BY Kosta Harlan | Greensboro, NC | 8/30/10
Fifty people marched through downtown Greensboro on Aug. 27, past the offices of the Internal Revenue Service, to protest the federal policy of ‘tax and deport.’
The protest aimed to pressure North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan to adopt a progressive line on immigrant rights and to raise awareness about the realities that undocumented immigrants face.
BY Staff | Los Angeles, CA | 8/27/10
The August 29th Chicano Moratorium Organizing Committee held a press conference here Aug. 25 to announce a protest march and rally set for Aug. 28 in East Los Angeles.
BY Foster Richards | Arizona | 8/19/10
Major League Baseball’s place in the history of the battle for equality and civil rights is an embarrassment. Black ballplayers were banned from the major leagues for over 75 years until 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
BY Molly Glasgow | Minneapolis, MN | 8/16/10
This was written by one of five people arrested at the Move the Game protest in Minneapolis on August 11, 2010.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 8/12/10
Chanting “Move the game, Move the game!”, 100 immigrants and supporters confronted a meeting of Major League Baseball (MLB) team owners and Commissioner Bud Selig at a ritzy Minneapolis hotel on August 11, 2010.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 8/06/10
The outpouring of online anger at Target turned to the streets on Aug. 5, as more than 50 people protested outside of Target’s store on Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue in the heart of Minneapolis’s Latino community.
BY Masao Suzuki | United States | 8/04/10
In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark that American-born Chinese were U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
BY Josh West | Salt Lake City, UT | 8/03/10
200 protesters filled the Utah State Capitol Building in solidarity with undocumented immigrants on July 29. Their chants rang through the capitol, expressing outrage at Arizona’s latest piece of racist legislation aimed at Mexican and Chicano people.
BY Fight Back! Editors | United States | 8/03/10
On July 28, Federal Judge Susan Bolton placed an injunction on most of Arizona’s SB1070 until a Federal Court of Appeals rules on whether the state law is legal under the U.S. Constitution. The Court of Appeals case is now set to begin in November.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 8/02/10
Over the summer of 2010, undocumented students organized a series of militant sit-ins and hunger strikes in support of the DREAM act, raising the level of struggle to legalize undocumented youth who attend college or serve in the military.
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