Author: Sarah Kate Kramer
Bio: Sarah Kate Kramer first got hooked on collecting stories as a StoryCorps facilitator, then traveled the world with a microphone for a few years before settling down in her hometown of New York City. From 2010-2012 she was the editor of Feet in 2 Worlds and a freelance reporter for WNYC Radio, where she created “Niche Market,” a weekly segment that profiled specialty stores in New York. Sarah is now a producer at Radio Diaries, a non-profit that produces documentaries for NPR and other public radio outlets.
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Posted on: 06 Oct 2010
The Story Line, a new crowdsourcing project is reaching out to immigrant detainees to get their stories heard on the web and to document abuses by the detention system.
Posted on: 05 Oct 2010
The swirling political debate around undocumented immigrants and the lack of tangible progress on immigration reform is surely going to have an effect on the midterm elections–the question is what that effect will be.
Posted on: 01 Oct 2010
Two new immigration bills have been introduced in the Senate. Meanwhile Bloomberg and Murdoch brought their pro-reform message to Congress.
Posted on: 29 Sep 2010
A $300,000 effort led by the immigration reform movement aims to bring Hispanic voters to the polls in November to support Democratic candidates.
Posted on: 24 Sep 2010
Days after being defeated by a GOP filibuster, the DREAM Act has been reintroduced in the Senate as a stand-alone bill. Democrats are using the bill to send a message that they are committed to immigration reform.
Posted on: 23 Sep 2010
On Friday, comedian Stephen Colbert will testify in Congress in support of AgJOBS, a bill that would grant undocumented farm workers currently in the United states a path towards legal status by continuing to work in agriculture.
Posted on: 22 Sep 2010
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans filibustered a last-ditch Democratic effort to pass the DREAM Act. Immigrant students protested across the country.
Posted on: 09 Sep 2010
In an op-ed published on Wednesday in the Spanish-language press, President Obama announced the launch of www.ciudadosdesalud.com, the federal government’s health insurance portal for the Hispanic community.
Posted on: 03 Sep 2010
Four of the five Democratic candidates showed up for a televised debate that was a contest over who is the most immigrant-friendly.
Posted on: 02 Sep 2010
New York’s biggest Spanish language paper is hoping for fresh blood in the New York State legislature.
