Conversation on Truth In Immigration Saturday, September 10, 2011 Guadalupe Cultural & Arts Center 1301 Guadalupe Street San Antonio, TX 78207 10:00am – 11:00am (doors will open 30 minutes prior) With Hilda L. Solis United States Secretary of Labor Featuring Thomas A. Saenz President and General Counsel, MALDEF For more information, please contact David Damian […]

Ending Domestic Violence Requires Holding Police Accountable by ACLU  by Evelyn Atkinson and Sandra S. Park, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Are restraining orders just pieces of paper, or must the police take action when they are violated? This is the question raised by Valdez v. City of New York, a case challenging the failure of […]

  8th National Low-Income Immigrants’ Rights Conference DECEMBER 8-10, WASHINGTON, DC Throughout the year, we’ve all worked tirelessly to fend off the anti-immigrant fervor gripping the nation and construct a future in which everyone in the U.S.—regardless of their income or where they were born— can work without being exploited, support their family, and live […]

The first Monday in September is Labor Day.  Most of us think it’s another holiday that we don’t have to work, but the origins of Labor Day still ring true today, 129 years later.  Labor Day is the creation of the labor movement of the 1880’s and it is dedicated to the social and economic […]