Press Release: Immigrant Rights Activists Kick Off Political Action Campaign Friday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Contact: Felicia Martinez (916) 267-8744 Fatima Castaneda (916) 849-5598

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Students, other immigrant rights activists follow-up
Monday's mass rally; Will kickoff political action
campaign Friday by targeting Sen. Feinstein

SACRAMENTO - Students who walked out of class for the May 1 immigration
rights rally here - following up on a pledge made Monday by a million
marchers across the nation that they will "rally and then vote" - will
begin an aggressive campaign Friday to put pressure on politicians to make
change on immigration reform.

Students from McClatchy High School will gather with other immigrant rights
activists FRIDAY, at 9 a.m. at the Post Office (22nd & Broadway) to stamp
and mail nearly a thousand letters written to Sen. Dianne Feinstein asking
her to work for real change. They were written the day of the May 1 rally.

Campaign Against Unjust Immigration Laws (CAUIL), organizer of immigrant
protests in the area, said the action will be the first of many it will now
be taking after Monday's 18,000-36,000 (depending on whose estimate is
used) person strong march and rally in Sacramento.

CAUIL supports full legalization, not a guest worker program for
undocumented immigrants, and opposes HR4437, and many key provisions in all
bills currently pending in the U.S. Senate, including those which expand
police powers to enforce immigration law, increase funding for detention
centers, provide for the indefinite detention of undocumented people and
establish multiple barriers for undocumented people who would wish to seek
legal status in the future.