Need a reason to march? How’s this? [UPDATED]

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   coloradobl on April 27, 2006 at 9:08 pm

   SOMOS AMERICA

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     Kidspeak on April 28, 2006 at 7:28 am

     Yes. Definitely. (and below, I intended to say your diary before MG’s comments, but I hit the post button too soon).Sorry

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   Man Eegee on April 27, 2006 at 11:51 pm

   all across the country scheduled for Monday.  Courtesy of BlueLatinos.org

   For far too long, anti-immigrant organizations dominated the conversation with their distorted and dishonest claims about immigrants. Their voices –amplified by CNN’s Lou Dobbs– call for nothing less than a mass deportation of 12 million people, a Berlin-style wall all along the US-Mexico border, and denial of birthright citizenship to U.S-born babies.

   Using fear and misinformation about immigrants, Lou Dobbs –our modern day Joseph Goebbels– is turning America against itself. The result, hate crimes against Latinos are now on the rise. A new report by the Anti-Defamation League documents the growing wave of hate spreading across America now targeting immigrants. The report notes Hal Turner, a New Jersey talk show host who last year called for “killing illegal aliens as they cross into the U.S.”  Today in Texas, two white teenagers were arrested for severely beating and sodomizing a 16-year-old Hispanic boy. Indeed, the actions of anti-immigrants are starting to match their hateful rhetoric.

   Now is the time for all people of conscience to stand up and say: Ya Basta – Immigrants are Not criminals – Immigrants are Not invaders – Immigrants are Not terrorists.  Immigrants ARE
   America and we must stand up to defend America from the hate-driven, anti-immigrant movement.

   Add you voice to our call for justice by doing the following:

   1. Register to vote

   2. Call your Member of Congress and demand for comprehensive immigration reform

   3. Participate in a May 1 event. Follow the links below to find an event in your area:

   • United Farm Workers Website

   • National Immigrant Solidarity Network

   • New American Opportunity Campaign

   No nos queda otra. We must make May 1 a success to turn back the hateful, anti-immigrant wave overtaking America once again.

   In solidarity,

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   Kidspeak on April 28, 2006 at 7:25 am

    Most of us reading Manny’s diary here are far from the Southern border, but where we are is filled with immigrants and the children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren. . . of immigrants.

   If we are not ourselves immigrants, almost all of us were once as the newest immigrants are. Except mostly the gangplankers weren’t running the country then.

   And many called immigrants, are the children of people who have been here far longer than those whose families came in ships and planes.

   Can we all show the others that we refuse to hate? March if possible, in spirit and in white if not possible.

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   alohaleezy on April 28, 2006 at 9:11 am

   CodePink is joining in and asking all Peace activist to participate. You can find a list of events state by state HERE

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   Man Eegee on April 28, 2006 at 1:15 pm

   the Green Party of the United States

   Resolution

   Greens across the U.S. have spoken out against repressive legislation that targets undocumented immigrants. The party has also urged repeal of NAFTA and other trade agreements that have allowed transnational corporations to slash wages, disrupt other nations’ economies by dumping U.S. products on their markets, privatize water and other public goods and services, and despoil the environment. Greens note that many immigrants, especially those who arrive impoverished and without documentation, are fleeing nightmares in their home countries.

   RESOLUTION

   Whereas, representatives in both the U.S. House and Senate are promoting resolutions criminalizing the status of immigrant workers;

   Whereas, such actions would violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which recognizes “the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family;”

   Whereas, both the House and Senate reflect an overwhelming majority of representation of citizens of immigrant ancestry;

   Whereas, a great portion of people adversely affected by such resolutions are of heritage indigenous to the American continents;

   Whereas, immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy, including 7 billion dollars paid into the U.S. Social Security System per year;

   Whereas, the illusion of gained employment for U.S. citizens is nullified by the presence of “outsourcing” of jobs to citizens in other countries void of wage, health and safety protections, this without objection by representatives in the House and Senate;

   “Whereas, our ten key values direct us to stand in Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy of solidarity with the oppressed and supporting the age-old American Labor movement principle, “An injury to one is an injury to all;”

   Whereas, we honor the second Key Value of the Green Party of the United States: “All persons should have the rights and opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment. We must consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, barriers such as racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia, ageism and disability, which act to deny fair treatment and equal justice under the law;”

   Be it resolved by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee, the Green Party of the United States National Committee, and the Green Party of the United States Peace Action Committee, that we join in solidarity with the “El Gran Paro Americano 2006, the May 1 Great American Boycott, honoring ‘Un dia sin immigrante’ ‘A day without an immigrant’ with the pledge for No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying.”

   (emphasis mine)