From AP, May 13: WASHINGTON – President Bush, trying to build momentum for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, is considering plans to shore up the Mexican border with National Guard troops paid for by the federal government, the… Read moreBush proposes thousands of Guard troops for Mexican border; raids and protests continue
What an historical irony that this is happening now, eh? Talk about the paradoxical unity of opposites. And hooray for Montana! Even out in the heartland, not all Americans are brainless reactionaries, it seems. From AP, May 3: HELENA, Montana… Read moreWorld War I protesters win (posthumous) pardon
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, May 2: A Day Without White People On May Day, the masses rose up in New York. But where were the white peaceniks? A bit of revolution hit the streets on May Day… Read moreNYC: May Day mobilization report
Another (very tentative) glimmer of hope in the battle for your privacy rights. From AP, April 25: WASHINGTON — An appeals court on Tuesday returned the criminal case against an Islamic scholar to a trial judge to determine whether the… Read more4th Circuit remands case to lower court over NSA snooping claims
From the AP, April 22: CALEDONIA, Ontario — As an uneasy calm settled amid the barricades, fresh tensions erupted Friday as protesters shut down a vital Ontario rail corridor in solidarity with those occupying a disputed tract of southwestern Ontario… Read moreOntario: Mohawk uprising spreads
An estimated two million people took part in coordinated demonstrations in more than 140 US cities on April 10, a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice demanding legalization and other rights for out-of-status immigrants. Organizers scheduled the protests for… Read moreImmigration protests sweep US
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 49 Mexicans and two Salvadorans on March 30 and 31 in Merced County in central California. ICE said all those arrested had prior deportation orders. In at least two cases, ICE seized… Read moreImmigration update: ICE pulls kids off school buses, Senate compromise falters
More than 500,000 people marched in Los Angeles on March 25 to demand legalization for out-of-status immigrants and protest anti-immigrant legislation being considered by the Senate. Police estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police commander Louis… Read moreImmigrant protests continue
From the technology news site CNET, March 29: Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. Now UAVs may be landing… Read moreDrones to patrol US skies
File this under words-mean-whatever-we-say-they-mean. NYU “had not put any pressure on [the Objectivist Club’s] free speech”, but “said the panel discussion could not be open to the public if the cartoons were shown on stage.” Huh? It’s amazing how absolutely… Read moreObjectivists vs. Islamists at NYU
On Dec. 30, a Border Patrol agent shot 20-year old Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez, a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, as he and his brother, Agustin Martinez Rodriguez, were fleeing back into Mexico. The brothers had sought to enter the US… Read moreUS-Mexico tension over border death
Kudos to G. Peter Jemison of New York state’s Seneca Nation, for keeping this bit of history from going down the Memory Hole. Maybe this legacy says more about the political tradition the US is now exporting to Iraq than… Read moreEthnic cleansing of upstate New York remembered
