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ICED OUT: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 15:36

The federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years, including a heavy reliance on workplace raids and the involvement of state and local police in immigration enforcement, has resulted in a trampling of labor rights of workers.


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Success!: Lori Phanachone Victory

Thu, 04/09/2009 - 22:09

Remember Lori Phanachone, the amazingly fierce high school senior in Iowa? We wrote about her fight against testing gone haywire, amidst the perfect storm between No Child Left Behind and the ridiculous English only law in Iowa.


A Flurry of Gay Marriage: VT and IA Legalize It and DC Recognizes It

Tue, 04/07/2009 - 18:39

This has been a historic week for us homos.

Toby Talbot/Associated Press

Toby Talbot/Associated Press

First, in Iowa Friday. The State Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional thus opening up the doors to same sex marriage in the state. Couples can begin getting their gay marriage on at the end of the month, April 24th. California had a part in this decision as the court frequently cited California's ruling in favor of homo marriage in 2008.


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Update: Lori Phanachone

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 11:13

It seems that a lot of you readers have been contacting the folks at Storm Lake School District, where Lori Phanachone, a high school senior is waging a noble fight against a lame test that I really think is discriminatory in effect to children of immigrants. I just received an email from the superintendent in Storm Lake, which reads:


Lori Phanachone: Fierce Asian American Sister!

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 16:26

Just caught wind of this over at Angry Asian Man...

Lori Phanachone, a 2nd generation Laotian American (she was born in Cali) senior at Storm Lake High School in Storm Lake, Iowa is waging a one-woman battle against demeaning tests that have emerged from No Child Left Behind and Iowa's dumb English-only law. This sister is FIERCE!!!!

Lori Phanachone - FIERCE Asian American Sister!

Just because Lori mentioned that she speaks a language other than English at home, she is being forced to take a very basic English-proficiency exam in order to participate in senior privileges. Sister is 7th in her graduating class, has a 3.9 GPA, on the track team, and is in the National Honor Society.  Wild guess, but I think she's got to be proficient in English by now, like so many of us 1.5 and 2nd generation kids. She is refusing to take the test, and has been suspended from school!


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Event: Progressive Revolution Book Tour in SF, 2/17

Mon, 02/09/2009 - 13:57

Please Join: Vida Benavides, Monica Walsh, Laura Efurd, Maria Echeveste, Yoko Nakagawa, Keith Kamisugi, Gene Benavides, Bouapha Toommaly, Trina Villanueva, Hector Preciado, Emi Gusukuma, Tessie Guillermo, Daphne Kwok in a Conversation with Mike Lux, author of "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in American Came To Be."


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