The Debt Ceiling: Washington’s Summer Thriller Terrifies the Poor and Elders
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 30, 2011
As the phony debt-ceiling war lurches to Monday’s deadline, Washington’s real game is distracting the public from genuine threats to liberty.
Categories: Economy, Elders, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: congress, debtceiling, economy, elders, greatdepression, poverty, presidentobama
White Supremacist Attack: A Norwegian Muslim Responds
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 29, 2011
A prominent Norwegian Muslim of Pakistani origin discusses the aftermath of the recent white supremacist terrorist attack in Norway.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, European, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: anders behring breivik, bomb, islam, killer, murder, muslim, norway, norwegian, shabana rehman, shooting, supremacist, terrorist, terrorist attack, white, white supremacy
California’s Impoverished Elders Out of Health Care Options
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jul 29, 2011
Gov. Brown vetoed a bill to save California’s health centers from his budget axe. Advocates for seniors say promises to meet their needs are yet to materialize.
Categories: Elders, Health, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: adultdayhealthcenters, budgetcut, jerrybrown, latinoelders, seniors
"He Didn’t Deserve This" Q&A with the Mother of Kenneth Harding
San Francisco Bayview, Interview, Posted: Jul 28, 2011
Kenneth Harding was killed after an altercation with San Francisco police officers, his mother Denika Chatman talked with The San Francisco BayView.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: black, denika chatman, hunter's point, kennneth harding, police, san francisco, sfpd, shot
Advocates Balk as San Jose Police Consider Fed Surveillance Program
SJ Beez, News Report, Posted: Jul 27, 2011
Federal officials say their Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative is not like TV’s 24, but civil-rights advocates in San Jose, Calif., and elsewhere aren’t so sure.
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, Intersections, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, War & Conflict
Tags: asianlawcaucus, fbi, homelandsecurity, immigration, immigrationandcustomsenforcement, racialprofiling, religiousprofiling, sanjosecalifornia, SuspiciousActivityReporting
The Perils of Anti-immigration Politics: Lessons From Oslo
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 25, 2011
The slaughter in Oslo shows that immigrants – especially Muslims – are reviled as “The Others,” even as Europe needs them to mop its floors.
Categories: Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: AndersBehringBreivik, Immigration, IslaminEurope, Multiculturalism, NicholasSarkozy, Oslo, TedKaczynski, TimothyMcVeigh
Blood by the Bay -- Surreal Violence Shakes San Francisco
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 25, 2011
This week on YO!Radio -- from North Richmond to San Francisco blood stains the concrete.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Health, Intersections, Law & Justice, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: Bayview, gay, michael irvin, murder, Richmond, support
Islam-Baiting Failed in Campaign 2010 and Will Do Worse in 2012
New America Media/TomDispatch.com, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 24, 2011
Islam-bashing by political candidates failed to win votes in 2010 and could be even be less potent in 2012. A longer version of this article appeared in TomDispatch.com
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Religion
Tags: 2010, campaign, failed result, Islamaphobe, Muslim-bashing, political, Rick Scott, Ron Klein
SF Police Shooting: Racial Bias Can't Be Ignored
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 22, 2011
A coroner's report suggests that killed Kenneth Wade Harding shot himself because the bullet found at the site could not have been fired from a police's gun. Even so, one young woman is convinced that race played a major role in his death.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: Bayview, Hunters Point, Kenneth Wade Harding, murder, race, violence
Happily Ever After for Some, Exploitation at Gunpoint for Others
Talk.Onevietnam.org, News Report, Posted: Jul 22, 2011
Some people came to the I Do! I Do! Wedding Boutique in Flagstaff, Arizona to have their dream weddings realized as they embarked on a new married life. Others come to the boutique with equal aspirations of a new, better life as migrants to America, only to have their lives threatened at gunpoint under labor extortion.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice
Tags: arizona, human rights, immigration, slavery, wedding
Felony Charges Dropped Against Japanese American’s Sexual Assault of TSA Officer
AsianWeek, News Report, Posted: Jul 21, 2011
The sexual assault charges Yukari Miyame faced for grabbing and twisting the breast of a TSA officer in Arizona have been dropped, but she might still be left with a misdemeanor
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice
Tags: charges, felony, sexual assault, tsa
No Let Up by Hunger Strikers in Pelican Bay
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 20, 2011
Well into the third week of their hunger strike, inmates of the Peilican Bay prison and other California prisons are still waiting for the California Department of Health to heed their demands for more humane conditions.
Categories: African American, Asian, Health, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: CDC, hunger strike, inhumane conditions, Pelican Bay, weight loss
Treat Us Like Human Beings, say Pelican Bay Prisoners
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Jul 20, 2011
Since July 1, inmates of Pelican Bay State Prisonhave been on a hunger strike to demand an end of the inhumane conditions in their prison. New America Now host Shirin Sadeghi discusses the protest and what led to it with Manuel La Fontaine, a former California prisoner himself. The following is a transcription from the July 15th edition of the New America Now radio show.
Categories: Front Page, Law & Justice
Tags: california, california department of corrections, hunger strike, no sunlight, Pelican Bay, prisoners, security housing unit, solitary confinement, state prison, supermax, The SHU
RAW VIDEO: Shot by SFPD, 19-Year-Old's Life Slips Away
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 17, 2011
In the direct aftermath of a police involved shooting that ended the life of a 19-year-old San Francisco man, dozens of cell phone videos captured the scene.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: cell phone, dying, involved, police, san francisco, shooting, video
Sloppy Investigation of a Sloppy Investigation in Bailey Case
The Chauncey Bailey Project, News Report, Posted: Jul 17, 2011
Two inquiries into an Oakland police detective's questionable investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey's 2007 murder were fatally flawed.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: bey IV, chauncey bailey project, investigation, longmire, oakland, trila, your black muslim bakery
As CA Redistricting Takes New Twists and Turns, L.A.'s Blacks Are Outraged
New America Media/L.A. Wave & L.A. Sentinel, News Report, Posted: Jul 17, 2011
“Too many black people have lived and died for a voice and fair representation in the legislative bodies,” one black activist wrote in an op-ed excoriating California's redistricting process. “We will not sit by and allow this to happen."
Categories: African American, Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: 2010 Census, African-AmericanRedistrictingCollaborative, AstridGarcia, californiacitizensredistrictingcommission, KarenBass, losangeles, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, NALEO, redistricting
The End of Murdoch? Another Despot Teeters on the Brink
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 17, 2011
As demonstrations shake Arab capitals from North Africa to the heart of the Middle East, in an London, another enemy of freedom is having his comeuppance.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: AliAbdullahSaleh, arabspring, basharassad, Muammar Gadhafi, news of the world, rebekahbrooks, rupertmurdoch
RAW VIDEO: Aftermath of SFPD Shooting of 19-year-old
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 16, 2011
Sunday afternoon San Francisco Police officers shot and killed an allegedly armed 19-year-old.
Categories: African American, Health, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: 19-year-old, 3rd street, gun, oscar grant, SFPD, shooting, train, video
Fox News on Murdoch: Not Exactly the ACORN Treatment
Mario Wire, Commentary, Posted: Jul 16, 2011
Now that its owner, Rupert Murdoch, is caught up in scandal, Fox News uses language like "allegations" and warns against "jumping to conclusions." Too bad ACORN didn't get the same kind of journalistic respect.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: ACORN, FoxNews, GOP, Latinos, phonehackingscandal, rich, RupertMurdoch, wealthy
NAM Radio: Starving in Solitary— California Prison Hunger Strike
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 15, 2011
One-third of California's 33 prisons have inmates on hunger strike— they've been starving since July 1st to demand humane treatment.
Categories: Audio, Health, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: california, california department of corrections, death, hunger strike, peaceful, pelican bay, protest, security housing unity, shu, solitary, solitary confinement, state prison
Businesses Exploit Loophole in SF Health Care Law, Hurting Employees
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 15, 2011
In San Francisco, workers are suffering due to a loophole in a city ordinance that was originally intended to help them.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Health, Immigration, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: chineseprogressiveassociation, davidcampos, hcso, healthcare, hra, sanfrancisco
Flawed E-Verify Law Would Derail Immigration Reform Efforts, Say Experts
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 14, 2011
Experts fear that a proposed employee verification law will push immigrant workers deeper into the shadows of American society.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: centerforamericanprogress, e-verify, employeeverification, immigrationreform, lamarsmith
Q&A: Wisconsin ID Law Will Suppress Youth, Minority Vote
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 14, 2011
A new Wisconsin voter ID law, AB 7, may in fact be nothing more than an attempt to disenfranchise youth and minority voters.
Categories: Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: AB7, leagueofyoungvoterseducationfund, scottwalker, VoterIDlaw, votingrightsact, Wisconsin
URGENT: Hunger Strikers’ Health Rapidly Deteriorating
San Francisco BayView, Commentary, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
According to advocates hunger strikers’ health rapidly deteriorating prisoners are about to die in California prisons, possibly by the dozens or even more.
Categories: African American, Environment, Health, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: california, hunger strike, pelican bay, prison
This Summer, Farmworkers’ Kids Skip Classroom for Fields
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
U.S. schools lost 20,000 students this year to the fields -- many of them child workers who suffer injury or death. But child labor isn't exactly illegal in the U.S.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Education, Health, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: agriculture, california, child, child worker, children, citizen, death, department of education, farmworker, field, hispanic, hueneme high school, immigrant, kids, labor, labor rights, latino, migrant education program, minor, minors, oxnard, rights, salary, school, student, underage, undocumented
Counter Culture Author Roszak Dies As American Vision Fades
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
Author Theodore Roszak, who defined baby boomers from the Counter Culture to the Elder Culture, died last week, along with America’s vision.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Elders, Gender & Sexuality, Health, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Profiles, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: author, baby boomer, banditry, boomer, counter culture, elder, elder culture, elder insurgency, flicker, GDP, hollywood, medicaid, medicare, NLE, novelist, obama, poor, poverty, roszak, ted roszak, the making of a counter culture, the making of an elder culture, the memoirs of elizabeth frankenstein, visionary, wealth, wealthy
The DSK Sex Scandal: A Peephole into Hotel Life in Manhattan
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
In the city that never sleeps, bedrooms aren't just for beds. And maids, ever present, ever in the midst of it all, know this better than most.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, European, Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: #DSK, africa, african, bedroom, cleaner, dominique strauss-kahn, dsk, fifth avenue, ghana, grand central station, harvard club, hotel, hotel workers union, housekeeper, immigrant, immigrants, immigration, international immigrants foundation, local 6, maid, manhattan, midtown, nafissatou diallo, new york, new york yacht club, oral, oral sex, politician, power, prostitute, sex, sexual, sofitel, strauss-kahn, times square, west 44th street
Extreme Alabama Immigration Law Heads to Court
Equal Voice, News Report, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
Tough anti-immigrant laws have been recently passed in a half-dozen states – Arizona, Indiana, Georgia, Utah, South Carolina and Alabama – mainly out of frustration.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Law & Justice
Tags: aclu, alabama, arizona, georgia, Hb 56, HICA, immigration, Indiana, lawsuit, sb 1070
Violence Against Migrant Women Won’t End After DSK Case
Colorlines, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 12, 2011
The media circus surrounding the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case dishes out more drama each day, with a side of lurid fascination.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice
Tags: AIds, dsk, gender, HIV, rape, sex, violence, war, women
CA Attorney General Warns of “Gang-and-Drug Armageddon” After Cuts
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Jul 12, 2011
Harris claims that the recent cuts in the California state budget "will likely eliminate 55 state-led task forces that coordinate the response to our growing gang problem."
Categories: African American, Front Page, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: budget, california, gang, governor jerry brown, kamala harris, state, task force
California Admits 6,600 Prisoners Are on Hunger Strike
San Francisco Bayview, News Report, Posted: Jul 12, 2011
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports that 6,600 prisoners in at least 13 of the state’s prisons have joined a hunger strike.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: california, CDCR, hunger strike, pelican bay, prisons, supreme court, torture
Arrested in Mexico: Illegally Detained While Gangsters Go Free
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 12, 2011
Basic legal rights remain out of reach in Mexico where wealth, political connections, police and judicial incompetence, and corruption overrule any presumption of innocence.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Health, Immigration, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: arrest, calderon, charge, chihuahua, ciudad juarez, community, community legal defense network, conditions, defense, detention, drug, drugs, gang, gangs, gangsters, guadalupe melendez, israel arzate melendez, juarez, la red de defensoras comunitarias, law, lawyer, legal, low-income, mexico, poor, prison, salvarcar, trial, villa salvarcar, war, wealthy
News of the World: Murdoch’s UK Scandal Warns the US Media
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 12, 2011
Murdoch's News Corporation has worked its way seamlessly into the American news industry which is far from the impartial institution envisioned in the Constitution.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: fox, fox news, harpercollins, media, murdoch, news of the world, rupert murdoch, wall street journal, warn, warning
NAM Radio: Is Imran Khan Pakistan's Most Popular Politician?
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 11, 2011
Imran Khan is a sports hero, leading philanthropist, and international celebrity. As head of the Tehreek-e Insaf party, he's also one of Pakistan's most popular politicians.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Profiles, Religion, South Asian, Sports, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: barack obama, boycott, cricket, cricket world cup, hero, imran khan, interview, jemima, jemima goldsmith, jemima khan, movement for justice, osama bin laden, pakistan, parliament, philanthropy, political, politics, pti, shaukat khanum cancer hospital, tehreek-e insaf
Gaming Grows Up Through Supreme Trial by Fire
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 10, 2011
By beating the state of California in the Supreme Court recently, the video game industry went through a trial by fire.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: gaming, supremecourtvideogames, videogames, violentvideogames
The Lighter the Skin, the Shorter the Prison Term?
The Root, News Report, Posted: Jul 09, 2011
Colin Powell said it, Sen. Harry Reid hinted at it about President Barack Obama, and black folks have known it for hundreds of years. There are advantages to being a light-skinned black person in the United States.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: dark skin, light skin, prison, skin color
Mexico and the Myth of the “Failed State”
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jul 09, 2011
Far from being a “failed state,” Mexico is proving itself to be one of the most successful countries in the world
Categories: Economy, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
One Year After BP Oil Spill, Asian Fishermen Struggle to Recover
Pacific Citizen, News Report, Posted: Jul 09, 2011
Gulf Coast fishermen and community groups voice their frustrations one year after the Gulf Coast oil spill.
Categories: Asian, Economy, Environment, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: asian, bp, disasters, environmental, fisherman, gulf coast, industry, new orleans, oil spill, seafood
Should California Deny Farm Workers Their Basic Rights?
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jul 08, 2011
If Google employees had to work in 100-degree heat in California’s Central Valley, it would be all over the news. For farm workers, it’s another story.
Categories: Health, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: agriculture, california, deaths, farm, food, labor, rights, sb 104, workers
NAM Radio: True Stories of Detained Japanese Americans
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 07, 2011
The stories of the Japanese Americans interned in America during World War II -- in their own words.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Elders, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: brian komei dempster, detention, internment, japanese american, japaneseamericans, making home from war, pearl harbor, second world war, world war II
California Minority Groups Offer "Unity" Redistricting Map
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 07, 2011
The unity proposal came in reaction to the new redistricting commission’s first set of maps, which carved up many communities of color, diluting their political power in Los Angeles County, Coachella Valley, and San Jose.
Categories: African American, Asian, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: 2010Census, california, citizensredistrictingcommission, Latinos, MALDEF, redistricting, sacramento, TeaPArty, votingrightsact, wedrawthelines
More Latinos in U.S. Identifying as Indian
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Jul 06, 2011
A growing number of Latinos in the U.S. are identifying as Amerindians—a term used to identify indigenous people of the Americas.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Law & Justice
Casey Anthony is Not O.J. in White Female Face
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 06, 2011
A young, irresponsible, no-name white woman should never be compared to O.J. Simpson and the real trial of the century.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: caseyanthony, caseyanthonymurdertrial, oj, ojsimpson
Casey Anthony Imprisoned in Hollywood Fantasy
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 06, 2011
Casey Anthony’s not-guilty verdict for her daughter’s death lets her out of jail, but she remains imprisoned by the Hollywood fantasies that fed her tragedy.
Categories: Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Freedom From Fear Awards: Immigrant Rights a New Frontier for Black Activist
New America Media, Profile, Posted: Jul 04, 2011
Attorney Chokwe Lumumba fought for black’s rights for four decades. Now he’s won a Freedom From Fear Award for championing Latino immigrants in Mississippi.
Categories: African American, Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Profiles
Tags: africanamericans, civilrights, freedomfromfearawards, Immigrantrights, latinos
Strauss-Kahn, Casey Anthony & the Whitewashing of American Justice
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 03, 2011
The right thing to do would have been to remand Strauss-Kahn to the custody of the State of New York -- not everyone who is lily white is innocent.
Categories: African, African American, European, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: africa, african, assault, casey anthony, court, de tocqueville, diallo, dominique, dominique strauss-kahn, dsk, france, french, ghana, immigrant, immigration, islam, justice, law, maid, mother, muslim, nafissatou diallo, new york, oral, politician, poverty, power, rape, rights, scandal, sex, sexual, single, single mother, strauss-kahn, truth, wealth, whitewash, women, women's rights
Crossing the Border: Immigration & the Founding Fathers
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 03, 2011
The Founding Fathers knew all too well about immigrants crossing borders and the value of American independence.
Categories: African, African American, Arizona Watch, European, Front Page, Immigration, Indigenous, Intersections, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, War & Conflict
Tags: 4th of july, american, border, constitution, control, crossing, founding fathers, fourth of july, ideals, immigration, independence, independence day, july 4th, july fourth, slavery, undocumented
For Women, Strauss-Kahn Case Is One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 02, 2011
The rape case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is collapsing. But is this another case of a woman’s word being unfairly dismissed?
Categories: African, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Anita Hill, ClarenceThomas, DominqueStrauss-Kahn, France, NicolasSarkozy, rape, women'sgroups
“Loaded” With Illicit Cargo, Unknowing U.S.-Mexico Drivers Cross Into Nightmare
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 02, 2011
Despite high risk, a few each week try crossing the U.S.-Mexican border with illegal drugs. For some, unaware they are carrying contraband, life becomes a nightmare.
Categories: Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: drugtrafficking, juarez, mexico, usborder
Filipino Journalists on Pulitzer Winner’s Coming Out
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 01, 2011
The admission by Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino journalist Jose Antonio Vargas that he is undocumented is bringing mixed reactions from Filipino media.
Categories: Education, Front Page, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Youth Culture
Tags: dreamact, filipinoamerican, immigration, Joseantoniovargas, media
Rick Perry's Anti-Latino Agenda Goes Down to Defeat
Mario Wire, News Report, Posted: Jul 01, 2011
The Texas Senate adjourned this week without a final vote on the “Sanctuary Cities” legislation that was one of Gov. Rick Perry’s “emergency” items at the start of the year.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Economy, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: anti-immigration, GOP, RickPerry, sanctuarycities, SEIU, Texas
UN Blasts Pending Execution of Mexican National in U.S.
Hispanically Speaking News, News Report, Posted: Jul 01, 2011
The top UN human rights official has appealed to Texas governor Rick Perry to commute the death sentence of a Mexican national scheduled to be executed for murder next week,
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: HumbertoLealGarcia, NaviPillay, RickPerry, UNHighCommissionerforHumanRights
Journalist Vargas to Media: "Immigrant Struggle Is About Us, Not Them"
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 01, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas sparked controversy after coming out as undocumented in an article he wrote for the New York Times.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, Immigration, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Video
Tags: dreamact, filipinoamerican, immigration, Joseantoniovargas, newyorktimes, pulitzerprize, undocumented