{"article":{"id":73407,"heading":"July 19th PROTEST in Hollywood to repeal "Patriot Act."","author":"mullah electricity","created":"2003-07-20 15:03:07","modified":"2003-07-20 23:32:02","last_modified":"Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:32:02","article":"

Candlelight Vigil

Saturday, July 19 7:30 PM

Hollywood and Highland

Tell Ashcroft and Bush:

Stop Deportations and Mass Detentions

Defend Immigrant Rights

Stop Racial and Religious Profiling

Stop Police Brutality

Defend Workers Rights

Full Legal Rights for All Detainees

REPEAL PATRIOT ACTS 1 & 2

For more information call

International ANSWER LA at (213) 487-2368

Refuse & Resist-LA at (323) 962-8084;

South Asian Network at (562) 403-0488.

Endorsing organizations: Coalition for Humane Immigration

Rights (CHIRLA), National Lawyers Guild, United Teachers

of Los Angeles Human Rights Committee, American-Arab

Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Council on

American-Islamic Relations So. Cal. (CAIR), Union of

Palestinian-American Women, Palestinian-American Congress;

Seeds of Simplicity; Fellowship of Reconciliation.

John Ashcroft wants non-immigrants to think that the

roundups of immigrants and mass deportations have nothing

to do with them. But the old labor slogan \"An injury to

one is an injury to all\" has never been more true. During

the early to mid 20th century, Black workers were denied

the right to join unions. This policy, pushed by the

government & rich, allowed the use of racism to depress

the wages of white workers who could easily be replaced by

Black workers forced to work for pennies. Likewise, when

Bush attacks immigrants, he is using racism to repress all

working and poor people in this country. The \"terrorist\"

legislation used by Bush to deport immigrants is no

different than the \"Three Strikes\" laws, which were part

of the\"terrorist\" legislation of the Clinton

Administration. That policy helped create the largest

prison population of any country in the world -- 2 million

people -- mostly non-immigrant victims of poverty and

racism. The murder of Mexican people by U.S. border

patrols is reflected in the racist police killing of Black

and Latino youth. The cruel denial of healthcare to

immigrant families provides precedent to close down health

clinics and emergency rooms here in LA. Over 40 million

people in this country, immigrant and non-immigrant alike,

are without healthcare Insurance. The rights of all poor

and working people are in jeopardy. Let us not be fooled

again.

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