National Immigrant Solidarity Network
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!
Los Angeles: (213)403-0131
New York: (212)330-8172
Washington DC: (202)595-8990
The National Immigrant
Solidarity Network (NISN) is a coalition of immigrant rights,
labor, human rights, religious, and student activist organizations
from across the country. We work with leading immigrant rights,
students and labor groups. In solidarity with their campaigns,
and organize community immigrant rights education campaigns.
From legislative letter-writing campaigns
to speaker bureaus and educational materials, we organize
critical immigrant-worker campaigns that are moving toward
justice for all immigrants!
Four Predator B drones (UAV) have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday....
By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Thanks to you all for trekking out to So. Pasadena for a very fruitful discussion and some practical ideas regarding the call for an immigrant C-R campaign with a focus on the Dream Act....
The United States has failed to uphold its international obligations to protect the human rights of migrants, subjecting too many to prolonged detention in substandard facilities while depriving them of an adequate appeals process and labor protections, a United Nations investigator said....
By Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Lipa
In a 32-page decision issued, a federal judge in Brownsville ruled that Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff violated federal law in his rush to build several hundred miles of border fencing in Southern Texas....
Prince William County, Virginia has become ‘ground zero’ in the war against immigrants. Prince William has implemented a draconian policy targeting the immigrant community. Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, a community-based, all volunteer organization, has been working tirelessly since last July to organize mass resistance....
40 Days and 40 Nights: March of the Faithful for a
Compassionate and Fair Immigration System May 1, 2008 – June 15, 2008 A 1,200 mile pilgrimage of faith for immigrant rights from St. Paul MN to Washington D.C.
[for more information, call Irineo at 612-232-6329]
Immigrant Rights Contingent to Protest Against Republican National Convention St. Paul, MN September 1- 4, 2008
For More Information, Call: (202)595-8990
11/11 Calexico, CA:
Border Patrol Attacks Demonstrators as No Borders Camp Closes
On the evening of November
11th, participants in the first No Borders Camp on the US-Mexico
border dismantled the camp and marched west on either side
of what has become a 15 foot wall dividing Mexicali (Mexico)
and Calexico (United States), converging on the port of
entry to protest the militarized border. The demonstration
was peaceful until the US Border Patrol, without giving
an order to disperse or other warning, brutally attacked
those on the US side with point-blank rounds of pepper-spray
pellets, batons, and swarm tactics, leaving several badly
injured. This event was the final action of the No Borders
Camp, and came after a week of peaceful confrontation and
resistance to the border system. >> Read
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Insane "Anti-Crime"/"Homegrown Terrorism" Bill Passed at House, Take Actions to STOP It at Senate!
[San Francisco Bay Independent Media Center] The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism.
With little media attention, this bill passed the house of representatives by roll call vote on October 23. 404 ayes (219 D, 185 R), 6 nays (3 D, 3 R), 22 no-shows. It was drafted by a democrat, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), and it now goes to the senate.
This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well.
TAKE ACTION AGAINST IT'S PASSAGE AT THE SENATE!Find your Senators:http://www.senate.gov/
4/27: 750+ Immigrants
Detained in "Operation Return To Sender" Raids
Over the past month U.S.
authorities have arrested and detained at least 750 immigrants
in raids across the country. The sweeps are part of a
program dubbed Operation Return To Sender run by the federal
agency ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In
California 359 immigrants were detained over a two-week
period in late March and early April. Many of the arrests
were made after officials from ICE raided private homes.
In Maryland, 65 workers
were detained in late March during a raid at the sportswear
company Under Armour outside of Baltimore >> Read
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3/31 Cucamonga,
CA: KKK/Minutemen Harrasing Migrant Workers Met by Larger
Counter Protesters
By about 7:45am, the KKK
, branch from Yucca Valley, appeared on the street corner
(about 5 to 7 of them) facing at least 100 workers, families
and friends of day laborers, with maybe an additional
hundred or so showing up througout the morning >>
Read
More
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Watch
Current and
Recent Immigrant Solidarity Network Campaigns
July 27-29,
2007 NISN National Grassroots Immigrant
Strategy Conference
University of Richmond, Richmond School of Law
Richmond, VA
3-Days
conference Ends With Sucessful Adoptions of National
Immigrant Solidarity Network 2007 - 2008 Strategic
Immigrant Campaign Framework!
Based on the feedback from our members and allies
we had formulated our 2007-2008 Strategic Immigrant
Campaign Strategy during our July 27-29 National
Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference in Richmond,
VA. This is a non-binding resolution, that will
only provide you a menu of suggested actions that
can guide and encourage your local organization
to discuss and choose which action(s) you would
like to focus on in order to organize with us:
Jan 29, 2007 Washigton
D.C. Congressional Lobby
and National Call-In Day for Immigrant Rights
Organized
by: National Immigrant Solidarity Network
On Monday, January 29, a group
of us, representatives from San Francisco La Raza Legal
Centro, National Organization of Women, veterans and I met
with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff on immigration and present
our open letter and exchanges ideas on the immigration issues.
In addition, thank you for everyone who had visited and
call your representatives at the Call-In day, at dozen states.
>> Read
the Congressional Lobby Day Report
Today was one of the
most important days in U.S. history: ten millions of immigrants,
activists and allies in over 200 cities from across the
country chose to skip work, school, and the normal daily
routine to participate in "A Day Without Immigrants."
We held a national boycott, general strikes, rallies and
symbolic actions in order to demand basic rights for all
immigrants, and to build a new multi-ethnic united civil
rights movement for the 21st century!
