Massachusetts
Family Unity Campaign to Stop Cambodian American Deportations
From Deported Diaspora
ICE has been conducting targeted raids across the US over the past few weeks. They started to hit Massachusetts last week. We are in touch with four of the families picked up here in MA and two others picked up in Maine. ICE is targeting Cambodian Nationals with prior "orders of removal." All of the detainees are fathers and husbands to US-citizen children and spouses and have been the main income provider for their families including their elderly parents.
Student Vigil Forces Retraction of Anti-Immigrant Provisions
A two week long 24-hour immigrant student vigil led Massachusetts state legislative bodies to moderate anti-immigrant amendments attached to a State budget draft. The legislature's conference committee removed measures to create a hotline reporting on undocumented immigrants and the denial of in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities to undocumented sutdents. The state Senate had attached the measures.
STIRR Immigrant Rights Materials
Please find below materials for STIRR Immigrant and Refugee Rights work.
CIR ASAP Letter is a letter expressing support for CIR ASAP that we're asking organizations to sign onto.
Suppport_letter_ask is a letter asking organizations to sign onto the letter above
CIR-ASAP-Summary-Long is a ten page summary of CIR ASAP
CIR-ASAP-Summary-Short is a three page summary of CIR ASAP
petition_cir_asap is a petition that we're asking individuals to sign
Support Immigration Reform and the CIR ASAP Bill!
Support the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009. Luis Guiterriez (D-Illinois) has introduced a progressive bill that constructively addresses long-standing immigration issues in a just and humane manner.
CPA Boston Wins Step in the Fight for Bilingual Ballot
Mike Liu
Quincy MA: Racism Re-raises Its Head
by Tracker
The Quincy 4 Says No To Police Brutality: Trial Postponed to June 18th
Terri Oshiro
Viet Worker in Harassed and Fired in MA - Lubrizol Corp Sued for National Origin Discrimination:
EEOC Says Vietnamese-American Employee Taunted and had Work Sabotaged, and Co-worker Fired for Supporting Him
from a EEOC press release
BOSTON - Noveon, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Lubrizol Corporation, violated federal law by harassing an employee of Chinese and Vietnamese national origin, forcing him to quit, and terminating another employee who stood up for him, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
Death of Vietnamese Youth Bang Mai Recalls History of Boston Racial Attacks
On July 11, Bang Mai, a 16 year old Vietnamese youth from Medford, Mass. died in front of the Mary Ellen McCormack housing development in South Boston of as a result of “ a one-on-one fistfight [which] quickly degenerated into a bloody free-for-all" , according to the Boston Globe’s recounting of witness accounts. He was stabbed as he was walking away from another 16 year old, who had brought a knife to the fight. Initial official reports say Mai died from trauma and a stab wound.
MA Indian American Deliveryman Hospitalized after Hate Attack for Being Iraqi
Mike Liu
thanks to Eun-Joung Lee
Asian American Resource Workshop
South Asians and other Asian Americans are organizing to protest a brutal hate crime in southeastern Massachusetts. Four men tortured, stabbed, and kidnapped a Indian graduate student, who was delivering fast food as his part time job.
