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Today's post is from David Bacon, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org, and read more about Beacon's immigration titles at "Beyond SB1070" on Beacon.org. In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local…
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In a new afterword for her book The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, Margaret Regan talks about SB 1070 and the real human crisis facing Arizona.
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Between 1880 and World War I, about 25 million Europeans immigrated to the United States. They did not have visas or passports. Aviva Chomsky debunks one of the stubbornest myths about immigration.
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Today's post is from Fred Pearce, author of The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet's Surprising Future. Pearce is an environmental consultant at New Scientist and a weekly columnist and investigate journalist for the Guardian. This post originally appeared at TriplePundit. A green myth is on the march. It wants to blame the world's over-breeding…
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Suffolk Law professor Michael Avery remarks on contemporary themes prevalent in Shakespeare’s Henry V.
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We invite you to join the poet Maya Angelou called, “a lion in literature’s forest,” as she lifts her voice in tribute to Dr. Dorothy Irene Height.
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Fran Hawthorne is lost in a stack of green living guides.
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How NAFTA produced Mexican migration.
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Aviva Chomsky speaks with captured migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Defending Immigrant Rights from Arizona to Manhattan.
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