6/18/04: As Newsom continues shifting money away from workers and low-income San Franciscans, cutting welfare and services, he refuses to address the massive tax theft by corporations and downtown big business. City Hall shaves budgets by a few million here or there, but ignores the billions of revenue owed by these power brokers. The denial of funds to DLP, along with escalating INS raids in San Francisco (supposedly a “sanctuary city” from immigration raids), represent two of the main strategies of the war against immigrants: major cuts of social spending, along with increasing state repression and violence against communities of color.

Organizations like the Day Labor Program are in the heart of resistance to the war at home. Fighting the economic and police repression of immigrants here in San Francisco is an integral piece of fighting Bush & Co.'s plan for world takeover. Bush's “endless war” relies on the money stolen from immigrants and other workers. It also rests on the continuing racist denial of the humanity and civil rights of targeted peoples at home and abroad.
6/18 - Photos from Protest | Report | 6/23 - Rally against ICE/INS Raids in the Mission | Photos | Archived Day Labor Program coverage