| Nov 14, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe latest local and state elections results suggest that voters have second thoughts about the tea party’s political agenda. Consider the following: In Ohio, unions scored a victory. Voters elected tea-party-backed John Kasich as their Republican governor last...
| Apr 18, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s signature authorized SB 1070 a year ago, imposing a set of harsh immigration enforcement laws that purportedly sought to reduce the state’s undocumented immigrant population through officially sanctioned racial profiling. Rather...
| Feb 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThanks to a wave of anti-immigrant proposals in state legislatures across the nation, fear of deportation and family separation has forced many immigrant women to stay silent rather than report workplace abuse and exploitation to authorities. The courts have weakened...
| Jan 3, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe only time four-year-old Logan got to play hide-and-seek with his dad this year was through a Plexiglass window at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, nine hours from his hometown. A person might be detained in a for-profit center like Stewart for any...
| May 3, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a statewide law forcing local police officers to question and potentially detain anyone they “reasonably suspect” to be an undocumented immigrant. If you believe our local law enforcement agencies, which will be required to implement...
