Posted on 05/29/2007 7:36:37 AM PDT by Minnesocold
Are the “raids” she is referring to in this letter actually the slavery/forced prostitution ring bust that occurred in South Minneapolis a few weeks back?
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LOL! (There are only a few of us left!)
Geez, remember when they used to teach stuff like engineering, business, and medicine at colleges?
They are indeed. Resource Center for the Americas (Luce Guillien Givins' employer) headed up a campaign to protest.
* Minnesota-based Open Borders organization
* Supports the Declaration of Civil Rights for Immigrants, which restricts the federal government's authority to detain and deport illegal aliens who have committed crimesThe Resource Center of the Americas (RCA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is "to create social change both in the United States and Latin America." It agitates for unrestricted immigration across U.S. borders and amnesty for illegal immigrants already residing in the United States. It opposes American foreign policies in general, particularly the embargo against Cuba and the current U.S. military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 2003 RCA joined likeminded organizations in successfully lobbying the Minneapolis City Council to pass a "sanctuary" regulation forbidding social workers, police, and other city employees from inquiring into the residency status of suspected illegal aliens. RCA Executive Director Frank Vardeman stated that this ordinance "makes clear that city employees will not act as intelligence agents or enforcement arms for the national administration's anti-immigrant policies."
RCA supports the "Declaration of Civil Rights for Immigrants," which calls for similar sanctuary policies across the United States, advocates the granting of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and seeks to restrict the federal government's authority to detain or deport illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the U.S.
On September 13, 2006, RCA posted on its website an article titled "We Are Not Illegals," which demanded that Americans "start humanizing the face of immigration now!" "This is not about what should the people at the center of the immigration debate be called," it said, "but about what THE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES [emphasis in original] -- We are not 'illegals.' No Somos 'ilegales.' We demand that all media stop imposing the terminology 'illegal immigrants' on us and our fellow immigrant people."
RCA is a member organization of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MAP), which opposes the war on terror, endorses global disarmament, and accuses the U.S. of having incited whatever terrorist attacks are carried out against it. RCA's fellow MAP members include Friends for a Non-Violent World, the National Lawyers Guild, the Palestine-Israel Justice Project , Nonviolent Peaceforce, Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace, Witness For Peace, Women Against Military Madness, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
In RCA's view, the "global economy" is "a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment." RCA was a signatory to a 1999 petition of self-identified "civil society" organizations that opposed globalization, big business in general, and "any effort to expand the powers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a new comprehensive round of trade liberalization." A notable cosigner of this petition was Global Exchange Director Medea Benjamin, who was a chief organizing force behind the November 1999 riots in Seattle, where some 50,000 protesters destroyed millions of dollars worth of property in their effort to shut down the WTO Conference in that city.
RCA is funded by the Ben and Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Minneapolis Foundation
Take off your top for peace!
If they want to render law enforcement agencies obsolete they might want to check out Jim Bell's theory: Assassination Politics.
Huh... Ford Foundation. Aren’t they the same ones who support the homosexuals? If so, that gives me one more reason to not buy their products.
The Ford Foundation doesn’t have products, AFAIK. It just gives money from income of its endowment funds, started in 1936, to various liberal causes.
It divested some (most?) of its stock in Ford Motor Company between 1956 and 1974. It is unclear, from the following, if any significant portion of its funds now come from Ford Motors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
Thanks for clarification.
New York police knew how to prevent chaos at the ‘04 Republican convention. ‘08 in the Twin Cities will be another story. It will get ugly.
The powers that be in Minneapolis will prevent any serious response by the cops. That’s my fear, anyway.
Translation: How dare the serfs rise up and tell us that they don’t want to pay for our mascots.
Funding by Soros, Ford or Heinz?
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