by Sulma Arias | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Election, Featured, Immigration, SULMA
JOIN OUR TEAM SPANISH Immigrants breathe new life into communities by starting businesses, attending churches and rebuilding neighborhoods.The hope, resilience and joy we share renews our faith in what is possible when we live an “American Dream” of solidarity...
by Warren Tidwell | Jun 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Immigration
Photo credit: Hometown Organizing Project / cc Workers throughout Alabama are reaching out to me to sound an alarm on what they are seeing inside meatpacking plants.This piece started out as an informative piece on how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading rapidly...
by David Goodner | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Immigration
Antonio Diego, 24, a Brazilian student in Sioux City on a J1 visa. Photo courtesy of Sioux City Journal Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa...
by Suzette Brooks Masters | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Immigration
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
by Ross Floyd | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Immigration
How it would feel to walk fifty days to save your unborn child, only to be locked in a cell so cramped you and a dozen other pregnant women had to sleep standing up? WATCH: the full story of @JulianCastro escorting José Robinson to his ICE check-in. “If I...
by Jill Richardson | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Featured, Immigration
Photo credit: U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Stanton Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When...
