Tag Archives: immigrant justice
GOP: Preventing violence against women in detention centers is a “luxury”
TweetFrom the Friday indignation files. When faced with report after report that recounts the inhumane conditions at ICE detention centers, some Republican lawmakers are arguing that remedying these horrific conditions is unnecessary. On Wednesday, the House Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearing on the conditions at the Department of Homeland Security’s immigrant detention centers. Making perhaps [...]
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Women’s Empowerment Issue: An Upgrade from “Saving the World’s Women”
Tweet When I first saw the cover of the New York Times Magazine’s “Women’s Empowerment Issue,” I had a classic case of the side-eye: a presumably American white woman with the “all in a day’s work” smirk donning indigenous clothing with arms sprawling across 5 brown children in a field of green pastures. Emblazoned beneath [...]
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Lady Gaga protests Arizona’s anti-immigration law
TweetLady Gaga performed in Phoenix, AZ Saturday night where she spoke out publicly against SB1070, the state’s new anti-immigrant law. Lady Gaga had been encouraged to participate in the boycott of Arizona, which has led other prominent pop stars to cancel shows in the state. Instead, Gaga decided to use her show as an opportunity [...]
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Max Foster’s biased coverage of police brutality against immigrant women in France
TweetWow. If one needed evidence that the struggle for immigrant justice is global, see this video of an eviction in France, where French police dragged immigrant mothers and children in the streets (possible trigger warning): Transcript after the jump. There is no doubt that being evicted can be a horrible event. But being dragged in [...]
Also tagged Media, Police brutality, Racism, Uncategorized Comments closed
Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Big DREAMers take to the streets