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May 1 "A Day Without Immigrant" Strike/Boycott
On May 1, we will wear "white" a T-Shirt and/or white arm bands, we can paint and write our political demands (and creative arts) at the T-shirt go to rally, protest, strike, vigil, work or school--we will have a ocean of white T-shirts with our political demands from east coast to west coast, at the street, work place, school, bus station & store... and our voice will be LOUD AND CLEAR AND CANNOT BE SILENT FOR EVER!
We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the U.S. We believe that increased enforcement is a step in the wrong direction and will only serve to facilitate more tragedies along the Mexican-U.S. border in terms of deaths and family separation.
The success of the March 25 Los Angeles "Gran Marcha" proves that we can make it happen! A new civil rights movement of the 21st century is building, a multi-ethnic movement to link immigrant rights, social justice and anti-war together.
Therefore, activists and organizers have a particular responsibility to point out the links between Katrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the U.S. war in Iraq. We need to make the connections between: wars in Africa, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine and Korea, and sweatshops in Asia as well as in Los Angeles and in New York; international arms sales and the WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, our reproductive rights, child labor and child soldiers; multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism, homophobia and poverty at home--then we can win the struggle. No Work,
No School,
No Selling,
No Buying
...
May 1, March Begins at 12:00 PM at Olympics & Broadway in Downtown LA and Ends at City Hall Reports:
4/25: May 1 "A Day Without Immigrant" Strike/Boycott: Over 100 events at 60+ cit
by Lee Siu Hin
|| For May Day and Beyond: White People Step Up for Immigrant Rights by Catalyst Project & Heads Up Collective
|| ¡Apoyo a la HUELGA de los INMIGRANTES! by Seattle Anti-imperialist Committee
|| Reclame Las Calles 1ro de Mayo
by Federacion Anarquista del Sur de California
|| The Hidden Terror of HR4437
by Juan Santos
|| May Day
- the Real Labor Day by Repost
|| Immigration Endgame: May 1st and America’s New Race War by Juan Santos
Update: In solidarity with US undocumented immigrants, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos announces that May 1 Labor March “Will Meet In Front of the U.S. Embassy” in Mexico City.
... Full report:
May 1: Zapatistas/ La Otra 2 March on US Embassy in Solidarity with Migrants by Al Giordano, reposted
Update:
In solidarity with immigration activists around the country, the Muslim Public Affairs Council as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the L.A. Latino Muslim Association, the Muslim American Society - Los Angeles, and the Muslim Students Association - West (MSA West) are calling on American Muslims to participate in a day of action on May 1, 2006.
... Audio:
Muslim Americans to join May 1st immigration marches nationwide
by A
LA ORGANIZACIÓN TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND (FONDO PARA
TIERRA PUBLICA) HA LOGRADO LA OPORTUNIDAD DE
RESCATAR LA HUERTA DEL SUR CENTRO!
La Huerta está localizada en entre las calles 41 y Alameda en el
Sur Centro de Los Angeles, y quizás es la huerta comunitaria más grande— de tamaño de 14 acres — en los Estados Unidos. Después de un contencioso esfuerzo sobre esta propriedad que duró tres años y hizo noticias a trávez del mundo, el Trust for Public Land (TPL) ha obtenido la oportunidad de rescatar la
Huerta. De un acuerdo tentativo para comprar el terreno, TPL espera unificar a todos los intereses y sectores diferentes en Los Angeles para recaudar fondos necesarios para comprar esta propiedad. Necesitamos su ayuda para alcanzar esta meta comunitaria de recaudar $1 millón en menos de 30 días. Mas
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND SECURES OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARM
After a contentious three-year land-use battle that made news around the world, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) has secured an opportunity to save the Farm. Within the confines of a tentative purchase agreement, TPL hopes to help unify stakeholders and different sectors of Los Angeles to raise the money necessary to purchase the land. The community goal is to raise $1 million in less than 30 days. More
LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2006—Whatever mainstream media is saying about divisions in “Latino” leadership around the May 1 Gran Boicot, the real-life version of “A Day Without a Mexican” (and a Guatamalen, and a Salvadoran, and a Korean, and a Muslim, and their supporters) will be happening. The boycott, a call for no purchases, no work, no school, and rallies around the country has taken on a life of its own, and its heartbeat is here in Los Angeles.
The threats of deportation, criminalizing undocumented residency, and increased life-threatening border enforcement now being considered in the Senate have brought together dozens of local organizations in solidarity.
A partial list of area organizations supporting the Huelga General includes Action LA, Alliance for Civil Justice, ANSWER-LA, Barrio Planners, the Committee on Raza Rights, the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles, Hermandad Mexicana, the Immigrant Solidarity Network, the Industrial Workers of the World, the International Social Organization, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the L.A. Latino Muslim Association, Latino Movement USA, Los Angeles Mexican National Brotherhood, Los Angeles Troquero Collective, the March 25 Coalition, the Mexican American Political Association, Mexicans Without Borders, Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, the Muslim American Society - Los Angeles, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Students Association - West, the National Alliance for Human Rights, La Opinion, People’s CORE-CDIR, Radical Women, Students for Amnesty, and Union del Barrio. Apologies to those not included here.
... Full report:
The Gran Boicott is on, and the troqueros are in
by Leslie Radford
LOS ANGELES, 23 April 2006--To the casual observer, Saturday’s confrontation between pro-migrant activists and the minutemen might have looked like the dozen or so others over the past year: 65 or so minutemen at their peak, something like 100 pro-migrant activists across the street from each other at a day labor center, trading insults.
But the morning match up at the Burbank Home Depot was the first since the Gran Marcha of March 25, the first since the Senate took up the question of legalization for migrants. Under the rain-threatening clouds, the minutemen barely acknowledged their ostensible purpose, a Southern California convergence against Burbank Home Depot, part of a National Corporation protest against hiring workers without papers. Instead, showing their frustration at the turning tide, the minutemen verbally assaulted the Native Americans, Chicana/os, and Mexicans with unmitigated racial insults and slurs for four hours.
... Full report:
Burbank: Standoff in the Street by Leslie Radford
|| A22: Burbank by V
Black Republican Ted Hayes and his Minutemen allies held an anti-migrant demonstration in Leimert Park today, which was outnumbered by a spontaneous gathering of African Americans who opposed them by a margin of 2 to 1.
Black women danced and led a chorus chanting "No Human Being is Illegal." A man of African descent brought signs and maps and images of Native Americans and proclaimed, as he held up one of the photos beside a Mexican man's face "They're not illegal - this is their land!"
Full report:
Black / Brown Unity Overtakes Ted Hayes' anti-MIgrant Demo in Leimert Park
by Juan Santos
UPDATE: Ted Hayes Quits Minutemen, Recruits Gang Members by Juan Santos
Also from the newswire: Hayes plans rally for this Friday at Crenshaw High Ted Hayes' Rally 4/28
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