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!
