Immigration

English-only Policies Threaten Civil Rights

Written by Cloee Cooper

Tomorrow marks the 42nd anniversary of the Chicano Student walkout from LA high schools in 1968.

Bold Chicano students organized high school students across east LA to demand the right to speak their language without institutionally sanctioned abuse in their high schools. Students were forbidden from speaking Spanish in class or from using the restrooms during lunchtime.

While nearly 70% of the high school students in east LA originated from a Spanish speaking country, the teachers were mandated to physically abuse and humiliate students in front of the rest of the class who spoke Spanish. The common drill: a young person slipped and responded to a question in Spanish. The teacher calls the student… Read more

Politics

White Nationalists Write for Mainstream Financial Publications

Written by Stephen Piggott

Ok, I’ll admit it; I have a subscription to Financial Times. I read the newspaper six times a week because it tells me what’s going on in the world without getting into too much detail and dragging it out. It also tells the news from a financial perspective, something that has always fascinated me.

Since the age of the internet, news about stocks and bonds has rapidly moved off the paper and onto the computer screen. One website that has taken full advantage of that is Marketwatch.com Marketwatch is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a billionaire conglomerate-owner who also runs the Wall Street Journal and Barrons.com. World famous websites like Barrons.com and The Wall Street… Read more

Immigration

Anti-immigrant Movement Attacks American Property Owners

Written by Jill Garvey

The anti-immigrant movement wants private property owners to enforce immigration laws, and be punished when they don’t. It’s shocking the lengths some groups have gone to in order to pressure, intimidate or force ordinary citizens into complying with their anti-immigrant activities.

Leading this effort is Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), the legal arm of the John Tanton Network. IRLI’s primary purpose is to push legal causes that unfairly target immigrant communities. IRLI works with extremist anti-immigrant groups and leaders to push anti-immigrant ordinances at the municipal level. In 1985, John Tanton launched IRLI, but made sure he kept it firmly under the control of Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has tried to… Read more