SonofRage
13th June 2008, 22:27
We've just updated the BTR website with two articles. One is a write-up on anti-immigrant organizing at Gun Shows in Portland, Oregon. The other is a reprint of an aritcle from 1999 on the far right and gun shows from Ken Lawrence.
http://bringtheruckus.org/
Gun Shows and Immigration in Portland Oregon (http://bringtheruckus.org/?q=node/52)
We're now witness to the largest wave of human migration the planet has ever seen. Driven by a new, truly international form of capitalism, human populations are alternately violently displaced, economically pressured, invited, coerced into relocation across the globe by civil wars, low intensity wars, high intensity wars, famines, droughts, hurricanes, floods, trade policies, austerity, other countless other economic and environmental catastrophies. This is globalization. We live in a time of threatened ecological collapse and the possibilities of capitalism's greatest tragedy-the possibility of a human created mass die-off of mamallian and other forms of life.
More momentarily, we also bear witness to a possible global economic collapse and what will be the inevitable attempts at a massive restructuring and upheaval of the US working class that will result.
It is within this context that the anti-immigrant movement (just one piece of something much larger) in the United States has mobilized. As the federal government becomes less receptive ( i.e. a McCain presidency and a likely Democratic president) to the anti-immigrant movement(under increasing pressure from businesses not so sympathetic to No-Match letters and workplace ICE raids), anti-immigrant organizations have focused their energy on local campaigns.
more at http://bringtheruckus.org/
http://bringtheruckus.org/
Gun Shows and Immigration in Portland Oregon (http://bringtheruckus.org/?q=node/52)
We're now witness to the largest wave of human migration the planet has ever seen. Driven by a new, truly international form of capitalism, human populations are alternately violently displaced, economically pressured, invited, coerced into relocation across the globe by civil wars, low intensity wars, high intensity wars, famines, droughts, hurricanes, floods, trade policies, austerity, other countless other economic and environmental catastrophies. This is globalization. We live in a time of threatened ecological collapse and the possibilities of capitalism's greatest tragedy-the possibility of a human created mass die-off of mamallian and other forms of life.
More momentarily, we also bear witness to a possible global economic collapse and what will be the inevitable attempts at a massive restructuring and upheaval of the US working class that will result.
It is within this context that the anti-immigrant movement (just one piece of something much larger) in the United States has mobilized. As the federal government becomes less receptive ( i.e. a McCain presidency and a likely Democratic president) to the anti-immigrant movement(under increasing pressure from businesses not so sympathetic to No-Match letters and workplace ICE raids), anti-immigrant organizations have focused their energy on local campaigns.
more at http://bringtheruckus.org/