Work is Criminal for Mississippi Undocumented David Bacon New America Media Apr 27, 2008 Editor's Note: The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system to verify immigration status, called E-Verify. It will become a felony for an undocumented worker to hold a job. David Bacon is the author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004). He
While attempting to tie up loose ends with my thesis in Jackson back on Tuesday, Someone gave me a flyer announcing that the Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Trumpet Records will be dedicated Saturday morning on Farish Street (in front of the old home for the label), supposedly around 10 AM. I was told there was to be a blues festival on Farish Street afterwards. Since 1/10 of my thesis has
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Progreso Weekly - May 17, 2007 http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=Landau&otherweek=1179378000 Four dead in Ohio: A rehearsal for Tiananmen Square? By Saul Landau In May 1970, 19 years before Chinese officials ordered troops to fire on its students and other citizens demonstrating in favor of democracy at
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Workers World - May 17, 2007 issue http://www.workers.org/2007/us/kent-jackson-0517 Remembering Kent and Jackson State By Caleb T. Maupin Thirty-seven years ago, demonstrating students were shot and killed at Kent State University in rural Ohio and Jackson State in Mississippi. New evidence has emerged about what happened
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Remembering Kent and Jackson State Massacres Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Workers World - May 17, 2007 issue http://www.workers.org/2007/us/kent-jackson-0517 Remembering Kent and Jackson State By Caleb T. Maupin Thirty-seven years ago, demonstrating students were shot and killed at Kent State University