Florida New Majority is calling on U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) to support President Obama’s Jobs Program and to actively work to move other senators to support the bill. Florida is suffering an unemployment rate of 10.7 percent, and millions more have been shut out of the labor market for years [...] Continue reading …

Families and friends of those serving life without parole since they were children recently gathered for the annual Citizens for Second Chances strategic planning retreat at St. James Episcopal Church in Alexandria, LA. Ethan Ashley, the new attorney for the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, will help coordinate a campaign to end “life without parole” [...] Continue reading …

A), along with many other organizations and leaders, will gather in opposition to the state’s anti-immigration law, HB-56, on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Linn Park in downtown Birmingham. The law was originally scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 1, but was postponed for 30 days while a [...] Continue reading …

A federal court announced today that enactment of HB 56, the Alabama immigration law, has been temporarily placed on hold. The law was scheduled to go into effect on Thursday, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The temporary hold was ordered to give by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn time to issue a [...] Continue reading …

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) is planning a press conference on Tuesday with key Chicago leaders, pro-immigrant advocates, and immigrant families to follow-up on new deportation guidelines announced by the Obama Administration and to warn immigrant communities about attempts to exploit or mislead them. The Congressman is the nation’s leading advocate for changes to Obama’s [...] Continue reading …

Corporate accountability is at the heart of the City of Chicago’s budget solution, according to community leaders who have held protests throughout the city in recent weeks. The latest gathering was on Sunday, outside of United Airlines headquarters, to raise awareness of a sales tax evasion effort. Since 2007, United Airlines has received $50 million [...] Continue reading …

�67 Sueños Mural (67 Dreams) was unveiled last week in San Francisco at Ninth Avenue, between Mission and Market streets. The mural was born from the dream of San Francisco migrant students looking to raise awareness of current immigration laws that neglect the realities of undocumented youth in America, according [...] Continue reading …

The Raise Illinois coalition, convened by Action Now, and made up of low-wage workers, community, labor and religious organizations, marched down the “Magnificent Mile” to draw attention to the need for a higher minimum wage for working families in Chicago. The Miracle Mile is a shoppers’ Mecca, a tourist attraction, and a concentration of low-wage [...] Continue reading …

Tuition rates for Out-of-State Community College Students in Phoenix, Ariz., will cost three times more than last year, and school officials are required to report the immigration status of enrolling students. “The process in which these changes were implemented was done in secrecy, with original implementation task forces disappearing and other political interest groups supplanting [...] Continue reading …

As the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and ACLU attorneys prepare to ask a federal judge on Wednesday to stop the Alabama’s harsh anti-immigrant law from taking effect on September 1, youth leaders from United We Dream continue their peaceful vigil Alabama’s North District Court in Birmingham. Alabama’s HB 56 law is more restrictive than [...] Continue reading …