Social Justice News
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SOCIAL ISSUES NEWS
Blackwater's Run for the Border
By SALON.COM
There are signs that Blackwater USA, the private security firm that came under intense scrutiny after its employees killed 17 civilians in Iraq in September, is positioning itself for direct involvement in U.S. border security.
Rounding Up Our Neighbors in Chaparral, NM
By OBJECTS AND ARROWS
We are seeing serious human rights violations down here in the suburbs of El Paso. Something really nasty has been going on over the past week in Chaparral, New Mexico, about 15 minutes drive from my house in central El Paso.
Immigrants and Disease
by DREAMS ACROSS AMERICA
If you want to see how extremist-right talking points work their way into the mainstream of our political discourse and eventually attain "conventional wisdom" status, watch how Lou Dobbs' phony leprosy statistics continue to be repeated and given official media imprimatur.
What the Nazis Learned From South El Paso:
by FIRST POST
Hitler writing in 1924, "The American union itself... has established scientific criteria for immigration... making an immigrant's ability to set foot on American soil dependent on specific racial requirements on the one hand as well as a certain level of physical health of the individual himself."
Hatred and Venom Behind the Anti-Immigration Crowd
by YOUTUBE
Anti-Mexican hatred has suddenly become politically correct.
"Just look at them, just standing there. Like animals. 'Oh, let me work!'
VIDEOS: Los Angeles Police Brutality during Peaceful May Day Parade
YouTube - May 1, 2007
While several thousand demonstrators gathered in parks and streets of Los Angeles during an Immigration rally on May 1, 2007, the Los Angeles police shot rubber bullets and beat scores of peaceful protesters...
Denouncing Conquest: Why We Choose to Speak Up
Newspaper Tree - April 20
By YOLANDA LEYVA
The
placement of the Oñate statue in El Paso is an insult to all
people who care about humanity. “We can’t choose our
history,” say supporters of the Equestrian. And that is true. We
cannot choose our history, but we can choose to honor humanity and
dignity rather than violence, conquest and inhumanity....
= VIDEO: A Monument to Genocide?
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