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Greg Moses : Saad Nabeel, the Sophomore Who Isn’t
Saad Nabeel: An education interrupted.The sophomore who isn’t:How Saad Nabeel’s freshman year got ICE’d By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2010 See Saad Nabeel video, Below. [See Greg Moses’ earlier articles about Saad Nabeel on The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, Campuses, Greg Moses, Immigration, Saad Nabeel
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David Bacon : Life in an Immigrant Labor Camp
Immigrant workers at labor camp in northern California. Photos by David Bacon / The Rag Blog. Journalist and long-time labor organizer David Bacon will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin, Tuesday, September 7, … Continue reading
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Tagged California, David Bacon, Farmworkers, Immigration, Labor, Mexico
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Michael Meeropol : Islamophobia and the ‘Two Americas’
‘Islam in Two Americas’: Times piece reflects pernicious xenophobia The implication… is that when Americans display anti-Muslim bigotry — as in the past they had been anti-semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-immigrant — it makes for a quick and more complete assimilation… … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Ground Zero, Immigration, Islam, Islamophobia, Michael Meeropol, New York Times, Religion, Religious Freedom, Xenophobia
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Greg Moses : A Conversation With Saad Nabeel
Image from Dallas Morning News / Facebook.A Conversation with Saad Nabeel: ‘While Everyone Goes to College, I Go to Jail’ or How Saad Nabeel became an All-American Kid, majored in Electrical Engineering, was Thrown into Jail by the USA, deported … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, Dallas, Greg Moses, Immigration, Saad Nabeel
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Ted McLaughlin : Debunking the Immigrant Myths
Sign on fence of ranch on US/Mexico border near Campo, California. Photo by Fred Greaves / Reuters.Fear fuels $600 million border bill:Debunking the myths about immigrants By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2010 On Thursday, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fear Tactics, Immigration, Mexican Border, Racism, Right Wing, Ted McLaughlin
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Greg Moses : Deporting Texas Student Was Big Mistake
Saad Nabeel. Photo by Shehab Uddin / Der Spiegel.What the Times forgot to mention:Story of deported Texas studentAwaits President in Dallas By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / August 9, 2010 While the New York Times Monday morning proclaims … Continue reading
Jordan Flaherty : A Movement Rises in Arizona
Protest agains Arizona’s new immigration law April 25, 2010, in Phoenix. Photo from Getty Images.Widespread struggle offers human rights vision:A movement rises in Arizona By Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2010 PHOENIX — Three months ago, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration, Jordan Flaherty, Social Activism
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Steinbeck Comes to Arizona : Rereading ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Reading “The Grapes of Wrath” in 2010:Immigration, capitalism, andArizona’s historic moment By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / June 14, 2010 [The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, published 1939 during the last Great Depression.] Arizona SB1070, signed into … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Knight, Arizona, Books, Capitalism, Great Depression, Immigration, John Steinbeck, Literature, Mexican Border, Mexico, Poverty
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Arizona’s Crackers : ‘Illegal is Not a Race’
Image from Reform America.Arizona’s Crackers:Jim Crow is alive and well Maintaining a whip hand, southern politicians once calculated, was the best way to defend white power. The same calculation drives contemporary Arizona politics. By Char Miller / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Char Miller, Education, Immigration, Latinos, Racial Profiling, Racism, White Supremacists
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‘We Are All Immigrants’ : 10,000 at Austin May Day March
An estimated 10,000 May Day protesters gathered at the Texas State Capitol for a rally and then marched through downtown Austin in support of immigrants’ rights. Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog. Profile this: Arizona awakens a sleeping … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration, May Day, Social Protest, Thorne Dreyer
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Casey Hayden in Arizona : Boycott ‘Fortress America’
Alfonso Vasquez of Phoenix lights candles during a prayer vigil at the Arizona State Capitol on April 24, protesting Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. Photo by Matt Pavelek / The Arizona Republic / AP.Boycott Arizona:Church leaders call SB 1070 ‘racist … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Casey Hayden, Immigration, Racial Profiling, Racism, SB 1070
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Racial Profiling : What’s Up With the Mormons?
Image from Early Onset of Night.Mormons for racial profiling?Unsustainable contradictions in immigration law By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / April 27, 2010 What’s up with the Mormons? Orem, Utah legislator Stephen Eric Sandstrom last week pledged to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Greg Moses, Immigration, Latinos, Mormon Church, Politics, Racial Profiling, Religion
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