More than 50 people, including family members and former detainees, rallied outside the gates of the Stewart Detention Center in rural Lumpkin, Georgia, in remembrance of Salvador Vargas on May 6. Photo: Amilcar Ernesto Valencia The 61-year-old Mexican national died on April 6; Vargas was the 11th incarcerated immigrant to . . .
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Philadelphia Immigrant worker Christian M’Bagoyi was deported May 3, separating him from his spouse and two young daughters, ages 5 and 3, who are U.S. citizens. M’Bagoyi had been in the U.S. for 20 years, supporting his family and endearing himself to co-workers and neighbors in his South Philadelphia community. . . .
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At a minute past midnight PDT, 3:01 a.m. EDT, May 2, some 11,500 Writers Guild members launched a strike against Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony. Picket lines went up in force in Los Angeles and New York City. Picket lines in Atlanta, Chicago and other . . .
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May 7 — It’s been nearly 15 months since the start of the Feb. 24, 2022, Russian military intervention in Ukraine, which was provoked by decades of U.S./NATO expansion eastward. The Biden administration has given the Ukrainian puppet government billions of dollars in military aid, and many people are scratching . . .
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