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Tuesday July 27, 2010

Arizona. 1070. You.

National - In the last 5 years, over 6,000 immigration related bills have been proposed in the State Legislature - that's more than one a day per session. Rather than finding solutions to problems of unemployment, foreclosures, and in the educational system, it seems as though the state capital has become a legislative laboratory to make the lives of migrants miserable. It has become the status quo to blame immigrants for virtually every problem the state faces. In southern Arizona, the Border Patrol's presence has become the norm, as has the death toll of people found in the desert. And then we have Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, building upon his chain gangs and tent cities, parading around the city conducting raids and sweeps. He has already stated, he's willing to build tent cities all the way to the border to make room for migrants.Read More >

Monday July 26, 2010

Join The Fight Against SB 1070

National - This week in Phoenix a federal judge is hearing arguments from immigrant and civil rights groups, the Department of Justice and the State of Arizona over whether or not SB 1070 should be implemented on July 29. SB 1070 makes it a state crime to be undocumented and authorizes law enforcement to pull over and question any person they have a "reasonable suspicion" to believe doesn't have papers.Read More >

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Bill Quigley and Tony Romano: We Call These Projects Our Home

National - Public housing in this country is rapidly becoming endangered, and with it, the lives of low-income people. Public housing provides a safety net for the working poor and those on a fixed income, which is critical in today's housing market considering that as of 2008, there was no county in the U.S. where an individual working 40 hours a week at minimum wage could afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent.Read More >

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Residents and Tenants Call for Expansion and Maintenance of Public Housing

National - As Congress is poised to consider new legislation to drastically reform public housing, residents and advocates released a new report calling for Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to strengthen and expand public housing.Read More >

Thursday December 17, 2009

Op Ed: What's At Stake in Copenhagen?

National - La Paz, Bolivia, where I was born and spent my first 18 years "could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change," according to The New York Times.Read More >

Wednesday December 09, 2009

RTTC, Movement Generation Send Delegation to Copenhagen Climate Conference

National - As heads of states and social movements call on the US to take responsibility for its devastating impacts on the earth's climate, Movement Generation is preparing to take a delegation of U.S.-based grassroots social movement leaders, including RTTC members to Copenhagen December 12-19.Read More >

Thursday June 18, 2009

Documenting the Voices of Public Housing Residents

National - Over the past 8 months, the RTTC HUD workgroup has been engaged in an 8 city grassroots, participatory research project to highlight the major issues facing public and subsidized housing residents across the country.Read More >

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