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by mullah electricity
Sunday, Jul. 20, 2003 at 8:03 AM
Come to a Candlelight Vigil to Defend Civil Liberties!
DEFEND OUR RIGHTS! STOP THE REPRESSION! An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
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.
www.answerla.org
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