Energy Security for the People
For working Americans, energy security means being able to afford to drive to work, heat a home, and keep the lights on.
In the coastal lowlands of the Colombian department of Nariño, oil palm plantations are spreading through historically Afro-Colombian lands. The Colombian government, with the help of USAID, is promoting the expansion as a way of resettling members of right-wing paramilitary groups. Afro-Colombian a
Using immigration raids as a pressure tactic to get Congress to approve new guest worker programs is not a legitimate use of enforcement.
Cross-border organizing is part of the background of the current crisis.
Immigrants and workers across the country have been caught up in a wave of anti-immigrant legislation and repression since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The choice is not over what policy will or will not stop people from coming across the border, but over