Justice for immigrants and migrants

MARCH/CARAVAN FOR MIGRANTS

* February 2 – 18 - 26, 2006

* From San Diego, CA to Washington DC, to San Diego CA

* Press/Community Advisory (San Diego January 21, 2006)

MARCH/CARAVAN FOR MIGRANTS (Partial Schedule Released)



On Thursday, February 2, 2006 GENTE UNIDA, BORDER ANGELS and dozens of other human rights organizations as well as thousands of individuals will support the MARCH FOR MIGRANTS from San Diego to Washington D.C.



The march for migrants will lobby senators & legislators to vote no on issues such as HR 4437(continued militarization of border and criminalization of migrants, employers & supporters), demand justice for Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez (assassinated by the Border Patrol in San Diego 12/30/05), pay homage to the 4000 migrants that have died since the inception of the failed operation gatekeeper in 1994 (4000 crosses will be planted during march across America in their honor) and hear the voices of our community across the country as marchers and supporters hear the realities of respective migrant and immigrant communities.



"Basta al racismo y la injusticia" states Enrique Morones of Border Angles and Gente Unida, "its time our community march on Washington and across the country to let the world know, we demand to be treated with respect and dignity, we ask for nothing more and will settle for nothing less"



"We will also lead boycotts and protests due to the constant attacks on our community" states Vicente Rodriguez of Gente Unida. "We too have a voice"



The march/caravan will begin on the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo on February 2nd @ 1200 noon by the wall "of shame & the wall of death" located in San Ysidro (last US exit on West side) on Virginia Street.



March/Caravan General route is as follows (subject to modification, pending weather and additional stops along the route)



Feb 2, 1200 noon

SanDiego/Imperial Valley

San Ysidro planting of Cross in honor of Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez and launch ceremony



330 pm Calexico/Mexicali wall, rally on both sides of border



500 pm Vigil and place 400 crosses at Holtville Cemetery (400 unidentified migrants buried there)



Feb 3rd 1200 noon

Riverside/LA

University of Riverside rally



Feb 3rd 600pm

Los Angeles Plazita Olvera Vigil



Feb 4th Los Angeles visits and meetings



Feb 5th San Francisco rally



Feb 6th Sacramento Capitol visits and rally



Feb 7th travel to Arizona



Feb 8th Phoenix rally noon



Tucson Vigil evening



Feb 9th El Paso San Antonio



Feb 10th Houston & Victoria



Feb 11th Dallas



Feb 12th Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama



Feb 13th Atlanta Protest Lou Dobbs CNN Broken Borders



Feb 14th North Carolina



Feb 15th - 16 (East Coast & DC legislative visits)



Feb 17th travel adjustment



Feb 18-20 DC area rallies



Feb 21 travel West (visits in Chicago-Wisconsin-Minnesota-Colorado-New Mexico and...)



Target return date to San Diego weekend of February 26th



For more information, to join march, or to donate call Enrique Morones (619) 269-7865 http://www.borderangels.org (we are all volunteers and your support is greatly appreciated) Border Angels donations are tax deductible ...QUE VIVA LA JUSTICIA!



Our plans also include a future rally in Mexico City Zocalo in protest of Operation Gatekeeper, militarization & deaths @ border (Summer 2006)




MIGRANT MARCH FOR MANKIND

(February 2, 2006 point of departure San Diego, the wall, where
Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez was assassinated by the Border Patrol)

Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez only wanted to cross into the United States
to find work. He had two young children, two very young children and a
young wife. He left home and headed north, he wanted a better financial
future, for his family, Maira his wife and for Ismael & Kimberly his
children.

Guillermo never made it back home alive, as he was assassinated by the
US Border Patrol and died on New Years Eve. A lone agent, fired a lone
shot, and as Guillermo's young life oozed out you could hear the banging
in the background as the wall of shame continued to be built, the wall
of terror, the wall of death. UNA MUERTE MAS, 2005. As the year came to
an end, at least 500 people died crossing from Mexico to the US this
past year. 500 human beings, not illegal aliens, 500 people.

These last 11 years there have been 4000 Guillermo Martinez's, 4000
stories, Lucrecia Dominguez dying in the arms of her 15 year old son
Jesus in the Arizona desert, Victoria Sanchez 17 years young, thrown
from a vehicle that is being chased at high speed by the Border Patrol
in the East county of San Diego, five year old Marco Antonio Villasenor
suffocates in the back of a stuffed semi truck, stuffed with human cargo
(16 men and one child dead) found, in Victoria, Texas and now Guillermo
Martinez Rodriguez assassinated by the Border Patrol in San Diego
County. CUANTOS MAS ?

Before Operation Gatekeeper less than a dozen people died a year, one
per month crossing from Mexico to the United States, and we cried NI UNA
MUERTE MAS! Now hundreds die every year, and thousands are
incapacitated. OPERATION GATEKEEPER you are a total failure. NEVER
AGAIN!

This past year the United States not only recorded record number of
deaths but also a record number of hate crimes, a record number of anti
migrant legislation, a record number of racist media attacks and a
continuation of the militarization of the US/Mexico border. The whole
world is watching and our community is under attack. BASTA !

On February 2, 2006 we want to tell the world how we feel, we will cross
the country on a caravan for justice a National "Migrant March for
Mankind".Our Latino community also wants to ride the "Freedom train"
like our African American brothers and sisters, we also have our "trail
of tears" like our Native American forefathers, we also will travel to
villages and cities to hear the tell the TRUTH as did our heavenly
father, we will hear those thousands of untold stories from coast to
coast and share them with the world.

We plan to visit with students, migrants young and old; we will visit
opinion leaders as well legislators; we will visit the interfaith
community as well the common man, those who sacrificed it all to come to
this land, to help build this land while never forgetting their roots as
they help build the economies of both countries.

We want to remember our fallen brothers and sisters as we will plant
4000 crosses in their honor as we cross this grand country and we will
share stories of our battles on the border stories of the racist
legislation, stories of the failed militarization of the border and
stories of the daily lives of our brethren as they live in the shadows
with no drivers license, no earned residency opportunity, no justice.

We are all of the same race, the human race and we demand to be treated
with respect and dignity and we will accept nothing less and ask for
nothing more, so we will March on Washington and tell the US Senate NO
on the militarization of the Border, NO on OPERATION GATEKEEPER (the
wall of shame, terror and death), NO on the anti Latino media blitz of
Lou Dobbs and like minded hate shows promoting bigotry, ignorance and
confusing our realities to the American public, NO on HR 4437.

We want the Hispanic Caucus as well as legislators on both sides of the
aisle to hear OUR VOICES on our National month long caravan as we plan
to meet with Villaraigosa (Los Angeles) and Richardson (New Mexico),
Grihalva (Arizona) and Gutierrez (Chicago), we plan to meet with McCain
and Kennedy in DC and they will all hear our voices, as we demand
justice for Lucrecia, Victoria, Marco Antonio, and the 4000 human beings
that have aid the ultimate price for a better economic life, we demand
justice for Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez!!!

Que Viva la Justicia, Que Viva Guillermo y Que Viva Mexico!!!

Enrique Morones
Border Angels
y Gente Unida
(619) 269-7865
http://www.borderangels.org

quite interesting.

> We are all of the same race, the human race and we
> demand to be treated with respect and dignity

Then don't break our laws. Comprende usted?

> we will March on Washington and tell the
> US Senate NO on the militarization of the
> Border, NO on OPERATION GATEKEEPER

You have no right to tell us anything. We are a sovereign nation and have a right to protect our own borders. You wouldn't like it if we went down to Mexico City and started interfering in internal Mexican affairs, so DON'T come up here and start telling US what to do, ESPECIALLY when you're the ones not paying the bills. Got it?

If you don't want to get shot, don't break into our country and hang around with the gang-bangers, drug-dealers and polleros who are involved in constant warfare among their own. BP agents have enough problems with threats on their own lives on a daily basis, so they don't need to be second-guessing whether when you're reaching in your back pocket at 3 in the morning, if you're pulling out your matricula consular card, a cigarette, or a gun. Don't sneak across the border, and you won't have to worry about the migra shooting your ass.