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DESCRIPTION:Youth organizers in Sonoma County are calling for a "Human Rights Summer" 
 to create awareness and opposition to Arizona's SB1070 law, which further 
 criminalizes immigrant communities. There will be a march on Thursday, July 
 29th at 6pm in Petaluma. \n\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Sabina 
 Ahmed- 766-4336                                         
 Impactpetaluma@gmail.com\n\nSonoma County Youth Organize to Oppose 
 Arizona’s Immigration Bill\n\n Protest March to Be Held on July 29th in 
 Petaluma\n\nPetaluma- Youth community organizers from the groups IMPACT! 
 and MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) are responding to the 
 recent immigration bill passed in Arizona, SB1070, with a series of 
 activities throughout the summer aimed at educating the community about 
 immigration and building support to repeal the Arizona law and create a 
 “just and humane immigration reform.” These activities include: holding 
 house meetings with the community to discuss immigration, outreach to local 
 businesses to support a boycott of Arizona products, introducing 
 resolutions at the city level to express opposition to Arizona’s bill and 
 support for immigrants’ rights, and a “March for Human Rights” 
 protest on July 29th in Petaluma, the day SB1070 goes into 
 effect.\n\nTaking the lead from immigrant organizers in Arizona who are 
 organizing similar efforts this summer, local youth activists are naming 
 this project “Human Rights Summer,” inspired by the historic Freedom 
 Summer of 1964 which was part of the student-led movement for Civil Rights 
 in the South.\n\n“Laws like SB1070 are not unique to Arizona,” says 
 Sabina Ahmed, a member of IMPACT! “Policies like ‘Secure 
 Communities,’ which Sonoma County has adopted, and 287(g) agreements, 
 take away constitutional rights from immigrants and lead to racial 
 profiling. As students and young people, we oppose all laws that violate 
 civil and human rights.”\n\nOrganizers also hope to use Human Rights 
 Summer to build support for ongoing local efforts for migrant justice, 
 including campaigns to stop the impounding of immigrants’ vehicles and 
 the separation of immigrant families, and draw connections between the 
 situation in Arizona and what is happening in Sonoma County.\n\n“I was 
 very proud of the leadership from Supervisors Efren Carrillo and Shirlee 
 Zane regarding their opposition of Arizona’s SB1070,” said Petaluma 
 City Councilwoman, Tiffany Renee. “Assigning immigration responsibilities 
 to local authorities compromises their ability to do their jobs. Detaining 
 people based on suspicions of national origin is reminiscent of 1930s 
 Germany.”\n\n The “March for Human Rights” begins at 6pm on Thursday, 
 July 29th, at McDowell park, off of Park Ln., between Maria Dr. and 
 McGregor Ave. The march will be permitted and peaceful.\n *For more 
 information, go to www.impactpetaluma.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/12/18653641.php
SUMMARY:Youth Organize Opposition to SB1070
LOCATION:McDowell park, off of Park Ln., between Maria Dr. and McGregor Ave
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/12/18653641.php
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