In Your State | Project Economic Refugee

7 Apr

National Latino Congreso Calls for Ban on New Nuclear Plants

National Latino Congreso Calls for Ban on New Nuclear Plants. Also votes approval of support for Clean Air Act, other environment and health...
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4 Apr

LGBTQ Film: A documentary on gay Latino youth

Support the very first feature length documentary on gay Latino culture in Los...
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24 Mar

50 Thousand People Ask Kansas State Rep. Peck to Resign Over Hateful Remarks on Immigrants

A Growing Wave to Reject Offensive Language Spreads Locally and Across the Nation to Hold Politicians AccountableÂ For Immediate Release Thursday March 24, 2011 Contact: Natali Fani-GonzÃ¡lez 202.787.1813. WHAT: Press conference with local and national civil and human rights advocates...
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19 Mar

Can you help me win this scholarship?

Requesting your vote to win a Democracy for America scholarship to attend Netroots Nation...
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16 Mar

Legislative Session: Early Hurricane Season

The Florida legislative session has just begun, and already twelve anti-immigrant bills have been filed, including copycat legislation based on Arizona's controversial racial profiling bill, SB 1070. Thus far all of them have been filed by the the Republican leadership...
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26 Feb

Todos Somos Wisconsin: Mexican Labor Reform

Explanation of why the labor fight in Wisconsin is a sympton of an international strategy to eradicate unions and the effects that it will have on transnational...
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24 Feb

From Wisconsin to Arizona: an Assault on American Freedom

Connecting the dots of what Arizona, Wisconsin, immigrants, and the Middle East protests have in common against corporate...
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16 Feb

Young Online Organizers Are Accelerating Freedom & Justice So Why Suppress It?

Conversation on how the role of online community organizers in Egypt is similar to what is going on here in the United States with Latino promigrant bloggers pushing stories that advocate for justice and social...
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21 Jan

Stop the Hate Rhetoric; Stop the Violence

Freedom of speech empowers us all.Â But let us not forget that with power, comes great responsibility and we can use that power of speech to either heal each other or we can use itÂ to destroy ourselves.Â It’s our choice.Â ...
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18 Jan

Incendiary Political Rhetoric: Free Speech Empowers; But With Power Comes Great Responsibility

As you may have heardÂ by now, the right-wing radio and Fox [Republican] News hosts have been pushing back againstÂ theÂ rising criticism of theÂ violence in our political rhetoric in the wakeÂ of the Arizona shooting.Â In light of this,Â it’s been encouraging to see...
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