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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Kennedy: Families Pay The Price For Failed System
They apparently name this mess “Operation Return to Sender”. How… cute.
Boston Herald
All over New Bedford on Tuesday, hundreds of women and men woke up, kissed their children goodbye and left for another day of work at Michael Bianco Inc. They knew it would be a grueling day because there was no other kind of day in the sweatshop-like conditions of the factory. But they were willing to work hard and without complaint because they believed in the American Dream, in which hard work creates a hope for a better life - if not for them, then for their children.
What happened next was a tragic example of the desperate state of our current immigration policy. Hundreds of armed police and immigration officers raided the factory, creating panic among the workers. They handcuffed unarmed men and women in the same factory where the workers had already known nothing but indignity at the hands of their employer.
While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was ready with hundreds of officers to subdue a group of frightened workers, they were woefully unprepared to deal with the aftermath of their own raid. The DHS knew that it would be detaining young parents, and yet had no effective plan to identify and help the children who would be left alone. The photographs of bewildered, crying children told with eloquence the story of a government operation distinguished by its callousness.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Slated to be Stoned to Death, These Women Need Immediate Help
In a post aptly titled "Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters", Ali Eteraz warns us of an impending injustice affecting 7 women in Iran who are in danger of being stoned to death.
This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the
assistance of the women in Iran who have been sentenced to death by
stoning.
1. Read the background and an explanation of the punishment for stoning to death
in Islamic Law.
2. Realize
that crimes against chastity in Iran are a pervasive problem by going
to the website of one of the leading Iranian-American activists. There
you may watch a detailed 48 minute documentary about a woman executed
for a crime against chastity.
3. Spread word about this rally in Rome protesting the decisions by the
Iranian government.
4. Sign these two petitions which refer to the two of the seven
women sentenced. Activists in the US have gotten personal confirmation
that Iranian officials were influenced by petitions when they
previously ordered stays of executions. The first is for a woman named Kobra. The second is
for a woman named Malak.
5. Submit the following letter...
There are more suggestions on his site, including the form text of letters (which you can and should modify to personalize it) to send to various individuals, as well as their addresses and other ways to contact them. Eteraz ends (sort of) with this point:
8. If you fail to do any or even some of these, I assure you that you will remember the image of a bunch of stones pinging against a woman�s head cracking open her skull sometime after October 12. You have eight days.
Actually, as of this writing, only five days.
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