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‘ICE’: A family-friendly food truck play about immigration

April 30, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

“Here we have two immigrants trying to figure out how to become ‘American’ and what that means,” says Debbie Devine, director of the world premiere production of Leon Martell’s play ICE, now on stage at the...

A detention center vigil that defies La Migra

March 6, 2018 By David Bacon

"We can't just watch the immigration policy of this country play itself out and do nothing, while ICE and the Border Patrol hunt people down and tear their families apart."

California hotel workers celebrate as Emeryville calls for sanctuary workplaces

April 7, 2017 By Marilyn Bechtel

Hotel workers and union and community supporters rallied April 4, marking the 10th anniversary of a historic struggle in which hospitality workers – many of them immigrants – won a living wage with workload standards and...

Worldwide uprising against Trump agenda draws millions of marchers

January 21, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg And Larry Rubin

The streets and thoroughfares of every major American city were packed with hundreds of thousands today declaring their rejection of the dark message of hate and division that Donald J. Trump laid out yesterday after he...

Immigrant communities brace for Trump

November 23, 2016 By David Bacon

“People here have to remember the power they’ve built on a local level and use it,” one immigrants’ rights activist says, “even in the face of a national defeat.”