immigration

On this episode of Labor Justice Radio:
+SEIU members fight for fair treatment in Delaware
+Philly responds to city budget cuts
+Queer immigrants talk about repression and resistance
+Day laborers speak about their right to work
+Music and local news

The Unifed Taxi Workers Alliance invites you to stand with drivers to demand that the PPA stop criminalizing workers. Stand up for work with dignity. Come to a prayer vigil for the families who have been targeted and whose rights have been violated in the recent raids on Philadelphia Taxi Drivers. An attack against one of us is an attack against all people struggling to survive in this city.
Prayer Vigil
For Our Brothers & Sisters Victimized in PPA Immigration Raids
Wednesday, July 7th
12-2pm
PPA Headquarters, 3101 Market St.

Este segmento discute los impactos de la legislación de Comunidades
seguras, la cual da muchos de los mismos poderes de ICE a la policia local.
Abel de Radio Tlacuache entrevistó miembros de la comunidad y un abogado
de los derechos inmigrantes para investigar los efectos de la política de
Comunidades seguras. El segmento fue producido por Radio Tlacuache.
 

On Sunday, March 21, 2010 Around 1,000 people from Philadelphia and surrounding areas packed into buses and headed towards Washington D.C to join up with the 200,000 already present there for a march for  Comprehensive Immigration Reform. You may not have heard about this incredible gathering of people in the media because it was overshadowed by the few dozen protestors gathered there also against the Healthcare Reform bill that was being passed. Regardless of that, the power of the people was definitely seen and heard in Washington and throughout the country.
 

(Thanks to the School Notebook and Gustavo Martinez for the great story...)
 
Student activist María Marroquín is deeply involved in the fight for getting the DREAM Act approved. This is a vital issue for her, an undocumented student majoring in Political Science.

Immigrant students are getting now a hand from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to help them navigate the system and learn their options if they’re wishing to obtain postsecondary degree.Just last week NCLR launched their guide “Keeping the Dream Alive”, making reference to the “Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.”

I live in Philadelphia, the birthplace of our nation.  Hours away is the Coal Region, a symbolic place for the unionization of miners, many of whom were immigrants, and exploited under the scope of our Constitution decades ago.  Today, in Philadelphia, taxi drivers are being exploited like the coal miners, and are in a symbolic struggle to unionize and stop the injustices.

 
Harrisburg, PA – Over 80 concerned community members, faith leaders, union representatives, and social service providers gathered at the State Capitol Building today to counter the heated rhetoric that enters much of the current debate about immigration in Pennsylvania.

Originally posted on the website of The National Daylaborers Organizing Network, the article below reports on the people's response to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power and lack of dignity for others -- more broadly, the 5,000 person march represented a denouncement of immigration policy that criminalizes workers and families.