From Breakthrough’s media intern, Priya Shah: After covering the need for immigration reform in our blog posts, campaigns, and videos, we decided to take a field trip through immigration history and the system, as it stood many years ago.  On Wednesday, Breakthrough’s staff took a field trip to the Statue of Liberty and to Ellis [...]

July 30, 2010 by Priya | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, detainment, discrimination, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Mark Lyttle, Race, reasonable suspicion, Restore Fairness, statue of liberty | Comments Off

From our Restore Fairness blog. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction on some of the toughest portions of Arizona’s anti-immigration law SB1070 including the power for police to detain anyone “suspected” of being in the country illegally. Federal Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling came hours before the law was to take effect in response to a [...]

July 30, 2010 by Priya | Tags: Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, Border Patrol, breakthrough, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, criminal justice, DHS, discrimination, enforcement, human rights, ICE, immigration, Kat Rodriguez, Latinos, Matt Chandler, militarization, Omar Candelaria, Paul Dobson, President Obama, presumption of innocence, Race, racial profiling, reasonable suspicion, Restore Fairness, SB 1070, Susan Bolton, The New York Times | Comments Off

We’ve kept you updated about Mel Gibson’s acts of sexism and domestic violence. While he is barred from coming near Oksana Grigorieva or her daughter due to a domestic violence restraining order, we wonder what role Hollywood has played in all this. Academy Award-winning actress, Geena Davis, has founded a non-profit (Geena Davis Institute on Gender [...]

July 23, 2010 by Priya | Tags: b-listed, Bell Bajao, breakthrough, Esta Soler, FVPF, GDIGM, Geena Davis, hollywood, human rights, I-VAWA, Media, Mel Gibson, Politico, pop culture, President Obama, rape, Ritu Sharma, Tribal Law and Order Act, UNIFEM, violence against women, Women Thrive Worldwide | Comments Off

As human rights groups focus our attention on those affected by Arizona’s harsh immigration law (SB 1070), we begin to sympathize with the racially oppressed and the numerous accounts of deportation. Cuentame, a Latino political advocacy non-profit, attempts to shift our focus by filming a direct enforcer of the law – Arizonan police officer Paul [...]

July 22, 2010 by Priya | Tags: Arizona, Attorney General Eric Holder, b-listed, breakthrough, Cuentame, Department of Justice, Do I look illegal?, equal protection, freedom of speech, human rights, immigration, Jack Harris, Paul Dobson, racial profiling, Restore Fairness, SB 1070, Sgt. Trent Crump | Comments Off

At Rice University an ordinary class assignment turned into something revolutionary. Freshman Lauren Theis and sophomore Lila Kerr were in a Bio-engineering and World Health class together where Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum presented them with a problem faced in the developing world. Their assignment was to figure out a way to test whether a patient was [...]

July 22, 2010 by Yasemin | Tags: anemia, b-listed, Beyond Traditional Borders program, Bio-engineering, Ecuador, Lauren Theis, Lila Kerr, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University, Sally Centrifuge, Swaziland, under 21, World Health | Comments Off

Original post on Citizen Orange by KYLE DE BEAUSSET, Guest Blogger The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of [...]

July 21, 2010 by Priya | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, Capitol Hill, civil disobedience, comprehensive immigration reform, Congressman Guitierrez, deportation, dream act, DREAM Now letters, immigration, migrant youth, Nicholas Gonzalez, President Obama, Restore Fairness, Senator Durbin, Senator John McCain | Comments Off

(From our Restore Fairness blog.) The starting day for Arizona’s controversial new anti-immigrant law SB1070 is fast approaching. July 29th is around the corner and the country waits with bated breath as the Obama administration argues for an injunction to stop the law from being implemented. A Reuters article discusses the four scenarios that could occur. [...]

July 21, 2010 by Priya | Tags: Arizona, b-listed, breakthrough, Chicanos por la Causa, comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, deportation, Domestic Violence, enforcement, family, human rights, immigration, LA Times, New American Media, President Obama, Race, racial profiling, Restore Fairness, Reuters, SB 1070 | Comments Off

Original post by Causecast Associate Editor, Erica Liepmann On Sunday, July 18, people around the world honored the legacy of South African leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela. The date was selected because it is Mandela’s birthday — and has been celebrated as the official “Nelson Mandela Day” for two years. In addition [...]

July 20, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-activists, breakthrough, Causecast, Erica Liepmann, Nelson Mandela Day | Comments Off

Take the statement: “Pro-life Christian conservative groups stand headstrong against Obama’s recent pro-abortion policy in Pennsylvania.” Most know this to be true.   But what about these: “All members of these groups criticize Obama for his acts toward socialism and immigration reform,” or  ”All are currently printing out pictures of Obama with the Hitler mustache.” [...]

July 19, 2010 by Priya | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, Christianity, cnn, conservative evangelicals, Dr. Richard Land, GOP, immigration, Opinion Streams, Organizing for America, President Obama, pro-life, Religion, Restore Fairness, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, rule of law, washington post | Comments Off

We are proud to announce that Breakthrough presented its major accomplishments in the HIV/AIDS field at the 18th International AIDS Conference, Rights Here, Rights Now, yesterday. Now until July 23rd, we join the conference to assert that human rights must occupy the center of the global AIDS struggle; otherwise, without human rights, we will never achieve universal [...]

July 19, 2010 by Priya | Tags: b-listed, Bell Bajao, breakthrough, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International AIDS Conference, Is This Justice, sexuality, Sonali Khan, violence against women, What Kind of Man Are You, women's rights | Comments Off