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Welcome
The 'Building a Win-Win Immigration Platform & Creating Multiracial Alliances' conference seeks to develop a new approach to immigrants' rights advocacy by addressing the concerns of native-born communities of color and all of the disenfranchised. The blog on this page includes posts related to the conference and to the issue of immigration in general.
Celebrating 100 years of Fighting for Justice: An Evening with the Lawson Brothers
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration and the Equal Justice Society present “Celebrating 100 years of Fighting for Justice: An Evening with the Lawson Brothers” on Friday, July 18, from 7 p.m. at Nile Hall, Preservation Park, 668 13th Street, Oakland. This is the Friday evening before our Saturday conference. Continue Reading »
Latinos in Hawai’i Confront Racial Slur by Politician
In an op-ed published today in The Honolulu Advertiser, the largest daily newspaper in Hawai’i, EJS board member Eric Yamamoto, former EJS research director Susan Kiyomi Serrano and attorney Moses Haia share concerns about a racial slur offensive to Latinos used earlier this month by Rod Tam, a Honolulu city councilmember who is Asian American — and how the community reacted to the incident. Continue Reading »
One Reason Why We’re Doing This Conference
This text and video is re-posted from citizenorange.com:
The following video from We Can Stop the Hate, expresses in clearer terms than anything else I’ve seen, how leading organizations in the anti-migrant movement have very close ties to hate and white supremacy. Even Numbers USA, the organization that tries the hardest to separate race from their discussion of immigration, has ties to white supremacy. The executive director of Numbers USA, Roy Beck, for a time was the Washington editor of the Social Contract Press, and organization that is proud to publish the racist book, Camp of the Saints.
Feel free to comment on this post or the original post on citizenorange.com.
