While
a private prison is top of the news,
you’d probably never know what it has to do with this if you didn’t have the Internet,
8,000 Rally against Georgia Anti-Immigrant Bills,
by Gloria Tatum in Georgia Progressive News:
Over 8,000 activists rallied outside the State Capitol on Thursday, March
24, 2011, to show their outrage and disgust over Georgia’s Arizona-type
immigration bills.As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, legislation, HB 87,
has already passed the State House. A similar bill, SB 40, has also
passed the State Senate.
While the vast majority of protesters at the Capitol were Hispanic,
opposition to the bills came from a wide spectrum of constituents
including immigrants, students, religious groups, peace groups, veterans
of the Civil Rights Movement, Asian groups, GLBTQI activists, labor,
artists, musicians, business owners, elected officials, and others.
What’s this got to do with private prisons?