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November 2008

Tuesday November 25, 2008

Immigrant Families Gather with Allies to Unite Against the ICE Raids

SF Bay Area - POWER's Women Workers Project held an event called "In Honor of Our Children" (Homenaje a Nuestros Niños) on November 22, and it proved to be a huge success.  More than 150 women showed up to enjoy the event, bringing well over 100 children with them.  Children played, painted murals, got their faces painted Read More >

Friday November 21, 2008

Protest supports minority groups

Providence - Carrying signs that read “We are all human” and “No one is illegal,” about 40 community activists and students gathered in the cold yesterday evening to chant, cheer and draw attention to the plight of some of their friends.They also came with a demand: that racial profiling and immigrationRead More >

Wednesday November 19, 2008

Union de Vecinos Wins Just Cause Ordinance for City of Maywood

Los Angeles - On October 28, 2008 the City Council of Maywood in California voted to adopt a Just Cause Ordinance to provide protections for tenants. Union de Vecinos began organizing in 2007 around housing conditions in Maywood.Read More >

Tuesday November 18, 2008

Hardship Follows Evacuation of Chinatown Building

New York City - Firefighters helped evacuate tenants last week at 81 Bowery, and took a bedridden woman to the hospital for medical attention. Dozens of Chinatown residents were evacuated last Thursday from a single-room-occupancy building on the Bowery that has had a history of building-code violations, after the city deemed part ofRead More >

Friday November 14, 2008

At Neighborhood Drugstores, Your Rx Is Multilingual

New York City - CVS and Rite-Aid, two of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, will give prescription-drug information to New York customers in six languages and provide phone-based translation services to New York customers who need it, under an agreement announced on Thursday by the state attorney general, Andrew M.Read More >

Wednesday November 05, 2008

RAW Emotion Video

Miami - Last night when President-Elect Barack Obama's victory was announced, neighborhoods across the country took to the streets in impromptu celebration.Read More >

Wednesday November 05, 2008

Direct Action Gets the Vote

Miami - A man with sun browned skin and rough hands walks out of the polling place at de Hostos Community Center in Wynwood, smiling and a gathered crowd erupts into cheers.Read More >

Saturday November 01, 2008

Children of the Candy Corn

Los Angeles - Marina Del Rey doesn't normally see many Latinos on its streets after sundown, when gardeners, cooks and house cleaners finish their work and head home – sometimes to crummy apartments in central L.A.'s Pico Union neighborRead More >

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