U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is planning to tour an immigrant detention facility in Elizabeth today as part of his push to improve detainee health care.
Menendez (D-NJ) is proposing a bill that would mandate better health care for those held in immigration custody. The measure is in response to nationwide reports of immigrants receiving substandard health services or dying in custody.
Great posting about what is happening in Arizona.
With over 181 bodies recovered in the deserts in 2007, fifty five pieces of anti-immigrant legislation to be submitted in 2008, and a local Sheriff who resembles Bull Connor (a southern police officer and KKK member in the 1960's) more than Wyatt Earp, Arizona is becoming to immigrants rights, what Mississippi was to the 1960s civil rights movement—a defining moment in which each of us will be called to either embrace inhumanity or redeem the soul of America.
Food for Thought Books and
Western MA Coalition for Immigrant & Worker Rights present:
DETAINED: THE NEW BEDFORD IMMIGRATION RAID
A film by Jenny Alexander
On March 6, 2007, US Immigration officials raided a New Bedford, MA factory that makes vests and backpacks for US soldiers. Many of the 361 undocumented immigrants who were detained in the raid were women with small children.
Showing:
Wednesday
July 16, 2008
7 pm
Food for Thought Books
106 N. Pleasant St.
Downtown Amherst
The free film screening will be followed by a discussion on efforts to organize around immigration issues in our local communities.
For more information, please contact:
Javiera at 413-253-5432, javiera@foodforthoughtbooks.com
or Cecilia at wmciwr@gmail.com
This event is cosponsored by Casa Latina, Enlace Latino, The International Language Institute, SAGE, Western MA American Friends Service Committee, Western MA Copwatch, Western MA Jobs with Justice and Greenfield Community College Peace and Justice Studies Program
