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Showing videos filed under: Rinku Sen
Rinku Sen: Arizona's Immigration Debacle
April 27, 2010Last Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the country's most repressive immigration bill, SB 1070, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants and gives police the authority to demand papers from anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Though Brewer, a Republican who took over from Janet Napolitano when she left to become Obama's Homeland Security secretary, claims that there are protections in the bill to prevent racial profiling, it's hard to imagine a way that officers will decide from whom to demand papers that won't involve the color of their skin or the language that they speak.Rinku Sen, Economic Recovery, and New York's Doormen
April 26, 2010Last Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the country's most repressive immigration bill, SB 1070, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants and gives police the authority to demand papers from anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Though Brewer, a Republican who took over from Janet Napolitano when she left to become Obama's Homeland Security secretary, claims that there are protections in the bill to prevent racial profiling, it's hard to imagine a way that officers will decide from whom to demand papers that won't involve the color of their skin or the language that they speak.Accidental Americans: Our Immigrant Labor Force
November 21, 2008How about a new comprehensive, humane plan for immigration? While president-elect Barack Obama acknowledges that the US economy depends on millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows, the issue of immigration reform has itself remained in the shadows. The question of how attitudes toward 11.9 million undocumented immigrant workers will or or won't change in a workplace of diminished opportunities for everyone needs to be called.Well, there are those withThe Right To Organize, Accidental Americans, and The Warning
November 20, 2008While Barack Obama's website acknowledges that the US economy that depends on millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows, the issue of immigration reform has remained there - in the shadows, glaring only in its absence from the Presidential debates and campaign coverage. Nonethless as the economy plunges ever deeper into crisis, the question remains as to how attitudes toward 11.9 million undocumented immigrant workers will or or won't changeObama Organizers, The Pending Execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon
September 17, 2008Barack Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus was a watershed moment in American politics. Many in the press were surprised that he pulled it off and naturally asked how he did it. Though Republicans have done their best to belittle community organizing in recent weeks, there is no doubt that the Obama campaign has brought something new to the political scene.Media Roundtable: Obama Tacks Right, Nader Talks, and the Subprime Swindle
July 1, 2008Last week the spotlight was on Barack Obama and whether he’s a liberal democrat who’s moved to the center or a centrist in sheep’s clothing. Most of the major news outlets—the LA Times, Washington Post, and even the Wall Street Journal—covered what was described as Obama’s flip-flop, or near apostasy, on everything from campaign finance reform and trade to guns and the death penalty.Obama’s Rightward Tack, Election Day, and the Second Amendment
June 30, 2008Last week the spotlight was on Barack Obama and whether he’s a liberal democrat who’s moved to the center or a centrist in sheep’s clothing. Most of the major news outlets—the LA Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal—covered what was described as Obama’s flip-flop on everything from campaign finance reform, to guns, and the death penalty.
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