Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
September 29, 2014 Francisco Aguirre is a valued member of our community who has worked for many years in support of immigrants’ rights and worker empowerment. Sadly, he is now being targeted by the unjust US immigration system. The Portland Central America Solidarity Committee is steadfast in standing with Francisco and fighting immigration …
Download the Strike The Prisons newsletter from Pelican Bay In June 2011 groups in the Bay Area supported a hunger strike by some California prisoners protesting conditions in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay. The first hunger strike kicked off on July 1st and was followed by the second one in October of …
PCASC is proud to release our Spring 2013 issue of La Lucha Solidaria!
The Pentagon signed $444 million in non-fuel contracts for purchases and services in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 2012 fiscal year, an overall decrease of nearly 15% from the previous year.
Aspects of the bill that unions had advocated for; the right to a secret ballot and increasing transparency of union finances, were stripped in the lower house and not included in the Senate version.
Join us for a conversation on Tuesday, Oct 9th at 7pm @ 1820 NE 21st Ave
“The company’s refusal to sit down and talk – the willingness they are demonstrating to turn a blind eye to the hunger strike is incomprehensible. Both show an utter disregard for human life and specifically for the lives of workers on whose backs GM’s profits are made.”
In San Marcos Aviles, Chiapas, Mexico, people have stories markedly similar in basic plot to those I heard at Occupy Portland – if far more dire and often far more violent throughout the narrative – and they need listeners.
The FBI and ICE have a draft agreement that allows them to provide biometric information to a deportee’s country of origin upon repatriation, potentially putting people at risk of ethnic cleansing and discrimination upon returning to an oppressive or violent government.
