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Immigrant Communities Organizing for Justice

2008-02-21

Against a national backdrop of anti-immigrant initiatives and the ongoing construction of a U.S.-Mexico border fence, activists from across the immigrant and refugee rights movement met in Houston this past January. The event that brought them together was the National Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Rights , organized by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) -- one of the country's largest grassroots immigrant advocacy coalitions.

Over six hundred NNIRR members, activists, and organizers came to the conference to share their experiences, to learn new organizing tactics, and to help formulate effective strategies to build support for a fair and just national immigration policy. Despite the growing xenophobia among policymakers, those attending the conference were optimistic. According to NNIRR, "2008 - and beyond -- holds great promise and great peril for those who organize and advocate for an immigration policy based on human rights, dignity and justice."

This week's Sprouts edition is produced by Carolina Alvarez and Ernesto Aguilar of KPFT/Pacifica Radio in Houston, Texas.

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Stupid Republicrats...
written by chris, September 14, 2008
Organize for Justice? You idiots ever ask yourselves why George Bush and all the central bankers love illegal immigration? They are one world government proponents. Visit spp.gov and do a little research. There's a great idea, lets remove the natural system of checks and ballences that sovereignty provides so they can control every aspect of our lives with one currency and one gigantic police force. This is the truth about Illegal immigration. You assholes just love to point your finger at Americans who have let every race, creed and color into our country and modified our culture to suit yours. Try that shit in India or China or any other country in the world. In fact I'm thinking about moving to India myself and you know what? They better fucking speak English and let me work Tax free and use thier hospitals for free or I'm gonna "organize for justice" against those muther fuckers! Fuck Them! Yeah, keep working for the New world Order you assholes. The people behind illegal immigration are the same that pulled off 911. Erase all the borders, collapse the economy, spread the military all over the world as a suicide police force essentially destroying it and then you don't even have to invade just use the UN to balkanize the United States and break it up into little pieces. Just remember though the "war on Terror" will then be waged on anyone who stands up to these one world government money manipulators. If you are either a Republican or a Democrat then you are a worthless brain-dead animal. Go join the elites at the Council on Foreign Relations and at least be true to your colors. smilies/smiley.gif

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