Border Action Network launches community education campaign

 Posted by on 2010/08/03  30 Responses »
Aug 032010
 
Border Action Network launches community education campaign

Arizona based Border Action Network today launched their “Get Informed, Be Prepared, Get Involved” community education campaign throughout the state! A new website (www.ban1070.com), has been established in addition to a new phone hotline to report abuses (1-877-908-1070), as well as a new strategy for community meetings across the state to educate, inform and prepare communities in Arizona to raise their voices against ALL of SB1070. BAN will be going school to school, church to church and house to house! We hope you’ll visit WWW.BAN1070.COM for lots more info on voter registration, legal challenges, boycotts & buycotts, abuse documentation, PSAs, mobilizations and more. The success in getting the draconian and unconstitutional SB-1070 enjoined was but a partial success. There is much MORE

Compassion and courage earn reward

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Dec 162008
 
Compassion and courage earn reward

]Congratulations to Isabel Garcia, whose determined and compassionate service to indigenous and immigrant communities finally has won positive national recognition. Garcia this week was given the Lannan Foundation’s $150,000 Cultural Freedom Award. We would like to supplement that award with 1 million thanks. Garcia has some spiteful enemies in the Tucson area, certainly, but they are outnumbered by her friends, fans and supporters. She co-founded the local Coalición Derechos Humanos (Coalition of Human Rights), which defends immigrants’ rights and publicizes conditions on our border with Mexico. She also fearlessly puts herself front and center at every opportunity to raise awareness about the hostility and maltreatment doled out to indigenous peoples, including illegal immigrants. Controversy erupted in July, for example, when MORE