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Press Conference: 10:30 AM, Tuesday, March 3 1800 Blue Island Ave. (outside Lozano Library), Chicago Immigrant groups mobilize for weekend workers’ conference, March 14 antiwar march Peace and immigration rights activists to gather this weekend, and again on March 14, in a growing local movement to link the struggle to end the war on immigrant and other workers at home with the effort to end U.S. military wars and occupations abroad. “Our kids should not be used as cannon fodder,” say activists. CHICAGO – Chicago immigrant workers and peace activists will hold a press conference on Tuesday, March 3 at 10:30 AM at 1800 S. Loomis, in front of the Rudy Lozano Library, to announce plans to mobilize this weekend for an assembia – assembly – to organize for workers’ rights, along with plans to bring groups together at a rally and march on Saturday, March 14 to oppose the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq – and register opposition to U.S. wars throughout the middle east. Organizing to mark this year’s anniversary of the U.S.. invasion of Iraq has brought together an unprecedented number of immigrant rights groups and will mark the first time this Chicago action will march through the heart of one of the city’s most vibrant immigrant communities. Both the upcoming conference on immigrant and workers’ rights is being organized by the March 10th Committee, which organized the Mayday mass mobilizations in recent years that put hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers on the streets to demand equal rights. This year's mobilization to mark – and oppose – the 6th anniversary of the Iraq war have made two demands central to their work: an end to U.S. wars of occupation abroad and an end to the war on immigrants at home. Speakers at the Tuesday press conference will include Jorge Mujica of the March 10 Coalition, along with Magda Castañeda, Zorayda Ortiz, Shaun Harkin and Andy Thayer, who are organizing under the banner of the coalition group CAIRC, Chicago Anti-War Immigrant Rights Coalition. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Internet group address: http://groups.google.com/group/ChicagoMayDay To send e-mail: [email protected] To unsuscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
