BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-6173 SEQUENCE:6173 CREATED:20040203T182400Z DESCRIPTION:Hey Mission Residents. 4/04/02\n\nDay laborers need your support!\n\nWho are day laborers and what is their situation?\nDay laborers are predominantly immigrant workers who wait on Cesar \nChavez\nstreet every day from sunrise until late afternoon seeking temporary \nmanual\nlabor jobs. They are not there to anger anyone nor to cause problems. \nThey\nare rational people seeking out work in one of the only venues where it \nis\navailable to them so that they can feed themselves and their families.\n\nWhat's been going on?\nA new police captain, Captain Corrales, was recently put in charge of \nthe\nMission district. He has been initiating a series of crack-downs on day\nlaborers both on Cesar Chavez street and at the Day Labor Program. On \nCesar\nChavez, low-income workers are being intensively fined for minor \ntraffic\nviolations and are being subjected to intense police scrutiny. The \nworkers\nreport being threatened by the police to be turned over to the INS, and \nto\nhave been forced to move along from the corners where they customarily \nseek\nout employers. This enforcement interferes with the worker's \nlivelihoods.\n\nWhat needs to happen?\nCaptain Corrales says that he is doing all this at the behest of \nMission\nresidents. Those Mission residents who do not want day laborers to be \nable\nto wait for work, who believe that people should be warehoused out of \npublic\nview, are organized and highly vocal.\nWe need you, the Mission residents who oppose the militarization of the\nMission, to come to the Mission Police Station's monthly community \nmeetings.\nThese meetings are usually full of land-owners who detest poor people \nand\nwho purport to represent the voice of the Mission community. We need\nconscientious Mission residents who care about the safety of the day\nlaborers, of themselves, and of all working Mission residents to fill \nthe\npolice station's community room and advocate for the safety and rights \nof\nthe day laborers and of all working people in the Mission.\n\nYour presence will undermine the police's excuses that their current\nenforcement activities are occurring for the safety of Mission \nresidents.\nWe want to express to the police that true safety happens when everyone \nis\ntreated as a valuable human being and has enough resources to survive \nand\nthrive.\n\nWe need your vocal and valuable presence!\nTuesday, April 30th\n6:30 pm\nCommunity Room\nMission Police Station\n630 Valencia Street (17th/18th)\n\nWe will meet to prepare the same day at 5:30pm at La Raza Centro Legal \n(474\nValencia, Suite 295, second floor, off 16th street). People are welcome \nto\ncome and prepare at 5:30, or to go directly to the police station.\n\nPoints of unity:\n\n1. Equal weight: Institutions such as the police must look at the needs \nof\nall community residents, not just those residents who have money and\nproperty. The Mission community is enriched by its diversity. Immigrant\nworkers should receive the same value and respect as affluent \nhomeowners,\nand should be consulted as experts in issues that affect them.\n\n2. Day laborers have the right to stand on Cesar Chavez street and to \nbe\npicked up for work. This is their livelihood. They should not be cited \nor\nforced to move along.\n\n3. Quality of life infractions (such as public urination) occur when \npeople\ndo not have adequate resources. If the Mission police department wants \nto\ntruly improve the quality of life in the Mission, it must work on the \nroot\ncauses of the poverty and scarcity of resources that force people to \nengage\nin survival behaviors which are criminalized as quality of life \ninfractions.\nPolice officers cannot fine low-income people for engaging in survival\nbehavior.\n\n\nIf you have other issues to raise with the Mission police, this is an \nideal\ntime to do it. The more people we have at the meeting, the more we can \nmake\nhe meeting address our questions.\nIf you have questions, would like to help out, or if you see police\nharassing day laborers, call Elly Kugler, worker advocate, at (415)\n553-3406.\nYou can also e-mail elly@LRCL.org .\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/6173.php SUMMARY:Support Day Laborers at Community Response Meeting LOCATION:Mission Police Station\n630 Valencia Street (17th/18th)\nCommunity Room\n\nWe will meet to prepare the same day at 5:30pm at La Raza Centro Legal (474 Valencia, Suite 295, second floor, off 16th street). People are welcome to come and prepare at 5:30, or to go directly to the police station. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/6173.php DTSTART:20020501T013000Z DTEND:20020501T023000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR