Bearded Sikh Finally Allowed to Work in Calif. Prison
India-West, News Report, Posted: Oct 29, 2011
An Indian American Sikh, denied a job as a corrections officer in a California prison because of his beard, finally gets to work in the facility after a six-year battle.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Law & Justice, South Asian
Tags: beard, california prison, civil rights, largest settlement, oberoi
Mexican Bus Drivers Condemn Extortion by Plain-Clothed Police
El Mensajero, News Report, Posted: Oct 29, 2011
On the roads of northwest Mexico, you have to watch out for organized crime and, sometimes, even the police.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: AFI, busdrivers, mexicanbusdrivers, mexicanbuses, mexicanpolice, plainclothedpolice
‘Every Bloody Indian Cooperated’ to Nail Me: Rajaratnam
Firstpost.com, Commentary, Posted: Oct 28, 2011
Hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam believes his fall from grace stems from intercultural treachery, not personal failings.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: betrayed, Indians, Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta, South Asian
Middle Aged Members of Black Sorority Targeted By Dallas Rapist
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Oct 28, 2011
Texas officials are searching vigorously for the serial rapist that has been stalking and assaulting middle-aged African American women
Categories: African American, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Intersections, Law & Justice
Tags: black, dallas, delta sigma theta, middle aged, rapist, sorority, texas, women
NAM Radio: Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 28, 2011
The Co-Host of Democracy Now! tells NAM that race has been an integral part of American media since day one & ethnic journalists have, too.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Caribbean, Ethnic Media in the News, European, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: biography, democracy now, epic story of race and the american media, ethnic, ethnic media, free press, independent media, joe torres, journalism, juan gonzalez, media, news for all the people, race
Human Trafficking: How One Hmong Girl Escaped From China
Pacific Links, First Person, Posted: Oct 28, 2011
A 13-year old Hmong girl was sold into sexual slavery but managed to escape back to Vietnam, and tell her story.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice
Tags: abuse, border, china, chinese, hmong, human, poverty, sex, slave, trafficking, vietnam
Senate Apologizes to Chinese for Past Discrimination
Pacific Citizen, News Report, Posted: Oct 24, 2011
Senate Apologizes to Chinese for Past Discrimination.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: act, apologies, chinese, citizens, discrimination, exclusion, government, racism, senate, wwii
Why Los Angeles Police Can’t Ticket Students on Their Way to School
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Oct 24, 2011
After a four-year community-led campaign, Los Angeles is moving to replace a punitive anti-truancy policy targeting the city’s most vulnerable school kids with an approach that actually works.
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice
Tags: community, eduction, kids, la, los angeles, police, school, students, ticketing, truancy, vulnerable
ICE May Deport Hundreds of Former Students of Sham College
India West, News Report, Posted: Oct 22, 2011
U.S. authorities might deport hundreds of a California college’s former students, because their college was found guilt of visa fraud.
Categories: Immigration, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: deportation, immigration, trivalleyunversity, uscis, visas
Will There Be Justice in a ‘Sundown Town’?
Indian Country, News Report, Posted: Oct 22, 2011
Four months after Patty Dawson was chased and beaten by three suspects believed to be associated with white supremacists, she faced her alleged attacker.
Categories: Indigenous, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: clovis, hatecrime, indiancountry, indigenous, nativeamerican, race, racism
New Documents Detail Sex Abuse of Detained Immigrants
Investigative Reporting Workshop, News Report, Posted: Oct 20, 2011
Undocumented immigrants held in U.S. immigration detention facilities filed more than 170 allegations of sexual abuse over the last four years.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: abuse, detentioncenter, frontline, immigration, pbs, sexualabuse, willacy
SFPD to Launch Human Trafficking Unit
SF Public Press, News Report, Posted: Oct 19, 2011
The need to focus investigations on cases of suspected human trafficking led to the reorganization of the SFPD’s Special Victims Unit this week.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice
Tags: humantrafficking, lawenforcement, massageparlor, police, sanfrancisco, sextrade, sfpd
Santa Clara County Ends Collaboration with ICE
New America Media, Video, Posted: Oct 18, 2011
Santa Clara County today voted in a new set of guidelines that in effect ends the county’s collaboration with Immigration and Custom Enforcement.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: ice, immigration, sanjose, santaclara, scomm
Split Decision on Alabama's Immigration Law
Migration Policy Institute, News Report, Posted: Oct 18, 2011
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a split decision on Alabama's new immigration law, enjoining some parts of HB 56 while allowing other provisions to be implemented.
Categories: Alabama News Network, Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice
Tags: alabamaimmigration, alabamaimmigrationlaw, hb56, immigrationlaws, sb1070, stateimmigrationlaws
Irvine 11 Conviction Sets a Dangerous Precedent, Attorney Says
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Oct 14, 2011
11 Southern Calif. college students who protested the Israeli Ambassador's speech at UC Irvine in 2010, were recently sentenced to three years probation.
Categories: Front Page, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern
Tags: Arab Americans, freespeech, gazawar, irvine, islamaphobia, israeliambassador, palestine
HB 56 Reigniting Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Oct 14, 2011
As fear and doubt about the future swells within Alabama’s immigrant community, a diverse group of activists work to provide information and sometimes even protection.
Categories: Alabama News Network, Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: alabama, civilrights, hb56, hispanic, immigration
Pushing Yuan Bill Won't Help U.S. Recovery
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Oct 14, 2011
A bill aimed at pressuring China to revalue its currency in order to resuscitate America's job market is a clear case of China bashing.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Economy, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: bashing, bill, china, congress, currency, dolla, money, renminbi, United States, yuan
Jerry Brown Signs Bill to Reduce CA Checkpoint Impounds
California Watch, News Report, Posted: Oct 11, 2011
On Sunday, Brown authorized AB 353, which prohibits police at checkpoints from seizing a car solely because the driver is unlicensed.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: ab1389, ab353, cacarimpound, carimpound, jerrybrowncarimpound
Supreme Court Upholds Mumia Appeal: Death Sentence Was Unconstitutional
Philadelphia Tribune, News Report, Posted: Oct 11, 2011
The Supreme Court rejected a request by the Philadelphia DA to overturn a decision declaring the defendant’s death sentence unconstitutional.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: federal appeals court, mumia abu jamal, philadelphia, supreme court, william faukner
In Alabama, All Doors Closed to Immigrants
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Oct 11, 2011
The new law has an impact on every aspect of daily life for immigrants and by extension their U.S. born children.
Categories: Alabama News Network, Immigration, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: alabama, children, HB 56, illegal, immigrants, immigration, law, legal, Mexico
Alabama Law Isn’t Just for Immigrants
Black America Web, Commentary, Posted: Oct 11, 2011
Laws, like Alabama’s HB56, unfairly target immigrants, and consequently people of color, under the guise of immigration enforcement.
Categories: African, African American, Alabama News Network, Asian, Front Page, Immigration, Intersections, Law & Justice
Tags: alabama, federal court, HB56, immigration, law, people of color, undocumented
Organizers of “Occupy Wall Street” Ignite D.C. Protests
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Oct 11, 2011
Unlike the Occupy Wall Street movement, the D.C. movement called “October 2011” was pre-planned, but the message is the same.
Categories: African American, Economy, Front Page, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: corporations, dc, greed, movement, occupy, unemployed, wall st, washington dc
NAM Radio: A Guide to Occupy Wall Street
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 10, 2011
What is Occupy Wall Street and who is involved? Here is a primer, from someone in the midst of it all.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, Economy, Education, Environment, European, Foreclosures, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: #occupywallstreet, #ows, bert cannavelli, demands, description, guide, introduction, manifesto, movement, occupy the nation, occupy wall street, what is occupy wall street, who
Dispatch From Pelican Bay: Why I Joined the Hunger Strike
SF Bay View, First Person, Posted: Oct 10, 2011
A prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California explains what compelled him to join the hunger strike.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: californiaprisons, pelicanbay, prisonconditions, prisonhungerstrike, securehousingunit, shu
Going Insane in a CA Prison: An Inmate's Call for Help
SF Bay View, First Person, Posted: Oct 09, 2011
One California inmate describes the unclean conditions and lack of health care that are causing him mental anguish.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic
Tags: caprisonconditions, corcoran, pelicanbay, prisonhungerstrike, securehousingunit, shu
California's Prison Hunger Strikers Seek Support from Hip Hop
SF Bay View, Press Release, Posted: Oct 08, 2011
An open letter from prison hunger strikers in CA to the greater hip-hop community, asking for their support.
Categories: African American, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: pelicanbaystateprison, prisonabuse, prisonhungerstrike, securehousingunit, shu, solitaryconfinement
Yusuf Bey IV Finally on His Way to Prison for Murdering Journalist, Two Others
The Chauncey Bailey Project, News Report, Posted: Oct 07, 2011
Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader and convicted triple killer Yusuf Bey IV is finally on his way to state prison after prosecutors dropped the last remaining case against him Friday.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Chauncey Bailey, journalist, murder, trial, Yusuf Bey IV
Families Optimistic as Parolees Move Closer to Home
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Oct 07, 2011
Thousands of low-level offenders were transferred from state prison facilities to county jails last Saturday, October 1 under a new law aimed at cutting costs to direct money toward other services while reducing state prison populations.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Law & Justice
Tags: county jail, cutting post, money, prison population, services, state prison
CDCR Clamping Down as Resurgent Prison Hunger Strike Grows
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Oct 06, 2011
Inmates at twelve CA prisons are back on hunger strike, and despite efforts by the CDCR to limit their influence, momentum is building.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories
Tags: californiaprisons, cdcr, humanrights, pelicanbay, prisonhungerstrike, securehousingunit, shu
DA Launches Program for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Oct 05, 2011
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón held a press conference with ethnic media yesterday to announce the launch of a domestic violence program.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, Health, Immigration, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, South Asian
Tags: crimeandpunishment, districtattorney, domesticviolence, ethnicmedia, immigration, womenshealth
NAM Radio: Manufacturing Immigrant Hysteria in America
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 04, 2011
It's never been easy being different in America, what with all the scapegoating, surveillance and hysteria that surrounds "the other."
Categories: African, African American, Arizona Watch, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Caribbean, Chinese, European, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: history, hysteria, immigrant, immigration, jay feldman, manufacturing hysteria, manufacturing hysteria a history of scapegoating surveillance and secrecy in modern america, media, scapegoating, secrecy, surveillance
Financial Planner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions from Elderly
Rafu Shimpo, News Report, Posted: Oct 03, 2011
Financial Planner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions from Elderly
Categories: Asian, Economy, Elders, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice
Tags: elderly, embezzlement, money
NAM Radio: The Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 03, 2011
Most of us have little understanding of how Agent Orange came to be used in Vietnam & how it is still hurting people & the environment to this day.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Environment, Health, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: agent orange, american, birth defect, chemical warfare, environment, fred wilcox, health impact, scorched earth legacies of chemical warfare in vietnam, veteran, veteran's administration, vietnam, vietnamese
As Supreme Court Begins New Term, Immigration Looms Large
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Oct 03, 2011
As the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term, Arizona’s SB 1070 is likely to be front and center.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: ACLU, Alabama, Arizona, Hazelton, HB56, illiegalimmigrant, Immigration, in-statetuition, s undocumentedimmigrants, SB1070, SupremeCourt