Fwd: Organize for the July 29 National Day of Action Against SB1070
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From: Rodrigo Ibarra <tati...@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2010 12:34 AM
Subject: Organize for the July 29 National Day of Action Against SB1070
To: Rodrigo Ibarra <tati...@yahoo.com>
Organize for the July 29 National Day of Action Against SB1070, for
Justice & Human Rights!
Support community resistance to Arizona's
anti-immigrant racial profiling law
NNIRR calls on members, partners, allies and friends to join in a
national day of actions against SB1070, the Arizona anti-immigrant
racial profiling law this July 29. SB1070 can be stopped by demanding
and organizing for justice and human rights for all!
NNIRR is urging the Obama Administration to use all resources at its
disposal to stop SB1070 -- and to end ALL immigration-police
collaboration.
SB1070 is set to go into effect on July 29, giving Arizona police the
power to stop and arrest anyone they suspect of being undocumented.
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against SB1070 to
declare it unconstitutional; the DOJ is arguing that the state law
usurps federal powers to regulate immigration.
Arizona community groups and their partners are leading dynamic
efforts to oppose SB1070 and are organizing diverse actions and
campaigns like "Move the Game" to expose and build pressure to stop
the hateful law.
Take Action to Stop SB1070
Express solidarity with immigrant and border communities: Organize
vigils, protests and other activities to demand an end to SB1070 in
Arizona and to raise awareness of the local impacts of
immigration-police collaboration in your community.
Tell Obama and Congress to roll-back all immigration-police
collaboration programs: Hold community meetings and other actions to
learn about and organize against the 287(g) and "Secure Communities"
programs and their connection to Arizona's hate law SB1070.
Make calls to President Obama (202) 456-1414
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(202) 224-3121 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (202)
224-3121 end_of_the_skype_highlighting: Ask them to suspend all
immigration-police collaboration and investigate the immigration law
enforcement abuses being committed against people of color, immigrants
and working people at the border and interior.
Raise your voices for justice & human rights: Report abuses to NNIRR's
human rights documentation initiative, HURRICANE: the Human Rights
Immigrant Community Action Network. Click here to report an abuse and
share your story of organizing for justice and human rights.
President Obama: Suspend immigration-police collaboration &
enforcement operations
The crisis in Arizona is the result of federal immigration control and
border security policies that deliberately funnel migrants through
Arizona. Thousands of migrants have died and disappeared and countless
more have suffered at the U.S.-Mexico border since the U.S.
implemented this border security strategy in 1994.
NNIRR is joining with diverse local and national groups to organize
resistance against all forms of immigration policing and racist laws,
including SB1070 and its federal counterparts, the 287(g) and "Secure
Communities" initiatives that allow local police to act as immigration
law enforcers. SB 1070 is based on these programs.
SB1070 and federal programs of immigration-police collaboration
violate our basic rights to freedom of movement, freedom of
association, protection from all forms of discrimination and the right
to healthy community and public safety. With collaboration, the police
and others use a person's perceived or actual immigration status to
trump our constitutional rights. Now the U.S. is deporting record
numbers of people with total disregard for their due process rights.
As copy cat laws emerge in other states, the Obama Administration must
act swiftly to investigate immigration abuses, including hearings with
our communities to directly learn of the impacts. We need government
accountability for the human rights crisis resulting from a flawed and
abusive immigration enforcement policy.
Dream, rise, organize -- for justice and human rights!