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Hudson Jail Hunger Strike Among Immigrant Detainees Over Phone Charges |
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Immigration
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Written by Karina Wilkinson
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 00:00 |
Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 02:59:27 PM EDT
http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14832
Nina Bernstein of the NY Times hits the nail on the head in her article describing a hunger strike in Hudson County jail among immigrant detainees, recently moved into Hudson after the closure of Manhattan's Varick Street detention center. Communication with lawyers, family and friends is difficult, if not impossible, and they are being gouged by phone charges. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 April 2010 09:25 |
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Immigration Reform - Dignity Not Detention Campaign Rollout, Spotlight on Hudson |
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Immigration
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Written by Karina Wilkinson
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:00 |
Sat Feb 27, 2010 at 12:08:40 PM EST
This is a diary from this weekend, with an interesting conversation going on in the comments. Jump in at will. - - promoted by Rosi
Hudson County Jail is getting national attention. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Jan 12th that it would close the 300 bed detention center in Manhattan, Varick St and move them to "another facility in the NY metropolitan area", because Varick didn't meet their standards for outdoor exercise and visitation. As if any jail in New Jersey meets ICE's detention standards. Oh yeah, and because $250 per night (that was going to an Alaskan Indian tribe) was twice what Hudson charges, $111 per night. Think of the cost savings (if you do, you will find out that that saves less than 1% of the $1.7 billion budgeted last year for custody operations). NY and NJ advocates, as Bill Orr pointed out here, are calling for review of who needs to be in detention. We are at a record number of over 32,000 people being detained each night.
http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14636 |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:59 |
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2008 Election
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Written by Eddie Konczal
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 05:29 |
Snapshots of newspaper front pages announcing Barack Obama's victory:
http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html
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What Jon Corzine said in January 2005 |
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2008 Election
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Written by Eddie Konczal
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 05:27 |
I met Jon Corzine on January 20, 2005, at a "counter-Inauguration Day" party at McAteer's in Somerset, NJ.
It was a pretty depressing day, with Bush being inaugurated for his second term. Bob Kerrey was supposed to be the guest speaker, but he couldn't make it. Corzine had taken the train up from Washington to fill in for Kerrey.
Noah Greenberg, Mike Costello, Bob Scardapane and I got to speak briefly with Corzine before the event started; he was very friendly. He was still Senator and just getting ready to launch his gubernatorial run.
Corzine gave a short but energetic and enthusiastic speech that night. At the end of his speech, Corzine said this:
"2005 is going to be a great year for Democrats, 2006 is going to be a great year for Democrats, and in 2008, we're going to change the world." And guess what - he was right!
-Eddie |
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2008 Election
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Written by Eddie Konczal
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 07:06 |
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For those of you looking to get involved with the effort for Barack Obama in Central New Jersey, please visit: http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/HighlandParkNJforObama |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:40 |
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