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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Christopher Columbus and other Migrants
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| disclaimer: People are not illegal - actions are illegal |
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Born in Italy.
Worked for Spain.
While looking for a shorter route to Asia, Columbus sailed west from Europe, instead of east and landed on the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti). This landing started the invasions, murders, rapes, disease outbreaks, theft and colonization of the Americas.
Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas. Indigenous Amerindians discovered it first when they migrated from Asia.
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| From http://drarchaeology.com/culthist/origins.htm |
Next, Bjarni Herjólfsson, a Norse (Norwegian) explorer was the first known European to discover the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 985 or 986.
Leif Ericson, another Norwegian, with the knowledge from Herjólfsson, lead an expedition that landing in North America, about 500 years before Columbus.
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| From http://www.lost-civilizations.net/vikings-isle-man-leif-eriksson-page-3.html |
Friday, August 31, 2012
Global Immigrant News | Sacha DeVoretz
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| Global Immigrant News |
"Ms. Sacha DeVoretz is the owner and founder of LearnJobSkills.com and a renowned author on the topics of international employment, career development and workbook publications used around the world. Her publications have been translated into five different languages.
She has written for international media on the topic of employment. In addition, she has led seminars (with attendance up to 3,000) to explain the changes which occur in the labour market.
Ms. DeVoretz is also a consultant to various governments and the private sector."
Connect with Sacha
@globalimmigrant
globalimmigrantnews.com
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Documentation of What | for What | for Who
#Undocumented
People are not illegal.
Laws are often illegal. Remember slavery laws; segregation laws; Asian Exclusion laws?
Did Europeans have documents authorizing the theft of Native American land?
There are labels for those who steal. European-Americans, how do you label yourself?
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
'Selling' Immigration Reform
I had thought the best way to 'sell' open immigration was to tug at your heart strings, however Mr. Aldrete explains the benefits of immigration via our pocket books. He has the most effective description to 'sell' progressive immigration reform that I have ever heard. -Glenn Robinson
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Moth Podcast - Fathia Absie: My Sister’s Keeper
Released Apr 03, 2012
A Somali immigrant struggles to keep her troubled sister in the country.
Listen on SpokenWord
Listen on iTunes
Friday, August 19, 2011
"A New Generation of Farmers" - Immigration Debate
The New York Times ran a series of articles on immigration, August 18, 2011
I collected some humanitarian comments from the article that I wanted to highlight
"You might as well ask if getting rid of slavery made the price of cotton go up. Cheap labor, that's what it was about then, and that's what it's all about now." - Thomas Field, Dallas, Tx.
"Americans are probably not likely to line up for underpaid jobs in a toxic and monotonous work environment." -Dave
Issaquah, WA
"The answer is to quit holding so tight to these ideas that illegal immigrants are a drain on our economy because they obviously are not if portions of our economy will fail without them.
Make it easy for people to immigrate on worker passes, help get them started on a path to citizenship if they wish, and quit acting like they aren't worthy of living in the United States.
I'd like to see the Republicans get off their high horses about immigration reform, too, because they are helping to build a super-poor class of workers who are only slightly better than indentured servants." -RWNorman, Silver Spring, MD
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"Calculating the Costs and Benefits" - on Immigration
The New York Times ran a series of articles on immigration, August 18, 2011
I collected some humanitarian comments from the article that I wanted to highlight
"The only way to attract Americans to work in the farms is to (1) pay the workers a decent wage; (2) make the job year-round, not just seasonal; (3) provide health insurance benefits; and (4) offer 401K opportunity" -Omar W, Pomona, NY
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
"A Price Tag in the Billions" - Immigration Debate
The New York Times ran a series of articles on immigration, August 18, 2011
I collected some humanitarian comments from the article that I wanted to highlight.
"Gandhi had it right – all work should have dignity.
Fundamentally, in our immigration, outsourcing, and energy policies, we have tried to get something for (close to) nothing." -Frank Stoppenbach, Red Hook, NY
"The conditions are inhumane and bring to mind the communist idea of farming. It's ironic isn't it, that both capitalism and communism in the extreme make farming so oppressive and repellent." - Meg Virginia
"So we should collude in exploiting undocumented workers because we need them for our economy? Seems to me, if they are that essential in building America they have every right to claim her for their own, just like the rest of us, and that, should that be the case, we should design ways in which they could obtain citizen status for themselves and their children. And we should definitely design better ways in which to protect their rights as workers and citizens." -Kurt, NY
"Why don't we expand and simplify legal immigration?
Keeping the immigrants in the shadows allows them to be exploited more easily so it might contribute to keeping the prices down and profits up, but allowing them to work openly, unionize, stand up for their rights might improve working conditions and undercut the anti-immigration activists' absurd arguments that all immigration is bad." -Nancy, Upstate New York
"There's a reason Republicans like cheap labour. It busts unions and removes any clout by workers. It becomes a one-way street of control." -Talbot, New York
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