The last report of Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Italian immigrants detention centers withouth residence permit shows that, in five years, nothing has changed. The situation, unfortunately, is even worse.
Inter Press Service reports that over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix this past week to demand an end to the criminalization of undocumented immigrants and the passage of immigration reform legislation.
Arizona is considered ground zero for the immigration debate due to its severe anti-immigrant policies and the controversial figure of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose deputies conduct frequent immigration sweeps in Latino neighborhoods.Inter Press Service reports that over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix... more
Italy is a racist country: now, after what have happened in Rosarno, also Egypt and UN are saying this. But our government don't really care about it. Now is more important the law on the "fast process" and, once the problem settle down, Berlusconi will forget this problem, again.
For years, the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government list of such deaths, few facts were available about who these people were and how they died.
But according to the Times it is now clear that the deaths had already generated thousands of pages of government documents, including scathing investigative reports that were kept under wraps, and a trail of confidential memos and BlackBerry messages that show officials working to stymie outside inquiry.For years, the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails went... more
The apartheid, racial segregation between whites and blacks in South Africa was in force until 1994 and in the United States in practice until the 60s. But those situations were determined by historical roots going back two or three centuries. Italy however is building its apartheid in less than twenty years. Before 1989 immigration in our country was so limited as not to be significant, but today we have race riots and school classes with a 30% maximum of foreigners. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/italiaapartheid090110.htmlThe apartheid, racial segregation between whites and blacks in South Africa was in... more
If you treat men like slaves, their only chance to defend their rights will be a violent uprising. What happened in Calabria is the result of years of criminal indifference on the part of citizens, national and local politics, to the benefit of organized crime. Immigrants who work in agriculture, in Calabria, as in many other places in Italy, live in inhumane conditions, controlled by a system of overseers. And their situation suits many. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/calabriaimmigrati080110.htmlIf you treat men like slaves, their only chance to defend their rights will be a... more
What will happen if, suddenly, four and a half million immigrants (who work in Italy) go on strike? We will discover it on March 1st, 2010. A protest to show how without immigrants we do not live better.
The second Prodi government was a kind of mini Berlusconi government. Not so for the duration, as for the decisions taken: the war in Afghanistan andn the increase in military spending, incinerators, Tav, the base of Vicenza, attacks on the judiciary (the case De Magistris), no committee of inquiry into the facts of the G8 in Genoa 2001, no solution to the conflict of interest, no law on civil unions, and nothing for work and against precarious jobs. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/whatpoliticiansdo/polticaopposizione271209.htmlThe second Prodi government was a kind of mini Berlusconi government. Not so for the... more
"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008.
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Pendergraph knew that ICE could disappear people, because he knew that in addition to the publicly listed field offices and detention sites, ICE is also confining people in 186 unlisted and unmarked subfield offices, many in suburban office parks or commercial spaces revealing no information about their ICE tenants -- nary a sign, a marked car or even a US flag. (Presumably there is a flag at the Veterans Affairs Complex in Castle Point, New York, but no one would associate it with the Criminal Alien Program ICE is running out of Building 7.) Designed for confining individuals in transit, with no beds or showers, subfield offices are not subject to ICE Detention Standards.
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While a good part of the world is committed to enjoy the consumerism of Christmas, not everyone in this period have the opportunity to celebrate. In Italy for example have little to cheer the precarious workers and the unemployed who spend the holidays on the roofs to save their jobs: they are Ispra researchers, Fiat's workers of Pomigliano and Termini Imerese, employees of factories Agile and Russo. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/resistance/festeenon261209.htmlWhile a good part of the world is committed to enjoy the consumerism of Christmas, not... more
It was just a matter of time before the Red Socialists took over The Homeland. Hit the shelters!It was just a matter of time before the Red Socialists took over The Homeland. Hit... more
This summer when some policemen were convicted of murder for the absurd deaths of Riccardo Rasman, Federico Aldrovandi and Gabriele Sandri seemed possible that was ending the impunity that so far in this country has always allowed the police to not respond to anything even when they commit terrible crimes. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/manueleliantonio191209.htmlThis summer when some policemen were convicted of murder for the absurd deaths of... more
The aggression against Berlusconi at the end of his speech yesterday in Milan is a very bad episode. An ugly incident from a moral and civil perspective, as well as a criminal offense. Gratuitous violence is never justifiable in any circumstances. But unfortunately, the attack will turn into a perfect excuse for the premier and his majority. During this year Berlusconi and his loyalists have found increasingly difficult to hide their true face. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/whatpoliticiansdo/berlusconicolpito141209.htmlThe aggression against Berlusconi at the end of his speech yesterday in Milan is a... more
This is a documentary - portrait of an immigrant singer trying to make it in New York City whose number of audience is proportional with the size of his community . Although it is about a Turkish singer, it shows the universality of appreciation of music and art. It also shows that American culture is very diverse and not limited to pop/rock music.This is a documentary - portrait of an immigrant singer trying to make it in New York... more
What they want is a country without justice, where the mafia will be able to do virtually whatever it wants. A country where no politician will ever answer for corruption or for aiding the Mafia. A racist country that systematically persecute gypsies and immigrants and wants to enforce on everyone all the bigoted ideas of the more fundamentalist Catholicism. A country without social justice, where workers and young people are completely without rights. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/resistance/italiapolitica011209.htmlWhat they want is a country without justice, where the mafia will be able to do... more
There is a fundamental misunderstanding between the government and its voters about the security decree. Many voters of the PDL and the League since it was approved really think that all undocumented immigrants in Italy are being arrested and deported, while it's not. The misunderstanding arises because many Italians have no idea of the complexity of the phenomenon of immigration, which has been further complicated by the usual very bad Italian laws, since the Bossi-Fini law of 2002. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/immigratilega231109.htmlThere is a fundamental misunderstanding between the government and its voters about... more
If tonight the Tg1 (italian state-owned main evening tv news program) opened its evening edition with the save the premier law, calling it so. If it said that the law to shorten the statute of limitation for all but the most serious crimes and those of immigrants is unconstitutional, racist and in fact an amnesty for bribers, polluters, crooks and many others such criminals? If the Tg1 would speak for the first time in its history of all the trials in which Berlusconi stands accused? http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/tguno131109.htmlIf tonight the Tg1 (italian state-owned main evening tv news program) opened its... more
San Nicola Varco is a place in Eboli, near Salerno, where there is a farmers market built in the 80s and never came into operation. The structure had become, for many years, the lodging of hundreds of North African immigrants, mainly Moroccans, day laborers in local fields. Most of them had arrived in Italy regularly, with a contract of employment. But once here, the contract turned out to be a scam. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/sannicolavarco111109.htmlSan Nicola Varco is a place in Eboli, near Salerno, where there is a farmers market... more
The unjust and absurd death of Stefano Cucchi, and the suicide of the new Red brigade militant Diana Blefari have served at least to talk about the prison problem in Italy, ignored and censored for years. Art. 27 of the italian Constitution, not applied as unfortunately happens to most of our basic charter, states that "Punishment cannot consist of treatment contrary to human dignity and must be aimed at rehabilitation of the offender." http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/carceriitalia051109.htmlThe unjust and absurd death of Stefano Cucchi, and the suicide of the new Red brigade... more
Barack Obama said that a US travel ban against people infected with the HIV virus will be overturned early next year.
The order will be completed on Monday, Obama said, finishing a process begun during the administration of George Bush.
The United States is one of about a dozen countries that bar entry to travellers based on their HIV status. The ban has been in place for more than 20 years. Obama said it will be lifted just after the new year, after a waiting period of about 60 days.
"If we want to be a global leader in combating HIV/Aids, we need to act like it," Obama said at the White House before signing a bill to extend the Ryan White HIV/Aids programme. Begun in 1990, the program provides medical care, medication and support services to about half a million Americans with HIV or Aids, mostly low-income people.
The bill is named for an teenager who contracted Aids through a blood transfusion at age 13. Ryan White went on to fight Aids-related discrimination against him and others like him in the late 1980s and to help educate Americans about the disease. He died in April 1990 aged 18.
His mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, attended the signing ceremony, as did several members of Congress and HIV/Aids activists.
In 1987, at a time of widespread fear and ignorance about HIV, the department of health and human services added the disease to the list of communicable diseases that disqualified a person from entering the United States.
The department tried in 1991 to reverse its decision but was opposed by Congress, which in 1993 went the other way and made HIV infection the only medical condition explicitly listed under immigration law as grounds for inadmissibility to the country.
The law effectively has kept out thousands of students, tourists and refugees and complicated the adoption of children with HIV. No major international Aids conference has been held in the United States since 1993 because HIV-positive activists or researchers could not enter the country.
Obama said lifting the ban "is a step that will save lives" by encouraging people to get tested and to get treatment.
