The Multiracial Activist Newsletter
\nSpecial Alert 20 – February 7, 2005<\/p>\n
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The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to the biracial\/multiracial individuals, interracial couples\/families and the transracial adoptee community. Published irregularly, with special alerts as news items warrant. The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is registered with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC – ISSN: 1522-6905. Past newsletters and alerts are archived at http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/newsletter.html<\/a><\/p>\n Special Alert 20 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Multiracial Activist, along with several religious and civil liberties groups, has signed a joint letter to the U.S. House of Representatives outling our concerns with proposed changes in immigration admissions determinations of religious asylum seekers.<\/p>\n The letter is available on online:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/2005-02-03.html<\/a><\/p>\n An excerpt: ” We, the under-signed organizations and individuals, urge you to oppose Section 101 of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (H.R.418) which would have a devastating impact on legitimate asylum-seekers and refugees in this country. This bill includes provisions that will make it much harder for refugees to get asylum in this country — and could lead to their deportation into the hands of their persecutors.”<\/p>\n A partial list of endorsing organizations is below:<\/p>\n American Civil Liberties Union The following related documents are also available online:<\/p>\n The Multiracial Activist – Special Alert 19:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/newsletter\/specialalert19.html<\/a><\/p>\n Faithful but Forsaken: Real ID Act Harms Victims of Religious Persecution http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/news\/faithfulbutforsaken.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Yours in Struggle,<\/p>\n James A. Landrith, Jr. The Multiracial Activist Newsletter Special Alert 20 – February 7, 2005 The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to the biracial\/multiracial individuals,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,106],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-multiracial-activist-newsletter","tag-newsletter","tag-special-alert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-r5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Newsletters-and-Special-Alerts.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFebruary 7, 2005
\nEditor, James A. Landrith, Jr.
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