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Archive for the ‘Immigrant Rights Movement’ Category

KOHN: A Grounded Movement

In her response to Subhash Kateel, Sally Kohn puts out challenges to organizers to be strategic in protest and movement building.

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Kateel: Obama’s Immigration Move

A critical look at the Obama Administration’s new call to review many of the pending 300,000 deportations cases in the country.

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The Fight For Migrant Rights

Migrant rights organizers from across the U.S. weigh in the current state of their states and the movement.

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EXCLUDED WORKERS: Labor Movement

Excluded Workers Congress organizers dialogue with scholars about the relationship developing between the EWC and the traditional labor movement.

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EXCLUDED WORKERS: What is Victory?

Excluded Workers Congress organizers dialogue with scholars about the importance and limitations of fighting for policy reform and symbolic victories.

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MATOS: The DREAM is alive!

Felipe Matos, one of the DREAM Walkers who trekked from Miami to DC in the spring of 2010 reflects on his personal political development, and the state of the migrants rights movement.

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Report on the Excluded Workers Congress

During the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, nine sectors of excluded workers came together to found the Excluded Workers Congress.

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Lessons from Domestic Workers Victory

Domestic Workers United shares reflections from the NY Domestic Worker Bill of Rights campaign so that other organizers could learn from their work.

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Cutting-Edge Communications

In this FastForum we hear from some of (but not all) the leading thinkers and practitioners in left communications.

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SUBHASH KATEEL: Diminishing Returns

Subhash Kateel examines some hard lessons for the immigrant rights movement and puts forward some clear points on moving forward.

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