Urgent Action Alert! Actions
Against Minutemen/Ted Hayes in Downtown L.A. Sun 5/21!
Call to
Action!
1) Call City Council/LA Police Commission why they approved the Minutemen's
March Permit?
2) Mobilize Activist/Community to Turn the Back on Racist Minutemen on 5/21!
National Immigrant Solidarity Coalition and ActionLA Coalition is outraged to
learned that the Los Angeles Police Commission had granted the permit to allow
Save Our State (SOS), Minutemen and Ted Hayes's anti-immigrant organizations
to march downtown' Broadway this coming Sunday, May 21st.
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/156424.php
Gathering/pep at 11am Sunday, May 21st (corner of Olympic & Broadway)
-March begins sharply at noon!
-March from noon until 2pm from corner of Olympic/Broadway to City Hall
-2pm at City Hall - speakers/rally
This is highly irresponsible for the LAPD to allow racist anti-immigrant group
to march at the heart of the Latino shopping district at Broadway, and allow
them to rally at LA City Hall.
Minutemen want to provoke confrontation with the activists and Latino
immigrants for the publicity stunt purpose, and to help the right wing
Republican anti-immigrant forces "excuses" for passing more
anti-immigrant legislation and organize massive immigrant crackdown!
If we allows this to happen, it will be the slap to the LA immigrant rights
movement! Because just 3 months ago the City Hall passed the resolution to
prohibit Minutemen activity at the City of LA
and we just had million people May 1st action and March 25 "Gran Marcha"
at the same street!
Ted Hayes/Minutemen alliance want to challenge the LA City resolution, and to
exploit the misconceptions amount African American about the undocumented
immigrants to create black-brown tensions and even the black-brown violence in
the City.
We should stand and raise our voice to against the racist Ted
Hayes/Minutemen alliance and the 5/21 downtown march, while we'll not let them
gain any media publicity opportunities!
Call to Action!
1) Call City Council/LA Police Commission why they approved the Minutemen's
March Permit?
2) Mobilize Activist/Community to Turn the Back on Racist Minutemen on 5/21!
1) Call Your City Council Members and LA Police
Commission!
For the next two days, we encourages everyone to call:
- Los Angeles Police Commission (the agency who approves the march permit) 150
North Los Angeles Street, #150 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel: 213 / 485-3235,
Commission President: John W. Mack.
Asking them if they know that the Ted Hayes/Minutemen's 5/21
downtown LA march, and why they approve their permit?
Remind them the LA City Council had passed the resolution on February 3rd to
prohibit Minutemen activities in LA (
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/146318.php),
and emphasize this is nothing to do with the freedom of speech/assembly.
Because allowing them to march in downtown LA will giving them a bad signal of
LA is allowing racist anti-immigrant groups and their activities, this is the
direct violations of the City resolution.
2) Mobilize Activist/Community to Turn the Back
on Racist Minutemen on 5/21!
We encourage the community activists NOT to organize massive counter-protest
along Broadway to confront with them, since Sunday noon at Broadway will be
very crowded with president and shoppers and will be very difficult to control
the situation.
Therefore, we suggests activist from multi-ethnic background, if they
choose to converge to downtown LA at May 21st for counter-protest, instead
of face-to-face protest against them, from the safe distance we turn our
backs on them when they march passing-by us at the Broadway. We can have sign
and banners but should be keep a safe distance from them.
We'll not engage in any verbal
argument/communication with them (just assume they are not exist).
We should organize activists to inform the shop owners and merchants
along the Broadway Blvd/ about the Minutemen rally on May 21, and suggest when
they passing just ignore them and turn their music speakers to the maximum
level (to cover their noise).
By doing so, we can show our message powerful, clear and loud: Minutemen
are Not Welcome in LA!
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