Category Immigrant rights

The sleeping giant awakens

NY Times: “It’s an entirely predictable example of the law of unintended consequences,” said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who helped organize the Chicago rally and who said he was shocked by…

Thoughts on the March

It was historic. And just the opening move. From the ANSWER Coalition listserv, about yesterday’s huge Immigrant Rights march in L.A. At the rally, Juan José Gutiérrez, Director of Latino Movement USA [and member of the A.N.S.W.E.R. LA Steering Committee],…

Hey liberal bloggers

Stop ignoring your base! Over the past nine days there have been two major demonstrations yet the liberal blogosphere was mostly oblivious to them. They virtually ignored the March 18 antiwar demonstrations and never even saw the March 25 Immigrant…