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Asian Pacific rights group elects first openly gay chair
February 6, 2014Each community has a stake in immigration reform, he said, from family reunification to visa programs. "We as a coalition have been finding ways to raise our voices."
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Republicans issue sketchy immigration tenets
February 6, 2014The Republican principles give some things to the immigrant community but also impose severe new repressive measures.
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Day Laborers demand an end to deportations
February 5, 2014NDLON says current deportations, now approaching 2 million, run counter to U.S. history, have broken up at least 100,000 families, and damage the U.S. economy.
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Pete Seeger’s green activism in New York and New Jersey
February 4, 2014Seeger did much for New Jersey, taking a stand against ocean dumping . And he thought that a graceful boat would draw people to their forgotten riverfronts and imagine a different future for the Hudson River
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Marxist economist Richard Wolff draws overflow crowds
February 4, 2014They flocked to hear the unapologetically self-avowed "Marxian economist" who has long toiled in the obscurity of academia and left circles.
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