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How for-Profit Prisons have Become a Big Lobby.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention budget includes a mandate from Congress that at least 34,000 immigrants remain detained on a daily basis, a quota that has steadily grown each year, even as the undocumented immigrant population in the United States has leveled off. Private prisons have profited… »
New York stands with Baltimore
Thousands of New Yorkers from across the five boroughs, #BlackLivesMatter activists and organizations that stand for social, economic, and racial justice rallied at Union Square to show the people of Baltimore that New York stands in solidarity with them and with their resistance because their resistance is for justice and… »
Three days of discussion in Boston on the Colombian peace process.
A three day conference was hosted in Boston [WHEN?] by Boston University, Harvard University and MIT focusing on the political and social situation in Colombia today and the challenges facing the country on… »
Prayer Service in New York for Earthquake Victims in Nepal
The ceremony was hosted by United Sherpa Association, USA at its monastery in Jackson Heights, on April 26, 2015. Nepal was hit by massive earthquake of 7.9 rector scale and several dozens aftershocks that have killed… »
No Immigration Reforms in the US under Obama.
New York, April 8, 2015 – During a Town Hall Meeting on immigration held in Jackson Heights tonight, the district’s congressman Joe Crowley said he was doubtful that any immigration reform would pass during what remains of President Obama’s second term. He said “It makes more sense with what is… »
Antanas Mockus the Master on Urban Democracy Spoke in New York
April 6 2015, The event was presented by NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Urban Democracy Lab. Together, Bogotá’s population participated in the shared creative project of addressing not only a soaring homicide rate and… »
NYC holds “Day of Remembrance” – American history of Japanese Americans internment camp
On March 28, The New York City Day of Remembrance Committee (DOR), a group of volunteers, held their annual event commemorating the struggles that Japanese Americans endured during World War II. This year’s program was a tribute to the late Yuri Kochiyama & The leaders of the Redress… »
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Into the Heart of Darkness
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a controversial regulatory and trade initiative. It is designed to integrate and coordinate the economies of the so-called Asia-Pacific region along global market-based lines. The signature trade proposal of the Obama administration, the TPP is being aggressively marketed as an economic growth initiative that… »
Caravana 43 Passed by New York City
In September 2014, dozens of students from Ayotzinapa’s teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero were attacked by police. #Ayotzi43DCSix people were killed. The police then forcibly disappeared 43 students, who have been missing ever… »
The Greatest Heist in History
By Danny Katch The vast majority of Americans have been the victims of one of the biggest and longest-lasting robberies in history. Danny Katch investigates–and uncovers the culprits. THE TENTH richest person in America stood before a private audience in the most expensive town in America and declared that he… »
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