Posted on 02/23/2010 6:03:14 PM PST by La Lydia
On March 21st, we will march on Washington, DC to demand immigration reform. Our vision of reform includes immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens working shoulder to shoulder to achieve better wages, working conditions, and labor protections. People from all across America will lend their voice in the fight for reform. We will come together as one voice on the National Mall for a strong America – for families, for workers, for businesses, and for security.
Join thousands from across the country in the March For America in DC on March 21st, and demand Congress act NOW to pass immigration reform and move quickly to put all Americans back to work.
Where: Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
In March, we march! If you care about real change in Washington, it’s time to make your voice heard. We’ve heard from the special interests. We’ve heard from the tea partiers and the defenders of the status quo. Now, it’s our turn.
A broad coalition of national and local groups have announced a massive mobilization, “March for America: Change Takes Courage,” which will bring tens of thousands of people to Washington on March 21 to:
Demand that the President and Congress keep their promise to enact comprehensive immigration reform for new American families. Insist that the President and Congress act boldly to make the economy work for all American families.
Throughout American history, only big and broad social movements have produced big change. From abolition to women’s suffrage, from the New Deal to civil rights, the one major lesson of American history is that it is only when thousands and thousands of people take their destiny into their own hands that entrenched special interests can be defeated and progressive policies enacted. The last year has demonstrated again that we can’t expect politicians to grow spines all by themselves, and we can’t sit back and hope for bold leadership from the people we elected to serve the country’s interest. We must instill courage and insert backbone in our leaders through massive, sustained grassroots pressure. This is the only path forward.
I have heard too many people bemoan a broken political system, and complain about how hard change has been to achieve over the last year. Despair and passivity are luxuries our communities cannot afford. There is nothing surprising about Washington’s resistance to change, and we know the formula to break the gridlock. It’s our time to step up. It’s our time to lead and take responsibility.
Our broken immigration system and the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression stand as festering testaments to our leaders’ lack of courage to act.
This is a pivotal moment in the history of America. We are faced with a choice. We can do nothing, and watch as new American families are torn apart by the broken immigration system; watch as profiteers continue to take advantage of people desperate for work; and watch as all American families struggle to find good jobs and make ends meet. Or we can stand up and stand together for our families and our communities.
Every day that Washington fails to address our broken immigration system and broken economy, Americans become more angry and frustrated with their leaders. Every day that we put off reforming the immigration system, more families are torn apart, workers endure more abuse, our national deficit grows as billions in tax revenue are lost and the rule of law is undermined. Every day that Congress and the President fail to address the growing economic distress in American communities is another day in which American families struggle unnecessarily.
We have no choice but to send the President and Congress a message with urgency and passion: you must keep the promises you have made. We are tired of excuses for inaction.
To everyone who believes in comprehensive immigration reform for new American families and an economy that works for all American families, we need you so that together we can show our collective power and energy. Join the March for America. Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 21. Events begin at 1 p.m. on the National Mall. I’ll see you there.
An interview with Tavis Smiley in 2005 on health care. He must work for whatshisname.
It makes me furious when these foreigners come here and want to “reform” our country. Why don’t they reform their own. This guy is a socialist, and India wasn’t socialist enough for him, I guess.
“building a new economy for shared prosperity and expanding our democracy”
Sounds like a guy ginning up his courage to try and take a larger slice of my pie. I kept buying over the last couple years when things were bad.
Any socialist who wants to pull back a bloody stump can try.
Bet his name's on the visitor list at the White House.
I think it might be the straw...etc. Coming to a head during the health care debacle, a new “stimulus” bill (Dirty Harry’s ‘jobs bill’), and while the EPA is plotting to take over the energy sector of our country. Oh, and the KSM trial in New York. A harmonic convergence, as it were.
1000 immigration agents on site...protest over!
Easiest way to make a living, be a parasite. We the tax payer are the blood they suck on daily under the guise of helping the poorest of the poor.
IMO they are the scum of the earth.
Yeah, well, how about this. To quote a president let’s be “fair.”
Immigration Reform? Let’s Try Mexico’s Immigration Law!
By John Lillpop
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/lillpop022707.htm
Did you see this little tidbit at your link??
SEIU right smack dab in the middle of this.
This line is interesting...”SEIU ULTCW (United Long Term Care Workers)”.....so old & disabled folks can look forward to being cared for by people who won’t speak their language??
By Joaquin Guerra, originally posted on the SEIU blog.
On Saturday, over 400 community members, clergy, students and SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members crammed into Los Angeles offices of SEIU ULTCW (United Long Term Care Workers) for a Community Accountability and Planning Session on Immigration Reform.
Congressman Xavier Becerra and SEIU ULTCW Trustee Laphonza Butler were in attendance, hearing the stories, fears, and hopes of many in the crowd on why we need Immigration Reform.
Laphonza Butler noted:
“People are hurting. Real lives are at stake. Among our members and in our communities. We cannot rest until we get comprehensive immigration reform. Its an issue for all of us, regardless of race, cultural differences or economic status.”
Congressman Becerra followed saying:
“I stand with you. I stand ready to take this issue forward. I feel it on a personal level and as a representative for what is right for our communities and our economy”.
Organized in conjunction with local partners CHIRLA and others members of the Reform Immigration FOR America coalition, this event was the first in a series of engagements with elected leaders.
Working closely with Reform Immigration FOR America (RI4A), SEIU will play a leading role to ensure the March 21 event is a huge success.
As the largest union of immigrants in the nation, it will be particularly critical that we turnout our members-those who are immigrants and those who are not-to ensure that the message resonates with Congressional leaders and the broader American public.
For a slideshow of the event on SEIU’s blog.
Seems the Immigration service might do well to converge on Washington DC during this time — I bet they’ll find tons of IA’s just ready to be deported...Sure they’ll be there too...Right...
Yeah, I’ll bet Secretary Napolitano will be all over that. But it would be a good question to ask at her next press conference, wouldn’t it?
He’s right about one thing: he uses the word “broken” five times.
But in a sense he doesn’t intend. We are broke. That doesn’t stop the statist mentality, however, from thinking there remains an endless supply of sugar-milk available from Uncle Sam’s teat, e.g. see the 1 billion dollar—for starters—embassy Barry plans to build in Britain.
Hard to believe it will be 4 years from May 1st, 2006 when they first marched demanding the entitlements of citizens, and we told them to either go to hell or back to Mexico.
If Barry wants to open the amnesty can again, we’ll give him a real hiding. Americans are in no mood for any more of his foolishness.
It will be on the morning shows, the mid-day breaks and for two or three days afterwards with a full analysis and the leftist goals and talking points covered over and over and over . . . in the most sympathetic manner.
Oldplayer
Any chance that this has been on Drudge or Rush? Wish I had the money to put this on a billboard in front of the Congressional offices!
One possible way to limit illegal immigration, and money going to Mexico to support their corrupt government would be to highly tax any money transfers through Western Union (and any other money transfers - from the USA - to Mexico, plus tax major, any monies being converted from the dollar to the Peso.)
But, then, it wouldn’t show the ‘goodness of our hearts’, would it?
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