Archive for August 15, 2012

Deferred Action Policy To Protect DREAMers From Deportation Begins Today | ThinkProgress

The Department of Homeland Security starts accepting applications for deferred action from DREAM Act-eligible young adults on Wednesday. Under a new directive President Obama announced in June, undocumented immigrants between 15 and 30 years of age who have lived in the U.S. continuously for at least five years, have not been convicted of a felony … Continue reading »

Attacks on Chile's Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations

Reblogged from Warrior Publications: Brittany Peterson, The Nation, August 13, 2012 As dawn broke over southern Chile on July 30, smoke and flames rose from barricades blocking the main highway into the town Padre las Casas, 675 kilometers south of the capital of Santiago. About fifty members of the Paillanao Mapuche indigenous community had constructed … Continue reading »

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