STOP DEPORTATIONS Palestinian American feminist targeted Rasmea Odeh is a 66-year-old Palestinian American woman, well known and admired for organizing literacy and domestic violence prevention programs for the Arab community… Read more »
immigrant rights
Freedom Socialist editorial — Without a country: Haitian-Dominicans
In the Dominican Republic (DR), Haitian immigrants and their children have labored on sugarcane plantations for generations, working for low pay in appalling conditions. In September 2013, the country’s highest… Read more »
Dateline Australia: Military-style operation launched against refugees
In 2010, Ranjini, a Tamil mother fleeing genocide in Sri Lanka, won refugee status in Australia and settled in Melbourne. Two years later, she and her two young boys were… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Book Review: We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo
We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo, is much more than a coming of age story. It’s a tale of savage colonialism, of local tyrants and unremitting droughts and rains,… Read more »
From LA to D.C., young activists take up civil disobedience for immigrant rights
Fresh winds are blowing for immigrant rights, thanks largely to the energy and determination of young activists. Angered by record deportations under President Obama and the refusal of Congress to… Read more »
Freedom Socialist opinion: Time for action, no time to lament
My granny was a single mom with nine children ranging from pre-teen to their 30’s by the time I came along. Mom was also on her own, with me. They… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Letters to the Editor, April 2014
GREAT REVIEW Antidote to immigrant bashing Thank you for reviewing NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names [Vol. 35, No. 1]. I might not have come across this novel and I… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Immigrants strike to challenge detentions
Across the United States a battle rages to win justice for undocumented immigrants, with the latest salvo fired by hunger strikers at immigration detention centers. The strike began on March… Read more »
Berry pickers win big!
Familias Unidas por la Justicia, an independent union at Sakuma Bros farm, sued for wage theft and won an $850,000 settlement. A huge victory! The farmworkers union also got family… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial: Border refugee plight rooted in US policies
War, drug cartels and starvation have forced unaccompanied children to flee Central America at the US/Mexico border in unprecedented numbers. Dominating the news are images of government buses filled with… Read more »
