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What Freedom? The No-Fly List and the “War on Terror”

July 14, 2010 – 12:14 pm

The “War on Terror,” immigration, and female circumcision — three issues that provoke intense debate but are seldom considered together. The story of Adama Bah not only shows how the three issues can be inter-related but illustrates how national security policies that supposedly protect the nation render raced and sexed bodies especially vulnerable.
Last Monday, Democracy [...]

By Fiona Lee | Also posted in *Feature*, International, Law, Politics, Race | Comments (0)

EXCLUSIVE Women Need Immigration Reform: What You Can Do About It

June 24, 2010 – 8:32 am

By Kate McCormack
Women immigrants in the United States are a positive force in their communities. Rather than criminalizing them, argues the author, we must let them take care of their families.
Recently on the Women’s Media Center site, Gloria Steinem and Pramila Jayapal argued that immigration is a woman’s issue—that far from matching the frightening image [...]

By Kate McCormack | Also posted in *Feature*, Advocacy, Exclusives, Exclusives Articles, WMC | Comments (2)

EXCLUSIVE: Surprise! Immigration Is A Woman’s Issue!

June 16, 2010 – 8:16 am

By Gloria Steinem and Pramila Jayapal
In the wake of the recent passing of the harsh anti-immigrant law in Arizona, Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer and cofounder of the Women’s Media Center, and Pramila Jayapal, an immigrant herself, and founder and executive director of OneAmerica, a national organization that works for civil and human rights for [...]

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EXCLUSIVE Women’s Stake in Fighting Arizona’s New Law

May 20, 2010 – 8:41 am

By Ellen Bravo
The author, a Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices alumna, reports back from a Mother’s Day delegation in Phoenix to protest the state’s treatment of immigrant women.

As the sheriff’s truck followed our van several blocks through Phoenix, I kept thinking what the sight of that vehicle would mean for Silvia or Esperanza [...]

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EXCLUSIVE On a Border Near Arizona: How Police Can Protect Immigrant Women

May 4, 2010 – 7:06 am

by Laura Tillman
As the Arizona governor tries to push back criticism of the new immigration law, other Southwest communities concentrate on fighting actual criminal behavior. The author describes a case in point in Brownsville, Texas.

Monica is applying for a visa after leaving an abusive relationship. In this photo she asked that neither her face nor [...]

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Arizona Immigration Law: Women Weigh In

April 28, 2010 – 3:40 pm

As the debate continues over the anti-immigrant bill that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law last week, which President Obama has openly condemned, women experts are speaking out on the issue – here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest.
Progressive Women’s Voices participant Sally Kohn published a column today in the Christian Science Monitor, [...]

By Catherine Epstein | Also posted in *Feature*, Politics | Comments (3)

EXCLUSIVE The Tea Party Movement – Taking the Pulse

April 26, 2010 – 9:48 am

By Peggy Simpson
So far this election year, the angry grass-roots organizing energy is strongest on the right, but the Tea Partiers are hard to pigeonhole says veteran D.C. journalist and frequent WMC reporter Peggy Simpson.

Now that the Tea Partiers seem to have found their sea legs in national politics, what is known about them? It’s [...]

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EXCLUSIVE The Tea Party Comes Out

April 26, 2010 – 9:32 am

By Marie C. Wilson
A fear of diversity is at the center of Tea Party anger, argues The White House Project’s Marie Wilson—the very quality that produces good decision-making and the innovation that is likely to pull us out of the Great Recession.
For several months Americans have watched the Tea Party movement grow and have asked, [...]

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Legal Matters

December 15, 2009 – 4:19 pm

Sonia Sotomayor made history last week as the first Supreme Court Justice to use the phrase “undocumented immigrant” with her debut decision in the case Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, No. 08-678. And immigration advocates everywhere are touting Justice Sotomayor’s choice as a step in the right direction.
University of California law professor Kevin Johnson explains [...]

By Stephanie Wolf | Also posted in Politics | Comments (1)

Thoughts on July Fourth—An American Dream Shattered

July 3, 2007 – 4:51 pm

I remember like it was yesterday. Every time I would act out one of my mischievous schemes, my mother and father would quickly remind me of their sacrifice.  “We came here with two suitcases—that’s it, two suitcases—and built everything from there,” were words I heard throughout childhood.  But it wasn’t until my teen years that [...]

By Nida Khan | Also posted in Exclusives, Exclusives Articles, International | Comments (0)