Meet Mansimran: Immigrant teen overcomes bullying

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Monday January 23, 2012 · 11:15 AM PST

2012/01/23 · 11:15

Meet Mansimran. He's All-American, likes Starbucks, basketball, and he's Sikh. When faced with bullying he says: “Come over here, I'll tell you about Sikhism.”

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National award honors three Arizona winners for immigrant rights

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Wednesday September 28, 2011 · 11:34 AM PDT

2011/09/28 · 11:34

On Wednesday, September 28th, the Freedom From Fear Award will hold a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix to celebrate Arizona’s three winners of the award, which honors “15 ordinary people who have committed extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees—individuals who have taken a risk, set an example, and inspired others to action or awareness.”

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Wednesday September 21, 2011 · 8:56 AM PDT

2011/09/21 · 08:56

Early one morning, Maria—then nine months pregnant—and her family were stopped by the police for no discernible reason. A special breakfast outing became a nightmare—and at one of the most intimate moments of her life, Maria found a team of immigration agents—not her husband—by her side.

Maria’s chilling story is the centerpiece of “Checkpoint Nation? Building Community Across Borders,” a powerful new documentary that depicts the reality of post-9/11 racial profiling...

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Wednesday September 07, 2011 · 8:38 AM PDT

2011/09/07 · 08:38

Rights Working Group and renown progressive scholar Melissa Harris-Perry will hold a Twitter Chat, TODAY from 3-4 pm ET, about racial profiling and ways to reclaim and expand rights lost after 9/11.

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 3:08 PM PDT

2011/08/10 · 15:08

As the nation continues to grapple with the effects of a broken immigration system, artists across the country are doing their part to highlight the issue.

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Wednesday August 03, 2011 · 8:52 AM PDT

2011/08/03 · 08:52

The way this story has unfolded thus far and the way Ms. Diallo has been discussed in the media, both before and after she came forward with her account gives us an opportunity to talk about violence against women, especially those who are immigrants to the US.

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Two fathers face deportation and separation from their families

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Thursday July 28, 2011 · 2:36 PM PDT

2011/07/28 · 14:36

There have been countless families that have been fractured as a result of a broken and unfair immigration system that simply doesn’t account for the complexities in each case. The government is denying due process and fairness to communities by enforcing laws that do not allow immigration judges to rule on a case-by-case basis. Laws passed in 1996 eliminate important legal rights that previously enabled immigrants to challenge their detention and deportation. And in a post 9/11 world, these legal rights have been reduced even more dramatically, taking away immigration judges’ ability to consider the circumstances of each individual’s case, leading to mandatory detention and deportation for many.

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Norway killings reveal politics of hate

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Monday July 25, 2011 · 3:12 PM PDT

2011/07/25 · 15:12

As the world reels from this violent tragedy, we must remember that the responsibility for not allowing the politics of hate to spread lies with each and every one of us. If anything, this tragic moment should become a turning point for a more honest conversation that uplifts each other and upholds the rights for everyone to live fairly with dignity and equality and justice.

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Friday July 15, 2011 · 10:48 AM PDT

2011/07/15 · 10:48

Ever since its launch, the Secure Communities program (SComm) has whipped up one storm of controversy after another, continually being criticized by advocates, officials and local law enforcement for its lack of transparency and accountability, the threat to public safety, due process and justice that it poses, and its indirect but obvious encouragement of racial profiling. The immigration reform movement, however, recently marked a series of small victories. The infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa Country, Arizona, has been ordered to pay two men, Julián and Julio Mora, $200,000 in a racial profiling case.

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Watch “A Better Life”- a powerful film about an undocumented family

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 12:09 PM PDT

2011/07/12 · 12:09

Undocumented stories are being told. Just recently, award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas came out of the shadows. For years, the Dreamers – the students actively fighting for the Dream Act – have been sharing their stories. And now, A Better Life is bringing the story of an undocumented family to mainstream theaters.

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Unlike the woman in the DSK story, most immigrant women are afraid to report sexual assault

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Thursday June 16, 2011 · 9:40 AM PDT

2011/06/16 · 09:40

Victims of violence, such as sexual assault and rape, must be supported and made to feel safe and secure and given the justice they deserve, instead of being intimidated into silence. Denying basic human rights to one group will inevitably affect all our freedoms.

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Georgia Is Not a "Show Me Your Papers" State

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Tuesday June 07, 2011 · 3:31 PM PDT

2011/06/07 · 15:31

This week the ACLU and ACLU of Georgia along with a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit challenging Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant law inspired by Arizona’s notorious S.B. 1070.

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Meet Mansimran: Immigrant teen overcomes bullying

National award honors three Arizona winners for immigrant rights

Checkpoint Nation? Building Community Across Borders

TODAY join Rights Working Group and Melissa Harris-Perry on Twitter to discuss profiling and rights

Creative activism: when arts meet immigration reform

The DSK case sheds light on violence against immigrant women and the role of men

Two fathers face deportation and separation from their families

Norway killings reveal politics of hate

Small victory as Arpaio penalized, but changes to SComm fail to address problems

Watch “A Better Life”- a powerful film about an undocumented family

Unlike the woman in the DSK story, most immigrant women are afraid to report sexual assault

Georgia Is Not a "Show Me Your Papers" State