Archive for October, 2011
Eye-Witness to the Cruel Conditions in Tobacco Farm Labor Camps
Brenda Loya in AFL-CIO Media Affairs sends us this from North Carolina, where she is on a fact-finding trip to witness the brutal conditions endured by tobacco workers. We joined a diverse delegation of 25 activists, students, labor and community leaders and traveled to farm labor camps in Dudley, N.C.., to witness firsthand the appalling and [...]
Images of Occupy Oakland Clash with Police
New America Media, Video, Jean-Philippe “J.P.” Dobrin, Posted: Oct 26, 2011 Editor’s Note: After weeks of mostly peaceful demonstrations as part of the Occupy Oakland movement, police clashed with protestors last night, hurling tear gas into the crowd. Tensions rose early Tuesday when hundreds of police dismantled protestors’ encampment at civic center plaza. Two police officers were reportedly [...]
Near Desert Paradise, Coachella Farm Workers Live in “Favelas”
California Watch, Video, story: Patricia Leigh Brown, video: Carrie Ching, Posted: Oct 26, 2011 THERMAL – At one end of Avenue 54, a road slicing through some of the most fertile land in the United States, resides the California of the popular imagination: a place of Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners overlooking the infinity pool. [...]
New Documents Detail Sex Abuse of Detained Immigrants
Investigative Reporting Workshop, News Report, Catherine Rentz , Posted: Oct 20, 2011 Traducción al español Illegal immigrants held in U.S. immigration detention facilities filed more than 170 allegations of sexual abuse over the last four years, mostly against guards and other staff at the centers, according to government documents obtained by FRONTLINE and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A FRONTLINE [...]
