We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi. Continue »
We Belong Together, a delegation of women from 17 groups around the nation, was in Birmingham on Wednesday and today to look at the impact Alabama's immigration law has had on women and children. Continue »
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice officials this morning said that Alabama's immigration law has affected the lives of immigrants and the state's economy and that's why the state should repeal it and why Mississippi and other states should not try to enact similar laws. Continue »
Humberto Guzman drove big rigs in Alabama for two months. As an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, he feared being deported everyday. "The police would come after us a lot," Guzman said. "Where we parked was the problem because they always asked us for our papers." Continue »
This week, we as civil rights and labor leaders are headed to the Hyundai shareholders meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We aren't going because we hold investments in Hyundai; we're going because Hyundai has a lot invested in the state of Alabama, and vice versa, and those investments are... Continue »
Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56. Continue »
Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56. Continue »
For a few days now, we've been reporting on Wade Henderson's, Eliseo Medina's, and Dae Joong Yoon's adventures in South Korea. The three of them took a 14 hour flight to Seoul to attend a shareholder's meeting at Hyundai's headquarters, where they asked Hyundai's leadership to to take a... Continue »
Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow. Continue »
Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow. Continue »