• If the GOVERNMENT PUTS TROOPS AT THE BORDER WE WILL NO LONGER BE THEIR ARMY!!!

• WE DEMAND TROOPS OUT OF THE BORDER!

• We resist ALL the Anti-“Immigrant” Policies!

• We must DEFEND OUR familias and gente, NOT the BORDER THAT KILLS OUR PEOPLE! If you join the military, they will send YOU to go be a MIGRA and maybe even kill your own RAZA!!!
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• If you are in or thinking about joining the
• (J)ROTC OR THE MILITARY, think about it,
DO YOU WANT TO BE SENT TO IRAQ OR TO THE BORDER???
For more information please visit http://www.delaraza.org

PRESS CONFERENCE

Wednesday May 31st, 2006

Coordinadora Estudiantil de La Raza and Allies
(Student Coordinating Committee of the People)

Latino Cadets Publicly Resign From JROTC in Protest to U.S. Troops Being Deployed to U.S.-Mexico Border

The Coordinadora Estudiantil de la Raza (CER), a coalition of middle school, high school, college and university students from over twenty campuses throughout the southland, will hold a press conference at the Edward Roybal Federal Building on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 5:30 pm.

During the press conference the CER, along with allies, internationally known conscientious objector Pablo Paredes, Spokesperson of the Frente Continental Isaura Rivera, UCLA Professor Juan Gomez Quinones, will publicly declare their opposition to the deployment of U.S. military troops at the U.S. Mexico-Border. The CER and allies believe that 3,000 human lives lost at the border since 1994 is already too much blood spilt for a broken immigration policy. Therefore they reject current presidential and legislative proposals for troop deployment and demand an immediate demilitarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

At the press conference Latino cadets will publicly resign from JROTC in protest the militarization of the U.S. Border. The CER is not asking youth to resign or refrain from joining the military, but it seeks to make a clear statement: its members and sympathizers will not be used by the U.S. military to kill their own people at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Contacts:
Vicente Jimenez (323) 627 3298
Alfonso Gonzales (310) 904-8487 NahuiCali@aol.com

Where: Edward Roybal Federal Building
255 East Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

When: Thursday, June 1st, 2006, 5:30 pm

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