Thursday, May 20, 2010

DREAM activists face deportation


Three young immigrant rights activists speak with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! on Thursday, May 20th. The three are all facing possible deportation after their arrest in a sit-in on Monday at the offices of Republican Senator John McCain.

Mohammad Abdollahi is an Iranian-born immigrant rights activist and co-founder of a web portal for undocumented students called DreamActivist.org. Yahaira Carrillo is student at Rockhurst University in Kansas and the founder of the Kansas Missouri Dream Alliance. Lizbeth Mateo is an organizer with DREAM Team Los Angeles.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Subcommandante Marcos unmasked!

"The constant obsession on the part of the Mexican government to know or to discover the face of subcommandante Marcos takes the place of any commitment to address the structural causes for the faces of poverty which beset over a million families in Mexico."


Loose translation from an editorial by Jaime Martínez Veloz published April 9, 2010 in La Jornada.


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Jessica Colotl fights back!


They just f _ _ _ ed with the wrong Mexican!

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