sunday: who stopped the rain?

Tunisian Protests Move Hillary's Line on Democratic Reform
Sunday 16 January 2011
by: Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis

Photo: Protest outside Tunisian Embassy, January 14, 2011, by Collin David Anderson

Back in 1969, when Secretary of State Clinton was researching her senior thesis at Wellesley on Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky, she likely come across this saying of Alinksy's, which you can find in his book"Rules for Radicals":

Revolution by the Have-Nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the Haves.

Thursday, Secretary Clinton delivered what the New York Times called a "scalding critique" to Arab leaders at a conference in Qatar.

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Crap-O-de-Day!!!

A protest in front of the Oswego Border Patrol Office was held in October, 2008 as a response to an immigration raid two weeks earlier. Under employer sanctions the effects of immigration raids on communities continue. (Photo: Richard Vallejo) -->

The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions

Friday 31 December 2010

by: David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing | Fordham Urban Law Journal | Report

Workplace raids by gun-wielding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that resulted in the mass arrests of dozens and sometimes hundreds of employees have ceased under the Obama administration. But "silent raids," or audits of companies' records by federal agents, that replaced them have resulted in the firing of thousands of undocumented workers. The administration defends these "softer, gentler" operations, yet the result is the same: workers who are here to support their families are out of work.

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