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Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist Anti-Immigrant Bill HB56

By Ingrid Chapman, crossposted from Justice Roars. I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. [...Read more]

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How a radio station in Alabama is taking on the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant law (Part Two)

acij edmund pettus bridgeYesterday, a crowd of about 3,000 - 4,000 crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; Today, the Civil Rights activists continue on a week-long, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery.  These marchers, some of them veterans of the original 1965 march for voting rights that took the same route, are not just comme [...Read more]

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How a radio station in Alabama is taking on the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant law (Part One)

kids at anti hb 56 rally A year ago, Orlando Rosa was broadcasting music and setting up on-air talent for La Jefa, the largest Spanish-language radio station in Alabama. Then, in June, Governor Robert Bentley signed into law HB 56, on paper the strictest state law for criminalizing undocumented immigrants. [...Read more]

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No Safe Harbor in Alabama

for rent?By Hannah Adams, crossposted from The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Blog A little over four months ago a federal judge upheld most parts of the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law to date- Alabama’s infamous House Bill 56 (HB 56). [...Read more]

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Black Leaders Get Closeup View of Alabama’s New Jim Crow

By Elon James White, originally published on Colorlines. Recently I was invited to be a part of a delegation of labor leaders heading down to Alabama to speak out against one of the worst immigration laws in the country [...Read more]

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DREAM Activist Describes Fear After Alabama’s HB 56: ‘I’m Not The Only One’

By Julianne Hing, originally posted on Colorlines.com on 10/18/11. Families are fleeing Alabama, teachers are comforting the panicked children who are still in school, [...Read more]

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