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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  GRANMA INTERNAtIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ENGLISH
Calero defense committee formed The Róger Calero Defense Committee was formed in January, with Studer as the coordinator.
Soon after Calero was released from the immigration jail in December, the INS set a March 25 hearing in Houston to rule on his case.
Calero said he especially looks forward to refocusing his energies on what he was doing before the INS detained him on December 3--writing for Perspectiva Mundial and the Militant, telling the truth about the resistance of workers and farmers to the employers’ offensive against their rights, and the worldwide fight for socialism.
www.granma.cu /ingles/mayo03/juev15/calero-i.html   (1838 words)

  
  Free Roger Calero, Journalist/INS detainee : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This attempt by the INS to exclude Calero from the United States and deport him to Nicaragua is an attack on his rights as a permanent resident, on his right to exercise his work as a journalist, and on the rights of all.
Calero was on a one?week assignment for Perspectiva Mundial to report on an international conference in Havana on the FreeTrade Area of the Americas, attended by trade unionists and other delegates from Latin America, the United States, and Canada.
Calero is fighting today to win his freedom on bond from an INS prison and for an immediate halt to government exclusion proceedings against him.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1556022   (1829 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Calero and his supporters have launched a public campaign to win his release and the restoration of his rights.Your help is needed.
Calero was on a one?week assignment for Perspectiva Mundial to report on an international conference in Havana on the FreeTrade Area of the Americas, attended by trade unionists and other delegates from Latin America, the United States, and Canada.
Calero is fighting today to win his freedom on bond from an INS prison and for an immediate halt to government exclusion proceedings against him.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2002/12/31/15560221_content.html   (1781 words)

  
 Seeing Red
This attempt by the INS to exclude Calero from the United States and deport him to Nicaragua is an attack on his rights as a permanent resident, on his right to exercise his work as a journalist, and on the rights of all.
Calero and his supporters have launched a public campaign to win his release and the restoration of his rights.
Calero was on a one-week assignment for Perspectiva Mundial to report on an international conference in Havana on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, attended by trade unionists and other delegates from Latin America, the United States, and Canada.
www.seeingred.com /Copy/5.4_free_roger_calero.html   (990 words)

  
 Roger Calero. Story by Shannon Young.
Calero is the Associate Editor of Perspectiva Mundial and a staff writer for The Militant.
Calero feels that the current attack on civil liberties is only one aspect of a larger plan to break organized labor rights groups and to ultimately create a highly exploitable workforce.
Roger Calero is scheduled to have an exclusion hearing in Houston March 25th to determine weather or not he can remain in the United States - where he has lived for the past 17 years.
www.kpft.org /news/013103story3.html   (632 words)

  
 Socialist Viewpoint
This attempt by the INS to deport Calero from the United Statesto Nicaragua is an attack on his rights as a permanent resident, onhis right to exercise his work as a journalist, and on the rights of all.
Calero was on a one-weekassignment for Perspectiva Mundial to report on an international conference in Havana on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, attended by trade unionists and other delegates from Latin America, the United States,and Canada.
The INS is seeking to deport Calero to his native Nicaragua, based on a 1988 conviction, when he was a high school student in Los Angeles, on a charge of selling an ounce of marijuana to an undercover cop.
www.socialistviewpoint.org /feb_03/feb_03_25.html   (743 words)

  
 The Oracle - Be wary of INS laws, former detainee says
Calero told a group of faculty and students Tuesday night in the Phyllis P. Marshall Center that he was denied his constitutional rights and that since the Sept. 11 attacks immigrants are facing a greater risk of deportation.
Calero said when he was arrested at the airport, the police read him his Miranda rights but he was denied an attorney because he was being held on detention.
Calero remained in jail for 10 days after his arrest and received dozens of letters from people and organizations that shared similar experiences to his, which inspired him, he said.
www.usforacle.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=16375488-2a39-421b-9891-4c17b733e602   (586 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the 2004 Socialist Workers Party Presidential Candidate
will not accept Calero as a qualified candidate because he is a not constitutionally eligible.
Calero briefly because a communist cause celebre in 2002-03 when the INS arrested Calero and started deportation proceedings based on a felony marijuana conviction from 1988 when Calero was in high school.
Calero is both foreign born and also not a US citizen; and Arrin Hawkins is too young.
www.politics1.com /swp04.htm   (718 words)

  
 Victory of Union Member over INS | You are Worth More! | Clock out, Log in, Speak up!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Last December 3rd, Roger Calero, a Militant staff writer and associate editor of the Spanish-language magazine Perspectiva Mundial, was seized by the INS at the Houston airport as he was returning from a reporting assignment in Latin America.
People coming from many different perspectives saw in Roger's battle an opportunity to defen their own space to work and to fight.
Join Roger and local supporters in celebrating this important victory for all working people and to discuss how to continue the fight for workers' rights.
www.youareworthmore.org /node/46/print   (311 words)

  
 Celebrate the Victory of Róger Calero : Houston Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Róger Calero will be in Houston June 18-19 for the first leg of an international "victory tour." Calero, Nicaraguan by birth and U.S. permanent resident for more than 12 years, is associate editor for Perspectiva Mundial and staff-writer for the weekly, The Militant, both published in New York.
The government told Calero he was slated for expulsion from the U.S. because of a high school marijuana plea bargain verdict in 1988.
Calero lent his voice to others standing up for their rights.
houston.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=12771&comments=yes   (537 words)

  
 The Creightonian Online
The Socialist Workers Party’s presidential candidate, Róger Calero, visited Creighton’s campus Thursday, urging students and other Nebraskans to seek an alternative to what he describes as our current political mess.
Calero’s visit to Omaha is one of a long nationwide string.
Rosenfeld hopes that his defense of the right to unionize and his international unification platform will be of interest to the students.
press.creighton.edu:16080 /100804/news5.html   (388 words)

  
 Gotham Gazette -- The Citizen
Roger Calero handed his passport and green card to the immigration official at Houston Intercontinental Airport as he had done many times in the past.
The case against Calero, who emigrated from Nicaragua to Los Angeles in 1986, was based on his 1988 conviction for selling an ounce of marijuana to an undercover police officer when he was a senior in high school.
Calero received a 60-day suspended sentence at the time and had his conviction waived by immigration officials when he received his green card in 1990.
www.gothamgazette.com /citizen/may03/original-tough_fair.shtml   (1334 words)

  
 [R-G] Socialist wins back green card after beating deportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At that time, the DHS informed him it was petitioning the immigration court to "terminate the instant Removal Proceedings predicated on the Notice to Appear dated December, 2002." The DHS quoted sections from immigration regulations as the basis for its decision, stating the "removal" notice had been "improvidently" issued.
The INS released Calero from its Houston prison 10 days after jailing him, having received scores of letters demanding that he be freed.
Resistance to government attacks Calero's tour coincided with other resistance to increased government attacks on immigrant rights-attacks that included the special registration of individuals from 20 Mideast and Asian countries, and stepped-up deportations of immigrant workers for convictions on petty criminal charges.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2003-May/009029.html   (1227 words)

  
 The Militant: "Socialist Workers Party inaugurates new international headquarters in NY Garment District (2004)"
Calero won a wide hearing within the U.S. labor movement, among supporters of the rights of immigrants, and among others fighting for justice.
Calero, who was in Havana to report on a January conference opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas and on the Havana book fair, was interviewed by the Cuban newspapers Juventud Rebelde and Granma International.
Róger Calero introduced Olivia Nelson, who together with Militant editor Argiris Malapanis will be part of a reporting team to Venezuela and will attend the convention of the youth organization of the Fifth Republic Movement, the ruling party in Venezuela.
www.walterlippmann.com /docs016.html   (2414 words)

  
 m-fem message, biographies of Róger Calero and Arrin Hawkins, 004 Socialist W
Róger Calero, 35, is an associate editor of the Spanish-language magazine Perspectiva Mundial and a staff writer for the Militant.
Calero has lived in the United States since 1985, when his family moved from Nicaragua to Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles Calero helped mobilize support in October 1994 against Proposition 187, a California ballot measure intended to deny undocumented workers and their children access to public education, health care, and other social services.
archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/m-fem/2004m06/msg00037.htm   (709 words)

  
 Roger Calero - Kandidatur: Präsident
In einigen der vierzehn Staaten, in denen Caleros Socialist Workers Party (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei) antritt, steht deshalb an seiner Stelle James Harris auf dem Wahlzettel, der bereits 2000 für die Partei kandidierte.
Ob in Iowa oder Nebraska: Laut "The Militant" kommen vor allem Studenten und Arbeiter zu Caleros Auftritten und zwar in sehr überschaubarer Anzahl.
Calero setzt sich entschlossen für eine bessere Stromversorgung dieser Länder ein, um ihnen die Möglichkeit zu industrieller Entwicklung zu geben.
www.bpb.de /themen/6W1S6X,,0,Roger_Calero.html   (533 words)

  
 No Passion About Ending Our Own Drug War - BBSNews Black and White 2003-03-05
Calero was convicted of selling marijuana to an undercover officer while in high school.
Calero, married to a US citizen and living in Newark, New Jersey was given a waiver for the conviction by INS in 1989 during the INS application process.
Calero is a working journalist, associate editor of Perspectiva Mundial and staff writer for pro-union/solidarity The Militant.
bbsnews.net /bw2003-03-14.html   (383 words)

  
 UCD Advocate - Alternative candidate
Calero is the associate editor of Perspectiva Mundial, a Spanish-language magazine, as well as a staff writer for a weekly socialist paper, the Militant.
Hawkins was nominated by the SWP to join Calero in a fight for the White House and a fight on capitalism.
Calero and Hawkins support national, lifetime health care for all and a Social Security plan that includes pensions, disability, and retirement, while both George W. Bush and John Kerry want to keep health care privatized.
www.ucdadvocate.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=e347c103-08af-4e1d-8aea-e0042d5060b3   (559 words)

  
 An activist caught in the web of the INS
On December 3, Roger Calero, an editor of the left-wing Spanish newspaper Perspectiva Mundial, affiliated with the U.S. Socialist Workers Party, was arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as he returned from a trip to Cuba and Mexico.
Calero, originally from Nicaragua, has been a legal U.S. resident for the past 12 years--working as a journalist and an activist during that time.
On December 13, Calero was released from a Houston prison, pending a March 25 INS hearing aimed at permanently removing him from the United States.
www.socialistworker.org /2003-1/438/438_12_ActivistCaught.shtml   (281 words)

  
 The Beacon
Calero began his lecture by stating that many people still think socialism is the best alternative to the American two-party system, which his party maintains promotes capitalism to the neglect of the working class.
Throughout the presentation, Calero emphasized his belief that the SWP stands and fights for the rights of the working class.
Calero also stated the party's goal to remain a vehicle of new ideas to those tired of the current system.
www.beaconnewspaper.com /media/paper540/news/2004/10/18/News/Socialist.Candidate.Lectures.At.Bbc-771674.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.beaconnewspaper.com   (336 words)

  
 IPA NY Voices That Must Be Heard
In addition to being associate editor at the publication Perspectiva Mundial, Calero is a writer for the Militant, an English language publication in New York.
The campaign for Calero includes a number of organizations and individual defenders of free press, immigrant rights activists and hundreds of union activists, which forced the INS to free him on bail while his case is pending.
On, Feb. 1, there will be a public meeting organized by the committee to defend Roger Calero at St. Mary Episcopal Church, 521 125 Street in Manhattan, at 7 p.m.
www.indypressny.org /article.php3?ArticleID=617   (399 words)

  
 GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ESPAÑOL
EL nombre de Róger Calero es prácticamente desconocido en los grandes medios de prensa de Estados Unidos.
La detención de Calero y la batalla iniciada por éste después que fue puesto en libertad con la amenaza de deportación en el término de tres meses, puso de relieve la política seguida por el INS contra los inmigrantes en los últimos tiempos.
Calero denunció públicamente que decenas de miles de residentes en Estados Unidos son sometidos a exclusión o deportación basándose en la Ley de Reforma de Inmigración Ilegal y Responsabilidad del Inmigrante de 1996 y otras disposiciones reaccionarias.
www.granma.cu /espanol/marzo03/mier26/11calero.html   (772 words)

  
 Independent Florida Alligator - NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Harris, the Socialist Workers Party nominee, is a stand-in for the party’s real candidate, Roger Calero, who cannot appear on the ballot as he is not a U.S. citizen.
Calero, 35, was born in Nicaragua but is a “permanent resident” of the United States who has lived in the country since 1985.
Calero said the major-party presidential nominees ignore issues important to citizens, especially in the recent presidential debates.
www.alligator.org /edit/news/issues/stories/041101socialists.html   (465 words)

  
 Facing Deportation: Roger Calero - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Calero, now a permanent resident for twelve years, is also married to a citizen and now where he now resides in Newark, New Jersey.
Calero's cause has drawn widespread support, from coal miners in Colorado to a letter of endorsement from Iraq.
Calero's event was sponsored by Casa Latina, one of the more prominent clubs on campus.
media.www.the-mass-media.com /media/storage/paper445/news/2003/03/27/News/Facing.Deportation.Roger.Calero-402596.shtml   (500 words)

  
 What Happens To the Disappeared   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
When Roger Calero got to customs at Houston's international airport Dec. 3, he thought long lines were all he had to worry about.
Yet by the end of the day, Calero was stuck in an immigration detention center, surrounded by immigrants who, like himself, had lived in the U.S. for years, had raised families here and considered themselves Americans.
The reason for Calero's detention and ongoing deportation proceedings was a 1988 conviction for marijuana possession, when he was a high school student in L.A. Calero had freely disclosed his conviction on both his original application for permanent residency and his 2000 renewal; both were granted without incident.
www.govsux.com /what_happens_to_the_disappeared.htm   (1358 words)

  
 americas.org - INS Arrests Inbound Reporter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Immigration and Naturalization Service detained Roger Calero on December 3 in Houston International Airport when he returned from conferences in Cuba and Mexico.
Calero is a writer for the Militant, a nationwide socialist newspaper, and associate editor of Perspectiva Mundial, a Spanish-language news magazine published in New York.
Calero, a Nicaraguan national, has been a U.S. resident with permanent legal status since 1990.
www.americas.org /item_13010   (129 words)

  
 [imc-qc] NISPOP Report on 2004 Presidential Candidates
Nader seeks to expand civil liberties to include basic human rights in employment and truly equal rights regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race or religion.” (http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=18) Socialist Workers: Róger Calero: No response as of this writing.
Calero said that many of the laws being used today against immigrants and other workers precede the Bush administration or are built on previous legislation passed during the eight years of William Clinton in the White House.
Peroutka said he wanted to do more research, but like Badnarik, saw this as primarily a question of sovereignty, and so was able to answer this question well without having to develop or share an opinion about Sison, the CPP, or the NPA.
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-qc/2004-July/0728-28.html   (1783 words)

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