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First gay couple to have civil partnership recognised
Source: Irish Times
By CARL O'BRIEN. GLENN CUNNINGHAM and Adriano Vilar have become the first gay couple in the State to have their civil partnership formally recognised by the State.The couple, who work at Argos, formed a civil partnership at a ceremony in Northern Ireland last year.Like other…
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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
$450,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Immigrant Activists Regroup
Source: The Nation
by Daniel AltschulerOver the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become one of this country's strongest grassroots forces. Nationwide, grassroots groups and legislative coalitions have mobilized millions of people to protest punitive enforcement laws, promote legalization for undocumented people and demand access to state…
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Reasons for Optimism on Immigration and Progressive Reform
In October 2010, award-winning journalist Bill Moyers moderated a discussion between Gara LaMarche, President of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Campaign for Community Change about the road ahead for progressives in the current political climate, and the connection between philanthropy…
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How Can Progressives Overcome Big Money & Big Media?
In October 2010, award-winning journalist Bill Moyers moderated a discussion between Atlantic's President Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava, the Executive Director of the Campaign for Community Change about the road ahead for progressives in the current political climate, and the connection between philanthropy and social justice advocacy. The event,…
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Moyers, LaMarche, Bhargava: Towards Progressive Reform
Bill Moyers Interviews Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava: Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice 19 October 2010 Nearly twenty-one months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the social justice movement - and its funders - are at a crossroads. Is there still momentum for progressive reform, and…
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Letters - Born in the U.S.A.: Should That Make You a Citizen?
Source: The New York Times
This edition of Letters to the Editor is in response to Peter H. Schuck's op-ed, "Birthright of a Nation" on August 14, 2010. Contributors include Bruce A. Morrison, a former member of Congress who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Edith Asibey,…
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The Changing Face of America: Going Beyond the Rhetoric on Immigration
Source: UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
An Intensive Institute for Journalists, November 14-17, 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Graduate School of Journalism and the Warren Institute at Berkeley Law are organizing a four-day institute for working journalists on covering immigration, an issue that has become central to debates…
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Field Dispatches: Elev8 youth-led immigration forum
Source: The Federation for Community Schools
On Saturday, August 7th at Orozco Academy in Chicago, more than 400 youth, parents, and community members came together to support comprehensive immigration reform. Let by teams of youth from each of the five Elev8-Chicago sites (Ames/Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Marquette/SouthWest Organizing Project, Orozco/The Resurrection…
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How We Adopted the Fourth of July
Source: The New York Times
Perhaps because America is a nation of immigrants, immigration has always been a fraught political issue. How immigrants define themselves and how the laws determine who is welcome and who is not have played out in various ways throughout American history. Yet immigrants are among…
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