Amy, with a perspective from the ground in Mexico, in this week’s Phoenix: Miguel Pickard, who works for a social-research organization in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, says that the mainstream US media often overlooks how neo-liberal policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have contributed dramatically to the rise in Mexican …
Um, maybe not shit on poor people: PROVIDENCE — The emotional debate over illegal immigration moved from the governor’s office to the steps of a church this afternoon as religious leaders from around the state called on Governor Carcieri to rescind his executive order cracking down on illegal immigrants. More than 40 clergy members from …
The action is at 3:30 at the State House. Brown and RISD students are meeting at Faunce Arch at 3pm and walking over. JOIN PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR AN ACTION AGAINST CARCIERI’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXECUTIVE ORDER In his worst attack on immigrants yet, Governor Carcieri signed an executive order on Thursday March 27th, intended to increase …
Turns out two of the ‘top-50’ UFO photographs taken world-wide in the 1960s were snapped in Woonsocket: “1967-Woonsocket, Rhode Island. A daytime photograph of a disk-shaped object was taken in East Woonsocket UFO contactee Harold Trudel. The photograph shows a slightly asymmetric hubcap shaped object with a small dome and aerial extending from the bottom. …
[Update: There have been several comments on the RIFuture cross-posting of this. And I just added this subsequent post.] Here are some choice excerpts from the Projo.com shit show, in response to the Governor’s executive order. Feel free to chime in with something that’s not racist: “Juan Pichardo needs to SHUT UP and go back …
Matt has an important post on this subject. It’s really disturbing to see how much of the anti-immigrant push comes from legislators of Italian extraction — seeing as the first regime of laws put in place to broadly restrict immigration, in the 1920s, were put in place BY PEOPLE WHO HATED ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS. (They also …
When’s the last time you checked for your SS card before you hit up a Sleven’s? PROVIDENCE — All José Genao planned to do at the heating equipment supply store was buy a spare part for his boiler. While the owner began searching for the part, Genao and his friend began speaking to each other …
Next time you buy a pack of cigs, Skittles, or condoms, better pray to FDR Read More »
I got to field the final question of yesterday’s press conference in support of the Campaign for Fairness, Respect and Civil Rights. It was, “Does your gut tell you that all the people on the other side of this issue are racists?” And my answer was something along the lines of, “No movement is a …
RIFuture has coverage of the legislative package that we unveiled at the Assembly today: Rep. Grace Diaz, Sen. Juan Pichardo, Sen. Charles Levesque, Rep. David Segal, and Rep. Joe Almeida will join Immigrants United at a news conference to unveil the Campaign for Fairness, Respect and Civil Rights – a legislative platform that promotes racial …
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Holy shit! Facebook just went bilingual: Ahora hispanohablantes en todo el mundo pueden unirse a Facebook. Conéctate con todos tus amigos, en cualquier idioma. Puedes cambiar tu preferencia de idioma aqui. Usa el buscador de amigos para ver si mas de tus amigos se [h]an unido y invita a todos tus amigos hispanohablantes a que …
A number of people have been decrying his deportation. PROVIDENCE — Days after the arrest of an illegal Guatemalan immigrant and subsequent apparent suicide of a housemate at the same address, a Guatemalan diplomat, the head of the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and community activists yesterday blamed “the harsh policies …