Immigrants
Immigrant rights activists say keep families together
May 23, 2012Vargas, the father of four U.S. citizen children, has led a crime free life but now sits in a Monroe County jail.
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“Fast for Fair Food” ends with 1,000 marching
March 15, 2012More than 1,000 farm workers and their allies solemnly marched three miles to the corporate headquarter of the grocery store giant Publix.
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Movies you might have missed: “Thieves’ Highway”
February 6, 2012One noir film that dealt with explicitly working-class issues was Thieves' Highway (1949) starring Richard Conte in perhaps his finest role.
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Service Employees sue South Carolina over anti-immigrant law
November 3, 2011Once again, the Service Employees have joined a private lawsuit, and supported an Obama administration lawsuit, challenging anti-immigrant laws.
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Immigrant and labor rights bills become law in California
October 11, 2011Among bills signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown recently were a measure to let undocumented college students apply for publicly funded scholarships and another to strengthen labor protections for farm workers.
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