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Brisenia Flores : Nuestra Hija

15 Jun 2009

60arivacainvasionjpeg When Brisenia Flores and her father Raul were shot to death by Shawna Forde and Gunny Bush, two anti-immigrant activists with ties to the Minutemen, they weren’t asked for their papers. The goal wasn’t to observe, document and report as Jim Gilchrist, the leader of the Minuteman Project, has said in trying to distance himself from his associates charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of aggravated assault. The goal was to use violence against a family viewed as expendable to help further their cause of using violence against those viewed as expendable.
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San Francisco Residents Defend Defending Immigrants

3:33 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| San Francisco · Comments Off

30 Jul 2008

signs%20juxaposed.JPG This morning I read that there was going to be a protest happening at San Francisco’s City Hall. The issue : the city’s supporting the human rights of immigrants, with or without documents. Not surprisingly, the Minutemen called the event against what they call “sanctuary city status”. Too bad the pro-immigrant crowd came out with more power. Email reports say that there are about 20 Minutemen and about 80-100 pro-immigrant and labor rights people representing.

Mil gracias to Nicole Rivera for giving us the update and permission to use some of her pics!!

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Border Patrol Goes After Nascar Crowd for New Recruits

1:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Sports · 1 Comment

24 Jul 2008

Not to stereotype or anything, but what kind of recruit does the U.S. Border Patrol hope to find by sponsoring a NASCAR racer? The same kind of candidate that they would get by having a Blackwater sponsored racer?

Why not recruit from the San Diego Minutemen? Seems they have the whole speech down packed based on how they acted outside the NCLR conference.

If NASCAR wants to gain fans in Mexico they may need to rethink their approach.

Via / Machochip, The Spy Who Billed Me, Citizen Orange, NASCAR

Who Says the Minutemen Aren’t Scary

9:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration · Comments Off

4 Feb 2008

Groups of more than 2 white men on a corner make me nervous to begin with (tongue firmly planted in cheek) but for those who say Minutemen aren’t scary or up for some good ole-fashioned threatening, well I guess the above was staged.

Via / Pro-Inmigrant

Minutemen : Now On Tour!

2:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · Comments Off

4 May 2006

The minutemen are coming! The minutemen are coming! Yesterday the Minuteman Project border patrol group began a 10-day cross-country caravan to Washington DC demanding tighter immigration contrl including a fence. Jim Gilchrist, who founded the volunteer border control group in Southern California a year ago said:

When you have 1 million illegal aliens marching on the streets, that is a declaration of domination over the United States. And that is not acceptable.

The caravan consisted of four camper vans and a handful of cars leaving Los Angeles and is set to arrive in DC on May 12.

Via / Yahoo

Documenting the undocumented

4:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts| Immigration · Comments Off

5 Apr 2006

Ever wonder what it’s really like to be an immigrant on the border? What about what it’s like to be a Minuteman? The creators of The Border Film Project, a photography project like none other I’ve seen, goes beyond the images we see in mainstream media to let the two groups tell their stories in photos. I wish I would have thought of this:

We are three friends – a Rhodes Scholar, filmmaker, and a Wall Street analyst – who spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.

The project looks to portray the reality of the border and it does a great job at that. The immigrant photos are a mixed bag of strikingly “normal” everyday photos — some even showing happiness — to shocking and disturbing. They tend to photograph things around them; snakes, plants, their homes, while the Minutemen take more pictures of themselves and their activities, such as target practice and manning a radio.

Cuellar “clarifies” himself

7:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs| Immigration| Politics| Texas · Comments Off

20 Feb 2006

The blogs were afire last week with the news that Representative Henry Cuellar (D.-Texas) was supporting giving the Minutemen $100 million dollars in federal money to “protect our borders”.

Blue Latinos and MoveOn.org quickly launched into attack mode. From Blue Latinos:

We can change this dreadful situation right now — simply by creating legal means for migrant workers to participate in our economy. Let us not deceive ourselves anymore. And let us not allow any politician — whether Latino or not — to deceive us further. Building walls and giving away badges to untrained, gun-toting vigilantes is not the way. There is a better way to reform our disgraceful immigration system.

Latinos to take over the world!

6:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California| Immigration · 2 Comments

28 Nov 2005

Or at least California. This is dedicated to our friend Lou Dobbs, who has been predicting this for years:

By 2020, California will be more crowded, its population older and its racial composition dominated by Hispanics, according to a report released yesterday.

The changes will pose challenges to state lawmakers, who will have to grapple with the additional pressures on already strained schools and health-care systems, according to the report by the California Budget Project.

Documenting the Undocumented

4:04 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Immigration · Comments Off

24 Nov 2005

The Border Film Project is very interesting project that hopes to raise awareness about the issues related to the border through images.

The purpose of the project is to capture the perspective of both immigrants coming to the United States and minuteman at the border attempting to stop them. Both groups are given disposable cameras to take pictures of their journey or their experience and they are asked to send them back to the Border Film Project.

Both sets of photographers have the power to show everyday Americans what they otherwise cannot see, providing a more personal look into a rich and complicated issue.

The project is run by Boston College grads Brett Huneycutt and Victoria Criado, and University of Arizona grad Rudy Adler.
At the conclusion of the project the various images will be shown in galleries in Mexico and the United States.

Via / Border Film Project

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