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Private prison companies
At a recent URBAN-L. A. forum it was pointed out that deportations and detention have fueled the growth of the massive prison industrial complex, and a huge waste of economic resources. Mass detention has generated a billion-dollar industry for private prison companies, including the Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. Immigration and Customs Continue reading
UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees
“United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.”
See Article: UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees
Vigil in Murrieta on Wednesday
In a spirit of peace, we invite you to join us in a National Day of Action to call for peace, respect, and compassion for unaccompanied minors. Our Inland Empire action will be a vigil held in Murrieta. Continue reading
Children and families refugees
The children and families who are coming here from Central America are coming as a result of long-standing structural and historical inequalities and violence. At the minimum, they deserve refugee status. Continue reading
The wage war for public workers’ union
The reality is, as we know, that the Supreme Court judges that are appointed — are not neutral — and that they are appointed by larger ideological and capital interests. The larger interests now are turning back the many changes that came out of the labor, civil and human rights movements. The recent decision by the Supreme Court, in a 5 -4 decision, ruled that public-sector unions in Illinois cannot collect dues from health care workers who do not want to be part of a union (although they may benefit from the collective bargaining gains that the unions may win for all workers). This decision is part of an ongoing attack to destroy the bargaining power and membership of unions. It has the capacity to advance similar policies that will affect all unions in the future. Only our collective organizing efforts, alongside labor, can ensure that this does not happen.
Latin@ RoundTable Social
Please RSVP to the Latin@ RoundTable Social by July 4th to Amy at: (626) 347-7121
(Organized by Organizational Development Committee of the Latino and Latina Roundtable) Continue reading
Viewpoints: Latinos have paid price for broken criminal justice system
Immigration tops media coverage of Latino concerns for good reason, but California’s search for alternatives to mass incarceration puts Latinos at the center of a decision-making process that cannot be postponed. Latinos have paid disproportionate costs for the dysfunction. They’ll have to play a disproportionate role in any fix. Continue reading
University Investments into Prisons
The clearest link between havens of higher education and private prisons, are direct investments of a university’s endowment in CCA and GEO Group. The most public display of such nefarious investments has been at Columbia University, where in June 2013 a group of students discovered that their university owns 230,432 shares of CCA stock worth $8 million. Continue reading