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Una nueva encuesta de USA Today/Gallup Poll muestra que una porcentaje abrumador del pueblo estadounidense favorece la legalización de los indocumentados. Hasta 78 por ciento del público dice que los inmigrantes sin papeles deben tener la oportunidad de convertirse en residentes legales y llegar a ser ciudadanos de Estados Unidos

The overwhelming response condemning the reprehensible comments of radio “shock jock” Don Imus is a reminder, if one were needed, that racism and sexism remain a virulent presence in the United States. But it also demonstrated that the 51 seconds of Imus’ comment concerning the Rutgers University women’s basketball team did not go unchallenged.

Worldwide, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row for 25 years now, are hopeful that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will grant him a new trial on May 17.

May Day demonstrations across the country accelerated grassroots pressure to make legalization and social justice, instead of punitive and profit-oriented measures, the priority in the public and congressional debates on immigrant rights.

Some 250,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina still cannot go home, nearly two years after the levees broke. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin led a march April 28 by former city residents demanding that relief dollars be released so that the evacuees, scattered still from coast to coast, can come home and reclaim their homes and their land.

Last November, South Dakota voters overturned a state abortion ban by a 12 percent margin. The April 18 Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling shows the court is “farther to the right than these conservative ‘red states’ voters,” says Kathi Di Nicola, media relations director for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

CHICAGO — August Spies told his executioners that if they went ahead with the hanging they would ignite a fire that could never be put out.

CHICAGO — Hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights activists and supporters marched through downtown here May 1, demanding an end to raids and deportations, and calling for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented workers.

Cada mes, Jennifer Pae entrega cientos de dólares en pagos para los $40.000 que debe en préstamos estudiantiles que financiaron sus estudios en la Universidad de California en San Diego.

El crecimiento asombrante del sector multimillonario del antisindicalismo en EEUU ha ido mano en mano con el declive de nuestra base manufacturera, el auge de la ultraderecha y la pérdida de membresía sindical durante los últimos treinta y pico de años.