http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/ice 2008-07-20T10:35:17Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45457-re-chocolate 2008-07-20T10:35:17Z MayorGalvan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DjRfjiIZ5Pc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DjRfjiIZ5Pc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45457-re-chocolate"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52606" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Video Cam Direct Upload</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45457-re-chocolate">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45258-the-horrors-of-medical-care-in-immigrant-detention 2008-07-25T04:21:27Z Immigrant Justice <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y6O54y2z8C4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y6O54y2z8C4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45258-the-horrors-of-medical-care-in-immigrant-detention"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52332" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>In 2006, the Department of Homeland Security&#39;s Office of Inspector General found serious health and safety concerns at immigrant detention facilities and that detainees&#39; requests for medical attention were often ignored. </p><p>In this video, a young woman from Pakistan who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security for nearly two years while she sought refugee protection in the United States describes her experience being locked up with violent inmates and trying to access medical care. When she discovered a lump in her shoulder, a jail nurse told her &quot;it&#39;s just a fatty tumor&quot; and the government refused her request to see a doctor to have it checked out.</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/45258-the-horrors-of-medical-care-in-immigrant-detention">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44884-after-buses-and-trains-border-patrol-targets-domestic-ferry 2008-07-05T23:04:33Z DREAMActivist <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44884-after-buses-and-trains-border-patrol-targets-domestic-ferry"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/51343" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Following unprecedented checks on Amtrak and Greyhound buses, the U.S. border patrol is forging ahead with surprise raids on domestic ferry runs from the <a href="http://www.guidetosanjuans.com/">San Juan Islands</a>. So far agents have arrested over 50 people, 49 of them Latino, <strong>suspected </strong>of being &quot;illegal immigrants&quot; and turned them over to the ICE. </p><p>But besides capturing <strong>alleged</strong> illegal immigrants and a few citizens in possession of pot, they are also catching heat from islanders and tourists alike. Howard Rosenfeld, San Juan County council chairman, has expressed worries about the culture of fear that is putting off tourists. </p><blockquote><p>&quot;Most people just don&#39;t like it.&nbsp; It promotes a culture of fear. Anyone who acknowledges they are not an American gets taken aside. That creates a delay, and that&#39;s a disincentive for tourists to come and visit here.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote></p> </div> <a href="/blog/44884-after-buses-and-trains-border-patrol-targets-domestic-ferry">Continue reading</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44850-robby-roadsteamer-vs-radiohead-okay-computer 2008-07-25T04:22:04Z imonthepavement <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ar37rw0JUKs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ar37rw0JUKs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44850-robby-roadsteamer-vs-radiohead-okay-computer"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51308" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Robby names his album "OKAY COMPUTER" just like Radiohead... Whose is better?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44850-robby-roadsteamer-vs-radiohead-okay-computer">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44841-robby-roadsteamer-street-steamer-ice-cream-social 2008-07-25T04:22:04Z imonthepavement <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bCuZJvNJbUg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bCuZJvNJbUg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44841-robby-roadsteamer-street-steamer-ice-cream-social"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51299" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Robby Roadsteamer and the band has an Ice Cream Social for his Street-Team known as the Street Steamers... Chaos ensues...</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44841-robby-roadsteamer-street-steamer-ice-cream-social">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44731-border-patrol-ice-targeting-amtrak-greyhound 2008-07-10T22:08:38Z DREAMActivist <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44731-border-patrol-ice-targeting-amtrak-greyhound"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/51167" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>This news is a bit old but serves as a reminder for anyone who is unaware: If you are an undocumented immigrant traveling during these holidays or anytime soon between New York and Chicago, avoid Amtrak and Greyhound as there have been reports of undocumented students being apprehended and detained by the ICE. </p><p>Apparently, ICE is concerned about illegal immigrants and terrorists coming into the United States via the Canadian border and the Amtrak line from Chicago to New York cuts quite close to the Northern border.</p><p>U.S. Attorney <a href="http://caudleimmigration.blogspot.com/">Randall Caudle</a> states that under the Fifth Amendment of the United States (which applies even to non-citizens due to selective incorporation through the 14th amendment), individuals do not have to present ID to border patrol and ICE officers within the United States. In effect, we are violating one set of laws to enforce another set of laws--talk about sending mixed messages. </p><p>Happy 4th of July. Stay safe. </p><p>Next up: ICE checks on cyclists.&nbsp; </p> <br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/912940?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=912940">Caught in Transit: The Rochester Border Patrol Station</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/newshouse?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=912940">Newshouse</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=912940">Vimeo</a>.</p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44259-headzup-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-this-summer 2008-07-25T04:47:16Z headzup <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/agna8zjIZ60&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/agna8zjIZ60&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44259-headzup-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-this-summer"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/50638" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>President Bush is asked about the study which found that for the first time in human history, there will likely be no ice at the North Pole this summer.</p> <p>Read more about it here-- <br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-855406.html</p> <p>Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at <a href="http://www.headzup.tv">www.headzup.tv</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/44259-headzup-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-this-summer">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/43398-protestors-blast-ice-raids-in-east-houston 2008-07-03T12:06:43Z DREAMActivist <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/62DKdHeJ0gg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/62DKdHeJ0gg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/43398-protestors-blast-ice-raids-in-east-houston"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/49698" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Recently, ICE removed about 160 mostly undocumented female workers from Action Rags, a used clothing and rag exporting factory in East Houston.</p><p>A protester from SEIU asks a crucial question in this video: How does putting a working woman in jail keep this country safer?</p><p>What does society gain from imprisoning working women, wives, mothers and sisters who are not criminals?&nbsp;</p><p>As usual, there have been NO arrests of Action Rags or Shipley managers or company officials and ICE has not provided details of any sort of criminal investigation against the company.</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/43398-protestors-blast-ice-raids-in-east-houston">Continue reading</a> 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Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking.</p> <p>Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. </p> <p>He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.</p> <p>He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004).</p> <p>Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), a unique membership organization and worldwide network of strategists, business executives, scientists, and artists based in Emeryville, California. Established in 01988, GBN specializes in corporate scenario planning and research on the future of the business environment. From 01982 to 01986, Peter headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies. </p> <p>Schwartz is the co-author of both the 01999 books The Long Boom, and When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization, and is the author of the 01991 book, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. He is a member of the Long Now Foundation's Board of Directors.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41197-reasons-for-optimism-on-global-climate-change">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41013-green-father-s-day-gift-guide-zaproot-040 2008-07-25T04:20:54Z Viropop <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eFfmVkjztbc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eFfmVkjztbc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41013-green-father-s-day-gift-guide-zaproot-040"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/46244" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Our green Father's Day Gift Guide and the coolest things on two wheels or less.</p> <p>Community Site <br />http://boldurl.com/UCgwNh69</p> <p>BuyGreen.com 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urban products fair trade coffee inhabitat water cycle shortage twisted humor cfl wacky an inconvenient truth conscious reuse environmental activism organic freecycle</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41013-green-father-s-day-gift-guide-zaproot-040">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40904-nasa-uncovers-falschung-ice-on-mars-surface 2008-07-25T04:23:38Z Studio33 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eASzX2AVN0I&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eASzX2AVN0I&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40904-nasa-uncovers-falschung-ice-on-mars-surface"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/46123" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Gefalscht video via the Phoenix lander suggests the spacecraft's thrusters inadvertently uncovered a large patch of ice just below the Martian surface.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40904-nasa-uncovers-falschung-ice-on-mars-surface">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40148-u-s-deportation-system-inhumane 2008-06-07T15:34:16Z DREAMActivist <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpfLnXPd-GU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpfLnXPd-GU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40148-u-s-deportation-system-inhumane"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45306" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/40148-u-s-deportation-system-inhumane">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40115-us-system-of-deportation-inhumane 2008-06-21T20:09:17Z mpal <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpfLnXPd-GU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpfLnXPd-GU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40115-us-system-of-deportation-inhumane"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45270" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080501YT">therealnews.com</a> </p><p>Immigrant rights under threat by poor detention and deportation procedures.</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/40115-us-system-of-deportation-inhumane">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40076-ice-raids-an-entire-town-2-2 2008-06-09T10:41:33Z I Want Democracy Now <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jZR8M-7pCc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jZR8M-7pCc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40076-ice-raids-an-entire-town-2-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45228" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>from Flashpoints on KPFA, Friday, may 23</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40076-ice-raids-an-entire-town-2-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40077-ice-raids-an-entire-town-1-2 2008-06-09T10:41:33Z I Want Democracy Now <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1vsErTEsIrs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" 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src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44786" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>A Random Video I thought I would Post</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39680-i-m-hungary">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39562-postville-rally-in-waterloo-5-18-8-el-redado-en-postville 2008-07-25T04:40:16Z atomburke <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8w5WqidR26w&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8w5WqidR26w&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39562-postville-rally-in-waterloo-5-18-8-el-redado-en-postville"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44655" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Hundreds of immigration rights supporters marched over two miles to the site where detainees from last week's ICE raid in Postville have been processed for deportation.</p> <p>The National Cattle Congress, were some are still believed to be held, heard chants of "ICE go home!" and "No more raids!" from the families of those affected. Many onlookers were waiting at the site before protesters arrived.</p> <p>This video is a glimpse of the rally and some of the testimony of supporters, including some from the small NE Iowa town of Postville.</p> <p>More images from event at <a href="http://iowans.wordpress.com">iowans.wordpress.com</a> </p> <p>http://atomburke.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39562-postville-rally-in-waterloo-5-18-8-el-redado-en-postville">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39437-postville-iowa-a-national-disgrace 2008-07-22T10:17:47Z ZP Heller <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PrDXYMtGA4I&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PrDXYMtGA4I&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39437-postville-iowa-a-national-disgrace"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44517" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>What&#39;s going on in the small town of Postville, Iowa is a national disgrace.&nbsp; Last Monday, ICE agents raided the <span>Agriprocessors, Inc.</span> kosher meat packing plant in pursuit of illegal immigrants.&nbsp; They arrested 300 undocumented workers&mdash;the largest single-site raid in the country&mdash;which has left the town of less than 3,000 people in utter chaos.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>According to Nightprowlkitty at <a href="http://www.docudharma.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6756#128908">Docudharma</a> (cross-posted at <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/19/12408/9729">Daily Kos</a>), families are unable to reach or receive any info about their detained loved ones.&nbsp; Lawyers can&#39;t access these workers either.&nbsp; Children are afraid to leave their homes to go to school.&nbsp; And to top it all off, federal authorities have the ability to ship these detainees across country for deportation without any notice.</p><p>Postville epitomizes the dire state of our national immigration system.&nbsp; You have undocumented workers who are subjected to inhuman labor practices because they can&#39;t come forward, can&#39;t unionize.&nbsp; And you have an ailing national economy that relies on the labor of undocumented workers, just like in Postville.&nbsp; You also have detainees being <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011601463.html">mistreated</a>, even perishing, at the hands of grossly mismanaged private detention facilities, which <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/immigrants-prisons.html">make huge profits</a> at the taxpayers&#39; expense.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the families of these detainees (including children who are here legally by birthright) are left in the dark. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>With an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country, is Postville what we&#39;re going to see from now on?&nbsp;</p><p>Daily Kos also has ways to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/19/12408/9729">send aid to the Postville families</a> impacted by the raids.&nbsp;</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/39437-postville-iowa-a-national-disgrace">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39324-students-form-fire-to-beat-ice 2008-05-26T17:41:17Z DREAMActivist <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39324-students-form-fire-to-beat-ice"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/44387" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>ICE has been busy in the Bay Area this month raiding Mexican restuarants, picking up undocumented workers and harassing students outside their schools in Berkeley and Oakland. But their onslaught has not gone unanswered as community activists, students and even politicians have condemned ICE action.</p><p>From gathering in the hundreds to protest outside ICE offices in San Francisco to sending out &#39;ICE-alerts&#39; on the NLG Immigrant Committee list-serve to getting pro-bono attorneys for arrestees, the Bay Area Immigration Coalition has taken on the task to challenge the ICE.</p><p><span><span>Congresswoman Barbara Lee released a press statement, in which she stated</span></span></p><p><span><span>&quot;To conduct such an operation near or around a public school campus is a violation of the sanctity of the education process, and is intentionally meant to intimidate those who live in the community.&nbsp; I do not support these intimidation policies and I am planning a district outreach event in the future to hear directly from my constituents about their experiences with agency officials.&quot;</span></span></p><p>Incensed with the raids and unwanted presence of the ICE, students at Berkeley High school formed a new organization called Fighting for Immigrant Rights and&nbsp; Equality (FIRE) to first and foremost form a protective human chain around the school and later hold a protest day with teach-ins to send a strong message that the ICE was unwelcome in sanctuary cities. </p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/39324-students-form-fire-to-beat-ice">Continue reading</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39175-street-bangaz-trailer-2 2008-06-11T03:31:22Z Platanoman <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tLgssg50q_w&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tLgssg50q_w&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39175-street-bangaz-trailer-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44222" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This is the first dvd that features Reggaeton and Hip Hop artist. IT's coming soon.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39175-street-bangaz-trailer-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39174-icadon-street-bangaz 2008-06-11T03:31:22Z Platanoman <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/csUvMOrRAZM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/csUvMOrRAZM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39174-icadon-street-bangaz"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44221" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Icadon on the streets of New York with Street Bangaz</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39174-icadon-street-bangaz">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39170-tony-moxberg-street-bangaz 2008-06-12T03:32:37Z Platanoman <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0yhanxDmzc8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0yhanxDmzc8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39170-tony-moxberg-street-bangaz"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44217" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Tony Moxberg Freestyle Street Bangaz</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39170-tony-moxberg-street-bangaz">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38736-despite-clarification-nc-bars-undocumented-students 2008-07-25T04:48:16Z DREAMActivist <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V4FtNhGfXw4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V4FtNhGfXw4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38736-despite-clarification-nc-bars-undocumented-students"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44016" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>The debate over college admissions for undocumented students continues in North Carolina even after clarification from the U.S. Customs and Enforcement that federal law did not prohibit undocumented immigrants from seeking higher education.</p>And yet, today the North Carolina Community College system has decided to bar illegal immigrant students until further clarification: <br /><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote>&quot;Until we receive further clarification, we will no longer admit individuals classified as illegal or undocumented immigrants into curriculum degree programs.&quot;</blockquote><p><strong><u>What further clarification is needed?</u></strong> </p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/38736-despite-clarification-nc-bars-undocumented-students">Continue reading</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38542-the-immigration-detention-gold-mine 2008-06-21T20:01:31Z DREAMActivist <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPcsCxV0-tc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPcsCxV0-tc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38542-the-immigration-detention-gold-mine"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43525" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>PBS has now done a series on <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/immigrants-prisons.html">&ldquo;Immigrant Detainees- A New Profit Center?&rdquo;</a> giving us a look into how the private corrections industry is profiting from immigrants held in detention facilities. </p><p>&quot;Sometimes they get food...sometimes they don&#39;t... It&#39;s freezing in the winter time &hellip; and we have a lot of detainees that get sick.&quot;</p><p>The Washington Post just came out with a closer look at the system of neglect that characterizes immigrant detention. You can access that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/immigration/index.html">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>It costs an average of $100 per day of our tax dollars to house these immigrants&mdash;without proper food and medical facilities most of the time&mdash;behind bars, sometimes for long periods. </p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/38542-the-immigration-detention-gold-mine">Watch the video</a>