Please. Get the fuck out there tomorrow!!! SF Embarc. Station 11pm march and rally!!!
Please join the walk outs and make history tomorrow!!!!
some background:
In a nationwide dragnet Wednesday, US immigration enforcement agents raided factories across the country arresting nearly 1,200 undocumented workers, a record number for a single operation.
The raids come in the wake of massive demonstrations throughout the country protesting reactionary anti-immigrant legislation in Congress and demanding full legal status and citizenship rights for the millions of undocumented workers who have come to find jobs and a better life.
The immigration raids hit plants of the German-based IFCO Systems company, which makes and recycles wooden pallets and containers. Heavily armed agents in bullet-proof vests swooped down on factories in Texas, upstate New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Virginia and Massachusetts at approximately 9 a.m., rounding up workers and loading them into buses and vans. Searches and arrests were conducted at a total of 40 facilities spread out over 26 states.
The Homeland Security Department held a press conference after the raids, proclaiming them to be part of a new “interior enforcement strategy” and promising a continuing crackdown. “Employers and workers alike should be on notice that the status quo has changed,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Many of those involved in the recent immigration demonstrations see Wednesday’s raids as an act of retaliation aimed at silencing these protests.
“This is a scare tactic,” Angela Mejia, who helped organize the massive April 10 march in Houston, Texas, told the Houston Chronicle. “We haven’t had raids for a very long, long time. It’s a sad thing if we have raids by the government to stop people from expressing their freedom of speech.”
The intimidation apparently had a significant effect. Reports from other cities told of weeping family members outside of factories and of immigrant neighborhoods where people were staying away from work and even stores for fear of being caught in a round-up.
Together with the raids and arrests, hundreds of immigrant workers have been fired or otherwise penalized by employers across the US in the past several weeks, in retaliation for their participation in the mass demonstrations.
Read More
http://wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/immi-a21.shtml
what to do:
No Work, No School, No Selling, No Buying!
Towards a World Without Borders, where No One is "Illegal".
Convergences in San Francisco:
8:30am - Montgomery & Market (Montgomery BART)
11:00am - Embarcadero (Embarcadero BART)
3:00pm - San Francisco Civic Center (Civic Center BART)
5:00pm - Federal Building (450 Golden Gate)
Come prepared with pots and spoons to bang together (CACEROLAZO), energy and creativity to drown out business in San Francisco! Wear white and look for the flags with a pot and spoon on them.
We Demand:
* Full, unconditional and immediate "amnesty" for all immigrants.
* Free movement for all people.
* Freedom for all ICE detainees and the abolition of detention centers.
* De-militarization of the US-Mexico border.
* The repeal of NAFTA and all neoliberal trade agreements which create economic conditions leading to the displacement of people.
We Pledge:
* Active resistance until we are all free to move!
* Active resistance against all attacks on immigrants, deportations
and detentions!
We Believe:
The increasing militarization along the US-Mexico border -- by now a veritable war zone -- serves as a brutal reminder that all borders operate as integral and deliberate parts of exploitative economic systems, inseparable from capitalism and neoliberal globalization. The US-Mexico border, and all other borders between nation-states and governments, are reproduced in our minds and throughout society, serving to enforce and legitimize the boundaries, disparities, and exploitative relationships between people. The demand for full amnesty and free movement of people, therefore, aims at justice for immigrants at the same time as it aspires to a world free from all such destructive divisions. More information on our analysis is available here.
UPDATE> On May 1st We Are All Undocumented!
We have extended our call for action to ask documented US citizens, resident aliens and visa holders attending activities on the May 1st General Strike to leave their identifications at home as an act of solidarity with those who are at risk of deportation for being "undocumented."
some background:
In a nationwide dragnet Wednesday, US immigration enforcement agents raided factories across the country arresting nearly 1,200 undocumented workers, a record number for a single operation.
The raids come in the wake of massive demonstrations throughout the country protesting reactionary anti-immigrant legislation in Congress and demanding full legal status and citizenship rights for the millions of undocumented workers who have come to find jobs and a better life.
The immigration raids hit plants of the German-based IFCO Systems company, which makes and recycles wooden pallets and containers. Heavily armed agents in bullet-proof vests swooped down on factories in Texas, upstate New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Virginia and Massachusetts at approximately 9 a.m., rounding up workers and loading them into buses and vans. Searches and arrests were conducted at a total of 40 facilities spread out over 26 states.
The Homeland Security Department held a press conference after the raids, proclaiming them to be part of a new “interior enforcement strategy” and promising a continuing crackdown. “Employers and workers alike should be on notice that the status quo has changed,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Many of those involved in the recent immigration demonstrations see Wednesday’s raids as an act of retaliation aimed at silencing these protests.
“This is a scare tactic,” Angela Mejia, who helped organize the massive April 10 march in Houston, Texas, told the Houston Chronicle. “We haven’t had raids for a very long, long time. It’s a sad thing if we have raids by the government to stop people from expressing their freedom of speech.”
The intimidation apparently had a significant effect. Reports from other cities told of weeping family members outside of factories and of immigrant neighborhoods where people were staying away from work and even stores for fear of being caught in a round-up.
Together with the raids and arrests, hundreds of immigrant workers have been fired or otherwise penalized by employers across the US in the past several weeks, in retaliation for their participation in the mass demonstrations.
Read More
http://wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/immi-a21.shtml
what to do:
No Work, No School, No Selling, No Buying!
Towards a World Without Borders, where No One is "Illegal".
Convergences in San Francisco:
8:30am - Montgomery & Market (Montgomery BART)
11:00am - Embarcadero (Embarcadero BART)
3:00pm - San Francisco Civic Center (Civic Center BART)
5:00pm - Federal Building (450 Golden Gate)
Come prepared with pots and spoons to bang together (CACEROLAZO), energy and creativity to drown out business in San Francisco! Wear white and look for the flags with a pot and spoon on them.
We Demand:
* Full, unconditional and immediate "amnesty" for all immigrants.
* Free movement for all people.
* Freedom for all ICE detainees and the abolition of detention centers.
* De-militarization of the US-Mexico border.
* The repeal of NAFTA and all neoliberal trade agreements which create economic conditions leading to the displacement of people.
We Pledge:
* Active resistance until we are all free to move!
* Active resistance against all attacks on immigrants, deportations
and detentions!
We Believe:
The increasing militarization along the US-Mexico border -- by now a veritable war zone -- serves as a brutal reminder that all borders operate as integral and deliberate parts of exploitative economic systems, inseparable from capitalism and neoliberal globalization. The US-Mexico border, and all other borders between nation-states and governments, are reproduced in our minds and throughout society, serving to enforce and legitimize the boundaries, disparities, and exploitative relationships between people. The demand for full amnesty and free movement of people, therefore, aims at justice for immigrants at the same time as it aspires to a world free from all such destructive divisions. More information on our analysis is available here.
UPDATE> On May 1st We Are All Undocumented!
We have extended our call for action to ask documented US citizens, resident aliens and visa holders attending activities on the May 1st General Strike to leave their identifications at home as an act of solidarity with those who are at risk of deportation for being "undocumented."