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Reform vs. Enforcement- Game on!

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 15:07

From the Restore Fairness blog.


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Hunger strike at immigration detention center still going strong at two weeks

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 16:33

(From the Restore Fairness blog.) It’s not the first time a hunger strike has hit the Port Isabel Detention Center in Southern Texas.


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How many hunger strikes will it take?

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 14:59

From the Restore Fairness blog.

From a letter of testimony by Christina Fernandez, a wife of a detainee held at the Reeves County Detention facility:

Are they asking for a massacre?  Or do they think that we the wives, children, parents, siblings and family members of these men will sit back and wait until we receive body-bags, because they didn’t do their job as officers of the law and staff members of the Federal Bureau of Prisons?


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Support the Student of Color Collective at UC Santa Cruz

Fri, 06/05/2009 - 00:18
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UC Santa Cruz students are protesting what seems to be unfair cuts to the Community Studies aka Ethnic Studies programs.  They feel so strongly about the injustice in the cuts, some students started a hunger strike, which ended after almost a week.  They're sending a petition around for folks to sign. Here's an excerpt from the petition.


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