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What was that all about?

September 17, 2009 By farnkoff Leave a Comment

I've been thinking a bit about the recent terror raid in New York City. Obviously it's difficult to form a good opinion or talk too much about this episode because of the limited information we have, but I thought I'd try to post on it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: act, afghanistan, nyc, obama, patriot, queens, raid, rendition, suspects, terror, terrorism, torture

The Politics of the DREAM Act: Laying the Groundwork For Migration Reform

March 26, 2009 By kyledeb 2 Comments

Dreamactivist.org is also beginning to sound the war drums through their change.org blog.  Thousands have already been invited to call-in in support of the DREAM Act through facebook.  The DREAM Act will be the first major … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alternet, american-immigration-lawyers-association, cafta, change.org, charles-kuck, corn-based-ethanol-subsidies, dream-act, dreamactivist.org, education, free-trade, immigration, janet-napolitano, latin-america, latino, merida-initiative, mexican-american-legal-defense-fund, migrant-youth, military, nafta, nancy-pelosi, new-york-times, plan-colombia, rahm-emanuel, raid, richard-durbin, richard-lugar, roberto-lovato, saundra-amrhein, schip, st.-petersburg-times, stimulus, the-sanctuary, thomas-saenz, xp

Immigration raids as defacto economic stimulus payments?

February 12, 2009 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

For each illegal immigrant warehoused [ooops I mean jailed] the federal government pays $90.00 a day. See:  http://www.boston.com/news/loc... These payments added $33 million to the budget of Bristol County's Sheriff Hodgson: Bristol … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: back-door-payments, economic-stimulus, ice, immigration, raid

60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

December 10, 2008 By kyledeb 4 Comments

The U.S. has supported the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so let's just see how many of these articles have been violated in the U.S. treatment of migrants.  Article 1.      All human beings are born … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: human-rights, new-bedford, raid, tomasa-mendez, united-nations, universal-declaration-of-human-rights, witness.org

ICE Raids again – in Rhode Island Court Houses on July 15th

July 27, 2008 By AmberPaw 10 Comments

A clerk tipped off ICE that someone copied an ID card at the court house.  No criminal charges have been filed - only what ICE calls administrative charges for illegal entry. 12 of the at least 31 people taken by ICE were immediately … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: detainee, detention-center, ice, immigration, legal-services, raid, right-to-counsel

Update on the New Bedford “ICE” raid

May 17, 2007 By AmberPaw 3 Comments

Judge Stearns ruled adversely on a jurisdictional issue, and the status of the immigrants involved in that case is ?stay pending appeal?.  See http://www.gbls.org/...  As a result, the immigrants subject to that class have not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: federal-court, immigrant, immigration, raid, stay

ICE Immigration raids are bad for business, too

April 29, 2007 By AmberPaw 8 Comments

Lost in the discussion of immigration raids is the real cost to business from ICE's final solution raids.For example, Swift says it complied with the law 100% and ICE's raids cost Swift 30 million.  The more I hear, the more it seems … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: business, ice, immigration, new-bedford, raid

Another update on the New Bedford saga

April 23, 2007 By AmberPaw 4 Comments

In Animal Farm, the initial slogan "All Animals are Equal" was craftily modified into "All Animals Are Equal but Some Animals are More Equal."For the entire ACLU Press Release go to:  http://aclumedia.blo...And of course, there are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bianco, due-process, ice, immigration, new-bedford, raid

First-hand account of Bianco raid detainees

March 11, 2007 By AmberPaw 35 Comments

The corrections employees at the detention center where these folks are being held were courteous, helpful, and a pleasure to work with.The situation itself, the selective enforcement and draconian treatment of economic refugees is a waste … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: detainees, immigration, michael-bianco, raid

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“Natural gas has been portrayed as a bridge to the future.The data now show that it is only a tether to the past”say docs in New Eng Journal of Medicine. @MothersOutFront is working to move #beyondgas, for the sake of our children #cleanenergyhealthykids https://bit.ly/2YpRXAd

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nathanpbostonNathan Phillips@nathanpboston·
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"Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is for the compressor station to not go in. Please Santa, I hope I have been good enough. My Dad said I have been good enough, but I also want your opinion. ❤️ Please, Santa". https://twitter.com/concernedyogi/status/1202923626087010304

YogaGirl@concernedyogi

This is what I found on my 8 year old’s desk #Tosanta please don’t let the compressor station go in. I have been good.

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nathanpbostonNathan Phillips@nathanpboston·
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@Enbridge are the criminals. The blood is still fresh on their hands from the woman in Kentucky they killed on August 1, 2019.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/09/10/family-woman-killed-kentucky-gas-explosion-lincoln-county-sue-enbridge/2272668001/ https://twitter.com/bluemassgroup/status/1202674885023154176

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“Enbridge will support the prosecution of criminal activity, in the interest of safety and respect for those potentially impacted"

Safety. Respect. For their shareholders, not for the South Shore.

#mapoli https://twitter.com/MiriamWasser/status/1202663916536385536

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass Group@bluemassgroup·
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Capitalism Is the Gateway Drug #opioids #sackler #mapoli http://bluemassgroup.com/2019/12/capitalism-is-the-gateway-drug/

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RodgersKathrynKathryn@RodgersKathryn·
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New in @NEJMPerspec: The False Promise of Natural Gas. "Gas is associated with health and environmental hazards and reduced social welfare at every stage of its life cycle." Citizens advocating for #NoWeymouthCompress know this. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1913663?query=featured_home

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