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May 18, 2013

A Focus on Border Security and Temporary Visas as Senators Return to Immigration - NYTimes.com

May 14, 2013

Excluding 'criminals' from comprehensive immigration reform - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

May 12, 2013

First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill - NYTimes.com

May 9, 2013

In Senate, Efforts to Reshape, or Derail, Immigration Bill - NYTimes.com

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JEFF BIGGERS

The Bigger the Ban, the Better the Read

Read between the lines of the Tucson school authorities’ spin: banned is banned.

 

Posted in Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: Arizona, education, Jeff Biggers, Tucson
JEFF BIGGERS, MICHELLE CHEN

Rogue State

(Dennis Gilman)

Author Jeff Biggers on right-wing yahoos, the immigrant struggle, and the Arizonification of America.

 

Posted in Nonfiction, Politics
Tagged: Arizona, education, Jeff Biggers, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
MICHELLE CHEN

Cultural Miseducation

Knowledge, Power and Ethnic Studies: The borderline between embracing difference and segregating it.

 

Posted in Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
GAIL PÉREZ

Women Hold Up Half of Chicano Park

Women muralists return to the scene of their early development as activists/artists.

 

Posted in Activism, Arts
Tagged: Arts/Poetry, education, public art
RODOLFO ACUÑA

Acuña: The Next Inquisition

reclaim

Author of Occupied America talks about surprise, fear and fanaticism in the battle to defend ethnic studies in Arizona.

 

Posted in Activism, Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Rodolfo Acuna, Saving Ethnic Studies
JEFF BIGGERS

Ethnic Studies Witchhunt Farce Takes the Stage

What better form of theatrical art than the farce to capture the absurdity of the infamous witch hunt of Tucson’s embattled Ethnic Studies program?

 

Posted in Activism
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Jeff Biggers, Tucson
COLETTE GAITER

CultureStrike in Cyprus

CultureStrikers have engaged in a range of actions to demonstrate in form and content how art and activism can be fused to build a collective vision for social justice.

 

Posted in Activism, Culture, Fiction/Poetry
Tagged: Colette Gaiter, education, Jessica Hagedorn, Tucson
BIGGERS, CHEN

Ethnic Studies Under Siege

In Arizona, a culture war is pitting education activists against a political establishment bent on maintaining the ethnocentric status quo. Community groups have taken the struggle to the courts.

 

Posted in Activism
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Jan Brewer, Jeff Biggers, michelle chen, Russell Pearce, schools

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