Last week, as the Tea Party movement pressed forward with its eerie “we are the people” message, Sarah Palin drew a deeply troubling line in the sand. Her message for mainstream Republicans was: get on board with the Tea Party … Continued
Immigration
Stephen Colbert Testifies
This past week Stephen Colbert testified before Congress about his one-day experience picking beans as a member of the “Take Our Jobs” campaign. The campaign, initiated by the United Farm Workers, invites Americans to take a position in farm labor … Continued
Politics
Morrissey Describes Chinese as a “Subspecies”
Morrissey is in the news again. In an interview with Simon Armitage of the Guardian Weekend magazine, the English pop-singer describes Chinese people as a “subspecies.” He made this comment in a discussion about the treatment of animals in Chinese … Continued
Immigration
Tea Party Exhibits Racism, House Gives It a Caucus
According to Vice President Joe Biden, neither he nor the Obama administration believes the Tea Party to be a racist organization. This past Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Vice-President Joe Biden said, “I don’t believe—the president doesn’t believe—that the Tea … Continued
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White Supremacists Rally After Racist Beating
The Rev. Al Sharpton paid a visit to Indianapolis on Sunday to shed light on the case of Brandon Johnson – a 15-year-old biracial teenager who was brutally beaten and subjected to racial slurs on May 16 by four white … Continued
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Armed Neo-Nazis Hunt Immigrants in Arizona Desert
The climate of fear in Arizona’s desert has just reached new levels. Stephen Lemons’ piece in yesterday’s Phoenix New Times clearly illustrates this as he documents his trip with J.T. Ready -a neo-Nazi and border vigilante. As previously reported by … Continued
Immigration
Attacks On LGBTQ Community Part Of The Anti-immigrant Agenda
Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, is in the news again attacking immigrants. This time his target is the LGBTQ community - specifically bi-national, same-sex families. In a June 4 article in the Boston Globe, … Continued
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Anti-immigrant Network Inflicting Legislative Damage Nationally
If it wasn’t already apparent, Arizona’s anti-immigrant law (which legalizes and mandates racial profiling), is a civil-rights nightmare that is quickly spilling out into other states. Last week Seth Freed Wessler wrote a chilling article in Colorlines that detailed the … Continued
International
Fighting Fascism is a Global Effort
Since early last year the United States has seen rapid growth in many sectors of the radical right. There has been unprecedented expansion of anti-government militia groups, increased anti-immigrant rhetoric in the tea party movement, and deeply troubling proof of … Continued
Politics
Hardcore Racists Flock to NumbersUSA’s Campaign
NumbersUSA deployed its counter-action to the immigration reform march in Washington D.C over the weekend. The plan, S.T.O.P Amnesty in four days, contained carefully crafted talking points that tea party and hard-core, anti-immigrant activists used to lobby state and federal … Continued