July 19th PROTEST in Hollywood to repeal "Patriot Act."

Candlelight Vigil
Saturday, July 19 7:30 PM
Hollywood and Highland

Tell Ashcroft and Bush:
Stop Deportations and Mass Detentions
Defend Immigrant Rights
Stop Racial and Religious Profiling
Stop Police Brutality
Defend Workers Rights
Full Legal Rights for All Detainees

REPEAL PATRIOT ACTS 1 & 2

For more information call
International ANSWER LA at (213) 487-2368
Refuse & Resist-LA at (323) 962-8084;
South Asian Network at (562) 403-0488.

Endorsing organizations: Coalition for Humane Immigration
Rights (CHIRLA), National Lawyers Guild, United Teachers
of Los Angeles Human Rights Committee, American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Council on
American-Islamic Relations So. Cal. (CAIR), Union of
Palestinian-American Women, Palestinian-American Congress;
Seeds of Simplicity; Fellowship of Reconciliation.

John Ashcroft wants non-immigrants to think that the
roundups of immigrants and mass deportations have nothing
to do with them. But the old labor slogan "An injury to
one is an injury to all" has never been more true. During
the early to mid 20th century, Black workers were denied
the right to join unions. This policy, pushed by the
government & rich, allowed the use of racism to depress
the wages of white workers who could easily be replaced by
Black workers forced to work for pennies. Likewise, when
Bush attacks immigrants, he is using racism to repress all
working and poor people in this country. The "terrorist"
legislation used by Bush to deport immigrants is no
different than the "Three Strikes" laws, which were part
of the"terrorist" legislation of the Clinton
Administration. That policy helped create the largest
prison population of any country in the world -- 2 million
people -- mostly non-immigrant victims of poverty and
racism. The murder of Mexican people by U.S. border
patrols is reflected in the racist police killing of Black
and Latino youth. The cruel denial of healthcare to
immigrant families provides precedent to close down health
clinics and emergency rooms here in LA. Over 40 million
people in this country, immigrant and non-immigrant alike,
are without healthcare Insurance. The rights of all poor
and working people are in jeopardy. Let us not be fooled
again.