immigrant rights
Chick-fil-A's history of workplace discrimination
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August 2, 2012
In the debate raging over Chick-fil-A's position on gay rights, some defenders of the Georgia-based fast-food chain have claimed that despite Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy...
In Alabama poultry workers victory, a vote to stick together
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June 28, 2012
By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes
A racially mixed workforce in an Alabama poultry plant defeated management's attempts to exploit their diversity, turning aside the...
Farmworkers push tobacco giant Reynolds to the table
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June 14, 2012
By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes
The perseverance of Farm Labor Organizing Committee activists in North Carolina paid off in early April when Reynolds American finally...
A trend toward anti-immigrant, anti-choice laws
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April 5, 2012
By Elena Shore, New America Media
2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence?...
South Carolina immigration law starts new era of racial profiling
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August 3, 2011
New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five...
Lost in New Orleans' Justice System
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November 29, 2006
Speaking of the problems plaguing New Orleans' justice system since Katrina, today's Times-Picayune has a story about a man who came to help rebuild the city -- and ended...
Has the immigrant backlash arrived?
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May 12, 2006
As we reported earlier, one of the most striking features of the "Day Without Immigrants" boycott earlier this month was the almost total capitulation of business...
May Day: immigrants show their power
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May 2, 2006
Those who count themselves as friends of immigrant rights, but who doubted the wisdom of today's May Day boycott, predicted two things: 1) that the boycott would be...
May Day immigrant protests roll through the South ...
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May 1, 2006
20,000 in Orlando, thousands more in rest of Florida ...
Poultry giant Perdue shuts down eight facilities in Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina...
May Day: The Great Boycott Debate
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May 1, 2006
Usually, May Day -- celebrated world-wide as International Workers Day -- is ignored by most Americans. But this year promises to be different, thanks entirely to the growing...
May 1: A general strike?
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April 14, 2006
Building on the galloping momentum of immigrant rights protests around the country, advocates have called for May 1 -- celebrated world-wide as International Worker's Day --...
More Southern immigration demonstrations
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April 10, 2006
Reports from immigrant rights protests around the South keep rolling in. These are the official estimates:
3,500 in Columbia, South Carolina ...
50,000 predicted in Atlanta...
