Immigration

This is Open Media Boston's News in Brief for March 12, 2014  

Mass Pirates

Members of the Massachusetts Pirate Party held a tribute to whistleblowers persecuted by the Government at Logan Airport on Saturday. Several protestors gather at Terminal E holding a sign honoring different whistleblowers, including Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Glenn Greenwald. According to the party’s Facebook page, the demonstrators were asked to leave the airport, but no arrests were made.

Safe Driving Coalition

BOSTON/Dorchester - Behind the barred windows at the South Bay House of Correction, undocumented immigrants held in detention there waved at supporters and held signs indicating their thanks and their broken hearts.

BOSTON/Faneuil Hall - As part of a coordinated effort to push Congress in the direction of progressive immigration reform, the Service Employees International held a rally and march in Boston on Saturday. The event is one of many to be held across the country in support of reform beneficial to an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass. 4th District) addressed approximately 500 supporters at a packed Faneuil Hall.

Cambridge, MA - Last Friday, over 25 protestors representing several Boston area immigrant, labor and community organizations held a picket outside Gov. Deval Patrick's signing of his new memoir "Reason to Believe" at the First Church in Harvard Square. The demonstrators said they were there to criticize Patrick's support for Massachusetts' participation onto the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Secure Communities plan - which will share databases between local police departments and U.S.