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DESCRIPTION:2/17 SF Rally-No Border Walls-Cancel NAFTA- For Unity Between US & Mexican 
 Workers Against The Multi-Nationals, Racists And Union Busters\nFebruary 
 17, 2017 12:00 Noon\nSan Francisco US Federal Building\n90 7th St. Near 
 Mission St.\nSan Francisco, California\nThe racist attack by Trump on the 
 Mexican people, all immigrants and Mexican-Americans is escalating. The 
 NAFTA agreement is part and parcel on the attack not only on Mexican 
 working people and farmers but on US workers. It was pushed by the US 
 multi-nationals, the Democrats and Republicans and has harmed workers on 
 both sides of the border. The 3,000 maquiladoras that were set up have been 
 kept non-union by the Mexican government which uses the police and state 
 power to prevent unionization for the US and multi-national companies who 
 really run Mexico.\nUS workers have been told that if they do not take wage 
 and benefit concessions, their companies will move to Mexico and they have 
 again used NAFTA to impose these wage cuts and destroy decent union jobs 
 here in the US.\nThe wealth of Mexico has also been sold off to 
 billionaires like Carlos Slim, a pal of Bill Clinton and US and 
 multi-nationals from around the world. Telecom, railroads, water, mines, 
 transit and the lands of Mexico have been privatized and they are trying to 
 destroy public education with charters and other privatization schemes.\nAt 
 the same time there is a militarization of the border with Plan Merida, 
 Mexico has been given billions for weapons which are being used for massive 
 repression and murders of teachers, students and journalists in Mexico. 43 
 students were murdered by government forces and the government is covering 
 up the police who were involved in this government organized 
 massacre.\nWorkers and people on both sides of the border are demanding NO 
 Border Walls, NO NAFTA and UNITY between US and Mexican workers against the 
 real crooks and criminals running these corporations like Driscolls. This 
 California based company owned by the Reider family has fought unionization 
 of the 80,000 farm workers in slave like conditions in San Quintin and 
 Baja, California. These indigenous people were forced off their ejidos 
 lands and they are paid $12 dollars a day which cannot feed, cloth and care 
 for their themselves and their families. \nThere is an international 
 boycott against all Driscoll products and there will be a US-Mexican Border 
 solidarity action on March 5, 2017 for workers on both sides of the 
 border.\nIt is time to cancel NAFTA, Fight anymore walls and unify workers 
 and the people on both sides of the border.\nEndorsed by\nLabor Council For 
 Latin American Advancement Sacramento 
 Chapter\nhttps://www.facebook.com/lclaasacramento/?fref=ts\nUnited Public 
 Workers For Action UPWA.info\nTransport Workers Solidarity Committee 
 TWSC\nwww.transportworkers.org\n2/18 Special Meeting\nWar, Labor, Trump, 
 NAFTA and The Border Walls\nFebruary 18, 2017 2:00 PM\n518 Valencia 
 St.\nSan Francisco, California\nFor more 
 information\n(415)282-1908\n(916)712-4251\nFor additional 
 media:\nhttp://www.upwa.info/documents/statement-US-Mexico.htm\nhttp://www.upwa.info/docume…/statement-US-Mexico-spanish.htm\n\n5 
 de marzo de 2017 Acción Unida Laboral Estadounidense-Mexicana Sobre 
 Frontera-March 5, 2017 US-Mexican Labor Unity Action On Border\nMarch 5, 
 2017 US-Mexican Labor Unity Action On 
 Border\nhttps://www.facebook.com/lclaasacramento/?fref=ts\n\nBRING YOUR 
 LADDERS !!\nTRAIGAN SUS ESCALERAS !!\nWe call on all Activist & Autonomous 
 Community grassroots Organizations Students,Labor Unions & Boycott 
 Driscoll's Supporters In an International call Day of Action at the U.S. 
 México Border on March 5,2017 at Both Border Entry ways " The Village 
 clown & Idiot" Wants to Build the Wall of Hate & Racism we will Help 
 Bringing It Down We invite all to Join in this Day of Action !\nLlamamos 
 Todas y Todos están Invitados al Tumbar\nEl Muro del Odió y Racismo el 
 día 5 de Marzo,2017 tanto de EUA Como de el Lado de México nos Veremos 
 Ese Día para asegurar Nuestra Solidaridad con los Mexicanos y Mexicanas 
 como seres Humanos de Ambos lados Uñidos!"\nAllí nos Veremos y ya no 
 Andar a la Defensa más la Ofensiva y Que No Hay otra Parlante !"\n"If he a 
 young man in a "Direct Action" crosses the Border & plants his Fathers 
 "Driscoll's Strike Flag !\nWhat would you Do ?.\n"Si el el Hijo de un 
 Jornalero Agrícola se da de el Cruzar entre la Varías de la Frontera de 
 plantar las Banderas de la Huelga de la Driscoll de "Aquí les recuerdo 
 luchamos por nuestra Dignidad y la Justicia Social !," Ahora que hicieras 
 tu persona ?.\nWe call on all Activist & Autonomous Community grassroots 
 Organizations Students,Labor Unions & Boycott Driscoll's Supporters In an 
 International call Day of Action at the U.S México Border on March 5,2017 
 at Both Border Entry ways " The Village clown & Idiot" Wants to Build the 
 Wall of Hate & Racism we will Help Bringing It Down We invite all to Join 
 in this Day of Action !\n"Si Se Va Poder !"\n"Yes, it will Happen 
 !"\nPLEASE "SHARE" !"\n"FALTAN "43" !\n"VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARRON VIVOS LOS 
 QUEREMOS !!'\n\nBefore Trump, the Border Wall Was a Bipartisan 
 Project\nhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/before-trump-the-border-wall-was-a-bipartisan-project/\nFEBRUARY 
 3, 2017\nBefore Trump, the Border Wall Was a Bipartisan Project\nby OLIVER 
 ORTEGA\n\n\n<15953126535_f5b0f97a13_z.jpg>\nPhoto by Nicolas Raymond | CC 
 BY 2.0\n \nRightwing fantasies of a southern border wall are not new. Nor 
 are they limited to Republicans or Trump supporters.\n\nWhen President 
 Trump signed an executive order last week to complete a wall along the 
 2,000 mile border with Mexico, he was building on decades of bipartisan 
 consensus among lawmakers.\n\nIn fact, Congress had already approved a 
 border wall not too long ago. In 2006, legislators—including many 
 Democrats—passed the Secure Fence Act, which called for 700 miles of 
 double-fence construction along certain stretches of the border. Trump 
 cited the Bush-era law in the first paragraph of the executive order he 
 signed Wednesday as rationale for his executive authority to order a wall 
 be built.\n\nMany of the same democratic leaders now bemoaning Trump’s 
 wallvoted for one at the time— Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, 
 Dianne Feinstein.\n\nThen-Senator Barack Obama, who as President would 
 later deport a record-high 3 million people during his two terms, lauded 
 the bill on the Senate floor, saying it would “help stem some of the tide 
 of illegal immigration in this country.”\n\nThe most pivotal moments in 
 the militarization of the border arguably took place during the time of 
 Obama’s Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton. “Operation Gatekeeper,” 
 passed in 1994, poured billions of dollars into border security. 
 High-intensity stadium lights, motion detectors, and remote video 
 surveillance were installed along key points of the U.S-Mexico divide, and 
 the amount of border patrol agents was increased by roughly a third. With 
 resources deployed to patrol densely populated sectors, undocumented 
 immigrants were often forced to trek barren desert and mountains. Thousands 
 died in their quest for a better life.\n\n“We will not surrender our 
 borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and 
 justice,” President Clinton said at the time.\n\nIt’s no coincidence 
 that Operation Gatekeeper followed another landmark in US-Mexico relations 
 that same year: the North American Free Trade Agreement.\n\nUnder NAFTA, 
 Big Ag flooded the Mexican market with heavily-subsidized corn and other 
 staples, displacing small farmers in Mexico in one of the greatest 
 neoliberal coups in history. The result was a flood of immigrants heading 
 northbound in search of opportunities, accelerating one of the largest mass 
 movements of people in history.\n\nIn short, the U.S. government, acting in 
 the service of corporate profits, caused the very mass migration it has 
 spent the last 25 years trying to keep out and criminalize.\n\nCurrent 
 debate about the border wall often lacks geopolitical context. It’s worth 
 remembering that the border lies on land taken from Mexico; virtually all 
 of the American Southwest and parts of other regions once belonged to our 
 southern neighbors — California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New 
 Mexico, Utah. These lands were taken as spoils of war following the 
 U.S-Mexican War, which was started by the U.S., of course. And Mexican and 
 Mexican-Americans have lived in the region for time immemorial, thriving in 
 a rich trans-border culture.\n\nSome on the left have taken the border with 
 Mexico as a given. Rather than focusing on whether it should be a wall or a 
 fence, its length or thickness, a more useful exercise would be to reframe 
 the parameters of debate by asking whether there should be a border at 
 all.\n\nProfessor Jacqueline Stevens, a Political Science professor who 
 heads the Deportation Research Clinic at Northwestern University, makesthe 
 case in her book States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortalsthat 
 abolishing birthright citizenship would help end inequality among countries 
 by allowing people greater mobility across borders to seek 
 opportunities.\n\nLooking at the U.S, free movement across state lines 
 “does not diminish the authority of states in our federal system, or the 
 right to participate politically as a citizen of one state and not 
 another,” she wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times. She also points to 
 the European Union’s liberalized border policies.\n\nOf course, such 
 arguments are lost on the ascendant white supremacists that propelled Trump 
 into the Oval Office. Improving on his predecessors, Trump says the entire 
 border will be covered. Better yet, he’ll make Mexico pay for it.\n\nThe 
 support among Republican voters for the wall shouldn’t be ignored: 65 
 percent of Republicans favored the project in a CBS polltaken the week 
 before the announcement.\n\nPsychologically, the Trump’s wall fulfills 
 the tribalistic need of a White America oppressed by the neoliberal ruling 
 class to have an ethnic Other to demonize and feel superior to, much as Jim 
 Crow did in the agricultural south. In the minds of those afflicted by 
 White backlash, the wall is key to “Make American Great Again.” 
 Unsurprisingly, no great nativist anxiety exists about securing the 
 northern border with Canada, though there, too, drugs and illegal 
 immigrants seep through.\n\n“What a wall satisfies is not so much a 
 material need as a mental one,” writes philosopher Costica Bradatan. “ 
 Walls protect people not from barbarians, but from anxieties and 
 fears.”\n\nThe southern border is as artificial and arbitrary as they 
 come. That Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thought it fit to 
 voicesupport of Trump’s wall recently is hardly surprising. Consider it a 
 nod from the leader of one colonial-settler society to another.\n\nOliver 
 “Oscar” Ortega is a freelance journalist based in Madison, Wisconsin. 
 Back in his mainstream media days, his work appeared in the Boston Globe 
 and other regional newspapers. He can be reached at: 
 oortega.news@gmail.com\n 
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SUMMARY:SF Rally-No Border Walls-Cancel NAFTA- For Unity Between US & Mexican Workers
LOCATION:San Francisco US Federal Building\n90 7th St. Near Mission St.\nSan 
 Francisco, California
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