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9/4 Labor & Immigrants Rights March on Market in SF
Labor Day, September 4, 2006, we are having a second, and hopefully bigger and better, labor and immigrants rights march this year in San Francisco on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, with a rally at 10 a.m. and the march at 11 a.m.
Labor Day, September 4, 2006, we are having a second, and hopefully bigger and better, labor and immigrants rights march this year in San Francisco on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, with a rally at 10 a.m. and the march at 11 a.m.
For more in this march and the immigrants rights issue, see
http://www.immigrantrights.org/
We have a great peace movement in the Bay Area but it cannot grow without a labor movement as the cause of these endless wars is the capitalist profit motive, which only labor can eliminate. We witnessed 2 milestones this year, the first being a labor strike and march on the international labor day, May Day, when 100,000 marched in San Francisco and about the same in San Jose. No strawberries were picked in the Salinas area that day, many restaurants in San Francisco were closed, meatpacking factories in the Midwest closed, and hundreds of thousands more marched across the nation for the rights of workingclass immigrants, and therefore, the entire workingclass, as an injury to one is an injury to all. That labor strike put an end to all the anti-immigrant scapegoating legislation pending in Congress. The second milestone was on August 12, when the peace movement in the US finally marched against US/Israeli terrorism, with 10,000 marching in San Francisco. Now, we must unite the peace and labor movements to strengthen both.
For more in this march and the immigrants rights issue, see
http://www.immigrantrights.org/
We have a great peace movement in the Bay Area but it cannot grow without a labor movement as the cause of these endless wars is the capitalist profit motive, which only labor can eliminate. We witnessed 2 milestones this year, the first being a labor strike and march on the international labor day, May Day, when 100,000 marched in San Francisco and about the same in San Jose. No strawberries were picked in the Salinas area that day, many restaurants in San Francisco were closed, meatpacking factories in the Midwest closed, and hundreds of thousands more marched across the nation for the rights of workingclass immigrants, and therefore, the entire workingclass, as an injury to one is an injury to all. That labor strike put an end to all the anti-immigrant scapegoating legislation pending in Congress. The second milestone was on August 12, when the peace movement in the US finally marched against US/Israeli terrorism, with 10,000 marching in San Francisco. Now, we must unite the peace and labor movements to strengthen both.
For more information:
http://www.immigrantrights.org/
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Posted on Thu, Aug. 24, 2006
Rights rallies set on holiday
IMMIGRANT WORKERS FOCUS OF MARCHES
By Jessie Mangaliman
Mercury News
* Your Photos: Post your pictures and video from local protests
* Politics Forum: Talk about immigration reform
* Special Report: Immigration Debate
With ambitions to equal the turnout of massive immigration rallies in April and May, organizers announced Wednesday plans for Labor Day marches in the Bay Area and across the nation.
The Sept. 4 marches in San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and other U.S. cities, organizers say, will hopefully kick-start the stalled immigration reform legislation.
Conflicting bills approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have yet to reach compromise discussions.
``On this day we want to send a message to Congress to resolve the issue for 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country,'' said Jose Sandoval of the Voluntarios de la Comunidad, one of the San Jose organizing groups behind the march.
Starting Thursday, Sandoval and other volunteers will collect signatures for a banner to be carried by marchers on the national holiday. Like the May 1 march -- which drew an estimated 125,000 people to San Jose streets -- the group will gather on the East Side and march to City Hall.
``We hope to have a good mass of folks,'' said Larisa Casillas, new executive director of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition.
``It's a fitting day to highlight the contribution of immigrant workers,'' she said. ``Congress is back in session on Sept. 1 and we want to continue to keep putting on pressure for immigration reform.''
Marches and rallies are also being organized in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.
Sandoval said he and other organizers hope to equal the attendance of the massive marches in April and May.
``I'm optimistic,'' said Walter Rodriguez, a volunteer organizer for the September march. ``People are tired of waiting for Congress to do its work on immigration reform.''
The march will focus on legalization for illegal immigrants and stopping a House-approved bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally.
Roberta Allen, a San Jose small-business owner who organized a counterprotest to ``A Day Without Immigrants'' in May, said she knew of no plans to hold a counterprotest on Labor Day.
``I think people are getting a little tired of people who are here illegally demanding rights in this country,'' she said. ``We're not anti-immigrant. It's illegal immigration that we're against.''
Contact Jessie Mangaliman at jmangaliman@mercurynews. com or (408) 920-5794.
Rights rallies set on holiday
IMMIGRANT WORKERS FOCUS OF MARCHES
By Jessie Mangaliman
Mercury News
* Your Photos: Post your pictures and video from local protests
* Politics Forum: Talk about immigration reform
* Special Report: Immigration Debate
With ambitions to equal the turnout of massive immigration rallies in April and May, organizers announced Wednesday plans for Labor Day marches in the Bay Area and across the nation.
The Sept. 4 marches in San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and other U.S. cities, organizers say, will hopefully kick-start the stalled immigration reform legislation.
Conflicting bills approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have yet to reach compromise discussions.
``On this day we want to send a message to Congress to resolve the issue for 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country,'' said Jose Sandoval of the Voluntarios de la Comunidad, one of the San Jose organizing groups behind the march.
Starting Thursday, Sandoval and other volunteers will collect signatures for a banner to be carried by marchers on the national holiday. Like the May 1 march -- which drew an estimated 125,000 people to San Jose streets -- the group will gather on the East Side and march to City Hall.
``We hope to have a good mass of folks,'' said Larisa Casillas, new executive director of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition.
``It's a fitting day to highlight the contribution of immigrant workers,'' she said. ``Congress is back in session on Sept. 1 and we want to continue to keep putting on pressure for immigration reform.''
Marches and rallies are also being organized in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.
Sandoval said he and other organizers hope to equal the attendance of the massive marches in April and May.
``I'm optimistic,'' said Walter Rodriguez, a volunteer organizer for the September march. ``People are tired of waiting for Congress to do its work on immigration reform.''
The march will focus on legalization for illegal immigrants and stopping a House-approved bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally.
Roberta Allen, a San Jose small-business owner who organized a counterprotest to ``A Day Without Immigrants'' in May, said she knew of no plans to hold a counterprotest on Labor Day.
``I think people are getting a little tired of people who are here illegally demanding rights in this country,'' she said. ``We're not anti-immigrant. It's illegal immigration that we're against.''
Contact Jessie Mangaliman at jmangaliman@mercurynews. com or (408) 920-5794.
For more information:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...
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