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CASA Jan/Feb Newsletter

Saludos solidarios to all our compañeros around the world! As the New Year rolled in, the first months have brought a number of groundbreaking events throughout Latin America. In January, the world turned to Haiti, when an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude rumbled through the island and destroyed homes, communities, and major infrastrutures. The world watched as the U.S. military closed off aid planes with food and medical aid from landing, and instead occupied/militarized lands by bringing in soldiers in uniform with weapons on hand. Nothing short of new, the U.S.-Mexico Border continues with its militarization and criminalization of undocumented immigrants from Latin America, as the Obama Administration continues to fall short of its "hopes" and "change". Despite imperial forces sweeping through, people at the grassroots are mobilizing and building networks stronger than ever.

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CASA

Saludos solidarios to all our compañeros around the world!

Security First: The Obama Administration and Immigration "Reform"

In a November 13 speech to the Center for American Progress in Washington, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made clear that President Obama's administration intends to move forward soon on legislation that would bring about "an immigration system that works." The administration, she promised, "will pursue reforms" true to an American identity as "both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws." In this way, Napolitano asserted, Congress and the White House would avoid the pitfalls of the "one-sided" reforms of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. "The enforcement part of the equation was promised," she said, referring to portrayals of the 1986 legislation by its proponents, "but it didn't materialize."[1]

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Joseph Nevins in Zmag

In a November 13 speech to the Center for American Progress in Washington, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made clear that President Obama's administration intends to move forward s

Saliendo del Silencio

On March 8th, International Women`s Day, the book "Mujeres de Arena" (Women of Sand) by Humberto Robles will be presented in two different cities in Oaxaca. The events will be called "Saliendo del Silencio".

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andrea

Saliendo del Silencio

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?

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Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti's national economy and the impoverishment of its population.

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Michel Chossudovsky for Global Research

Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century.

One month after being burned to the ground, independent radio station relaunches in Honduras.

On January 6th, the community radio station "Faluma Bimetu- the first voice from the Garifuna community" was attacked by an unknown group, who set fire to the station in the early hours of the morning. Unfortunately most of the equipment and the building could not be recovered. However the community continues to resist and now, one month after the attack, the radio is back on the air and offering programs that focus on resistence and the Garifuna community in Honduras.

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CMI Honduras

Tune into the Re-launching of Radio Faluma Bimetu -Sweet Coconut-!

Radio Ñomndaa celebrates its Fifth Anniversary

A community radio in southern Mexico celebrated five years of being on the air despite all of the harassment its has suffered from local, state and federal authorities. Transmitting in the language of its people, amuzgo, Radio Ñomndaa has become a bastion of organization in the region and in the state of Guerrero.

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Jen Lawhorne

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