Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP)
April 28,2010

FULL RIGHTS FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS! ALL OUT FOR MAY 1

Los Angeles—WORKERS RIGHTS ARE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!

Diverse immigrant rights groups all over the United States will come out in a united full force for an all-out drive to push genuine immigration reform in 2010.

In almost all major cities of the United States, immigrant rights groups led the labor unions, immigrant rights advocates and anti-war and racism forces like the International ANSWER Coalition will hold march and rallies for full immigrant rights and to commemorate International Workers Day.

--For the first time after more than four years, all the immigrant rights groups will march together as one.

The Alliance-Philippines will mobilize its forces in different cities in unity with workers and immigrants on May 1 in Los Angeles, the epicenter of the immigrant rights movement,the AJLPP will march together with ANSWER-LA, Full Rights for All Immigrant Rights Coalition, KmB Pro People Youth, the Echo Park Community Coalition, Justice for Filipino American Veterans ((JFAV) and AFFIRM GABNET.

The Los Angeles march will assemble at Olympic and Broadway at 10:00 AM Saturday and march towards Temple-Downtown LA.

- In San Francisco, the AJLPP will march with JFAV and AWARE forces will march with ANSWER –Bay area towards the Civic Center ( between Polk and Grove St.)

- In New York, the DAMAYAN Migrants Workers and UGNAYAN will march with the Immigrant Communities in Action (ICA) at 12:00 PM in Union Square, NY.

ICA was founded in 2005 to protect and struggle for migrant and workers rights.Damayan is a member of the ICA who is not only fighting for immigrant rights but also for workers rights.

ALL OUT FOR WORKERS RIGHTS, WORKERS RIGHTS ARE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!