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DESCRIPTION:2008: Immigration and Labor\nWhere Are We Now?\n Speaker: Brian Cruz, 
 \nImmigrant Rights and Labor Activist\n\nSF Gray Panthers Monthly 
 Event\nTuesday, May 20, 12:30 – 3:30 PM\nFireside Room, 
 Unitarian-Universalist Center\n1187 Franklin St., betw. O’Farrell and 
 Geary\n\nThis May Day, immigration and labor stand at crossroads.\n\nIn 
 immigration, a legislative stalemate exists between reactionary interests 
 that hope to simply expel immigrants, versus liberal business interests 
 that hope to exploit more immigrants through a Guest Worker program like 
 the infamous 1950s bracero program. So instead, immigration police are 
 sweeping the nation in the worst workplace raids in decades. But workers 
 all over the country have marched on May Day to support immigrant 
 rights.\n\nIn labor, a huge fight is developing. Workers will need strong 
 and united action against layoffs and wage cuts as the country goes into 
 recession, yet one of the country’s largest unions is rolling out a 
 strategy of growth by cooperation with corporations and employers, and is 
 signing secret contracts with employers forbidding strikes and designating 
 which facilities can be unionized. But longshore workers have defied their 
 employers and even their top union leaders in an 8-hr shut-down of all 
 shipping on the West Coast, demanding an end to the MidEast oil war.\n\nIt 
 is becoming clear that workers’ needs and immigrants’ needs are the 
 same. We will explore these connections and how we can work together to 
 build a movement that improves life for us all.\n\nBrian Cruz is longtime 
 immigrant rights and labor activist. He has been involved planning May Day 
 marches and protests against ICE raids, and has organized against national 
 SEIU’s support of guest worker programs and interference in local union 
 politics.\n\nRead more about this 
 meeting:\nhttp://graypantherssf.igc.org/08-05-20-gen_meeting.htm\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/12/18498728.php
SUMMARY:2008: Immigration and Labor, Where Are We Now?
LOCATION:Fireside Room, Unitarian-Universalist Center\n1187 Franklin St., betw. 
 O’Farrell and Geary
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/12/18498728.php
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