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Immigration March in Postville, Iowa

2008-09-06T14:21:41Z

On May 12, 2008, nearly 400 workers were arrested in an ICE raid on the Agriprocessors, Inc., meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. In the following months, witnesses and news media reported a number of human rights and due process violations against the workers that took place at the plant and in the makeshift courtrooms set up by the U.S. government following the raid. On July 27, 2008, activists and people of faith from Iowa and across the country marched in Postville to show solidarity for the workers and their families and to call for fair and humane immigration reform.

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Woody Guthrie's I Ain't Got No Home

2008-07-09T13:46:57Z

Woody Guthrie's song about the displaced, the homeless, the migrants. Although this was an attack on capitalists and corporations during the depression, in this age of uffettered corporate control of society and government, in this age of anti-immigrant and anti-worker hysteria whipped up by the discredited but still dominant corrupt corporate media, with home and farm foreclosures at an all-time high, Woody's words were never more true for millions of Americans and immigrants.

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Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty

2008-07-09T13:25:20Z

Woody's beautifully stirring and truly patriotic "Pastures of Plenty" extolling the virtues of the migrant workers, or "illegals," as they are now abusively called. They have always been at the heart of America's food production. The spirit of Cesar Chavez is in this song. Guthrie's song was relevant in the thirties, in the sixties, in the eighties, and never more so than in the everpresent....

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Woody Guthrie's Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

2008-07-09T13:21:23Z

I have performed this Woody Guthrie musical lecture for over 30 years. I always end with this piece, and despite any tricks I use to try to fool myself, I wind up feeling the words and being moved to tears by the end of it. One of a handful of songs that make an incredibly personal yet universal statement about the devestating impact of injustice and greed.

Another of Guthrie's indictments of ruthless capitalism, it is a brilliant answer to the far-wrong's faux flaps over workers deemed "illegal." My spoken introduction to this piece at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0gNvsdCCxA&feature=related

includes a discussion of Chapter 25 from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and the corporate greed that manipulates the "market" while workers starve.

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Do Open Borders Benefit All? - Viv Regan

2008-07-07T14:42:39Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

NGO organizer Viv Regan argues against stricter immigration controls to Britain, on the claim that open borders and freedom of movement benefit all members of a society in the long run.

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A Debate: "This House Would Let in Fewer Immigrants."

Two teams debate the proposition that immigration policy be changed to reduce the numbers of immigrants allowed into Great Britain. - Cambridge Union Society

Viv Regan is Assistant Director of education charity, NGO, NVYO WORLDwrite which campaigns for global equality. She is also Producer of Chew on it productions and is a freelance assessor of youth programmes and co-director of the educational consultancy ME-WE.

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A Tighter Border for Great Britain? - Roger Helmer

2008-07-07T10:41:15Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Roger Helmer, Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament, argues for increased border security based on what he identifies as four principal categories of immigrants to Britain.

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A Debate: "This House Would Let in Fewer Immigrants."

Two teams debate the proposition that immigration policy be changed to reduce the numbers of immigrants allowed into Great Britain. - Cambridge Union Society

Roger Helmer is a British politician and a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region. He has described himself as a eurosceptic and is a supporter of the Better Off Out campaign.

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Heather MacDonald - The Costs of Immigration

2008-06-12T03:31:05Z

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Author Heather MacDonald outlines various social and economic costs of illegal immigration.

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The Immigration Debates: Spotlight on the U.S. Mexico Border with panelists Jorge Bustamante, Emilio Gonzalez, Bob Kerrey, Heather Mac Donald, and Aristide Zolberg.

How to secure the U.S.-Mexico border is a hugely contentious issue in the immigration debates shaping the 2008 presidential race. A panel of experts will discuss the challenges of securing the world's most frequently crossed border and the immigration policy agendas heating up the campaign trail - The New School

Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. Her newest book, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, coauthored with Victor Davis Hanson and Steven Malanga, chronicles the effects of broken immigration laws and proposes a practical solution to securing the country's porous borders.

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Jorge Bustamante on Immigration: Not Just A Domestic Issue

2008-06-11T21:29:53Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Notre Dame Professor of Sociology Jorge Bustamante argues that illegal immigration in the U.S. should not be regarded as a purely domestic issue.

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The Immigration Debates: Spotlight on the U.S. Mexico Border with panelists Jorge Bustamante, Emilio Gonzalez, Bob Kerrey, Heather Mac Donald, and Aristide Zolberg.

Jorge Bustamante is the President and founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues. He is the author of numerous studies on the sociology of the border region between the United States and Mexico and on Mexican-origin residents of the United States. Bustamante is a leading participant in international scholarly networks dealing with these themes and has played a major role in building and sustaining scholarly linkages between Mexico and the United States.

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Emilio Gonzales - Getting Immigration Reform Right

2008-06-11T21:29:51Z

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Emilio Gonzalez, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, argues for moderation on the hot-button issue of immigration reform.

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The Immigration Debates: Spotlight on the U.S. Mexico Border with panelists Jorge Bustamante, Emilio Gonzalez, Bob Kerrey, Heather Mac Donald, and Aristide Zolberg.

Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D, serves as the current Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary position within the Department of Homeland Security.

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PRESIDENT BUSH YOUR FUNNY - JUST HILARIOUS !

2008-06-12T09:30:42Z

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WARNING -- "THIS IS ILLEGAL"

2008-06-12T09:30:40Z

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3 CORRUPT CEOs from the CREDIT CARD COMPANYS

2008-09-06T12:32:27Z

THESE 3 CORRUPT LYING SON OF BITCHES FROM THE BIG 3 CREDIT CARD COMPANIES APPEARED ON CAPITOL HILL TODAY IN FRONT OF SEVERAL POLITICIANS FOR QUESTIONING ON THEIR FRAUDULENT CREDIT CARD RATES THEIR FUCKIN PEOPLE WITH, LIKE EVERYBODYS STUPID ABOUT,, THESE GUYS ARE WORTHLESS FUCKS !

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John McCain - On Immigration Reform

2008-06-09T09:34:40Z

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U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain gives his views on American immigration reform.

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The Aspen Institute hosts Republican Presidential candidate John McCain as a featured speaker at a special installment of the McCloskey Speaker Series. The series is made possible by a gift from the McCloskey Family Charitable Foundation.

After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1958, John McCain began his career as a Naval aviator. In 1982, he was elected to Congress representing what was then the first congressional district of Arizona. In 1986, he was elected to the United States Senate to take the place of Arizona's great Senator Barry Goldwater. Senator McCain is currently the senior senator from Arizona.

In 2000, Senator McCain ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. He is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He also serves on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

McCain formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on April 25, 2007.

Senator McCain has seven children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Cindy, reside in Phoenix.

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Karl Rove - Defending Bush's Immigration Policy

2008-06-17T21:30:11Z

Karl Rove - Defending Bush's Immigration Policy

Complete video at: fora.tv

White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Republican Party strategist Karl Rove defends the Bush Administration's policies on illegal immigration.

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Karl Rove in conversation with Walter Isaacson at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.

Karl Rove is Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff and a Senior Advisor.

Prior to his current appointment, Rove served as chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign and as president of Karl Rove and Company, an Austin, Texas-based public affairs firm. He previously served as a member of the Board of International Broadcasting, which oversees operations of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and served on the board of the McDonald Observatory. Karl also taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and in the Journalism Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

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