We are La Resistencia, an organization building a national movement of resistance to all attacks on all immigrants. From the founding conference in the Fall of 1987 to the present, LR has been on the front lines in the battle to defeat the government's War on Immigrants.

The U.S. government has drawn a line through society: on one side are "people with papers" on the other side are people criminalized by this system for the language they speak, their country of origin, and the color of their skin. Members of La Resistencia are students and youth, artists and activists, professors and attorneys, clergy and religious activists, revolutionaries and pacifists. We are united by the common conviction that we will not stand silent and complicit while our immigrant sisters and brothers are hunted down, beaten, arrested and deported. We know that we must stand with our sisters and brothers "on the other side of the line" and take matters into our own hands to STOP THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS! TODOS SOMOS ILEGALES! WE ARE ALL ILLEGAL!

We believe:

1. People are driven from their homelands and come to the U.S. to survive

2. All people have a right to survive regardless of legal status.

3. Being and immigrant is not a crime. Human life is more important than laws.

4. People with legal status have the responsibility to defy and resist unjust laws, stuggle alongside our brothers and sisters who been deemed "illegal" and protect them.



Our plans for this summer are simple, build this movement of resistance and unite with other movements, like the anti-globalization movement and other immigrant rights groups, in protesting injustices. We're mobilizing nationall around the 14 people that died in Arizona, collectively we wrote a statement that we're using to mobilize people. (If you're interested in reading it you can contact us). Also we have been carrying out this blue triangle campaign, which is to remember the people who have been killed by la migra or police and have died because of Operation gatekeeper and the militarization of the border. Its a blue triangle sticker, you stick on your clothes, etc., that has a name of a person, where she/he was from, when she/he died, and a story of how they died. This is a way of resisting in telling the other side that we're not going to forget the people they have killed, innocent people searching for a job and forced out of their country.(To receive information about this, contact us). As the attacks on immigrants increase, this movement of resistance must grow! Join us in building it!!!!!!

For informaition about our next meeting (in l.a.) contact us!

we'll keep you posted!!!

Los Angeles: laresistencia_la@hotmail.com

San Diego: laressandiego@juno.com

Houston: laresistencia@laresistencia.org

Arizona: laresistencia_az@yahoo.com