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Here’s What the President Is Doing to Fix Our Broken Immigration System: | The White House

As everyone knows, our immigration system has been broken for decades, and the President is doing his job to address the problems that he can with his executive authority. He will continue to work with Congress to pass comprehensive and common-sense immigration reform that will offer a long-term and much-needed solution.

So what exactly is the President’s plan for immigration? Take a look at what the President plans to do:

via Here’s What the President Is Doing to Fix Our Broken Immigration System: | The White House.

Mexico’s Undead Rise Up | Inter Press Service

After Marcos disappeared into the night, the assembled then heard a disembodied voice address them: “Good dawn, compañeras and compañeros. My name is Galeano, Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. Does anybody else respond to this name?”

In response, hundreds of voices affirmed, “Yes, we are all Galeano!” And so Galeano came back to life collectively, in all of those assembled.

And now 43 disappeared student teachers have multiplied into thousands demanding justice from the state and greater autonomy for local communities, which are already building alternative healthcare, education, justice, and governmental systems. A general strike is scheduled for the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution on November 20th.

In Mexico’s unraveling, there is an opportunity for the rest of the world to witness—and support—the emergence of more direct and collective forms of democracy. As the now “deceased” Marcos said: “They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.”

via Mexico’s Undead Rise Up | Inter Press Service.

LaVern Baker – Shake A Hand – YouTube

http://youtu.be/wj8vldagEss?list=RDwj8vldagEss

via LaVern Baker – Shake A Hand – YouTubeAll around the world, peace is here to grab and save, if we will stand up and do so. Those who use fear, abuse, terror, force are in reality too few to stand against those who just wish to live their lives in peace with family, friends, and neighbors. Shine your light, stand with your brothers and sisters… Peace is in your hands.

UPDATE 2-Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola | Reuters

While Cuba provides disaster relief around the world free of charge, it also exchanges doctors for cash or goods on more routine missions. The island receives an estimated 100,000 barrels of oil per day from Venezuela, where some 30,000 Cuban medical professionals are posted.

via UPDATE 2-Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola | Reuters.