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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
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Wednesday, October 28th, 7:00pm, Southampton High School Auditorium – “Why We Migrate: Stories of Mexico’s Displaced” An Evening With Ana Maria Garcia. Ana Maria is an activist from Oaxaca, Mexico. She works with family farmers and indigenous communities to confront the root problem of migration. She co-founded the non-profit EDUCA to defend the rights the […]
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They say numbers don’t lie. But people can lie about numbers. On Monday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy issued a press release trumpeting his popularity with Hispanic voters, citing a poll from the well-respected Siena College Research Institute as evidence. What Levy neglected to mention, though, was that the statistics supposedly proving his “popularity” among […]
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In late September, Long Island Wins interviewed Francisco Hernandez, who claimed that he was discouraged from speaking publicly about several incidents that he thought were hate crimes. Hernandez said that he was told not to talk about the crimes by Mel Guadalupe, Suffolk County’s director of minority affairs. Guadalupe, for his part, denied the allegations, […]
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Pelted with beer bottles. Beaten with baseball bats. Shot with BB guns and assaulted with pepper spray. Or in the case of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero–who was attacked by a group of young white men in Patchogue, N.Y. last November–stabbed to death. For the past decade, violent attacks against Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y., […]
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Hi everyone- Earlier this month, we learned that Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy doesn’t take immigration issues seriously, after he cracked a joke about deporting kitchen workers during a Bay Shore roast. Levy’s spokesman dismissed the fury over the county executive’s comments, saying that advocates were being too politically correct, but last Saturday, we saw […]
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Hi everyone- In the past few months, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has tried to ingratiate himself with immigrants and Latinos, calling himself a “friend” to Latinos in a Spanish-language newspaper, and trying to wipe away the memory of past anti-immigrant remarks. But despite the new tone, neither Levy’s rhetoric nor his actions have changed. […]
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Hi everyone- This has been a busy month for immigration reform advocates, and we’ve had lots of blog posts about President Obama’s (somewhat delayed) immigration meeting with Congressional leaders, as well as posts about legislative priorities like the DREAM Act. Despite the president’s postponements, we still feel the time is right for change, and […]
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Diane Williams is an American citizen, who is Caucasion and American Indian. In January, she was deported to Honduras. Quotes from the article: …Immigration-rights advocates say thousands of people with credible claims to U.S. citizenship are detained every year by an overloaded immigration-enforcement system, in part because of pressures on agents to show results in numbers […]
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Important Events on Long Island: 1. Friday, May 8, 2009: PLEASE JOIN US IN REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF MARCELO LUCERO. The Long Island Immigrant Alliance is holding a memorial vigil to mark the six month anniversary of the death of Ecuadoran immigrant Marcelo Lucero. The vigil will be held at 7PM at the place where Marcelo Lucero was […]
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