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Social Justice/Human Rights

Two Ways to Oppose Arizona’s New Immigration Law

April 28, 2010

From: Bindhu Vijayan
Immigration Attorney, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
I’m part of a South Asian progressive action group and Arizona’s new immigration law, SB1070, has been a hot topic of discussion.
Here are a couple of things you can do to voice opposition:
1) Write/ or call Gov. Jan Brewer’s office with this message: [...]

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Angela Kelley: What Arizona’s New Immigration Law Means

April 27, 2010

Source: Center for American Progress
http://www.americanprogress.org
Angela Kelley on Arizona’s New Immigration Law

The text:
What’s going on in Arizona?
Last Friday, the governor of Arizona signed into law a sweeping measure that would basically empower state and local police to arrest anybody that they have a reasonable suspicion is an illegal immigrant. It’s a sweeping law, it’s a law [...]

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Ariz. Law May Be Blessing in Disguise for Immigration Reform

April 27, 2010

Just for a moment, let’s try to lower our blood pressure over Arizona’s putrid new immigration law, SB1070 – or as we call it around here, SunuvaBitch 1070 – and consider a positive.
That’s right – a positive.
Maybe this is exactly what comprehensive immigration reform 2010 really needed.
Maybe this is actually a tilting point.
Maybe, just maybe, [...]

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Furor Grows Over Arizona’s New Immigration Law

April 27, 2010

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Arizona Immigration Law Already Backfiring

April 27, 2010

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Law Quotes of the Day

April 13, 2010

“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.”
- Isaac Rosenfeld
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“Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the 10 Commandments.”
- Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
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“I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.”
- Keith Richards
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“Although the legal and ethical definitions [...]

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Dream Walkers Meet Puente Human Rights Caravan

April 12, 2010

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5 of Our Fave Quotes

April 5, 2010

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the”world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.”
- Margaret Mead
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where [...]

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Spar & Bernstein’s Fave Quotes on Social Justice

March 30, 2010

“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.”
- James Baldwin
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“I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.”
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College Class on Immigration May Breed Needed Understanding

March 26, 2010

By Mariana Vazquez Garcia
New York Immigration Attorney, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
Just four years after the town of Hazelton, Pa., became ground zero in the national debate on immigration and undocumented immigrants, a class about it is being held 80 miles away at Temple University.
It’s called the “War in Hazleton: Main Street Meets [...]

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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Reality Check

March 19, 2010

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Undocumented Immigrant: Out of the Shadows

March 15, 2010

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Undocumented students pressure Sen. Durbin on immigration

March 12, 2010

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Human Trafficking: Horrific Byproduct of Broken Immigration

March 5, 2010

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Thinking about Sen. Ted Kennedy Today

March 3, 2010

It’s hard to believe that Ted Kennedy died just around six months ago, and while some people will only remember him as the youngest, if not the most controversial, of the Kennedy brothers, we here at Spar & Bernstein wish you’d remember him for so much more than that.
For all his flaws and dark [...]

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S&B’s Exclusive Interview w/Immigration Activist Will Coley

February 23, 2010

Will Coley has been an advocate for immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and Los Angeles as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain, for organizations such as Catholic Charities, American Friends Service Committee, Jesuit Refugee Service and Homies Unidos. For many years, he served as the chair of the Detention Watch Network leadership [...]

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Raging Grannies Sing for Immigrant Rights

February 22, 2010

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NY State Road Trip for Immigration Reform Ends in Brooklyn

February 19, 2010

With necks tucked deep into their coats on a cold, windy Friday afternoon in New York City, in front of an Islamic mosque in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, they stood outside on a sidewalk, around a dozen of them, for nearly half an hour, faces beaming with triumph but words strained by the depths of pain.
Some [...]

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Brad on Immigration & Plight of “Trail of Dreams” Walkers

February 12, 2010

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The Struggle

January 28, 2010

Love this video. Says so much in just over two minutes. And you can feel the pain.
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