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REMINDER FOR WEEKLY OPEN COMMUNITY PLANNING MEETINGS
Come prepared to share plans, ideas, strategies and resources.
***if you will like to get the notes from prior meetings, please reply to sender***
Call for open meetings to plan March 10th Mobilization for Immigrant Justice
- To be Undocumented is not just migrating without consent of a state; it encompasses marginalization and disenfranchisement.
- To be undocumented is to be exploitable.
- Undocumented - is a migrant crossing borders trying to make a living
- Undocumented - is African Americans trying to exercise all civil rights and facing racism and mass incarceration;
- Undocumented – is the LGBTQ community trying to enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals;
- Undocumented is Arab Americans facing discrimination based on fear and ignorance;
- Undocumented is Palestinians trying to save their land from being unjustly taken away;
- Undocumented is ex-convicts trying to find a job and vote and reclaim an equal place in society.
- Undocumented is those who cannot buy health care, education and shelter
- Undocumented is all those who have been robbed of their rights as complete human beings, who do not have a license to live a fully civic life.
- Undocumented are the oppressed.
- And when the Oppressed decide to fight, it is not a fight for documents, it is a fight for justice!!
- (Documents can only be acquired at the time justice is fulfilled.)
******Message from the No Name Group*******
Ser Indocumentado no es solamente migrar sin el consentimiento de un estado, implica marginalización y privación de derechos.
Por lo cual, Indocumentado no es únicamente un migrante cruzando fronteras sin la documentación apropiada intentando mejorar su condición de vida; es también un afro-americano tratando de ejercer sus derechos civiles y enfrentando racismo y encarcelación; es miembros de la comunidad LGBTQ intentando disfrutar de los derechos otorgados a parejas heterosexuales; un descendiente del Oriente Medio encarando discriminación basada en ignorancia y miedo; un palestino o palestina defendiendo su tierra de un despojo injusto; o un excarcelado intentando encontrar trabajo y votar para reintegrarse a la sociedad. Una persona Indocumentada es cualquiera a quien se le niegan los derechos como ser humano completo, a quien no se le permite tener una vida cívica en su plenitud con todos los derechos que esto implica. Un Indocumentado es esencialmente un Oprimido. ¡¡Y cuando los Oprimidos deciden que ha sido suficiente, los documentos se vuelven innecesarios en la lucha por justicia!! (Los documentos son adquiridos al tiempo cuando la justicia se logra.)
*******Mensaje del Grupo Sin Nombre*********
We are calling for a city-wide mobilization on March 10th, 2011. This is a critical moment to reignite the struggle for immigrant rights, to mobilize our communities and show that we are not defeated, we are not intimidated! Our vision remains: Legalization, Dignityand Justice for All Immigrants!
March 10th is also a challenge for our different organizations and individuals to come together, to work across the boundaries that criss-cross our city and our movement.
We invite the Community, Organizations and individuals whose work is committed to immigrant justice. We want to find practical ways of working together, coordinating logistics and resources. We want to share political ideas and visions, and compare strategies or tactics.
We must ask: how can we each contribute to building an event that can open up new political possibilities for the movement, that can mobilize ourselves and others? The strength of the movement is in the many different voices and visions it embraces.
Come prepared to share plans, ideas, strategies and resources.
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