Make December 1 Rosa Parks Human Rights Day

Friday, Dec. 1

1:00pm - Rally/March

Dudley Square, Roxbury, MA

Endorse Dec. 1 - mailto:rosaparksday@brphrd.com?subject=Dec._1_Endorsement

Downloadable Flyers Posters & Stickers - http://www.brphrd.com/120106/resources.html

Logistics (march route, etc.)- http://www.brphrd.com/120106/logistics.html




December 1, is the 51st anniversary of the arrest of the honorable Mother Rosa Parks who stood up for all of us when she sat down and refused to give her bus seat to a white male in the segregated Jim Crow south of Montgomery, Alabama. This action resulted in the Montgomery bus boycott which ignited the civil rights movement.

The Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, a coalition of labor, elected officials, religious leaders, youth, community and cultural groups are calling on the mayor of Boston once again to honor December 1st as Rosa Parks Human Rights Day, and declare it a legal holiday for students and all city workers.

Last December 1, 2005, 2,000 people made Rosa Parks Human Rights Day a reality by embracing the legacy of Rosa Parks and taking the day off from work or school, refusing to shop and marched through the streets of Boston.

As a woman of color, Rosa Parks serves as a bridge for many of the different struggles and movements that address issues that harm our lives and those of our communities. Katrina and the status of undocumented immigrant workers are glaring examples of the stress and disruptions in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The violence and murders in our neighborhoods, where innocent children in their household get glazed by bullets is a mark on all of our souls. The on going war in Iraq is increasing the death toll and costing $2 billion dollars a week that is taken from social programs that could improve our communities. Instead of building housing affordable to the incomes of working people, Boston is building a bio lab that threatens the safety of our lives and neighborhoods. By her actions of resistance and civil disobedience, Rosa Parks has become a universal champion of human rights and human dignity worldwide.

Join with us on Friday, December 1, 2006 to make this date Rosa Parks Human Rights Day!

End Poverty, Racism, Sexism, Violence & War!

* Stop spending money on war and use it for social programs at home - bring the troops home NOW!

* Union jobs at union wages

* Decent & affordable housing

* Full & complete health coverage

* Fully funded equal & quality education for our children

* Stop racial profiling & police brutality

* Healthy and safe environment to live

* To be treated like human beings and live with dignity

* Full rights for ALL immigrants - NO immigrant is illegal

* Full funding for AIDS research, education and treatment

* Full reproductive rights for women

* End LGBT oppression

* Stop racial profiling & police brutality

endorsers (partial list): Dorotea Manuela Chair New Mission High School*; Tony Van Der Meer, Prof. UMASS Boston*; Chuck Turner, Boston City Council*; Charles Yancey, Boston City Council*; Felix Arroyo, Boston City Council*; Sam Yoon, Boston City Council*; Diane Wilkerson, State Senator; USW L. 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers; The Most Rev. Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St. Francis of Assisi, CCA*; Boston Teachers Union; International Action Center; Women’s Fightback Network; Encuentro Diaspora Afro; MA Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA); University of Massachusetts Boston Faculty Staff Union Executive Committee; Africana Studies Department at the UMass Boston; Committee to Defend the Somerville 5; Reflect and Strengthen; Rev.William Dickerson, Greater Love Tabernacle Church*; Multi-Aids Coalition (MAC); New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Men of Color Against AIDS (MOCAA); Troops Out Now Coalition; QueerToday.com; Chelsea Uniting Against the War/Chelsea Uniendose en Contra de la Guerra; Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers, Inc.; New Democracy Coalition; Boston May Day Coalition; Stop the Wars Coalition; The Lucy Parsons Center; Workers World Party; Network-La Red: Ending Abuse in Lesbian, Bisexual Women's and Transgender Communities; Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

for more information:

Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee

617-524-3507 rosaparksday@brphrd.com