ANSWER: Join in the May 1st Boycott and Day of Action for Immigrant Rights! [Major BARF Alert]

Email from ANSWER | April 28, 2006 | International ANSWER

[upchuck]

[I periodically receive email from ANSWER. Here, stripped of all the "send money" pleas, for your amusement, is their latest spew. I know y'all will have fun with such a "target rich" post :]

Join in the May 1st Boycott
and Day of Action for Immigrant Rights!

On Monday, May 1, International Workers Day, we will all be participating in one of the most momentous political events as millions of immigrant workers and students, and hopefully a large number of their allies, participate in the Great May 1st Boycott. Initiated from within the immigrant workers movement itself, the call for the May 1 Boycott has received the active support of organizations throughout the country.

For the last six weeks ANSWER chapters, organizers and volunteers have been going all out to build concrete solidarity for the mobilization of the millions of immigrant workers who have been in the streets demanding full rights and equality.

In Los Angeles alone, ANSWER Coalition supporters and activists have passed out 80,000 leaflets at workplaces, high schools and college campuses. In New York City,  ANSWER has been building neighborhood-based outreach committees to promote the boycott and other supplementary actions that will take place on May 1 including rallies and vigils that are scheduled throughout the city.

In San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, DC, and other ANSWER regional organizing centers similar work has been going on every day. We hope that all anti-war and social justice activists in the U.S., who have not already done so, contact local immigrant rights organizations to see how they can help. Take a moment this weekend to call an ANSWER organizing center near you to see how to get involved now (see phone numbers below) and help with the May 1 actions and beyond.

We are inspired by this movement which is truly led by the

people themselves. Risking deportation and loss of job, millions of immigrants have decided, however, that it is better to come out and stand together rather than be beaten back by the racist right-wing Sensenbrenner bill which would turn all undocumented workers and those who aid them into criminal felons. Now the struggle has expanded. People are feeling their strength and demanding full legalization and equality.

Since its inception, on September 14, 2001, ANSWER has made a point of linking the struggle for peace with opposition to the U.S. government's domestic policy which has demonized and scapegoated immigrants and other targeted communities. We have also made the point that scapegoating and fear-mongering directed against immigrant communities is not simply the tactic of the Republican Party. During the Clinton years and since, the Democrats have either embraced or surrendered to the anti-immigrant bashing that has become all too commonplace in the United States.

There have been many parallels drawn between this new civil rights and workers rights movement with that of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. Even with all the obvious differences, this analogy is apt. The most noteworthy feature of the civil rights uprising of the 1950s and 1960s was that it was the people themselves who overcame the fear and intimidation and became the central actors on the political stage. It was the unbelievable heroism of "ordinary" people that made the difference. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were adopted by a Congress whose social and racial composition were almost identical to the Congress of the 1950s that upheld Jim Crowism as the law of the land.

What changed the political situation was the action of the mass of the people. That's exactly what is happening today, and that is what will make the May 1 boycott such a huge success.

This new civil rights and workers and rights movement is diverse and decentralized. Because of its breadth, it is only natural that there will be many scores of organizations at the national and local level that have formed and will form in a leadership and coordinating capacity. The ANSWER Coalition is working with and supporting the efforts of many organizations in the immigrant rights movement and  community. The International May 1 Coalition has played a major role in promoting and coordinating some of the main boycott efforts on May 1.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.answercoalition.org/
E-mail: info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-694-8720
Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
Chicago: 773-463-0311

[DrewsDad]

[C]A.N.S.W.E.R and Illegal Immigration?

It must be

PINKO DE MAYO

Shamelessly copied from hispanarepublicana.

[concerned about politics]

millions of immigrant workers who have been in the streets demanding full rights and equality.

Oh yeah. Americans will love being forced to obey law breakers. They'll be poring out all kinds of sympathy when they hear the foreign invaders screaming like crazed dictators! (NOT)

Bring it on!

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for the ping!

Can someone photoshop that yellow sign to say,

Full Rights
For All
LAW BREAKERS

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

PINKO DE MAYO in San Francisco, si.

[loboinok]

There are 106 organizations(as of 4/11/06) supporting the upcoming May 1 ‘Great American Boycott of 2006’ of which include;

Berkeley May 1st Mobilization Committee (Berkeley, CA)
Communist League
Communist Party USA Wisconsin section (Green Bay, WI)
Communist Party, USA Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Freedom Socialist Party (Seattle, WA)
Industrial Workers of the World (Cincinnati, OH)
International Socialist Organization (Los Angeles, CA)
Liars of America (Middletown, CA)*
May Day Boston (Boston, MA)
Revolutionary Workers Party of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Third Way Peace and Justice Fellowship (San Francisco, CA)
Workers Solidarity Alliance

Bob McCloskey - Democratic Candidate 29th Congressional District (Monterey Park, CA)
Feminism Without Borders (College Park, MD)
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (San Diego, CA)
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance (Boise, ID)
Immigrant Students in Action (Providence , RI)
Peace & Freedom Party of Orange County (Anaheim, CA)
Queers For Peace And Justice (New York, NY)
Project Islamic HOPE (Los Angeles, CA)

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Let's see. 80% of Americans will provide the backlash for this event. Hmmmm. Won't it all be fun...

[Heartofsong83]

Let's see how well that turns out in Middle America if commies are organizing it.

[television is just wrong]

should prove to be interesting day. By the way, voice of aztlan is warning these people to arm themselves. Be careful out there, may turn nasty.

[television is just wrong]

How about a boycott of all Mexican restaurants on Sinkhole de mayo?

[Snoopers-868th]

By the way, voice of aztlan is warning these people to arm themselves. Be careful out there, may turn nasty.

Can you give a link please or where have you heard this?

[television is just wrong]

got an email. here it is.



>>http://www.halturnershow.com/MexicansIssueCallToArmsInsideUSA.html
>>
>>CALL TO ARMS!
>>MILITANT MEXICAN GROUP TELLS ILLEGAL ALIENS TO ARM THEMSELVES FOR MAY 1
>>RALLIES!
>>This is "it" folks. They are now publicly taking up arms against America.
>>By: Hal Turner Published Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:47 PM
>>
>>
>>For weeks they and their leaders have been openly talking about being
>>engaged in "civil war." They now appear ready to formalize their rhetoric
>>with guns.
>>
>>The message below is from the official web site of "Voz De Aztlan" (The
>>Voice of Aztlan). Their confidential subscriber e-mail list received the
>>communique below on Thursday, April 27.
>>
>>The leaders of the group are telling Mexicans to take up arms!!!!
>>
>>We didn't need government permission to kill these invading bastards at the
>>Alamo and we don't need government permission to kill them now. If they are
>>seen on the street carrying arms, it is an open threat to YOU. Defend
>>yourself with whatever force is necessary. Defend America with whatever
>>force is necessary.
>>
>>Remembe this: ANYONE who stands with or tries to defend these invaders is a
>>legitimate target.
>>
>>
>>
>>

[Snoopers-868th]

Wow, thanks for the link. This could get ugly.

[television is just wrong]

No problem. We really don't know what to expect, so just all of you guys be careful out there.

[Snoopers-868th]

I don't know the numbers but I do know that Hoover brought the tanks out against the Bonus Marchers that were only trying to get the money the government to pay them what they said they would. I am just astounded by all this and can't believe this is going on at all. What did our government call the folks that went to the border--vigilantee's--yet they allow and even go along with this. Just astounding!!

[Das Outsider]

There are 106 organizations(as of 4/11/06) supporting the upcoming May 1 ‘Great American Boycott of 2006’ of which include;

Hmm, interesting. I was referring to the rallies in L.A. a few weeks back. The fact that so many people were mobilized and gathered raised a--forgive the pun--red flag. There's a simple rule that, so far, has proven right: Wherever there is a massive protest or rally for a left-wing cause, WWP will be doing the organizational and operational work.

Remember the anti-war protests abroad just prior to and following the invasion of Iraq?

[Das Outsider]

got an email. here it is.

Even if it is fabricated or exaggerated, there are good reasons to suspect that armed action has been in the works for a while--and that Aztlan is laying the framework for it now. Like this, from a November 7, 2005 article by Ernesto Cienfuegos from the Aztlan site:

On top of all this, there are major rumblings in the high schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the USA. A few days ago, thousands of students, predominantly of Mexican descent, simply walked out of their schools to protest overcrowding, lack of texts, lack of desks and unqualified teachers. There is a strange feeling here in Los Angeles that something sinister is about to happen but no one knows when. All it will take is for a "bird-brain cop" to do something stupid and all hell will break loose. If another major rebellion breaks out here in L.A. it could rapidly spread throughout the USA as it has spread in France.

The social and economic conditions that exist in France that adversely affect its immigrant and Muslim populations also exist here in the USA. These conditions negatively affect our Black, Latino and immigrant populations in the same way. The rebellion that is occurring in France can and will most probably happen here. If it does, it will have grave consequences on the social, political and economic structures of the country and it could possibly topple a government already weakened by the Iraq War and corruption within its ranks.

Wow, what great, detached analysis, as if to say, "This is what could happen--but we're not saying it will. But it could..."

[shield]

Yea, and ICE will have buses at this rallies and bust a whole bunch of these illegals. If they were smart, they'd not attend. LOL