Breakthrough

Our Executive Director, Mallika Dutt is going to be speaking at the TED India conference in Mysore, Karnataka tomorrow! We are very excited that she will be presenting on ourextremely successful Bell Bajao campaign that urges boys and men to take action against domestic violence.

In October, the restrictionist group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a report singing the praises of the 287(g) program, which arms state and local enforcement with immigration authority. ...

Yoko Ono and her sons arere-releasing a digital single of the 1969 anthem, Give Peace a Chance, to commemorate the 40th birthday of the song. (First Sesame Street now this!) The best part - that they are donating all the proceeds from the single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.

Claim to fame: Sesame Street (a show that many of us are proud to say we grew up on) taught and still teaches many to read, write, and solve math problems using colorful muppets, skits, and neighborhood visitors.

“Police officers giving drivers $204 tickets for not speaking English? It sounds like a rejected Monty Python sketch. Except the grim reality is that it has happened at least 39 times in Dallas since January 2007….All but one of the drivers were Hispanic.”

Now’s your chance:ACE (Alliance for Climate Change) has partnered with Free Range Studios (they were the interactive web-bodies behind our Homeland Gitmos campaign) to bring us the extremely entertaining ...

Did you know that online bloggers and journalists comprise of 45% of media workers in prison around the world? Global Voices Advocacy, who have been working to protect the freedom of information by building ...

Kick off the run-up to World Aids Day 2009 (which is on December 1st) with the launch of the Aids JaaGO (’Wake up to Aids’) DVD, taking place on November 10th, in New York City. Aids JaaGO ...

We hope everyone had a safe and amazing Halloween! Two weeks ago, as a result of the recent surge of the immigration costumes, major retailers were selling, we posed the following questions to our readers -

The federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years, including a heavy reliance on workplace raids and the involvement of state and local police in immigration enforcement, has resulted in a trampling of labor rights of workers.

Looks like President Obama is starting to get things done. First this week, the Hate Crimes Act was passed and now heannounced the official end of the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban.