IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Hour 1 :: Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible…

  • Democracy Now! January 15, 2003

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929 April 4, 1968: To celebrate his birthday, we hear King outline his opposition to war; Sarah Jones performs Waking The American Dream, about new immigrants experience in America; she also discusses The Exonerated, a play about innocent death row prisoners; Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between…

  • Democracy Now! October 5, 2001

    POWER/PEACE/PERIL: The Pacifica Report from Pacifica Network News. |Power/Peace/Peril: The Pacifica Report from Pacifica Network News for Friday 10/05/01 CONTENT: The Bush Administration is ready to strike at Afghanistan. Reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan and the anti-war response…also immigration policy is impacting California and the Southwest…and does the new federal relief effort revive before the…

  • Democracy Now! February 25, 1999

    Jasper Trial; U.N. Seeks Retrial of American in Peruvian Prison; L.A. Eight Face Deportation; Levi Strauss Moves Plant Overseas |Jasper Trial An update on the sentencing phase of the murder trial of John William King, a white supremacist convicted of the capital murder of an African-American man (James Byrd, Jr.). GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, reporter for…

  • Fast Track Trade; The Criminalization of Immigration; Bart Strike

    (14 Minutes) Fast Track Trade President Clinton yesterday opened up a campaign to win special Congressional authority to negotiate new trade deals including the expansion of NAFTA. GUEST: Lori Wallach, dir. of Public Citizen’s Globla Trade Watch. (19 Minutes) The Criminalization of Immigration Discussion on the affects of anti-immigration legislation passed by Congress and signed…

  • Democracy Now! October 30, 1998

    Immigrant Voter Eligibility and the Latino Vote; The Latino Vote; Eliminating the Prisoner Vote; Election Races Around the Country |(14 Minutes) Immigrant Voter Eligibility and the Latino Vote A look at the status of the immigrant vote and why the INS has had problems processing the 500,000 citizenship applicants. A large portion of these applicants…

  • Democracy Now! July 21, 1997

    Campaign Finance Reform; Border Killing |(14 Minutes) Campaign Finance Reform Discussion on Campaign Finance Reform movement following a gathering of 150 activists in Raleigh, NC to discuss need for what they call Clean Money Campaign Reform. GUEST: Randy Kehler, a long-time activist and war tax resister, consultant to Public Campaign. Subject of documentary FILM: AN…