On Twitter
-
Links of Interest
Favorite quote from the Bible:
“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
-Leviticus 19.33-25Support the Project
Literature/research using "economic refugee" term
- American University International Law Review: unprotected in the U.S. by virtue of an inaccurate label
- Change.org: When an Undocumented Immigrant Is an Economic Refugee
- Huffington Post: Surge in Economic Refugees Will Test Community Resources
- MinnPost.com: Americans living abroad for financial survival
- New York Times: American Evangelical Churches Announce New Policy of Sanctuary for Iraqi Refugees
- PDA: Economic Refugees and Big Petroleum
- The Guardian: Casualties of globalism
- Tikkun Daily: Reagan’s Refugees
- UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy
Tags
air america AlterNet Arizona Chris Matthews CNN CurrentTV dailykos Democrats DREAM Act Ed Schultz election Election Fraud environment fox news George Lakoff Harry Reid Heal the Bay Immigration immigration reform Keith Olbermann Latinos Latino vote LGBTQ Los Angeles Lou Dobbs Meg Whitman msnbc Obama President Obama progressive Project Economic Refugee's Zeitgeist Corner Rachel Maddow racist Republicans Sarah Palin SB 1070 Sonia Sotomayor Tea Party Video votePowered by SEO Tag CloudAlexa Rank
Heal the Bay Archive
-
Building a self-sustaining park in California’s South L.A.
Posted on December 27, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF As the year comes to a close, reflecting on 2010 on my work as a community organizer locally in Los Angeles, I’ve had the fortune of experiencing a... -
PER picks for how you can celebrate Earth Day
Posted on April 22, 2010 | 1 CommentDownload article as PDF 1st: Check out Heal the Bay’s fun and interactive “Trash Your Friends” Campaign: Here’s how it works: 1. You log into http://trashed.healthebay.org/ 2. Click on “trash your friends”... -
Heal the Bay No. 5 in “Top 7 Ways to Volunteer in SoCal for 2010″
Posted on January 5, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF Do you live in Southern California? Looking for ways to support your community? If you happen to live in L.A. County, check out this piece that... -
A Day Without A Bag
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF This will be the 3rd annual event that the Heal the Bay staff will have pulled off in L.A. County. I remember my first “A Day Without... -
2012
Posted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF On minutes 1:48 and 2:03 of this 2012 five-minute promo video, you see billboards of the Southern California nonprofit organization Heal the Bay crumbling down …... -
Selfish in the Sea
Posted on October 24, 2009 | 3 CommentsDownload article as PDF Many Latino anglers that fish off of L.A. County piers support the creation of Marine Protected Areas. Read the full post (1090 words, estimated 4:22 mins... -
Latinos on water
Posted on October 11, 2009 | 3 CommentsDownload article as PDF I was recently asked to do a guest post for Heal the Bay‘s President Mark Gold’s blog. It was titled “Ground Control to Guy”, because it... -
Coastal Cleanup Day: South L.A.
Posted on September 21, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF Did you participate? It was on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 9am to noon. Since I’m based in Los Angeles, CA, I helped organize three separate cleanups... -
A Healthier Future
Posted on June 16, 2009 | 1 CommentDownload article as PDF Here’s an article I wrote for Heal the Bay’s “Currents” magazine (intro based on previous work of Heal the Bay’s James Alamillo): Read the full post... -
Bring Back the Beach
Posted on May 17, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF It’s always exciting to see businesses advertise their products through donations to benefit events for worthy causes because it not only promotes social responsibility, but it also...