{"article":{"id":145167,"heading":"1\/20: Please Sign the Petitions to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bills!","author":"Lee Siu Hin - Immigrant Solidarity Network","created":"2006-01-23 05:01:34","modified":"2006-04-26 01:16:20","last_modified":"Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:16:20","article":"

New Page 1\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease Sign the Petitions to Oppose\r\nAnti-Immigrant Bills!
\r\nAn Appeal from National Immigrant Solidarity Network
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\r\n January 20, 2006
\r\n URL: http:\/\/www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org<\/strong>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n Please\r\n Lick Here to Sign the Petition!<\/strong>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n \r\n <\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n We are asking you for your\r\n help in collecting signatures for a petition (please see attached) addressed\r\n to the Los Angeles City Council requesting they adopt a resolution in favor of\r\n the immigrant community. The petition will be hand delivered to City Council\r\n on February 2nd. Our voices need to be heard and we need to defeat H.R. 4437\r\n the moment it reaches the Senate. Currently, folks in D.C. are speculating\r\n that the issue of immigration will be taken up in mid February. If City\r\n Council approves the resolution it will be an issue the lobbying committee of\r\n the city takes on in D.C. as a priority.<\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Please\r\nLick Here to Sign the Petition!
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\r\nRecent News About the Bill:<\/span>
\r\n12\/22: More\r\non the Sensenbrenner\/King Bill and Next Steps in Comprehensive Reform Advocacy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Read\r\nMore Information<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Anti-Immigrant Bill,\r\nPATROTIC Act
\r\nOur Next Struggle<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Commentary: National\r\nImmigrant Solidarity Network
\r\nJanuary, 2006<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately,\r\ndespite strong protest from immigrant, human rights, labor and civil liberty\r\ngroups the U.S. House passed the disgraceful \r\n<\/span>anti-immigrant H.R. 4437 -- the \"Border Protection, Antiterrorism,\r\nand Illegal <\/span>Immigration Control Act\r\nof 2005\" by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James \r\n<\/span>Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) and House Homeland Security Committee\r\nChairman Peter <\/span>T. King (R-N.Y.).\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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It's\r\nclear that President Bush, along with the Congress, is again spinning rhetoric\r\nto blame immigrants for causing all the world's problems.\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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It's\r\nalso clear that the President, right wing Republicans and even many Democrats\r\nwill use immigrants as scapegoats for the Nov 2006 mid-term elections. They will\r\nuse any possible means to secure conservative\/right wing votes by focusing on\r\nblaming people of color and immigrants, and by attacking abortion rights and the\r\nrights of LGBT people.\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our\r\nstruggle will be long and hard, but that doesn't mean we should have no hope.\r\nWhile the House vision of the Bill has passed, we still can mount a strong\r\nopposition against the upcoming Senate version, which will be introduced and\r\ndebated sometime in February, 2006.\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Now\r\nthat we have finished the holiday season, we should gear up our fighting spirit\r\nto build multi-ethnic community actions against the final passage of the Senate\r\nbill early next year.\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Unity\r\nis very important! This is NOT only about immigrant rights, it is also about\r\nhuman rights for everyone. An injury to one is an injury to all!\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Activists\r\nand organizers have a particular responsibility to point out the links between\r\nKatrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the \r\nU.S.\r\n war in \r\n\r\nIraq\r\n\r\n. Understanding the connections between our individual conditions of life and\r\nthe lives of people everywhere in the world allows us to come together and\r\norganize across all borders. We need to make the connections between wars in\r\nAfrica, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine and Korea, and sweatshops in Asia\r\nas well as in Los Angeles and in New York; international arms sales and the WTO,\r\nFTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labor and child soldiers;\r\nmultinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at\r\nhome--then we can win the struggle.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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