Fwd: [PRESS ADVISORY] Media Events Leading to March 10th:Mobilization for Immigrant Justice

[Jorge Mujica]

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Subject: [PRESS ADVISORY] Media Events Leading to March 10th:Mobilization for Immigrant Justice
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Press Advisory
Media Events leading to March 10, 2011
March 5, 2011

March 10 Mobilization for Justice Beyond Borders - Liberation Square and march
Immigrant rights organizers upcoming events in preparation for March 10^th Mobilization for Immigrant Justice!

 

SUNDAY EVENTS

WHAT:                 Sign Making Party (Media is Invited to Attend; Organizers will be available for interviews)

WHEN:                 Sunday, March 6, 2011 AT: Starting at 1pm to 6pm

WHERE:               Yollocalli, 1401 W. 18^th St. Chicago IL 60608

               

 

WHAT:                 Fundraiser Movie night event (Media is Invited to Attend, Organizers will be available for interviews)

WHEN:                 Sunday, March 6, 2011 AT 7:00PM

WHERE:               Biblioteca Popular, 1921 S. Blue Island Ave, Chicago IL.

 

TUESDAY EVENT

WHAT:                 Last Organizing Meeting: (Media is Invited to Attend, Organizers will be having their last meeting and will be available for interviews)
WHEN:                 Tuesday, March 8, 2011 AT 9:00PM

WHERE:               Biblioteca Popular, 1921 S. Blue Island Ave.

THRUSDAY EVENT

WHAT:                                 MARCH 10^th Mobilization at Liberation Square in Union Park

WHEN:                 Thursday, March 10^th 2011 AT 12 Noon

WHERE:               Union Park, corners of Ashland and Washington Blvd (101 N. Ashland Ave)

Agenda for March 10:

-12pm: Reunion at Liberation Square, Union Park.

- 2pm: March to Daley Plaza & action at Boeing's H-Qrtrs.

- 4pm: Join Coming Out of the Shadows Rally with Immigrant Youth Justice League

- 5pm: March back and Celebration at Union Park "Liberation Square"

****All media is invited to attend, interviews will be available at all the events. Undocumented youth and organizers are available for interviews if requested, you may contact us at bellow contact information*** For Detail Information on March 10, visit us at www.moratoriumondeportations.org 

 

 WHY: 

The recent struggles for liberation in Tunisia and Egypt have ignited a combatant spirit all over the world. In the US, the struggle in Wisconsin is a new beginning. Public sector workers, youth, anti-war organizations and disability activists are uniting to address the multifaceted system of oppression that constructs borders between oppressed communities, keeping us divided. It is time to challenge the politics of scapegoating that conceals the root causes of the current social, political and economic crisis. As people committed to fighting for immigrant justice, we recognize we can no longer look to politicians and their liberal organizations for real change. We need a new vision and new concrete tools for struggle.

 

The ongoing criminalization of immigrants is part of a global economic system that finds profit in the incarceration, displacement, and repression of millions across the globe. Despite the solidarity that has blossomed among people who are recognized as citizens and those labeled undocumented, citizenship continues to be one of the main mechanisms for rendering people exploitable. It has been wielded as a ruthless tool for dividing us, forcing us to compete against each other in a global race to the bottom. Liberation Square is a call to “cross borders” between struggles, between divided communities and between forced political identities. Because in a system of laws that are stacked against us, we are all being made undocumented – from communities that are internally displaced to communities facing mass incarceration, from criminalized dissenters to AWOL soldiers. The struggle cannot be merely a fight for "papers". It is a fight against a system that makes more and more people illegitimate: it is a fight for justice beyond all borders !!!

 

Join us at Liberation Square!! This is a community gathering and speak-out on the connections between immigrant rights, militarization and the global economic system. We will also march for an action at Boeing, one of the largest military contractors who has also made enormous profits from border militarization. In their never-ending hunger for profits, corporations like Boeing have been a major driving force behind increasing anti-immigrant hatred at home, and increasing wars abroad – because their profit margins depend on fueling the war machine and on making more and more people “illegal”.  We will confront Boeing with our message: you are guilty of crimes against our humanity!

“A Liberation Square is a place where we can meet free of oppression, and organize our struggles” said Jesus Guillen, a youth organizer of the March 10 event. “We are making a national call for other communities to create their own “Liberation Squares”, to create spaces where people from different struggles can unite” he concluded.

“We understand that immigrants are part of a global system that oppresses different communities on different levels, and that all those systematically oppressed are in a sense Undocumented” said Carmela Garcia, a youth organizer of the March 10 event.

 

More Info, Contact:
Carmela Garcia (847) 809-0611
Jesus Guillen (773) 297-3019
Jose Herrera, 773 632-9992

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Jose Herrera

773-632-9992

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Jorge Mujica