Come meet and discuss the issues surrounding the recent anti-immigrant hysteria which is in the news and is being propelled by groups like the Minuteman Project and Save Our State. -What are it?s origins? -The Sensenbrenner Bill coming up for discussion in the U.S. Senate will among other things criminalize (felony) undocumented immigrants and anyone that assists them. -How do we organize against and fight these groups?
Speakers will be:
-Enrique Morones ? Border Angels, Gente Unida, National March for Migrants
-Jesse Diaz - Vice-President: Board of Pomona Day Labor Center, La Tierra es de Todos Coalition/Immigrants Defense, La Placita Olvera Pro-Immigrant Working Group, Organizer: L.A. anti-Minutemen Contingent to Campo in July
-Duane Roberts - Orange County area immigrant rights organizer, Organizer: Minuteman counter demonstration in Garden Grove last May
-See a documentary film by Ross Rivera about the anti-Minuteman mobilization in the border town of Campo, CA last July and see footage from a Save Our State demonstration at the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center. On both occasions social justice activists successfully confronted and countered the anti-immigrant agenda put forth by the Minutemen and SOS.
The event will be moderated by Alvaro Maldonado from the San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
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