Posted on 08/31/2006 12:34:07 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
After four months of relative quiet, immigration reform advocates are mobilizing a new round of protests in Washington and other cities to put pressure on a returning Congress and reinvigorate a Latino movement that awakened in massive demonstrations this spring.
The events will begin tomorrow in Chicago, where demonstrators plan to set out on a four-day march to the district offices of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R) in Batavia, Ill., and will continue with one-day rallies throughout next week in Phoenix, Washington and Los Angeles...
...But organizers say the movement has not lost steam. Immigrants, they said, are enthusiastic about the coming protests, believing the demonstrations empower them and weaken support for an enforcement-only House proposal.
"If that's what we accomplished with marches, then let's keep marching," said Jorge Mujica, a rally organizer in Chicago.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
From this cached page "[Mujica has] participated in several political and community based organizations, and is currently the Secretary General of the Mexican Party for Democratic Revolution, PRD, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the March 10 Movement, organizer of the march and May Day immigrant marches in Chicago"
Many other sites have the same information.
Mujica is also a leader or spokesman for the newly-formed umbrella organization National Alliance for Immigrant Rights.
If you want to do something about these marches, please contact as many news sources as you can and inform them of this connection. And, politely and briefly suggest that they do some real journalism and look into foreign involvement in these marches rather than just describing what happened.
Also, write to ombudsman *at* washpost.com and suggest they do the same.
Real unusual, Mexican law clearly stipulates that people NOT Mexicans have no legal right to march, protest or get involved in national politics.
Perhaps they will be raising mexican flags along the way at all the flag poles...
These vermin have no right to protest or speak out and anyone who says they do is a traitor to the United States.
This should really energize the conservative base. Like hair-standing-on-end energize.
the march is coming through my town of melrose park. any freepers going to batavia to protest against them? i want to go. let me know.
ping
What's really wrong about this is We don't even know who most of these people are. I say let them march only after they have been biometrically tagged.
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From Post #1:
The events will begin tomorrow in Chicago, where demonstrators plan to set out on a four-day march to the district offices of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R) in Batavia, Ill., and will continue with one-day rallies throughout next week in Phoenix, Washington and Los Angeles..."If that's what we accomplished with marches, then let's keep marching," said Jorge Mujica, a rally organizer in Chicago.
From this cached page [see Post #1): "[Mujica has] participated in several political and community based organizations, and is currently the Secretary General of the Mexican Party for Democratic Revolution, PRD, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the March 10 Movement, organizer of the march and May Day immigrant marches in Chicago"
Maybe that fatt of life is finally permeating the grey matter of some psoters on FR.
Bring...It...On!
http://www.techniguy.com/Newsletters/archives/ImmigrationasanEnvironmentalIssue.htm
If immigration levels aren't lowered dramatically, we'll soon be a third world (non)power. The numbers are shocking.
I will be there
Days of action for immigrant rights
September 1, 2006 | Page 15
ACTIVISTS IN cities across the country are gearing up to mark Labor Day with demonstrations in support of the rights of immigrant workers and against deportations and other attacks on the immigrant community.
-- In Chicago, immigrant rights activists from the March 10 Coalition have planned a four-day “March for Justice for Immigrant Workers” to begin on September 1 from Chinatown.
Over the course of four days, marchers will make their way to Batavia, Ill., stopping along the way for immigrant rights meetings in houses of worship in Cicero, Melrose Park, Villa Park, West Chicago and elsewhere. On September 4, activists will converge in Batavia, where they will rally at the office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert--one of the main proponents of anti-immigrant legislation in Congress.
-- In Los Angeles, activists from Hermandad Mexicana and the March 25 Coalition will hold a women-led march September 2 in support of Elvira Arellano, who is currently under the threat of deportation and took refuge in the Aldalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago. The march will kick off at noon from Olympic and Broadway Streets, and will join together with another Labor Day march that day for a final rally at City Hall.
Activists are also planning a “Labor Day and Solidarity March” for September 4 in Wilmington, Calif., at Banning Park, near the ports of Long Beach. According to leading activist Nativo López, the Teamsters, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and other union members will join immigrant rights activists and their supporters at the rally.
“For the first time, this will be the immigrant rights’ Labor Day with labor workers,” López recently told the Pasadena Star-News. “This will be a show of unity between the labor movement and the immigrant rights movement for fair immigration legislation.”
-- In Washington, D.C., the D.C. Amigos del Barrio and the National Capital Immigration Coalition have called for an East Coast mobilization for September 7 at 4 p.m. at the National Mall, with the slogan “Join in the demand for legalization for all!”
-- In Newark, N.J., activists will hold a “March in Solidarity with the Rights of Immigrant Workers” on September 4, beginning in Lincoln Park.
The march has been called in solidarity with immigrant workers in Riverside, N.J.--where a recent law punishes those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants, and violent protesters waving Confederate flags and raising Nazi salutes recently disrupted a pro-immigrant demonstration. The march calls for an end to deportations and raids, and amnesty for the undocumented.
"In Washington, D.C., the D.C. Amigos del Barrio and the National Capital Immigration Coalition have called for an East Coast mobilization for September 7 at 4 p.m. at the National Mall"
They are going to piss alot of people off. Any Monday 4PM in Washington DC area is a nightmare. The traffic is horrible. I wish them the best convencing people in their demands..
Forgot Monday is holiday..
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