Our Mission: Standing in solidarity with immigrants, the Detention Watch Network (DWN) works to change the U.S. immigration detention system so that all who come to our shores receive fair and humane treatment.
LOS ANGELES: Immigrant rights activists marched through downtown Los Angeles in support of Elvira Arellano, a recently deported immigrant from Mexico who spent nearly a year huddled inside a Chicago church to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born son.
Clips from Los Angeles press conference 5/31/07
Video on the plight of detained immigrants at the Stewart County Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia: Children Confined: Immigrant Detention at Hutto in Texas by the ACLU
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"A Day To Remember" (December 12, 2006) coverage of the raid of Swift and Company meatpacking plants in Greeley, CO as it was happening:
See "Children of Men" (on DVD now) for a vision of what immigration detention could be like in the future. You can see a few glimpses in the trailer (click here)
The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is the only national coalition in the United States that addresses the immigration detention and enforcement crisis head-on and helps detainees and their loved ones make their voices heard. Formed in 1997 in response to the rapid growth of the immigration detention system in the United States, DWN is a network of individuals and organizations working in support of, and in service to, immigrants in detention.
For more information, see Detention Watch Network website
NOTE ABOUT POLITICAL CANDIDATE PROFILES AND CAMPAIGNS: Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to educate the public and policymakers about the US immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for humane reform. DWN does not take positions as an entity, but facilitates the advocacy of its members. We do not engage in any electoral work and cannot include any information from candidates in our comments, friends or blog components of this MySpace profile.
Who I'd like to meet: Individuals and organizations interested in advocating for the rights of immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees and their families that have been affected by detention and deportation in the United States.
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For those who hasn't signed yet and wish to give their support can do so by standing up against illegal whaling.
It seems like Japan is showing their true colours by buylling other countries,first The Netherlands and now Australia.They must realise that they are loosing the battle of our Oceans and for the whole world to see that they fear SeaShepherd.
It is time to stand TALL and united against their slaughter.
Feel Free to share this petition with your friends,family and others.. Again we need ~~~~BIG WAVES~~~~
Thank you have a GREAT day,
Greetings, Ester
Grant Paul Watson and Peter Hammarstedt visas into Australia to continue to fight against whaling
MLK marchers confront racist Lou Dobbs at CNN Cuerpo: I just returned from the freezing and dynamic March Against Racism held here in New York City to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr's birthday.
Despite being one of the coldest days so far this winter (27 degrees with a wind chill around 0), and despite being on a weekday holiday that many workers don't get off, more than 1,500 people marched. We stuck it out for almost 30 blocks from Madison Square Garden, new home of racist radio shock jock Don Imus, to CNN headquarters in Columbus Circle, home of immigrant-basher Lou Dobbs.
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The fact that so many people turned out in spite of the weather was thrilling. So was the composition of the crowd -- Black, Latino, Arab, Asian, Native and white, women and men, queer and straight, young and old. The chants included everything from "Free the Jena 6" to "End the Siege of Gaza." We also learned that the march by white supremacists in Jena, LA, brought out only a dozen Klansmen, while counter-demonstrators (including from New York) numbered over 300.
Best of all, though, was near the end -- as the march was filling up the block outside CNN headquarters. The arrogant, slicked-down Lou Dobbs and his posse of beefy bodyguards crossed the street as if they were going to try to take over the stage and give the racist yet another platform.
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Well, Lou Dobbs quickly learned otherwise. This wasn't a crowd that was going to let him turn its cause into a media stunt. While the crowd chanted him down, Million Worker March leader Brenda Stokely was on the mic, denouncing Dobbs, his Time Warner bosses and the corporate sponsors who keep his foul mouth on the air.
In his arrogance, Dobbs actually did a service to the demonstration, since the confrontation means there will probably far more coverage of it in the mainstream media.
To read more about the march and to get involved in upcoming activ
I invite you to read and comment on my recent blog, "Blind Sided." How come only 8 out of 100 Latinos/Chicanos who start school since kindergarten graduate from college, and 16 out of 100 Blacks?
Por favor ayudémonos a Pedro Zapata, un inmigrante. El trabajo por 11 años y guardo todo su dinero para mandárselo a su familia quien depende en el económicamente. Sin conocer la ley, el puso su dinero en efectivo en un maletín de mano y en el aeropuerto fue detenido. Todo su dinero fue confiscado. El gobierno de los Estado Unidos le dio la opción de que el tomara los $10,000 que se habían recaudado como donación más otros $10,000 de su propio dinero y se regresara para su país, pero él no acepto.
Su trabajo y esfuerzos ahorraron $59,000 dólares no hay por que no le permitan que se quede con su propio dinero.
Manda este mensaje a todos para que Pedro recupere su dinero en totalidad ($59,000).
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