Monica Boomer of the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights discusses the first ever national Palestinian Film Festival, happening in 25 cities throughout the US, including Hartford.

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Saturday, March 12
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Capital Community College
Community Room 206

Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209328122415429

Mariano Cardoso is a 22 year old student at Capital Community College in Hartford, with a pending deportation. He is set to graduate with an Associate’s Degree in engineering this May.

One day at a family barbecue, Immigration and Customs Officers arrested him with no warrant and now he faces deportation. Mariano was brought to the United States illegally by his parents, but he has never committed a crime, received any assistance… from the government or taken out any loans to pay for his college education. Mariano is an undocumented American student seeking to achieve his American dream; the United States is the only country he has ever called home.

If this interests you, consider joining Stop the Raids at its demonstration to support Mariano and help him stop his deportation order. The demonstration will take place, Saturday, March 12th at Noon at Capital Community College (950 Main Street, Hartford) in the Walter Markiewicz Community Room 206. Guest speakers will include Luis Cotto, Hartford City Council Minority Leader, Werner Oyanadel, Acting Executive Director of the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, Lorella Praeli, State Coordinator of CT Students for a DREAM, and Mariano Cardoso Jr. himself!

Transportation to and from the event will be provided. Meeting point will be by Mather driveway starting at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday. For more information about the event, please contact Theresa Meehan at theresa.meehan@trincoll.edu or Sandra Gonzalez at (347) 684-0445.

Hundreds of union members and supporters gathered at the state Capitol in Hartford in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin, and to support rights of collective bargaining here in CT.

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(Hartford) Following the successful solidarity rally held 3 days earlier by local unions and allies,  MoveOn.org organized another show of support for Wisconsin workers facing threats to their right to bargain collectively.

(Hartford) Hundreds of union members and allies converged on the capitol to show solidarity with Wisconsin workers. Many attendees stopped by on their lunch break as the rally began at noon and lasted about an hour.

On February 10, we recorded an interview with Rana Elazazy, Reem Elazazy, Lina Allam and Omar Allam, four Egyptian-Americans who organized rallies in support of the Egyptian revolution. The next day, Hosni Mubarak stepped down from the presidency. This week’s RadioActive features voices from a celebration at the state capitol February 12, and then the interview.

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