Orcinus details how the Minutemen are turning on each other, splitting into warring factions, and, big surprise here, it’s all about where did the money go.
Posts under ‘Immigrant rights’
Kindergarten kids confront Minutemen
The Minutemen were harassing migrants at the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana CA. Across the street at an elementary school, kindergarten kids stood on the jungle gym, fists in the air, chanting “Mexico, Mexico” !
Watch the YouTube video.
Immigrant Rights march. L.A.
Yesterday’s march got a surprising amount of quite favorable media coverage.
Photo by Travis Wilkerson.
Minutemen attack themselves
A California judge has ruled neither founder Jim Gilchrist nor three directors of the racist anti-immigrant Minutemen can have control of the group, citing “serious issues concerning the credibility of the claims of both Jim Gilchrist and the defendants…” Thus, the group is now immobilized, pending a full trial. The issue, not surprisingly, is “sloppy [...]
Podcast: Karina Garcia. Immigrant Rights Forum
ANSWER Coalition organizer Karina Garcia helped lead a large protest against Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen at Columbia University on Oct 4, 2006. Days after, he stormed off the air on Democracy Now when she debated him. She speaks about that, and of how the virulent racism and hatred of Minutemen needs to be confronted [...]
Protest Minutemen in Hollywood this Sat.
The Minutemen will be marching in Hollywood Saturday in support of two U.S. border patrol agents and one deputy sheriff who were convicted of shooting unarmed immigrants (one was shot in the back.). While most would consider shooting someone in the back to be cowardly and vile, the Minutemen apparently think it’s just fine, so [...]
Immigrants sue vigilantes, win.
In one case, immigrants were awarded a 70 acre Arizona ranch, in another, $98,750 in damages.
May the trend continue.
Borat write thesis. It niiiice
With apologies to the blog owner, here’s an alternative take on this Borat business from the Christian Science Monitor:
Sacha Baron Cohen’s crude Kazakh journalist may have originated in a dissertation on the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in 1960s America.
US Immigrants May Be Held Indefinitely
This can’t be true, can it?
Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.
In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit [...]
Podcast: Karina Garcia: Fighting Minutemen and other right-wing attacks
Karina Garcia is Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University and was a primary organizer of the anti-Minutemen protest that took the stage when Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen attempted to speak there in October. A few days later on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, Gilchrist refused to debate her and hurriedly left the studio [...]
Podcast: Juan Jose Gutierrez, Immigrant Rights
Juan Jose Gutierrez is founder of Latino Movement USA and a primary organizer of major immigrant rights marches, including the historic march of two million in L.A. on March 25. He talks about the struggle for amnesty and where the immigrant rights movement is headed now.
mp3 ( 11:36, 4.0 mb)
Recorded at a Party for Socialism [...]
Scratch a bully, find a coward
From the ANSWER Coalition listserv
Mr. Minuteman, Jim Gilchrist, flees debate with student protester on Democracy Now!
This morning, thousands listened in astonishment as Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, abruptly terminated a debate with Karina Garcia, student activist and Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. Last week on Wednesday, October 4, confronted with [...]
Mexico may refer US to UN over border fence
That Dubya, he’s gone and alienated yet another ally. But hey, it is election time. Neocons need the racist vote. What better way to do that than by promising to build a fence to keep The Hideous Hordes out?
If, in fact, it ever gets built. But then, that’s not the point – mobilizing racists to [...]
New anti-immigration tactic
Solicitation for murder
Prosecutors on Friday charged the deputy city clerk of Maywood [CA] with soliciting the murder of an outspoken councilman who has spearheaded the city’s efforts to improve treatment of illegal immigrants.
Podcast: LAPD brutality press conference
Opening statements by Jim Lafferty of the National Lawyers Guild.
The NLG and ANSWER LA will file multiple lawsuits and complaints against LAPD for their outrageous conduct during the anti-Minutemen protest on Saturday, including their unprovoked beating of demonstrators – even after they’d been clubbed and were lying on the sidewalk – and for not allowing [...]
