Washington DC Emancipation Day Parade and Celebration

Over the weekend, more than ten thousand students and workers and their children marched thru the streets of downtown Los Angeles. They protested the death of Anthony Soltero, a 14-year old student who on March 30th committed suicide, and rallied against the anti-immigrant attacks from US politicians.

Lessons from Connecticut

Students at the University of Virginia are sitting in Madison Hall, where President Casteen's office is located. They entered the building early Wednesday morning and as of Friday morning are still inside. But now they're hungry. They're running out of food and the administration is preventing any deliveries of food. But this isn't about the students inside; they are sitting in because hundreds of UVa workers, overwhelmingly women and people of color, are currently being paid poverty wages.

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Over the past couple months, grassroots initiatives against anti-immigrant legislation received a tremendous response. Tens of thousands of high school students across California walked out of school. Federal offices and freeways were taken over and shut down. Workers in Chicago, Atlanta and other cities engaged in work stoppage. Today, on April 10, 2006, massive rallies took place in at least 100 cities across the country.

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African-Americans on Immigration Audio

At the noon hour on Thursday, 13 senatorial supporters of the Martinez-Hagel compromise legislation called the amendment "a huge breakthrough". However, the deal that would allow legislation that will transform the immigration process for undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. fell apart last night.

Selina Musuta reports more from Washington, DC.
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) gathered around the clock on the campus of George Washington University to condemn false accusations of antisemitism and terrorism against one of their leaders.

GW Hatchet Story on the Accusation

I could write and say a lot about Ward Churchill's phenomenal talk tonight at St. Stephens Church here in DC in front of about 80 people, but I guess I lack the energy for that (at least by my standards; I guess this is still long). It was very rich and inspiring.

Students, labor and community activists take their struggle for worker rights to the streets of downtown DC making stops at the American Bottling Association, Verizon, McDonald's, International Square and GWU.

The curtain has closed on a part of DC which has been a safe haven to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders for over 30 years. The historic Half and O Street area, known for its drag shows and strip clubs, as well as its sense of community, especially for gay youth, is ordered to completely vacate by Wednesday April 5, to make way for a new stadium paid for by DC tax payers. FSRN's Darby Hickey brings us the voices of people who say they are outraged at what the city has done.