February 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter Published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network URL: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/)
Beat Back the Racist Minuteman Project and the REAL ID Act! URL: _http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/April05.pdf_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/April05.pdf) In this issue: 1. Minuteman Project 2. REAL ID Act 3. Immigration News 4. Immigration Incarceration Industry 5. Information About the Network 6. Please Subscribe to the Newsletter Protests Ignite and Media Swarms as Minuteman Project Invades Southern Arizona! While the vigilante, border activist and humanitarian groups all agree U.S. immigration policy is flawed, the dispute on how to fix the border is clashing out in the desert heat There was no fooling around April 1 when hundreds of âvigilantesâ swarmed to defend small stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, picking up the slack where they say the government is failing to stop the so-called âinvasion of mobs of illegal aliens and terrorists.â The month-long gathering, dubbed the Minuteman Project, has attracted volunteers from all of the country to come camp in the desert and monitor the border. Yet, the story of the weekend was the flocks of media that crept into the Southern Arizona desert, often times outnumbering the number of Minuteman volunteers and the dozens of protestors that met to confront them. Many have criticized the amount of media attention, saying that they paid too much attention to a project that may or may not be successful. âThe media has become a story in itself,â said Bisbee resident Mike Anderson as he stood on Highway 80 with a sign Saturday morning. âI want the media to go home and the vigilantes to go home with their guns,â he said. Organized primarily to reap media attention to a region wrought with conflict and controversy rather than slow down the amount of undocumented travelers, the project has been called patriotic by some and racist by others. (Arizona IMC) ======================================================= National Immigrant Solidarity Network No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! webpage: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Please consider making a donation to the important work of National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: ActionLA/SEE 1013 Mission St. #6 South Pasadena CA 91030 (All donations are tax deductible) *to join the immigrant Solidarity Network daily news litserv, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn *a monthly ISN monthly Action Alert! listserv, go to webpage _http://www.actionla.org/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=list&l=isn_ (http://www.actionla.org/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=list&l=isn) Please join our following listservs: Asian American Labor Activism Alert! Listserv, send-e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/api-la NYC Immigrant Alert!: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas immigrant workers information and alerts, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nyc-immigrantalert US-Mexico Border Information: No Militarization of Borders! Support Immigrant Rights! send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Border01/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
