Posted on 12/09/2003 10:14:39 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
!Viva la Huelga! National Strike on December 12 by Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - December 5, 2003 - (ACN) The National Huelga Committee (NHC) has joined the call by Hermandad Mexicana Nacional (HMN), the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) and other groups for a "National Strike" this Friday December 12 to protest the increasing anti-Mexican actions against both Mexican immigrants and US citizens of Mexican descent. These racist actions are disturbingly increasing throughout the United States and more specifically here in Aztlan.
The National Huelga Committee, which undertook a similar successful effort on October 11, of 1997 in coalition with the Brown Berets, is again asking for a total "work stoppage" this Thursday to protest the rising tide of bigotry against Mexicans and other immigrants of color. In addition, the NHC is asking supporters not to buy products or services in the USA on December 12 and to keep all school children at home.
The NHC, in a press release, is asking all university and college MEChAs to participate in the "National Huelga" and to encourage their respective communities to do so as well. Also, the NHC is asking for the support of other USA oppressed minorities, specifically the Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, American Indian and Black communities. USA soldiers here or in the theatre of war are asked to organize a "Brown Flu" campaign and ask for medical attention.
Due to the post 911 economic depression, there are now mass detentions and deportations of brown skin people. One horrendous case just occurred last November in National City, Alta California when two Mexican-American residents were deported to Mexico. A National City White police officer was questioning Antonio Flores and family members about a reported shoplifting at the J.C. Penney in the Plaza Bonita mall. The officer called the Border Patrol, and Flores' aunt and cousin were later deported. No charges were ever filed against any of the Flores family members
Worst of all, there is a pending law before the US Congress called the "Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act" which will authorized White racist cops throughout the USA to stop any US citizen of color and ask for his papers. If the citizen can not produce proof of legal residence at the moment, the cop can arrest the citizen and turn him over to the border patrol for deportation. This same thing occurred during the 1930 depression. At that time thousands of US citizens of Mexican descent where packed like animals in railroad box cars and shipped to Mexico. Here in Los Angeles County, large sums of money went into the pockets of a few county administrators who took advantaged of the deportations and filed liens on the properties of the deportees. Millions of dollars in real estate lost by the Mexican deportees were never accounted for.
Many racist police chiefs throughout the USA are already "salivating" at the prospect of the passage of the Immigration Clear Act. This law will unleash "police brutality" against our community that has not been seen since the "Repatriation Scandal" of the 1930's.
You can support the National Huelga this Friday December 12 by:
1. Not going to work 2. Not going to school 3. Not buying products or services 4. Asking others to support "La Huelga" through e-mail or word of mouth 5. Printing this article and passing it around
SI SE PUEDE!
December 12 is La Virgen de Guadalupe Day
The reason that these "brown skin people" are being rounded up and deported is because these "brown skin people" are violating the immigration laws of the United States.
A truly disturbing website.
Darn.
"Not showing up at hospitals demanding free medical care" doesn't seem to be on the list.
An as it should be Ping!
Wonder where the FBI is, if they aren't at least keeping an eye on this organization they ought to be. Sounds as if the racists are coming very close to advocating the overthrow of the government.
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