Albany County District Attorney David Soares is considered a hero by many for his bold stances and refreshing approaches to delivering justice.

Pravda, one of Russia's major national newspapers, reported last week that the French Communist Party (PCF) condemned violent attacks on marchers participating in Moscow's Gay Pride parade on May 27.

One thing everyone agrees on regarding immigration is that the current system demands our attention. The critical question is, what kind of attention? Compassionate, inclusive and sustainable? Or just a quick and dirty political fix euphemistically called “comprehensive reform”?

In order to distract voters from the burning issues like ballooning gas prices, the degenerating situation in Iraq, Republican corruption in Congress, a slowing economy, and declining US credibility around the world, Bush and congressional Republicans have announced their support for extremist policies, say civil rights activists.

The Senate-passed immigration bill creates “an unjust, unworkable and undemocratic three-tiered society” among the nation’s 11 million-12 million undocumented workers, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney says.

Undocumented and documented immigration to the United States is at a record high in absolute numbers. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that there are as many as 12 million undocumented.

No Human Being is Illegal

The Fight For Immigrants’ Rights

In this print edition...

• No One Is Illegal: The Fight For Immigrants’ Rights, by Emile Schepers
• Made In China? The Crisis of US Imperialism, by Gerald Horne
• Recognizing Indigenous America in Times of War, by Susan Gooding
• Driven to the Brink: A Discussion of the Crisis in Auto, by Tony Pecinovsky
• Why Class isn’t just another ism, by Joel Wendland
• Current Letters (updated 5-25-06)
• Current Poetry

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an organization committed to achieving a just and peaceful world community with full dignity and freedom for every human being, stands in solidarity with the millions who have rallied, boycotted, and marched during recent months in defense of basic human rights for undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Iraq is a disaster and the treasury is hemorrhaging red ink to pay for it. Gas prices are soaring. Osama taunts us on videotape. Iran's going nuclear. Seven in 10 think the country's heading in the wrong direction. What do you do when you're in power and there's an election just around the corner? You trot out some old diversionary scapegoats once again.

The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, voting 10 to 8, voiced approval for the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which would amend the US Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages and civil unions.

Leaders of the immigrant rights coalition that mobilized masses of people for demonstrations nationwide on April 10 and May 1 announced a stepped-up campaign that includes lobbying lawmakers, more marches and plans to register and mobilize at least a million new voters around the immigration issue.

In response to President Bush’s national address on immigration today [May 15], the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC) voices its strong opposition to proposals that place National Guard troops at the border, initiate new guest worker programs and call for increased employer sanctions.

George W. Bush’s speech to the nation on May 15, 2006 highlighting deployment of the National Guard to the Mexican border represents an aggressive policy of racist, anti-immigrant demonization and hysteria.

Past and present immigration have many things in common. Both are largely the result of severe economic dislocations effecting regions following under the sway of industrial capitalism.

As the immigration policy debate heats up in Congress, the US public has been bombarded by a steady stream of racist, anti-immigrant sentiments.

While conducting research upon completion of his sociology Ph.D. in Houston in 1979, Dr. Robert Bullard noticed that all the city’s garbage dumps were located in and around neighborhoods inhabited primarily by African Americans.

“May Day” is an international signal of distress. When millions marched in the streets of cities across the United States, and hundreds of thousands protested throughout Mexico on May 1, International Workers' Day, they sent out an urgent message to end a system of global competition based on eroding labor rights.

Seizing any weapon with which to attack the growing movement for immigrant workers’ rights, the Republican Party and the right wing have found a new gripe: the recording of a Spanish-language version of the United States’ national anthem.

On Monday, May 1, over a million people filled the streets of Los Angeles, with hundreds of thousands more in Chicago, New York, and cities and towns throughout this country.

On May Day immigrants and their supporters filled the streets of Los Angeles twice in one day -- a huge march downtown, and another through the Wilshire district's Miracle Mile.