New York City Council passes resolution to keep families together
NEW YORK — Immigrant rights supporters won a huge victory March 26 when the New York City Council passed Resolution 1250 by a nearly unanimous vote, calling on the U.S. Congress to pass the Child Citizen Protection Act (HR 1176).
World Notes: Democracy in Turkey, Romanian Workers Rebel...
Turkey's Constitutional Court, the nation’s top judicial body, announced March 31 its unanimous decision to consider a case brought by Turkey’s chief prosecutor, alleging that the Islamic orientation of the ruling Justice and Development Party violates the secular basis of Turkey’s constitution.
Paul Robeson Remembrance Day celebrated in Detroit
DETROIT — March 29 was Paul Robeson Remembrance Day at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery here. This event grew out of the gallery’s current exhibit, “Celebrating Paul Robeson: Athlete, Artist and Activist for Justice and World Peace.”
El legado de Martn Luther King
Esta semana se cumple el 40 aniversario de la muerte de líder afronorteamericano por los derechos civiles, Martín Luther King. King fue asesinado en Memphis, Tenesí en abril 4, 1968. Él estaba en Memphis apoyando a los trabajadores de sanidad, en su totalidad afronorteamericanos.
Rally demands end to gun violence
CHICAGO — Turning grief and shock to anger and action, nearly 1,000 Chicago public high school students, including teachers, administrators, parents, religious leaders and elected officials rallied here April 1 against the crisis of gun violence plaguing the city. The rally was called in response to the 21st shooting death of a public school student this school year.
Exhibit features African American artists
HOUSTON — The beauty and genius of Black artists was readily apparent in a new exhibit titled “Art Official Intelligence” at the University Museum at Texas Southern University, which opened last February and ended March 22.
A story of love, sacrifice and struggle
Every day immigrants trek across the dangerous U.S.-Mexico border and are forced to find work here because jobs in their home countries are scarce or nonexistent. Free trade agreements like NAFTA, globalization, neoliberalism, the outsourcing of jobs and small businesses, the exploitation of workers and a U.S. foreign policy that puts profits before people’s needs are a constant reality for immigrant families in their home countries.
Graduate students win at University of Michigan
The sounds of building construction at the University of Michigan were replaced March 25 by the jubilant chants of over 600 picketers demanding a fair contract between the university and the Graduate Employees Organization.
