The new “papers please” Arizona anti-immigrant law SB 1070, which requires certain members of the immigrant community to be prepared to prove their citizenship status at every turn, has obvious racist implications. Additionally, it is particularly harmful to immigrant women who face domestic abuse. Federal immigration law allows victims of serious crimes in the United [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Senator McCain said stated, "I don't know if Goldman has done anything illegal,” but “there's no doubt their behavior was unethical, and the American people will render a judgment.” The American people have made a judgment: Main Street does not trust Wall Street and Goldman Sachs will have to negotiate a settlement. What we really want though is for Congress to break them up.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Originally posted at Alternet SB 1070, which makes being undocumented a crime, shows us that we are becoming a country that asks for “your papers, please” much like in Nazi Germany where “Papiere, Bitte” meant the same in German. At CODEPINK, we know that it is not enough to just elect women to office. Despite [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
By the time you find the threat, we’ve already taken it out of the picture. Northrop Grumman—the weapons profiteer with revenues of $34 billion–was all set to get a $25 million subsidy from the DC City Council to move their headquarters to DC. The legislation was originally sponsored by seven of the City Council’s 13 [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Just yesterday, an Iranian cleric was saying that promiscuous Iranian women cause earthquakes. He may have misstated the particular natural disaster. An asylum seeker in Britain, Bita Ghaedi, conducted a hunger strike for more than a month because she was terrified of being tortured and killed if she is forced to return to Iran. Yet, [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
by Stephanie Westbrook Originally posted at After Downing Street As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s [...]
Friday, April 30, 2010
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