WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (OneWorld.net) - People in hundreds of cities across the United States will march next week to urge President Barack Obama to move ahead with promises of immigration and labor rights reform.
“The unified message [of the marches] is support for the Obama Administration in moving humane immigrant reform this year, an affirmation of the importance of immigrants to the U.S. economy, and challenging the failure of enforcement only policies under Bush that have created so much suffering and violations of civil, labor, and human rights,” writes Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights group. The May 1 Nationwide Immigration and Labor Rights March is spearheaded by the U.S.-based Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a network of over 300 organizations.
Radical Ayers Back on Tour at Brandeis
Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:24 PM
By: Dan Weil
The 1960s and ‘70s radical William Ayers caused plenty of trouble for Barack Obama during the presidential campaign because of the president’s ties to him.
But Brandeis University apparently isn’t worried about being connected to Ayers, co-founder of the militant Weather Underground group in 1969.
The Waltham, Mass. school will host a speech by Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, next Thursday....
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Did you read State of Fear?
I saw him speak... amazing. What a loss.