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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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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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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New York Times: Thousands Rally Nationwide in Support of an Immigration Overhaul By Julia Preston Wall Street Journal: Demonstrators Rally for Passage of Immigration Overhaul By Miriam Jordan Associated Press: Weekend rally for immigration reform in more than 150 cities; bid to keep issue in spotlight NBC Latino: National...
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In contrast to commentators who believe that there is little time left in the calendar this year for the House to take on immigration reform, a House Republican leader this weekend not only said that there is enough time–but that passing immigration reform is a “priority” this year. From...
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