ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND LEFTIST MARCH PLANNED FOR SEPTEMBER 4TH IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES.

7/30/06

[Ladycalif]

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MARCH PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES.

INTELLIGENCE ON THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MARCH PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES.

The Washington D.C. planning conference of ILLEGAL ALIENS for what is to follow between now and the ELECTION IN NOVEMBER took place in Washington D.C., July 28 -30th. At the bottom of this email you can read what organizations where there and which of their leaders spoke and held “training sessions”.

In addition to that, EFE, a Hispanic newswire service, quoted Nativo Lopez, one of the March 25th Coalition organizers as saying they planned to do another massive demonstration on Labor Day, September 4th in many U.S. Cities.

25 Julio, Nativo López, dirigente de la coalición, dijo a Efe que su organización

On July 25th 2006, Nativo López, march organizar, was quoted by EFE (a Hispanic wire service) as saying the following:

La Coalición 25 de Marzo, integrada por más de 150 organizaciones del sur de California

The March 25 Coalition is composed of more than 150 Southern California organizations

Con ese objetivo, planean realizar masivas movilizaciones, y para ello durante los días 11, 12 y 13 de agosto celebrarán en Chicago una conferencia nacional donde esperan la participación de más de 1.000 organizaciones de base de todo el país

We plan to organize massive demonstrations in various cities of the United Status on Labor Day, September 4th. For that end, we will hold a conference in Chicago August 11, 12 and 13, where over 1000 organizations from around the country will take place.

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[Ladycalif]

Lists of Participating Organizations

A World Beyond Capitalism

ACLU of Texas

AFSC (Baltimore, MD)

AFSC (Washington, DC)

AFSC Project Voice (Cambridge, MA)

AfterDowningStreet.org

Andy Shallal (Iraqi American activist)

Boston May Day Coalition

CAIR Coalition

Camp Democracy

Campaign For Labor Rights

Carpenters' District Council of Greater Kansas City and Vicinity

Casa Freehold

Code Pink Detention Project/Asylum Project of Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition

Detention Watch Network

Global Exchange

Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition

Guyanese-American Workers United

Hispanic Organizations Leadership Alliance

Industrial Workers of the World

Laborer's International Union of North America

Los Angeles March 25th Coalition

Massachusetts Global Action

MDI-Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes

Mission: Middle East

National Asian American Student Conference

National Council of La Raza

National Immigrant Solidarity Network

National Immigration Project

National Interfaith Committee For Worker Justice

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

National Organization of Women

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala

New York May 1st Coalition

North American Alliance for Fair Employment

Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition

Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

Queers for Economic Justice

Rescue Community

Rights Working Group

SmartMeme Media Collective

Socialist Workers Party/Young Socialists

Solidarity Committee of Capital District, NY

Student Immigrant Movement

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development

United for a Fair Economy

United Students Against Sweatshops

University Leadership Initiative

Washington Peace Center

Washtenaw County Workers Center

Western Mass Coalition of Immigrant Rights

Western Mass Global Action Coalition

Woodbridge Workers Committee

[TXBlair]

There was a March 25th demonstration? *Yawn*

[kingu]

Get your cameras, folks, go take pictures, pass them out to friends and family, because the newspapers will be editing what the public gets to see. Take along a digital audio recorder, let others hear what happens. Take along video cameras, film what happens and share it via YouTube and the like.

This will be the last demonstration if we all do this.

[Carry_Okie]

A major "anti-illegal immigration demonstration" will be provided to Congress coming election day.

[GoRepGo]

[goodnesswins]

CAIR and NOW are on the participating organization list.....This is on LABOR DAY folks.....

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Do these people work real jobs?

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

i'M GETTING TIRED OF THIS SHIT!

IF OTHERS FEEL THE SAME, THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LAST DEMOSTRATION OF THIS KIND!

GO HOME AND GROW UP! GO FIX YOUR COUNTRY!

DON'T BOTHER US ANYMORE!

[Ladycalif]

Facilitator: Pete CoyleOrg.: Carpenters' District Council of Greater Kansas City and Vicinity

The Minutemen: From the BeginningArea of the Topic:

BorderDescription:This workshop will serve to enlighten, enhance, and equip immigrant rights activists with the necessary background, tools, and experiences that have been employed in the struggle to demoralize, defuse, and debunk these hatemongers, their actions and their clandestine message of white superiority.

WS Agenda:PresentationQ and AReports from different regionsDiscuss on whether to confront or notWrap updiscussionWhat to Achieve?Inform the group on how the Minutemen were organized, and the efforts that preceded them. It is important that we understand who they are and their timeline to see how the developments in DC are correlated.This is a vital opportunity for those myths, miscommunications, and inaccuracies around the origins of and organizing around the may 1st mobilization to be outlined and clarified by those who were inherently involved and organizing the event nationwide.The workshop speak of it in terms of a national gone international action, and how it brought the international working class together like never before.

Facilitator: Jesse DiazOrg: March 25th CoalitionDay Laborer OrganizingArea of Topic: Multi-Ethnic

[NewRomeTacitus]

It's been brought up often how these people can walk off whatever they do for employment while we citizens feel obligated to our employers to the extent that ditching work for anything less than an emergency is unfathomable.

In light of this situation I propose that when their largest, pre-election protests are found out we should strive to get off work for the purpose of counterprotesting - even if it means making up time on a weekend day. The slowdown from the citizens' totally-depended upon productivity would make a REAL dent in the economy, albeit temporary and minimal, illustrating how weak the "Day without an Illegal Immigrant" was that we enjoyed a huge laugh over a few months ago.

[Ladycalif]

How This Will Help Us to Build A Better World?
There's a direct link between when U.S. attack other on countries, and the attacks on our immigrant community.That's no secrets that domestically; "War Against Terror" is in fact oppressions against immigrants and Muslims.

The activists and organizers in this country have a particular responsibility to point out the links between Katrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the U.S. war in Iraq. Understanding the connections between our individual conditions of life and the lives of people everywhere in the world allows us to come together and organize across all borders. We need to make the connections between: wars in Africa, South America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine and Korea, and sweatshops in Asia as well as in Los Angeles and in New York; international arms sales and the WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, our reproductive rights, child labor and child soldiers; multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism, anti-homophobia and poverty at home--then we can win the struggle!V

. Major Constituencies to this CampaignOur main focus groups include:- Immigrant day-labor centers- Community-based immigrant solidarity groups

[Ladycalif]

Ray YbarraIra Glasser
Racial Justice Fellow
American Civil Liberties Union of TexasWar on Terror Against Immigrants--

The Arabs and Muslim ExperienceArea of Topic: Multi-Ethic OrganizingThe recent wave of anti-immigrant legislation and overall xenophobia is very much a product of the "war on terror". Politicians, the media, and racist groups like the minuteman have used the September terrorist attacks to whip up hysteria against "illegal immigrants". Arab and muslim immigrants were in many ways the first victims of this wave of attacks on immigrants and their rights. While there has been some effort by Arabs and muslims to resist the attack on their rights and the racism accompanying it, more needs to be done to build solidarity with other immigrant communities and organize for immigrant rights.

This workshop will seek to educate others about the situation that arab and muslim immigrants currently face and begin the process of organizing them around this issue.Three speakers interspersed with video clips from the documentary "Brothers and others". If feasible, break out into smaller groups to discuss education and activism.

[Ladycalif]

En Los Ángeles y Nueva York
Activistas planean campaña para derechos de inmigrantes
Por Heather Cottin
Decenas de activistas en ambas costas del continente se reunieron el 17 de junio para lanzar un verano de lucha por los derechos de l@s inmigrantes y la unidad de l@s trabajador@s. La Coalición del 25 de Marzo en Los Ángeles y la Coalición 1º de Mayo en Nueva York convocaron conferencias de planificación para dirigirse a las políticas reaccionarias de Washington, las cuales están calculadas para provocar una reacción racista y dividir a l@s trabajador@s en los Estados Unidos.
Las dos coaliciones han estado colaborando desde principios de la primavera de este año para forjar un movimiento a nivel nacional. Ambas coaliciones ayudaron a organizar a millones de personas en las marchas del 1º de mayo para los derechos de l@s inmigrantes.
Ahora están proponiendo una serie de demandas: plena legalización para toda persona sin documentos; no murallas fronterizas; no detenciones ni deportaciones de inmigrantes; protección de los derechos civiles de tod@s; no al programa esclavista de “obreros invitados”; oposición a la “penalización” de l@s inmigrantes; derechos laborales plenos para tod@s; medidas para la reunificación de las familias de inmigrantes; revocación de sanciones contra los que emplean trabajador@s indocumentad@s; y no a las propuestas de leyes Sensenbrenner (HR-4437) y Hagel-Martínez (S-2611).
La conferencia en Nueva York se reunió en una escuela en Jackson Heights de Queens, una comunidad de diversas nacionalidades de Asia, el Caribe, África, y Latinoamérica. Se dividió en comités que discutieron cuestiones legales, económicas y sociales.
Un grupo habló sobre la oposición a los acuerdos de libre comercio, específicamente el Acuerdo de Libre Comercio de América del Norte y el Acuerdo de Libre Comercio de Centroamérica. Junto a la Organización Internacional del Comercio y a los programas de “ajustes” impuestos por el Fondo Monetario Internacional, estos mecanismos han incrementado el nivel de pobreza y desempleo alrededor del mundo y han forzado a millones de personas a emigrar desde sus países natales hacia países desarrollados mientras se enriquecen las empresas transnacionales.
Este comité también declaró que se opuso a la ley Taft-Hartley de 1947, la cual el Congreso de Organizaciones Indus triales (CIO) ha dado llamado “la ley de la esclavitud”.
El trabajo esclavizado es parte intrín seca de las propuestas de leyes inmigratorias actualmente bajo consideración por el Congreso. Es la razón por la cual Wash ing ton quiere un programa de “trabajadores invitados”. Los colaboradores del Congreso con el gran capital quieren resucitar al Programa Bracero bajo el cual millones de trabajadores agrícolas mexicanos proporcionaron mano de obra barata para todo, desde los supermercados hasta el empa cado de carne, desde el trabajo agrícola hasta la preparación de comidas, desde la construcción hasta la jardinería ornamental.
“La cuestión de los derechos de l@s inmi grantes es una cuestión para tod@s l@s trabajador@s”, dijo Brenda Stokely, una líder del Movimiento de la Marcha de un Millón de Trabajador@s quien enca bezó el taller en la conferencia de Nueva York sobre cómo forjar alianzas con los sindicatos. Vicente “Panamá” Alba del Local 108, del Sindicato Internacional de Obreros de Norteamérica, habló sobre reforzar la unidad con grupos en contra de la guerra, ambientalistas y otras organizaciones progresistas. Muchos han tardado en adoptar la causa de los derechos de l@s inmigrantes.
La Coalición del 1º de Mayo tiene la intención de producir literatura expo niendo la campaña reaccionaria y racista en contra de l@s inmigrantes y demo strando cómo la propuesta de ley Hagel-Martínez sería una declaración de guerra contra l@s indocumentad@s. Esa propuesta de ley podría resultar en el encarcelamiento y deportación de millones de trabajador@s y sus familias. Está calculada para dividir a l@s inmigrantes, deportando a millones mientras que promete otorgar residencia legal a otr@s que han vivido acá por más de cinco años. Pero cualquier persona que ha usado una identificación falsa pueda ser

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n A'ngeles and New York Activists they plan campaign for rights of immigrants By Heather Cottin Tens of activists in both coasts of the continent met the 17 of June to send to a summer of fight by the rights of l@s immigrants and the unit of l@s trabajador@s. The Coalition of the 25 of March in the Angels and the Coalition 1º of May in New York summoned planning conferences to go to the reactionary policies of the Washingtons, which are calculated to cause a racist reaction and to divide to l@s trabajador@s in the United States. The two coalitions have been collaborating from principles of the spring of this year to forge a movement at national level. Both coalitions helped to organize to million people in the marches of 1º of May for the rights of l@s immigrants. Now they are proposing a series of demands: total legalization for all person without documents; border nonwalls; nonhaltings nor deportations of immigrants; protection of the civil rights of tod@s; not to the esclavista program of "invited workers"; opposition to the "penalty" of l@s immigrants; labor rights plenary sessions for tod@s; measures for the reunification of the families of immigrants; revocation of sanctions against which they use trabajador@s indocumentad@s; and not to the proposals of laws Sensenbrenner (HR-4437) and Hagel-Martinez (S-2611). The conference in New York met in a school in Jackson Heights de Queens, a community of diverse nationalities of Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. It was divided in committees that discussed legal questions, economic and social. A group spoke on the opposition to the agreements of free commerce, specifically the Agreement of Free Commerce of North America and the Agreement of Free Commerce of Central America. Next to the Organization the International of Comercio and to the programs of "adjustments" imposed by the International Monetary Fund, these mechanisms have increased the level of poverty and unemployment around the world and have forced to million people to emigrate from their native countries towards developed countries while the transnational companies become rich. This committee also declared that it was against the 1947 law Taft-Hartley, which the Congress of triales Indus Organizations (CIO) has given to call "the law of the slavery". The enslaved work is dry part intrín of the proposals of immigratory laws at the moment under consideration by the Congress. It is the reason for which Wash Ing. ton wants a program of "invited workers". The collaborators of the Congress with the great capital want to revive to the Program Laborer under who million Mexican agricultural workers provided cheap manual labor for everything, from the supermarkets to empa cado of meat, from the agricultural work to the preparation of meals, from the construction to the ornamental gardening. "the question of the rights of l@s inmi the Grants is a question for tod@s l@s trabajador@s", said Brenda Stokely, a leader of the Movement of the March of Million Trabajador@s that enca bezó the factory in the conference of New York on how forging alliances with the unions. Vicente "White Panama" of the Premises 108, of the Union the International of Workers of North America, spoke on reinforcing the unit with progressive groups against the war, environmentalists and other organizations. Many have taken in adopting the cause of the rights of l@s immigrants. The Coalition of 1º of May has the intention to produce Literature expo niendo the reactionary and racist campaign against l@s immigrants and demo strando how the law proposal Hagel-Martinez would be a declaration of war against l@s indocumentad@s. That proposal of law could be in the imprisonment and deportation from million of trabajador@s and its families. It is calculated to divide to l@s immigrants, deporting to million whereas it promises to grant legal residence to otr@s that they have lived here by more than five years. But any person who has used a false identification can be

[A CA Guy]

Great, another day without illegals and much easier driving in the streets.

[EternalVigilance]

Great post.

Where Islamic Jihad meets the Left.

How easily we forget that the communists have been empowering Muslim terrorists for more than a generation now...

And, both groups gain from the overrunning of America, the loss of her sovereignty and the breakdown of our republican form of government.

[absalom01]

"... background, tools, and experiences that have been employed in the struggle to demoralize, defuse, and debunk these hatemongers (sic), their actions...'

Seems to me that certain FReepers have already taken this course.

[Dallas59]

Just wait till the lefties start telling Jose and Juan that they can't drive around in their 98 Chevy truck because it pollutes the air and kills animals...

[Dallas59]

....and that money is evil and that they should listen to white liberal Americans because it's the righ thing to do. I love it when Mexicans laugh!

[ruination]

I'm sure the “training sessions” included instructions to NOT bring Mexican flags to the marches, although that would be like pulling teeth for many of the marchers.