October 2011
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Raspberry Juice: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) –... →
forgethandstands:
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) – Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from…
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September 2011
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Profiling’s Legal! Court Upholds Alabama’s... →
efecto-colectivo:
moving forward into dark times, indeed.
Cross-country quest on foot by Chinese American →
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URGENT: Help us stop the deportation of Javier... →
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by turns: "It would be beautiful..." →
byturns:
An entry from my old blog…
For one summer when I was in college I worked in the maintenance department of my town’s Park District. I learned a lot that summer, about myself, about how I perceive others, and about social and linguistic divisions. I’ve grown up in between worlds in a sense. As I got older I became increasingly aware of my Chilean heritage, and what it means both...
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VietDon: Expat or Immigrant? →
vietdon:
Perspective is a funny thing really. I was thinking about this the other day: what is the difference between an Expat (ex patriot) and an immigrant. It seems that no one in Hanoi refers to themselves as an immigrant, but they all use the word Expat, or resident expat.
I feel it is either two things:
1) It is a racial thing: white people could never, ever think of themselves as an...
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Murder of a Queer Desi Man in D.C. →
queerdesi:
In the same neighborhood as me.
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Irish people were once considered to be "Black"
faineemae:
or in other words, “white negros” da hell, bro?
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The Only Woman Electrocuted in Georgia's Electric... →
dariaakasha:
theflowtheory:
Such is the story of Lena Baker, an African-American mother of three, who was electrocuted at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville.
She was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white Cuthbert, Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke his leg. She was 44 and the only woman ever executed in Georgia’s electric chair. For Baker, a...
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EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL: oh and i love... →
weexist-weresist:
because as a person whose house was stormed into in a fucking immigration raid all because my family is pakistani, i obviously have no experience with the police.
because as someone who was being monitored for my location through random phone calls for more than a semester while my parents wore…
S. Korean finds way into lineup for No. 9 Huskers →
“Not bad for a guy who knew next to nothing about football when he moved from Korea to attend high school in the United States in 2004. The only English words he apparently knew upon his arrival were “yes” and “no.” After one fateful encounter with a substitute teacher, nearly six years later, he found himself in the Huskers’ starting lineup against...
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“[A post about immigrants in the USA and food; sorry the Japanese didn’t...”
– ジャンクフード食べて溶け込みたい移民心理、米国 国際ニュース : AFPBB News (via kskszk)
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Facebook like pages.
listthebullshit:
LOL
“I AM NOT RACIST JUST SPEAK F*CKING ENGLISH IN MY COUNTRY YOU IMERGRANT F*CK”
yeaaah of course your not racist, why would anyone think that… p.s. you spelt immigrant wrong, you ignorant fuck. you can’t complain about them not speaking it when you cant even fucking spell the language you daft twat.
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NYS Youth Leadership Council: Meet Ericka →
nysylc:
My name is Ericka and I Am Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic.
Since I was a kid my mother has taught me values that will help me succeed in life. In 2001, with a small bag in hand, my mother left her children, her house, and thousand of memories in Ecuador to cross the border…
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killeranna *: Immigrant Woman Forced to Give Birth... →
wakeupthedrones:
“When I was in bed, I was begging the sheriff, ‘Please let me free— at least one hand,’ and he said, no, he didn’t want to,” Juana Villegas said in an interview with a local Nashville television station. She was describing the experience of being shackled to her hospital bed as she went into labor. Villegas gave birth in the sheriff’s custody, after she was stopped by local...
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Golden Zephyr: Dale Farm: Who are the UK's... →
golden-zephyr:
The eviction of some 400 people from the UK’s largest illegal travellers’ site, Dale Farm in Essex, has once again brought to the forefront Britain’s traveller community.
Not to be confused with Romany Gypsies, who are the largest traveller group in the world with some 12 million…
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Prayer Of The Refugee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-SQGOYOjxs
“There’s nothing I like more than hearing someone from England complain about immigration. You started…” http://t.co/GxyRSabN
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“There’s nothing I like more than hearing someone from England complain about...”
– Steve Hughes (via cocknbull)
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“I feel that I now know what Jewish women went through before the Nazi roundups...”
– Kenza Drider, a 32-year-old mother of three, was famously bold enough to appear on French television to oppose the law before it came into force. She refuses to take off her niqab – “My husband doesn’t dictate what I do, much less the government” – but she says she now lives in fear of attack. “I...
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I am dirty gypsy pikey scum. I am a thief. I am a...
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I don't want to be a gypsy anymore.
golden-zephyr:
… but it’s not that simple. It’s an ethnicity… not something I can just ‘take off’…
I’m so tired.
So fucking tired.
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“I changed my citizenship from Egyptian to American citizen, but I cannot change...”
– -Labib Salama, owner, The Egyptian Coffee Shop in Astoria, Queens.
Taken from WNYC.
(via playanon)
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14 days until my 12th anniversary of living in the...
laviedemeli:
My parents still can’t believe they ended up here of all places. It was never planned, it just sort of happened.
14 days! O_O
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