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DESCRIPTION:Thursday August 7th\n\n7pm / Beach Flats Community Center\n\nDefend the El 
 Balazo Workers!\n\nImmigrant Rights are Workers Rights!\n\nOn the heels of 
 May Day marches for immigrant rights around the country, Immigration and 
 Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducted raids targeting the El Balazo 
 Taqueria chain in the Bay Area on May 2.\n\nICE officers stormed 11 
 different chain locations in at least six cities. According to detainees, 
 the agents came in and locked the doors. No one was allowed to leave as 
 every taqueria employee on duty in all locations was interrogated.\n\nICE 
 claimed to have had warrants for "wanted criminals" and insisted that it 
 didn't do a haphazard sweep. But according to its own press statement, ICE 
 arrested 62 people, all of them Latino. The detainees were taken to the ICE 
 office in downtown San Francisco.\n\nImmigrant workers across the country 
 are facing the same type of repression—from Iowa and Texas to right here 
 in Santa Cruz County. In San Francisco, politicians (including Mayor Gavin 
 Newsom) and the corporate media are conducting a publicity campaign blaming 
 immigrants for the problems of crime and poverty in Bay Area cities. 
 \n\nThe El Balazo workers are taking a stand against this campaign of 
 racism and repression. Together with activists from the immigrant rights 
 and labor movements, this group of working men and women are building a 
 campaign to defy la migra and keep their families together. \n\nTheir 
 struggle is a struggle for all working people. With workers on the Central 
 Coast and across the country facing the worst economic crisis in decades, 
 it’s vital that we take a stand against attempts to divide us through 
 racist scapegoating. As the AFSCME strike proved last month, we’re 
 stronger when we stand together.\n\nCome to this public meeting to hear El 
 Balazo workers and movement activists talk about the impact of the raids 
 and the progress of the defense campaign, and to discuss the way forward in 
 the struggle for immigrant rights. \n\nDONATIONS FOR THE DEFENSE FUND 
 GREATLY APPRECIATED\n\nSponsored by the El Balazo Workers Defense Fund and 
 the International Socialist Organization (ISO), publishers of Socialist 
 Worker and Obrero Socialista newspapers\n\nFor more information, call James 
 at (831) 430-6133\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/31/18521302.php
SUMMARY:Defend the El Balazo Workers! Santa Cruz Meeting
LOCATION:Beach Flats Community Center, 133 Leibrandt Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/31/18521302.php
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