Honduras prisoners riot at jail in San Pedro Sula
Honduran prisons are notorious for overcrowding, rioting and violence; 13 inmates died in the same jail in March.
May 2012
May Day Recap (featuring PCASC’s stop at Wells Fargo)
Mobilizing around Wells Fargo during the main march, the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee targeted Wells Fargo for investing in GEO Group, a private prison corporation.
Occupy Sports: Corporate Tax Dodgerball
Armed solely with their cunning, chicanery, deceit, campaign donations/bribes, lobbyists, owned representatives at various levels of government, and general sociopathy, a group of corporate CEOs nearly ran the table in the Tax Day Dodgerball Competition this afternoon at Terry Schrunk Plaza.
Immigration: Insecure Communities
When Arizona’s State Bill 1090 was being written, Hashimoto said immigrant rights activists in Arizona warned groups elsewhere that it was just the beginning. Since then, numerous other states have passed their own anti-immigrant legislation, some more draconian than the Arizona version.