On Oct. 25, immigration detainee Mamadou Bah escaped from Delaney Hall, a private detention facility in Newark, NJ, which was holding 120 immigration detainees under contract with the federal government. Essex County corrections director Scott Faunce would not comment on… Read moreNew Jersey: ICE detainee escapes, others moved
On Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 AM, eight military veterans and a military mother climbed a 9-foot retaining fence outside the National Archives Building in Washington DC, and occupied a 90-foot high scaffolding to raise two 450-square foot banners reading,… Read moreVeterans occupy National Archives to demand impeachment —again
As the grassroots right groundswell mobilized by Sarah Palin subsides in defeat, the New York Times reports Nov. 7 a sudden surge of gun sales across rural America—explicitly seen as a response to the election of Barack Obama—with NRA propaganda… Read moreRight wing prepares anti-Obama “underground”
On Nov. 4, Election Night, as spontaneous celebrations of Barack Obama‘s victory broke out all over New York City, Liberian immigrant Ali Kamara, 17, was brutally beaten by four white men armed with baseball bats who screamed “Obama” at him… Read moreObama victory sparks racist attack in Staten Island
Voters in two US states Tuesday Nov. 4 defeated immigration-related ballot measures. In Arizona, Proposition 202 would have revoked the business licenses of employers that knowingly hire undocmented immigrants and would have strengthened penalties for identity theft. But in Florida,… Read moreArizona defeats anti-immigrant measure, rights referendum fails in Florida
Hundreds of high school and college students from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area skipped class on Halloween morning, Oct. 31, to participate in a youth-led “Stop the Raids” protest against immigration enforcement in downtown San Francisco. Transit officials shut… Read moreSan Francisco: youth march against ICE raids
From Reuters, Oct. 27: Skinheads held over Obama death plot WASHINGTON – Two white supremacist skinheads were arrested in Tennessee over plans to go on a killing spree and eventually shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, court documents showed on… Read moreWhite supremacists busted in Obama assassination plot
On Sept. 24, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador through Sep. 9, 2010. The extension allows Salvadorans who have already been granted TPS to re-register and maintain… Read moreProtected status renewed for Central Americans, urged for Haitians
On Oct. 12, about 65 people marched more than three miles from the Mills Manufacturing plant in Woodfin, NC, to downtown Asheville to protest an Aug. 12 ICE raid at the parachute manufacturing plant and the impending deportation of the… Read moreImmigrant rights marches in North Carolina and beyond
On Oct. 7, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents executed a federal criminal search warrant at the House of Raeford’s Columbia Farms poultry processing plant in Greenville, SC, arresting 11 workers on criminal charges and 320 workers on… Read moreICE raids South Carolina poultry plant
A gas pipeline owned by EnCana near Tomslake in northern British Columbia was bombed for a second time in a week Oct. 16. Neither that explosion nor the earlier one on Oct. 11 significantly damaged the pipeline, which carries sour… Read moreCanada: British Columbia gas pipeline bombed again
Fifteen anti-war protesters were arrested on disorderly conduct charges outside the presidential debate at Long Island’s Hofstra University Oct. 15. A skirmish broke out between protesters and mounted police at the gates when police refused to allow anti-war Iraq veterans… Read moreAnti-war protesters arrested at presidential debate
