitics.com Educate! Civil Rights, Immigration, Racism

In fact the day of the bombing Angela’s mother drove Carole’s mother to the church to pick up her daughter. They had heard about the church being bombed, but sadly didn’t know Carole was one of those killed. Davis talked at length during our Hard Knock Radio show about how and why this incident was a key turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. It was a wake up call that moved everyone to get more involved. Davis also noted that on that day two other Black teens, both boys Virgil Ware and Johnny Robertson were also killed. One by the Klan sympathizers and the other by police who sadly had a working relationship with the KKK. 16th street Baptist churchShe also noted that there was a rebellion , the largest of its kind in Birmingham, which has been erased from the history books.

Milk Cows, Not Workers

September 14, 2013 Gretchen Purser, www.labornotes.org Resist! Human Rights, Immigration, Worker Rights and Jobs

"Like all farmworkers, dairy workers are excluded from national labor law’s guarantees of collective bargaining rights and the right to overtime pay. And like many other farmworkers, a majority are undocumented. Under persistent threat of arrest and deportation, and lacking transportation, many rarely leave the confines of the farms, where they live and work under awful conditions. Besides isolation, they experience employer intimidation and wage theft."

Born In U.S.: Mexico Now Home To Los Otros Dreamers

September 1, 2013 Albor Ruiz, www.nydailynews.com Organize! Education, Immigration

Everybody knows who DREAMers are, and how much they have contributed to move the immigration debate forward with their courageous actions. Yet there is another group of young people who also grew up undocumented in the U.S. that almost no one in this country has heard about. They call themselves Los Otros Dreamers (The Other Dreamers), and they are a growing network of youth who were deported or decided to return to Mexico — mostly after encountering obstacles in the U.S. — to pursue their education. Ironically, many might have been eligible for deferred action. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, more than 1.4 million Mexicans — 400,000 of them young by some estimates — returned to the country of their birth from 2005 to 2010.

Protests Against Obama Mass Deportations Grows

August 30, 2013 Laurie Smolenski, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Immigration

Ten immigrant justice activists, including one elderly nun, were arrested in New York City on Thursday in protest of the unprecedented detentions and deportations under the Obama administration. They also condemned the U.S. House of Representatives for its lack of action in passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would include a clear path to citizenship for the 11 million people living in the United States without U.S. residency papers. Detention centers across the country are increasingly being targeted for actions that highlight the struggle of immigrant families separated by deportations. Earlier this week, four activists were arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., after chaining themselves to a fence outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters. These protests are part of 40 days of nationally coordinated civil disobedience and other actions to protest the House’s stalled immigration reform negotiations, which will not be debated until after Congress’ five-week August recess.

Tear Down The Walls Gathering

August 24, 2013 Staff, www.afgj.org Organize! Human Rights, Immigration, Poverty, Racism

You are invited to join the Alliance for Global Justice this fall to strategize and network together to build a more unified movement for transformational change in the US. We are challenging activist groups to work together, and build wokshops and People's Power Assemblies which are designed to transcend our individual issues areas, and encourage collaboration amongst activists. There are so many Walls to Tear Down... Walls of Homophobia, Racism, Militarized Border Walls, Wall Street, Walls to Citizenship, Housing, Education, Walls of Inequality and the Walls between us, which weaken our collective movement.

Dreamers Stop Deportation Bus In Phoenix

August 24, 2013 Staff, www.unitedwedream Resist! Human Rights, Immigration

Late last night, leaders from United We Dream and the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, an affiliate of United We Dream, engaged in unprecedented civil disobedience and escalated action to stop a bus in the middle of deportation proceedings at the Phoenix Removal and Detention Facility, the ICE post in downtown Phoenix. Six heroic DREAMers sat in front of the bus for more than two hours, before the bus finally retreated back into the ICE complex. Last night’s action shone a spotlight on ongoing detentions and deportations and the urgent need for the Obama administration to stop separating our families and for Congress to deliver real immigration reform.

Unity Rally at White House for Immigrant Rights

August 18, 2013 Bill Hughes, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Immigration

On Saturday afternoon, August 17, 2013, at noon, a rally was held in front of the White House calling for “immigrant rights.” The demonstration was initiated by a coalition of women’s social justice organizations in a united front. In their press release, they declared: “We deserve the right to live in dignity and free from the fear of being separated from our families.” To learn more, go to: http://www.defendwomensrights.org/news/rally-in-dc-august-17.html. I talked with Ms. Heather Benno, a social justice activist from “Women Organized to Resist and Defend,” WORD, about the reasons for this spirited rally.

Dream 9 Released But Immigrant Justice Fight Not Over

August 9, 2013 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Organize! Immigration

The 'Dream 9' Wednesday night following their release from the Eloy Detention Center. (Photo: @stevelfisher/ Twitter)The 'Dream 9,' a group of undocumented people who willingly turned themselves in to an immigration detention center to protest the United States' "deportation machine," were released from the Eloy Detention Center in central Arizona late Wednesday night. Let out on parole, the demonstrators are being allowed to return to their US homes pending an immigration judge's decision on their asylum claim—a ruling that may take years. Following their release, the demonstrators were met with a "hero's welcome" when they emerged from a Greyhound bus in Tuscon, Arizona.

Homeland Security Wants Military Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program

August 8, 2013 Tom Berry, www.truth-out.org Educate! Drones, Immigration, Wars and Militarism

The continuing rise of Predator drones at home has been fueled by the bizarre merger of military influence in domestic affairs and the key role of border hawks in the politics of immigration reform. DHS's early decision to tap generals involved in the military's own controversial overseas drone program to shape and direct the domestic drone program points to the increasing merger of the post-9/11 homeland security/border security complex with the military-industrial complex. Drone proliferation at home will likely increase from a multibillion-dollar spending surge to boost "border security" as a result of congressional proposals to reform immigration policy.

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