MAPPING THE LITERATURE HURRICANE KATRINA and PUBLIC HEALTH
WEB 2.0 RESOURCES
The 21st Century Poor People’s Campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign seeks to directly compel America to redress the policies that create and substantiate poverty, oppress the poor and deny people the right to live with dignity, respect, justice, equality and freedom. In March 2007, distinguished Cal. community leaders formed a coalition consisting of community based organizations, businesses, and individuals to respond to the devastating impact poverty was having on communities of color. To learn more about this campaign, visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvfN5e6OZPw.
ARTICLES
“Another Side to Race and Immigration”
By Bill Fletcher, Blackcommentator, (July 30, 2007)
It really hit me in the 1980s while living in Boston. At that time the southern Irish economy was a complete mess. People were the greatest export from Ireland, and a lot of them were coming to the USA. At the same time, immigration from Haiti and the Dominican Republic was increasing, and into Boston these three groups came…To read the entire article, click here.
“Borders and Bridges: African Americans, Immigration and Racial Justice”
By Makani Themba-Nixon
It’s impossible to view Black sentiment on immigration, or the possibilities for coalition building, as a monolith. Today, there are millions of immigrants in the US of African descent. One in twenty hail directly from the African continent. And for African Americans, whose forced migration began with the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the history includes both conflict and collaboration on immigration issues… To read the entire article, click here.
“Immigration Raids Echo History of African Americans”
By Jean Damu, Commentary, New America Media (September 13, 2007)
In August local law enforcement and immigration officials in a small Pennsylvania town began receiving reports that undocumented immigrants were being offered sanctuary at a nearby residence. Furthermore, the reports went on to say, during the daytime hours, the immigrants were blending into portions of the local population and working in one of the city’s factories… To read the entire article, click here.
“The Race Question and Building Labor Power in the Context of the Immigrant Upsurge”
By Steven Pitts, UC-Berkeley Labor Center, Labor and Working-Class History Association Newsletter (Fall 2007)
During the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants marched in streets of large cities and small towns alike affirming their basic dignity and demanding a justice which was not tied to citizenship. Repeated on May 1, 2007, these demonstrations herald the surfacing of a massive social movement which will extend participatory democracy in much the same way as the huge organizing waves of the mid 1930s and 1940s and the modern Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and 1960s…To read the entire article, click here.
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