Posted on 08/24/2007 5:04:22 AM PDT by IrishMike
Her traveling companion, Emma Lozano, has been a longtime activist.
Bannerman Fellowship Program: 2002 Fellows
EMMA LOZANO
Chicago, IL
Emma Lozano got her start in organizing in the 1970s with Chicago's independent Latino political movement. She founded Centro Sin Fronteras in 1987 to defend the rights of undocumented Mexican immigrants. At the same time, Pueblo Sin Fronteras began organizing neighborhood residents, using hunger strikes and demonstrations to win construction of the city's first community-based bilingual school. Ever since, Sin Fronteras has played a leading role on issues ranging from school reform to legalization of the undocumented to getting the U.S. Navy out of the Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Rudy Lozano, 20 years later
People's Weekly World Newspaper
June 12, 2003
On the morning of June 8, 1983, Rudy Lozano, chief Midwest field organizer of the old International Ladies Garment Workers Union, was murdered in cold blood in his house in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side. The forces behind his killing have never been conclusively identified.
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It was Rudy, more than anyone else, who united Chicago's Mexican and Puerto Rican communities behind the campaign to elect Harold Washington mayor of Chicago in 1983.
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Furthermore, Rudy was doing pioneering work in the effort to bring union recognition and justice on the job to immigrant workers, including the undocumented. He was an effective organizer of low-paid workers in the city's tortilla factories, among other places.
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Last year, Sin Fronteras, an organization in Chicago headed by Rudy's sister Emma Lozano and modeled on his example, turned in 12,000 "Reward Work" cards in the campaign for immigrant legalization coordinated by the Service Employees International Union. This year, Sin Fronteras and any number of other organizations, churches and unions are working even harder to support the "Freedom Ride" for immigrant rights that has been initiated by the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union.
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I thought the woolly referred to what’s INSIDE a leftist’s head. :)
Hi cousin,
Whether it catches on or not depends on YOU. Hopefully we will all start to hold people’s feet to the fire, so to speak, and get this situation under control. I can’t overemphasize that it is up to US, citizens of the USA, because the government won’t do this for us. They may follow our lead.
AND any citizen who attends a church offering or giving sanctuary should leave in protest. If it were me, I would raise HELL in church (sorry for the analogy) before leaving.
ping
Hey Cal,
Can you quote chapter and verse on it being illegal to burn other countries’ flags? I want to a) be convinced, and b) know what penalty I will face.
Thanks for the heads up. I was about to fire off a rant about how poorly written it was...making claims and then not providing supporting details! :-)
“America is a violent, racist nation and you are violating my human rights by not letting me stay there!”
So you are against those who come to this country legally under a work visa? I think you should rephrase to ask whether there's anyone working there illegally, or something similar.
Oops...now I see that Barb4Bush wrote a similar response, but I'm gonna post this anyway since the others weren't pinged.
>Any church that offers sanctuary for illegals should have its tax exemption revoked, pronto.<
AMEN!
Amen Michael! Why din’t she take her kid with her? She probably figures she’ll sneak in again!
I do understand sanctuary, but in this case it is much misused. Imagine if churches tried to take in 12,000,000 illegals for sanctuary.
vaudine
I'm convinced that most liberals are stuck at the intellectual level of a 7 or 8 yr old.
Talk to any young child about how the world should work...everything should be free, there shouldn't be any war or fighting - that's bad. If you're doing something and someone else doesn't like it, you should be made to stop. It's not fair that Jimmy down the street has a better bike than you. It's just a given that "Mom" tells you what to eat, what to wear, when to go to bed - Substitute "Nanny" for Mom, and it sounds like a lib's view of the world to me!
Ms. Elvira is a useful idiot. Her 8 yr old son doesn’t know how to speak English? He was born here, and doesn’t speak English? WTF?
Oh, and I don’t care what denomiation that church is, goodbye tax exempt status!!!
There is no “chapter and verse” I’ve found. I’ve been looking for a while.
Folks have been arrested after burning mexican flags, but they are charged with things like reckless endangerment and arson.
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/124317.php
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607278/posts
If people burn our flag, it is overlooked as part of a political protest, and exercising First Amendment rights.
“I thought the woolly referred to what’s INSIDE a leftist’s head. :)”
No, that would be wide open space.
If the 'church' meaning the leadership of the denomination, yes. But if it is a rogue minister/priest/whatever, then that individual should be defrocked by the church and arrested by the feds.
Hahahaha, "Hollywood Mo"? Naaaah, not him. He just flouts the immigration laws here in California ;-)
It would be nice if he was defrocked, before he retires. We'd all pop a bottle of bubbly!
I don't know who told you that, but it's not the least bit true.
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