For information on endorsing, local demonstrations, flyers, logistics etc. here are some very important links. If your organization hasn't endorsed yet, please consider doing so.
-Emma Rosenthal Cafe Intifada ________________________________________________ Latest Updates on May 1st "A Day Without Immigrant" National Immigrant Strike/Boycott: Over 100 events at 60+ cities! April 25, 2006 "El Gran Paro Americano 2006" "The Great American Boycott 2006" "Un dia sin immigrante" "A day without an immigrant" Nationwide Immigrant General Strike Wear White T-Shirt at May 1! _http://www.NoHR4437.org_ (http://www.nohr4437.org/) <http://www.nohr4437.org/%29> _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org _ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) <http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/%29> Toll-Free: (800)598-6379 Download the Flyer! For LA May 1 March: _Spanish_ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ESP-LA.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ESP-LA.pdf%29> _English_ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/generalboytcott2006mf.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/generalboytcott2006mf.pdf%29> _Chinese_ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-Chinese-LA.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-Chinese-LA.pdf%29> National _Spanish_ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ESP.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ESP.pdf%29> _English _ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ENG.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-ENG.pdf%29> _Chinese_ (http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-Chinese.pdf) <http://actionla.org/flyers_pdf/May1-Chinese.pdf%29> Dear immigrant rights activists: As of April 24th, we have over 100 events at 60+ cities for the May 1st mobilization listed at our calendar, please visit: _Local May 1 Events_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/events.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/events.html%29> We encourage you to post you events at our calendar, please _Click Here_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/eventform.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/eventform.html%29> On May 1, we are calling No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying, and also to have rallies around symbols of economic trade in your areas (stock exchanges, anti-immigrant corporations, etc.) to protest the anti-immigrant movements across the country. No Work No School No Selling No BuyingâEUR¦ - Yes To Immediate Amnesty - Yes To Family Unity - No To Criminalization of Immigrants - No Border Fences and Racism - No Increased Immigrant Enforcement On May 1, we will wear "white" a T-Shirt and/or white arm bands, we can paint and write our political demands (and creative arts) at the T-shirt go to rally, protest, strike, vigil, work or school--we will have a ocean of white T-shirts with our political demands from east coast to west coast, at the street, work place, school, bus station & store... and our voice will be LOUD AND CLEAR AND CANNOT BE SILENT FOR EVER! We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the U.S. We believe that increased enforcement is a step in the wrong direction and will only serve to facilitate more tragedies along the Mexican-U.S. border in terms of deaths and family separation. The success of the March 25 Los Angeles "Gran Marcha" proves that we can make it happen! A new civil rights movement of the 21st century is building, a multi-ethnic movement to link immigrant rights, social justice and anti-war together. Therefore, activists and organizers have a particular responsibility to point out the links between Katrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the U.S. war in Iraq. We need to make the connections between: wars in Africa, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine and Korea, and sweatshops in Asia as well as in Los Angeles and in New York; international arms sales and the WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, our reproductive rights, child labor and child soldiers; multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism, homophobia and poverty at home--then we can win the struggle. United We Win! Together We Can Achieve Our Dreams! Lee Siu Hin National Immigrant Solidarity Network Endorse the May 1 General Strike >> _Click Here_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/endorsement.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/endorsement.html%29> _List of Endorsers_ (http://actionla.org/features/view.php?id=472) <http://actionla.org/features/view.php?id=472%29> Join the May 1 Planning List! >> _Click Here_ (http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/nohr4437) <http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/nohr4437%29> Please Donate to the May 1 Organizing >> _Donate_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/donation.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/donation.html%29> _Local May 1 Events_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/events.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/events.html%29> To Post Your Event >> _Click Here_ (http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/eventform.html) <http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/eventform.html%29> ======================================================= IMMIGRATION BLUES [Col. Writ. 4/2/06] Copyright 2006 Mumia Abu-Jamal Now, as polls show growing disenchantment with both political parties, the issue of immigration is raised once again, as politicians seek to stir the pot of social resentment. Voices are raised, tempers are frayed, proposals are launched, and the destinies of millions are apparently held in limbo. But, in numbers not seen for generations, mostly Mexican-born (or related) families pound the pavements in protest, demanding amnesty for the millions who live and work, in the most thankless jobs, here in the U.S. The immigration "discussion" masks deeper currents in American life, of those who dread the approaching dawn when those who number the nation's majority are brown, instead of white. As the government and the servile corporate media hawked fear to trap the nation into the Iraq War, so now fear is once again merchandised for political gain. The perpetual fear of the foreign Other, the fear of Spanish-speaking people, who are called 'criminal' for daring to cross the Rio Grande, to inhabit the lands stolen from their ancestors! The truth of the matter is that it is highly unlikely that over 11 million men, women, and children will be returned to Mexican territory. That's because businesses, especially those engaged in agriculture, would virtually go out of business, if their immigrant-based work-force up and disappeared. But, like most people, many Latino immigrants are involved in other businesses and industries in U.S. life. Guess who's doing the lion's share of the work to actually re-build New Orleans? (In case you've not guessed, let me just say it - It ain't FEMA!). With the exception of Native Americans (as in so-called 'Indians'), and African-Americans, every person in the U.S. today is a descendant of a willing immigrant (OK, strict historians will object that many poor whites, especially in the Southern states, were sent to George and Maryland as indentured servants, as part of a penal sentence). But, the point is clear. Immigration was consciously used to craft the U.S. as a white nation. For centuries, certain racial groups, like Chinese, for example, were specifically excluded by law from citizenship (like their Mexican counterparts, many Asians were needed in the building of this country as cheap labor). As law professor Ian F. Haney-Lopez has shown in his book, *White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race* (N.Y.:NYU Press, 1996), American courts and legislatures have consistently defined 'citizens' as 'whites', and over the course of centuries, millions of people were denied entry to the US, or even if allowed in denied citizenship, because they were not 'white.' In 1882, Haney-Lopez explains, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese workers for a decade. In 1884, the Act was expanded to bar all Chinese people, and shortly thereafter an indefinite ban was implemented. State and federal court decisions banned Syrians, Asian-Indians, Palestinians, mixed-race people, and multitudes of others on the basis of insufficient whiteness! That ugly history may be reborn in this latest 'battle' over Mexican immigration. Political storms have a way of giving way to political hurricanes, that even those who planned them cannot control. Several years ago, a right-wing politician in California tried to ride the anti-immigrant train to the White House. This man was Pete Wilson, and his playing with fire left him politically burnt. Angry Hispanics in Cali sent him, and some of his colleagues in the Republican Party, into retirement. But, this era of politicians, trying to create an issue that protects them from the falling numbers of the incumbent Bush Administration, look at Wilson's fate as ancient history. Perhaps the recent demonstrations, massive in their size, vociferous in their spirit, have given them pause. Time will tell. The political entity that truly befriends this growing segment of the US population will have tapped into a powerful social force. Don't expect it to be either the Republicans or the Democrats. Copyright 2006 Mumia Abu-Jamal ===================================================== National Immigrant Solidarity Network No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! webpage: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) <http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/%29> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Washington D.C.: (202)544-9355 Please consider making a donation to the important work of National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: National Immigrant Solidarity Network/AFGJ and mail to: ActionLA / The Peace Center 8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104 Los Angeles, California 90048 (All donations are tax deductible) *to join the immigrant Solidarity Network daily news litserv, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit: _http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn_ (http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn) <http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn%29> *a monthly ISN monthly Action Alert! listserv, go to webpage _http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn-digest_ (http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn-digest) <http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn-digest%29> Please join our following listservs: Asian American Labor Activism Alert! 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