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Immigration rallies: the view from SF
8:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| San Francisco · Comments Off
1 May 2007
As mainstream media is reporting a much lower turnout for this year’s immigration rallies across the country, I can personally report that this was the case in San Francisco.
While the rally was lively and and attendees very enthusiastic yesterday, San Francisco’s Civic Center square was less than 1/4 full, a sharp contrast from last year, when the crowds stretched from the steps of City Hall and the federal building spilling into the neighboring streets of the Tenderloin.
Yesterday morning Gustavo Arellano was on NPR talking about whether the lower number of attendees (because this was being predicted hours before the rallies actually started) had to more to do with the fact that the rallies last year were so successful that people simply think that the struggle is over.
New Bedford Redadas Still Impact Today
12:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Massachusetts · 1 Comment
1 May 2007
While at least hundreds of thousands are expected to hit the streets today, May Day, demanding legalization and basic human rights for undocumented immigrants living in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their roundups of undocumented workers continue to haunt, especially in the Latino community.
In March, I reported on a roundup at a factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a direct result of that raid, mothers have been separated from their children via deportation. Others are in detention centers as far away as Texas, and others have left “voluntarily”, avoiding proceedings before an immigration judge but also deeming themselves ineligible for legal U.S. entry visas.
Vigils of Defiance
8:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Events| Immigration| New York City · Comments Off
24 May 2006
Some immigration activists are calling today National No Human Being is Illegal Day of Actions. Here in NYC that means a 4 pm vigil of defiance in front of the offices of New York Senators Hilary Clinton & Chuck Schumer at 780 Third Ave & 48th Street in Manhattan. The vigil is being called to protest the recent U.S. Senate bill which calls for the buliding of an extended wall along the U.S./Mexico border as part of an immigration reform plan. According to the website of the organizers of the event, Immigrant Communities in Action, Coalicion de Comunidades Inmigrantes (Washington Heights), and American Friends Service Committee, they are demanding:
1. Full Legalization for all immigrants. No three tier legalization system that will divide our families and No guest-worker programs! 2. Faster Family reunification 3. Protect the rights of all Workers 4. No more deportations, detentions, border walls, and police making immigration arrests 5. Drivers licenses for immigrants.
NYC Si Se Puede!
8:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Events| Immigration| New York City · 1 Comment
3 Apr 2006
The rallying call “Si Se Puede” is linked to Cesar Chavez and the West Coast farm worker movement, ut it was also the rallying cry of thousands of families, workers, immigrants, hermanos y hermanas on Saturday in New York City as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. Contrary to the image the mass media attempts to present, of Latinos and others taking it to the street to intimidate, the march on Saturday celebrated community struggle and love and an attempt to attach a human face to the current immigration debate. Rallies and marches are just some tools in the larger struggle for what boils down to basic human rights and are just one way the community can lend support and solidarity.
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