We have been keeping a close eye on the murder case of Raul Flores and his nine-year-old daughter, Brisenia. Jason Bush, Shawna Forde, and Albert Gaxiola broke into the Flores’ home on May 30th and shot them, point blank, in … Continued
Health
Paid Maternity Leave is Long Overdue for Women’s Health
Last week the House voted 258-154 to give federal employees four weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. Currently, federal employees who have worked at least one year are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid … Continued
Avoiding Digital Disasters
As of Friday, June 12, 2009 the business has bid adieu to what now is considered an obsolete method of transferring media; analog television broadcasts. This may mean close to nothing for those with cable or satellite, but for our … Continued
News
Anti-Immigrant (FAIR) Co-Chair Digs Fresh Pile of Bigotry
Donald Collins, Co-Chair of the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR) Board of Advisers, is the latest of their representatives who is attempting to rescue what little remains of the group’s facade of respectability. If sincere, he should, first, resign … Continued
International
“Green” Fuel Has Human Cost
Governments and big business displacing landowners around the globe is nothing new. So it comes as no surprise that since 2005 there has been a resurgence of land theft in Colombia to make way for biofuel, and not so coincidentally, … Continued
News
CVS Pharmacy Fails Communities
Health care access is an important issue in today’s America. Billions of dollars are poured into the industry every year – dollars spent to develop pharmaceutical wonders for every ache and pain. The question is who controls access to health … Continued
Politics
Euro-Elections July 2009: Mixed Fortunes But No Unity for Far-right
By Graeme Atkinson, European Editor Searchlight magazine For the extreme right, the European Parliament (EP) elections brought mixed fortunes with some winners, some notable losers, but overall, no surprises in the election, in which 375 million people were eligible to … Continued
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FAIR Tries to Flee Sinking Anti-Immigrant Ship
The racially motivated, premeditated murder of the Flores family by anti-immigrant activists in Arizona continues to stun many Americans. Meanwhile, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), one of the nation’s most influential and controversial anti-immigrant organizations, is preoccupied with … Continued
International
Fortress Europe, Fortress America
The 27 nations of the European Union spend over half of their “migration management” funds for border enforcement, giving rise to the “Fortress Europe” moniker that civil, human, labor, religious, and immigrant organizations use in daily, derisive language about the … Continued
Roy Beck (NumbersUSA) is a Big Fat Liar
“But ‘whatever our past may have been’ was the same as what we are now. NumbersUSA has never had connections with white supremacists — not in the past, not in the present, not in the future.” So goes the promises … Continued