Nativist Movement

Heritage Foundation to Screen Gaffney’s Anti-Islam Documentary

Tomorrow, March 19, The Heritage Foundation will host a screening of Frank Gaffney’s new documentary titled, Silent Conquest: The End of Freedom of Expression in the West. According to the Foundation’s announcement, Silent Conquest “exposes how the [Organization of Islamic Cooperation] has campaigned … Continued

Attempts to Re-Segregate Schools in GA Fail

Co-authored with Catharine Debelle “Everyone deserves the Freedom to Live, love, and work wherever they please.” – Repeal Coalition, Arizona Georgia’s latest anti-immigrant SB 458, the bill that would bar all undocumented students from attending any school of public higher … Continued

Friday Media Recall (03.09.2011)

Nearly every Friday we want to offer a collection of media pieces that we’re finding provocative, vital, persuasive, prophetic, genius, infuriating, mind-blogging, and other adjectives that gesture at all things thought-provoking. Some of these posts will, of course, focus on … Continued

Immigration

The Social Contract: Complaining About Nothing New

The Social Contract, a white nationalist quarterly journal, released its Fall issue last month. Entitled “America Transformed,” it marks twenty-five years since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), popularly derided by anti-immigrant stalwarts as the most egregious law … Continued

Today: Anti-Immigrant Group to Host Annual Conference in D.C.

By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone The anti-immigrant group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) is set to host its second annual conference today, October 4, and it will closely follow the groundwork laid during last year’s conference.  The conference is titled “A Progressive … Continued

Race and The Race to the Bottom

In a restaurant in Kirksville, Missouri, a recently-fired immigrant worker made $400 for seventy-two hours of work per week. Seventy-two hours. $400 per 72-hour week. It took Maria Rivas forty years of hard work to earn her way up to $11.40 an … Continued

Politics

The Hazleton Syndrome, Social Security, and Nativists Fleecing America

Hazleton, Pennsylvania—a nativist stronghold that early on crafted, enacted, and then defended local anti-immigrant ordinances—suffered a costly and significant legal setback last week when the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that the city’s restrictive ordinances … Continued

Immigration

“Apply the Brakes:” Nativists and Naturalists Corrupt the Environment-Population Dialogue

Who would have thought that the renowned Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute or Roderick Nash of the classic Wilderness and the American Mind would involve themselves in a portion of the environmental movement that dallies with nativists and white nationalists?  … Continued