Mobilization for Legalization
This is a coalition of several San Diego grassroots organizations in support of immigrants’ rights.
1. LEGALIZATION FOR ALL WITHOUT CONDITIONS
2. STOP ICE ABUSES
3. DEMILITARIZATION OF THE BORDERS – STOP THE DEATHS
International Workers’ Day in San Diego
May Day 2010 – Primero de Mayo – San Diego
For more info,
http://www.tinyurl.com/mayday-sandiego
http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=19826
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACTIVISTS WILL MARCH ON MAY 1st TO DEMAND WORKERS’ RIGHTS AND DENOUNCE RACIST ATTACKS ON WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES
San Diego, CA — Over twenty grassroots organizations will come together on May 1st to demand the rights of working class communities in San Diego, and to denounce deportations and the separation of families. We have come together to demand:
1. Legalization for all – without conditions
2. Jobs, housing, and livable wages for all
3. The funding of education & social services – not war
4. Immigration and full rights for LGBT partners
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
11am – Rally at Chicano Park
12pm (noon) – March from Chicano Park to Federal Building
1pm – Rally in front of the Federal Building (880 Front Street)
Say NO to Arizona’s racist law SB 1070!
An educational forum on May 1st will take place on Wednesday, April 28th at 7pm at San Diego City College on 1313 Park Blvd, in room B204. We invite the community and all justice-loving people to come out and demand economic justice and human rights for all people.
LEGALIZATION FOR ALL — WITHOUT CONDITIONS
We demand citizenship without conditions for the 12 million undocumented workers and their families living in the shadows. We recognize that undocumented workers pay far more in taxes than they use in government services and that undocumented workers produce enormous wealth and do necessary labor for society. Legalization would lead to increased wages for all workers, documented and undocumented, immigrant and native born. We reject any and all enforcement based immigration reform, including the proposed Schumer and Graham legislation. We are against the racist SB 1070 law recently signed by Arizona’s governor. We demand trade reform to stop the cycle of worker wage suppression and abuse that forces workers to become undocumented migrants. We demand a halt to the militarization of the California/Mexican border that has lead to death of thousands of immigrants. We demand respect, dignity and full legalization for all!
JOBS, HOUSING AND LIVABLE WAGES FOR ALL
Everyone should be able to afford decent housing, food, utilities, transport, health care, culture and recreation. However, for an increasing number of people, access to these basic rights has been difficult or non-existent. The burden of the current economic crisis has been placed on the backs of working class people. Over the last two years, only California has lost more than 1 million jobs. At the same time, bank executives, traders, investors receive record levels of millionaire pay checks: “The surge in bonuses (about $145.85 billion) comes barely a year after the government bailed out the U.S. financial system amid the worst economic crisis in generations” (Wall Street Journal). Now is the time to unite and organize ourselves to struggle for a radical change of priorities in our society, to ensure that everyone – not just a few – have access to a just and dignified life.
FUND EDUCATION & SOCIAL SERVICES — NOT WAR
To date, $1.05 trillion dollars have been allocated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, California’s governor declares “a fiscal emergency” in attempt to justify budget cuts in education and social services. Under the cuts, more than 200,000 children will lose eligibility for health insurance. Schools, services for immigrants and in-home care, prisoner health care, and state aid to local public transportation would see funding slashed. These cuts aim to close a $20 billion deficit over the next year and a half. That’s less than one fourth of the amount taxpayers in California will pay for war and defense-related spending just in the fiscal year 2010 ($89.2 billion). It makes absolutely no sense to attack education and social programs. In such times of economic hardship, they are the fundamental elements that provide the means to economic and social revival. That’s why we say: Fund education and social services, not war!
IMMIGRATION AND FULL RIGHTS FOR LGBT PARTNERS
Pass the “Uniting American Families Act”, and allow “Permanent Parterships” for Immigration of partners and families of LGBT nationals. Repeal the “Defense of Marriage Act”, and recognize ALL spouses in loving relationships regardless of gender. Full Federal Equality for the LGBT Community! Introduce and pass the “Equality & Religious Freedom Act” omnibus bill, to include LGBT people in the Civil Rights Acts of ’64,’65 and to protect LGBT people in the workplace against discrimination and harrassment. End discrimination of LGBT in health-care, and allow equal access in medicine. “End Don’t Ask Dont Tell” and allow LGBT open service in the Armed Forces, Equal Credit transactions for all partners, Equal Public accomodations, Equality in Immigration and more: all at once, and once and for all! No human is illegal, no love is illegal!
May 1st Coalition Meeting
Do you AGREE or DISAGREE with these 3 points?
1) A unified May 1st event in San Diego has the potential of sending a much more powerful message than a series of separate or loosely connected events;
2) Immigrants’ Rights (Legalization for All, Immigration Reform) is naturally the strong topic of mobilization for May 1st since 2006; but as it is the historical International Worker’s Day, May 1st helps us to engage people from other social movements as well (for example, education for all, marriage equality, anti-war etc).
3) Community and grassroots organizations from San Diego need to form a unified committee to democratically discuss, make decisions and make May 1st happen: the more each participant group feels integrated and sharing responsibility for the event, the more successful this unified May 1st can be.
If you answer was YES, then come to the organizational meeting of the May 1st Coalition on MARCH 9th (this coming Tuesday) — and if you answer was NO, come as well and express your opinion!
The idea of calling this meeting came out of a discussion between Sí Se Puede, Union del Barrio and City College students, with the hope of forming a larger coalition with representatives of several San Diego organizations.
San Diego’s MAY 1st COALITION
Organizational Meeting
March 9th, 2010 – 6:00pm
San Diego City College, Room B-104
1313 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
How exactly this May 1st event will look like is still open. That’s the best moment to get as many groups as possible seriously involved and make sure everyone builds the event together. Please find attached a flyer with the call for the March 9th meeting. Feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested.
After a successful day in defense of Public Education yesterday, let’s build momentum towards a strong May 1st 2010!
Hope to see many of you on the March 9th meeting,
Bruno
What’s next?
Do you know what is going to happen on May Day this year?
What do YOU think should happen on May 1st in San Diego?
Sí Se Puede is now starting to plan activities for May 1st, and continuing with critical and in-depth debate on Immigration Reform. The meetings are open to anyone interested in helping to build a stronger immigrants’ rights movement in San Diego. Come participate of the discussions and decision-making process, and help organize the next step in the fight for Immigrants Rights.
A typical meeting involves:
- Open discussion among participants on topics concerning Immigration Reform, review of recent news and information
- Brainstorming on future plans of action
- Meeting new people, sharing your ideas, contributing in whatever way you think you can do best
- Democratic decision-making process, and collective organization of planned activities
All are welcome. If you would like to get involved, or simply learn more about what is going on, please come to the next meeting on Tuesday 6pm at City College, room B-104!
Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in participating.
Tuesday, February 23rd 2010, 6:00-7:30pm
San Diego City College – Room B-104
1313 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
YouTube podcast
Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZhCCjdJn8
Press Release
On Saturday, February 6th at 12:00-3:00pm, in Chicano Park, the Coalition for Legalization will hold a rally in support of 3 demands:
- LEGALIZATION FOR ALL, WITHOUT CONDITIONS. 12 million undocumented immigrants and their families—workers, students, and taxpayers—live in the shadows. They pay far more in taxes than they use in government services. They produce enormous wealth and do necessary labor for society. As a recent study shows, legalization for them would lead to increased wages for all workers, documented and undocumented, immigrant and native born. They and their families, especially since the mass marches of 2006, are increasingly politically active and aware, forming a margin of victory for Obama in 4 states whose delegates went to Bush in 2004. They have waited over a year for legalization from the Administration, which promised it in the first hundred days. They have waited too long already for their central demand: legalization.
- AN END TO ICE ABUSES. Despite accelerated courting from political parties and mass marketing agencies, the main “change” Latinos and immigrants have seen from the country since 2006, under BOTH Bush and Obama, has not been legalization but increased enforcement through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Human rights abuses, including the detention of children, have grown, along with a burgeoning network of “ICE Castles” (secret detention facilities) as described in a recent Nation article. Paramilitary workplace raids, from Smithfield in North Carolina to the French Gourmet Bakery in Pacific Beach, rounded up thousands. Now the Social Security-linked E-Verify system is leading to firings on an even greater scale.
- DEMILITARIZE THE BORDER — STOP IMMIGRANT DEATHS. As workers and farmers across Latin America are displaced by pro-corporate “free trade” treaties like NAFTA that destroy generational landownership while wiping out US industrial jobs, involuntary economic migration increases. Since Bill Clinton, the primary response has been a futile and deadly increase of border enforcement. At least 4,000 migrant workers have died since 1994 — an ongoing human rights tragedy that must end.
The Coalition for Legalization is composed of Border Angels, Si Se Puede Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, SAME (the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality), and others.
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Contact: sisepuedesd@gmail.com
Legalization for All Without Conditions
Mobilization for Legalization
This is a coalition of several San Diego grassroots organizations in support of immigrants’ rights. Help organize and participate of the Mobilization for Legalization in February 2010!
LEGALIZATION FOR ALL WITHOUT CONDITIONS
STOP ICE ABUSES
DEMILITARIZATION OF THE BORDERS – STOP THE DEATHS
Mobilization for Legalization:
Day of Protest: Wednesday, February 3rd 2010
4:30-6pm @ Federal Building
Front Street & Broadway Avenue
San Diego, CA
Day of Rally:
Saturday, February 6th 2010
12(noon)-3pm
Chicano Park
San Diego, CA
**In solidarity with Marcha Migrante V**
For more info, post a comment or contact sisepuedesd@gmail.com
