Author: Ashley Cartagena

La Santa Cecilia’s Music Video for “El Hielo (ICE)”

La Santa Cecilia’s Music Video for “El Hielo (ICE)”   Produced by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network as part of the #Not1More series at http://notonemoredeportation.com with support of the abc* Foundation You might not suspect from its lovely, breathy lead vocal and deceptively languid, vaguely bossa nova lilt that La Santa Cecilia’s latest single, “El Hielo” …

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Keep our families together

End Detentions and Deportations NOW! (2013) 12-year-old DRUM youth member, Nushin Kashem, is fighting to bring her father home from detention, and for all immigrant families and youth. Join and support DRUM to build the leadership and voices of undocumented immigrants to lead the struggle for immigration reform, workers’ rights, and to roll back enforcement …

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Newcomers High School: New Immigrants Share Their Stories

The students of Newcomers High School in Long Island City, which specializes in teaching recent immigrants, and those of St. Luke’s, a private middle school in Manhattan, have come together to dialogue about difference and combat bias. The Building Bridges project was created through a collaboration between Newcomers teacher Julie Mann, and St. Luke’s teacher …

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Activists Protest Against the Detainment and Rampant Abuse of LGBTQ Immigrants

A number of organizations led a march  on May 27, 2015 to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington D.C. to protest the detainment of LGBTQ undocumented immigrants. The group, “#breakthecage”, said that LGBTQ detainees are subject to a greater degree of sexual and physical assault, solitary confinement, and lack of access to medical care …

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National Immigrant Youth Alliance Infiltrates Michigan ICE: Calhoun County Jail

On April 4th, 2013, Claudia Munoz, an organizer with The National Immigrant Youth Alliance, allowed for herself to be detained by Michigan immigration in order to get into detention and expose the abuses. In her weeks detained Claudia found numerous instances of ICE officials (J. Jolin) forcing detainees to sign Voluntary Departure. Claudia witnessed CBP …

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Hagia Sophia: Political and Religious Symbolism in Stones and Spolia

There has not been “an incident in Byzantine history with which the church of St. Sophia is not associated.”[1]  Hagia Sophia represents the very essence of the history of Turkey and the continuous transformation it has undergone throughout the ages and even today.[2]   Turkey, and especially Istanbul, the former Constantinople, is a country of great …

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