--- On Fri, 7/16/10, mario cardenas <mariocar...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: mario cardenas <mariocar...@gmail.com>
Subject: Invite: July 29th 1000 y mas Mobilization
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Date: Friday, July 16, 2010, 2:09 PM
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From: The Moratorium on Deportations Campaign.
This is an invitation for your organization to participate in a mobilization against Deportations and immigration enforcement. On July 29th of 2010 the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign will be organizing a grassroots mobilization outside Cook County Jail at 26th Street and California Ave in Chicago.
As you might know the Obama Administration has increased the rate of deportations of immigrants in it’s first year. Estimates indicate that about 1,100 people are deported each day. To shed light on the type enforcement that creates crisis in our communities, we are calling for One Thousand plus protesters to demonstrate how much humanity is being abused daily.
County Jails are the main source of detainees to be processed by ICE, locally in Chicago, it is well know that Cook County Jail is place were undocumented immigrants end up on “immigration hold” for minor traffic violations.
We will be there to remind the Chicago police department that this is a sanctuary city and that these acts of cooperation with ICE are completely unacceptable.
In a recent address to the nation President Obama has acknowledged that the immigration system is broken and needs a comprehensive overhaul. A week later the federal government announced it will challenge Arizona Senate Bill 1070 in the courts. We see these actions as a step forward in the right
direction however symbolic and politically timid. As a grassroots movement we see our duty to help mount pressure from below to ensure the defeat of the racist law, to demand an end to deportations and to all forms of immigration enforcement such as e-verify and workplace raids that destroy immigrant families, particularly the 287 (g) program, the Polimigra. We must take advantage of the political window that the Obama administration has opened, by bringing the most affected in our communities, the undocumented, into this debate.
We invite you and your communities to join us in solidarity with Arizona for the national day of Non-Compliance against SB 1070. Be part of the 1000 plus that will serve as witness to the brutality of immigration enforcement.
Attached to this message i have attached flyers for this event in English and Spanish. Also, below I included a link to our facebook page please join
and follow us. Please reply to us with your endorsement and or coordination efforts. We look forward to see you on July 29th. Si se puede, yes we can.
Sincerely,
Mario Cardenas organizer for The Moratorium on Deportations Campaing.
630 639 2295
mariocar...@gmail.com
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