Positive Universe Abstracts

Civilrights.org, DC
Prepared by Bendixen and Associates for New American Media in partnership with
LCCR Education Fund and Center for American Progress
Executive Summary
Methodology
Bendixen & Associates interviewed 800 legal immigrants by telephone between February 24 and March 21, 2006. The sample was designed to be representative of the 26 million legal immigrants that reside in the United States according [...]

Dear [Radio Talk Show Host],
I heard you speaking on the radio and saying some things that are both irresponsible and also not true.
First, you talked about “illegals.” That is about as politically correct as referring to African-Americans with the ‘N’ word. The new standard, since the 1970s is “undocumented workers.” Many of [...]

Mother Jones, CA
COMMENTARY: Three reasons why the positive impact goes beyond crude costs and benefits.
By Bernard Wasow
March 29, 2006
Article created by The Century Foundation.
Economists treat immigration like any other phenomenon that generates costs and benefits. They ask the economist’s one-size-fits-all question: What are the additional benefits and costs to Americans of admitting a few additional immigrants? [...]

Mother Jones, CA
Immigration Clampdown
NEWS: Last summer, two aid volunteers saved some desperately ill Mexicans who’d crossed illegally into Arizona. For their troubles they may end up in jail.
By Andrew Gumbel
(archived)
On July 9 last year, a group of eight Mexican migrants made the hazardous journey across the U.S. border into Arizona and, after three days of walking [...]

CounterCurrents.org, India
By Bob Nichols
SF Bay View (h)
Nine days after the start of the American president’s 2003 “shock and awe” uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain’s towns and countryside and throughout Europe.
Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after conducting research on specialized high volume air [...]

Political Cortex, NY
By accidentalactivist
On March 25th, 2006, Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Faiza Al-Araji, and Medea Benjamin spoke to a crowd of about 300 people at the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto. The title for the evening was Iraq: The Power of Truth in A War Based on Lies. It was an incredible evening, hearing [...]

New California Media, CA
New America Media, Commentary (h)
Lydia Chavez, Mar 27, 2006
Editor’s Note: The immigration debate has been hijacked by nasty jingoism in our nation’s capitol. But now in great numbers, illegal immigrants and their supporters take to the street to protest the draconian bill that will turn the 12 million undocumented residents in the [...]