Check out the highlights from the historic re-enactment of 2012's Selma to Montgomery march. This year was especially monumental as thousands came out in solidarity to express their opposition to Alabama's Draconian anti-immigrant legislation, HB56.
The annual music festival, South by Southwest (SXSW) typically generates tons of publicity each year. Held in Austin, Texas, the 10-day festival includes news conferences on the latest technological trends, film screenings, and live performances from numerous high profile musicians. The event is essentially a smorgasbord of everything pop culture related. However, this...
This past week, I had the privilege of joining with thousands of people from Alabama and around the country who walked from Selma to Montgomery to commemorate the historic march 47 years ago that forced Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act and that changed our country forever. Hundreds of leaders from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), the immigrant rights coalition convened by the...
Pictured in the middle is Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Yesterday’s focus of the Selma-to-Montgomery march was immigration rights and it was breathtaking to see the march swell with a contingent of 1,000 extremely diverse group of marchers. And at the front of the march, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement banner! Labor Secretary Hilda...
