Culture

Cross Post:Alexandra Wallace’s Anti-Asian Rant Draws…Misogyny and Death Threats

Written by Imagine 2050 Editors

By Jorge Rivas, from the Colorlines Blog:

Alexandra Wallace’s now famous rant against Asian students at UCLA has been seen more than five million times.* Countless more people have seen or read about the video in the New York Times, Gawker, the UK’s Daily Mail and elsewhere. And in all these places, the video prompted outraged commentary from readers and viewers who told Wallace about her racism—and, in the process, slung mounds of misogyny her way, too. (Not to mention posting her address and, reportedly, sending her death threats.)

Even on Colorlines.com and Jezebel.com, which targets a largely progressive female readership, many of the comments posted in response to Wallace were loaded

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Immigration

Arizona’s Youth Stage Sit-in Against Hateful Legislation

Written by Chris Griffin

Children from across the state of Arizona gathered at the State Capitol on Wednesday, March 16 to protest anti-immigrant legislation that organizers called “hateful and harmful to Arizona’s youth.”  The youth, ranging in ages from kindergarten to college, led a short march to the Arizona Capitol where they then sat on the Capitol Lawn directly in front of the Senate Building – the location where anti-immigrant extremist and Senate President, Russell Pearce is housed.

Many of the Youth were dressed in costumes of what they want to be when they grow up in order to show the threat anti-immigrant bills pose to Arizona’s future.  While marching, youth, parents and allies carried… Read more

New FAIR Press Release

Written by Imagine 2050 Editors

The anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform issued a new press release criticizing Utah’s new immigration laws. FAIR argue that the Federal Government needs to block Utah’s new laws. Only 6 months ago however, FAIR criticized the Federal Government for attempting to block Arizona’s new immigration laws.

Immigration

Panel Symposium: Population Growth and Immigration: Myths, Facts, and Everything in Between

Written by Imagine 2050 Editors

On Tuesday, March 1, the Program on Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University, (NAU),  and the Center for New Community co-sponsored a panel discussion titled, “Population Growth and Immigration: Myths, Facts, and Everything in Between.”  Panelists included Kooros Mahmoudi from the Department of Sociology at NAU, Klee Benally from Indigenous Action Media and Save the Peaks Coalition, Nia Robinson from Sister Song based in Atlanta, Georgia and Rebecca Poswolsky from the Center for New Community based in Chicago.   The panel was moderated by Luis Fernandez, the Interim Director Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities at NAU.

Over 60 people attended this panel discussion to address important environmental issues, including the link… Read more

Immigration

Is the anti-immigrant movement ramping up its Islamophobia in 2011?

Written by Dylan May

White nationalist John Tanton and friends appear to be gearing up for a strong, anti-Muslim initiative in 2011.

Beginning last year, The Social Contract Press, the publishing arm of the Tanton Network, dedicated an entire issue of its quarterly publication (still published by Tanton himself) to “The Menace of Islam.”  The Fall 2010 issue employs stereotyping, misconstrued facts, and attacks on Muslims to push for a moratorium on all Muslim immigration to the U.S.

The Social Contract Press (TSCP) received heavy criticism for its Fall issue; so much that it posted a reply to critics in an attempt to justify targeting Muslims for exclusion and deportation.

Politics

More Tanton Network Members Published in Journal Founded by Anti-Semite

Written by Stephen Piggott

Earlier this month, we broke the news of Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) citing a report by one of its own writers, Philip Cafaro, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies. The Journal is edited by anti-Semite Roger Pearson. Pearson once stated, “If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized, or in any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of exterminating an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide…”

On his Journal’s website, Pearson lists the authors he has published over the past 10 years. It comes as no surprise that Philip Cafaro was not the only person connected to CIS or the Federation for American Immigration Reform… Read more

Immigration

“Leaders” who promote false notion of competition between African Americans and immigrants still connected to anti-immigrant groups

Written by Charlotte Williams

In 2006, the John Tanton Network of anti-immigrant groups, which include FAIR, Center for Immigration Studies, and NumbersUSA, launched Choose Black America to serve as an African-American front group for the anti-immigrant movement. One of the “leaders” it chose to serve as a spokesperson was Ted Hayes. Jim Gilchrist, head of the anti-immigrant group the Minuteman Project once called Hayes the “icon of the African-American segment” of the border vigilante movement.

Similarly, when the Network’s seed group, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), wanted to appear pro-Latino a few years back, it recruited virulent minuteman leader and Mexican-American Rosanna Pulido to head up its You Don’t… Read more

Politics

Food workers struggle for justice with tomato pickers in Immokalee

Written by Carlos Rich

Earlier this month, I along with a few workers from the Midwest joined hundreds of protesters and Immokalee workers in Tampa, Florida.  This effort to bring more attention to the plight of food workers started in the northeast and made stops in New York and Atlanta.  The effort targeted large grocery retailers such as Publix and Trader Joe’s, and asked that they “Do the right thing” when it comes to ensuring that workers receive fair wages.

The Immokalee workers for example pick tomatoes for wages that are too low. Florida’s tomato harvesters are still paid by the piece. The average piece rate today is 50 cents for every 32-lb of tomatoes they pick, a… Read more

Immigration

African American and Black leaders voice strong support for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II

Written by Charlotte Williams

This week, members of the Which Way Forward Network (WWF) sent a letter to Representative Emanuel Cleaver II, D-MO, commending his swift response to efforts by anti-immigrant leaders to pit African Americans against immigrants during a March 1 congressional immigration hearing.

The Which Way Forward Network is comprised of African Americans and Black leaders who are diverse in both thought and opinion regarding the issue of immigration reform in this country and believe in dialogues that enable African Americans to identify their self-interests in the immigration debate.  Network leaders are also concerned about some African American leaders who choose to associate with anti-immigrant organizations that have ties to white nationalist organizations, publications and leaders.

Immigration

Reproductive Agents: The Right-Wing Vilification of Immigrant Women’s Fertility

Written by Rebecca Poswolsky

The Population and Development Program at Hampshire University released its spring 2011 DifferenTakes journal.  The journal focuses on the anti-immigrant movement and the greening of hate, and includes a piece written by Hampshire College student and Imagine 2050 writer Susana Sanchez, titled, “Reproductive Agents: The Right-Wing Vilification of Immigrant Women’s Fertility.”

Sanchez’s article looks at right-wing attacks on women’s rights, the Fourteenth Amendment and birthright citizenship. Here is an excerpt:

The effect of a law removing the pathway to citizenship from the children of a group of people living and working in the U.S. would be a reproductive control policy that es­sentially threatens immigrants—who are largely people of color—not to reproduce.