Immigration
June 11, 2008 -
Facing South previously reported on the struggle of a group of Indian guest workers who walked off their jobs in Mississippi shipyards in earl
April 24, 2008 -
Over the last few years, a quiet but powerful alliance in Mississippi of African-American lawmakers, immigrant rights advocates and labor unions had successfully defeated a series of punitive bills aimed at the state's fast-growing Latino and new immigrant population.
April 10, 2008 -
We here at the Institute for Southern Studies are among the co-sponsors of a discussion series on immigration taking place in Chapel Hill, N.C. This Sunday brings the series' second session, focusing on economics and immigration.
March 14, 2008 -
More than 100 guest workers carrying signs that said "I Am a Man" and "Dignity" walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard last week to protest conditions they liken to slavery.
February 20, 2008 -
Fidel Castro, Cuba's long-sitting head of state, has stepped down. But despite new calls to end the punitive U.S. embargo against the country -- which nearly every U.N. member nation condemns -- U.S.
July 6, 2007 -
Here at Facing South, we have closely followed the rapidly changing demographics of the South.
June 29, 2007 -
For the over 10,000 people across the country who have come to the U.S. Social Forum now underway in Atlanta -- the largest U.S. gathering of social change activists in decades -- the event is a chance to build community, share ideas, to feel like they are part of a larger movement.