Pro-Reform Movement Pledges Oct 5-8 Actions Are Only the Beginning of More Hard-Hitting Activities to Come to Get Congress to Pass Immigration Reform This Year Today, Latinos, immigrants, faith leaders, union activists, and other allies marched to the U.S. Capitol where nearly two hundred attendees blocked traffic and were...
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America’s Voice Founder and Executive Director Frank Sharry was one of 200 individuals arrested today as part of an immigration-related civil disobedience at the U.S. Capitol. The arrests, which followed a major rally on the National Mall and march to the Capitol featuring tens of thousands of participants, included...
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Watch livestream of the civil disobedience: Video streaming by Ustream Non-Violent Direct Action to Occur at Base of the Capitol Update at 3:17 PM: We bumped this post to show livestream of civil disobedience. Today, October 8, tens of thousands of people from across the country will gather in...
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Today’s March for Immigration Reform on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol began at noon ET. Here are some of photos as the event began.
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Huffington Post (Blog): Missing Movements? By Peter Dreier La Opinión (Editorial): A historic moment MSNBC: WATCH: There’s hope for immigration yet, says Rep. Gutierrez By Jane Timm Chicago Sun Times: Luis Gutierrez: Shutdown or not, there’s time for immigration reform National Journal: Opportunity Costs of the Shutdown By Lucia...
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Seven months after the RNC released its post-2012 election autopsy report finding that the Republican Party had to do more to attract Latino and minority voters, the RNC has announced that it is hiring “Hispanic Engagement Staff” in seven states. In a press release yesterday, the RNC said they...
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Steve King has had a busy fall. He has been spearheading the effort to block any immigration reform bill from moving in the U.S House (despite little back up from his ever-shrinking anti-immigrant allies.) Now King and his band of fellow extremists, including Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann, have...
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Policy Victories in California and Powerful Rallies Across the Country Underscore Growing Strength of Immigration Movement With the federal government shut down and Washington characterized by dysfunction and policy stalemates, the immigration reform movement serves as a welcome contrast. Just this past weekend alone, the immigration movement achieved important...
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Following is a column by Maribel Hastings, Senior Advisor at America’s Voice, translated from Spanish to English. The article is available for reprint as long as the author is given proper credit. From coast to coast this past weekend, thousands of people turned out for 183 events in 40...
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This last Saturday, immigration reform advocates unleashed a major show of force in more than 180 locations in 40 states around the country, to remind Congress that the country still desperately needs immigration reform and that the time is now to pass it. With the government still shut down...
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