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Showing videos filed under: deportation
Maria Isa & Lah Tere, Water On The Table, & Immigration
March 4, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Seth Freed Wessler: Anti-Immigrant Legislation Spreading in States
March 4, 2011Last week, an Arizona State Senate committee approved a set of bills that would bar undocumented immigrants from public schools and hospitals and revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.Year in Review: Benevolent Occupation in Afghanistan?
December 30, 2009The war in Afghanistan largely took over the headlines this year from Iraq. Obama's escalation there has led many to call it his war. A couple of months ago, we spent an entire show focusing on the issue.Torn Apart: Deportation Destroys Families
October 28, 2009From ColorLines, the the national magazine on race and politics, we have a story of the unintended consequences of deportation.Aarti Shahani on Janet Napolitano's Law and Order Extremism
July 16, 2009Aarti Shahani on a recent decision by the Office of Homeland Security and Janet Napolitano to recruit 11 additional localities into the federal program, known as ICE, that turns traffic cops and jail guards into deportation agents. Shahani says that Napolitano is in fact a law and order extremist and that the ruling wasn't a total surprise.Goldman's Coup, David Corn on Sotomayor, and The Real Janet Napolitano
July 15, 2009“They frankly own the place,” Dick Durbin said back in April referring to the power that banks hold over policy decisions in Washington. After earning record profits in the last quarter the company is being lauded for taking risks. But are they risk takers or coup makers? Matt Taibbi, Mike Lux, and Robert Johnson on Goldman's profits. Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn on the Sotomayor hearings. And Jane Napolitano's Friday afternoon announcement that the Office of Homeland Security would be expanding law enforcement capabilities to deport immigrants hasn't gotten the attention it should. Aarti Shahani brings us an update.
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