JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT AIRPORT WORKERS, SAFETY FOR PASSENGERS!

Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:50:30 -0800 From: Eduardo Capulong Subject: FEBRUARY 19: ALL OUT FOR IMMIGRANT AIRPORT WORKERS! ***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*** ALL OUT FEBRUARY 19! DAY OF ACTION AT ALL BAY AREA AIRPORTS TO CALL FOR: JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT AIRPORT WORKERS, SAFETY FOR PASSENGERS! Immigrant baggage screeners are not to blame for 9/11. Yet thousands of them stand to lose their jobs because of a post-9/11 federal law that requires all screeners to be U.S. citizens. In the Bay Area, 1,200 mostly Filipino workers face termination. Join hundreds of workers, allies and supporters at simultaneous rallies and press conferences February 19, the day the federal government takes over airport security. Protest this racist law and draw the line on the attacks on all immigrants and our civil rights and liberties post-9/11! Call for the retention of all immigrant airport workers here and across the country! SIMULTANEOUS RALLIES & PRESS CONFERENCES: SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Old International (Central) Terminal, Domestic Departure Area OAKLAND AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Terminal 1 & 2 SAN JOSE AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Terminal A & C For information, call Daz Lamparas, 415/575-1740 x.116 (SF), Kawal Ulanday, 510/465-9876 x.01 (Oakland), or Pablo Romero, 415/820-1557 (San Jose). *Join us at a general organizing meeting this Monday, February 11, 2002, 7:00-8:30 PM, at the SEIU Local 790 offices, 1390 Market (corner 9th St.), 11th floor, San Francisco, to finalize plans for these events. In solidarity: Service Employees International Union Local 790, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Philip Vera Cruz Justice Project, Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Filipino Workers Association, International Socialist Organization, San Francisco Labor Executive Council, Labor Immigrant Organizing Network, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, INS Watch, La Raza Centro Legal, Filipino Bar Assoc. of No. CA, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 2, Services, Immigrants and Education Network, Ray Quan, SEIU 790, Jack Heyman, International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union Local 10, Labor for Peace and Justice, Town Hall Committee Against War and Hate, Left Party, Global Exchange, Incite, Stanford Labor Action Coalition, Socialist Workers Party, International Action Center, Workers World Party, Filipinos for Global Justice Not War, SOMA Community Action Network, API Coalition Against War, Anakbayan, First Quarter Storm.