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Category Archives: National News

30 Mar

Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez: Not a History Lesson?

It's important that films made by Latinos like Cesar Chavez get strong sales. But should we be absurdly safe at the cost of setting a dangerous precedent of airbrushing Latino...
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Featured Story, National News Cesar Chavez, Diego Luna, film review, Immigration, Rosario Dawson
3 Jul

Culture Change – How We Can Move Beyond the Immigration Reform Bill

The immigration reform fight is about to get real ugly in the House of Representatives and failure is simply not an option. But how can we set up the dynamics so that no matter what happens, the immigrant rights community...
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Featured Story, National News deportations, DREAMERS, Gang of 8, immigration reform, path to citizenship, President Obama
25 Apr

Beyond Environmental Justice – Immigration Reform

The Sierra Club and the environmental movement dig into its ‘immigrant roots’ in new support for immigration...
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Featured Story, National News, PER announcement, endorsement, environmental, immigration reform, Sierra Club
21 Oct

HuffPost Live Takes On the “Illegal” Word

Jose Antonio Vargas wants media outlets like the New York Times and the Associated Press to stop using "illegal" for undocumented immigrants. And he's...
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Featured Story, National News, PER AP, HuffPost Live, illegal word, Immigration, Jose Antonio Vargas, New York Times, terminology
30 Aug

The New Authoritarian Repressive Suit: Paul Ryan

If the image of 'authoritarian repressive uniform' floats in your head whenever you see Paul Ryan's seductive smile, you are not alone. ...
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Featured Story, National News anti-immigrant, authoritarian, elections, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, propaganda, racial slurs, Republican
5 Apr

Let’s Call Marco Rubio’s Bluff

Immigrant rights community reacts to Marco Rubio's proposal to further water down the DREAM Act,...
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Featured Story, National News ARMS Act, DREAM Act, education, legalization, Marco Rubio, Military
24 Jan

Majority of Americans believe the 1% are not paying their fair share

A new CBS/New York Times poll show that 55% of Americans believe that upper income people pay less than their fair share of...
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Featured Story, National News income inequality, majority of Americans, poll, taxes
15 Jan

What is ‘vulture capitalism’?

The Republican primaries of 2012 gave us a new term: 'vulture...
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Featured Story, National News bottom feeder, cannibalism, economy, inaccuracies, job creation, Mitt Romney, opportunistic, predatory, shareholders, Video, vulture capitalist
7 Jan

The Obamas Book Reveals Friction Between Michelle Obama & Rahm Emanuel on Immigration

Book reveals Michelle Obama's clashes with Rahm Emanuel on wrong headed approach to...
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Featured Story, National News deportations, Hillary Clinton, immigration policy, little girl confronting Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama, new book, revelations, Rham Emanuel, speech, The Obamas
31 Dec

The Year We Realized We Are All Economic Refugees

The inconvenient truth is that without good jobs, we could all end up as economic...
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Featured Story, National News

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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
  • Univision News Tumblr: Call Marco Rubio what you will, just don’t call him an “economic refugee”
  • UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy

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