Emergency Call for — WELCOMING COMMITTEES FOR THE MIGRANT/REFUGEE CARAVAN”
CARAVAN TO THE BORDER: We the undersigned groups and individuals call on community, union, student and worker groups to hold “Welcoming Committees” at the U.S. border. Let’s bring food, water and aid. Let’s bring our bodies to welcome and show support for the thousands of refugees who are risking their lives to build a better life for their loved ones.
HOLD LOCAL ACTIONS: If you cannot get to the border, hold emergency actions in your city, town, workplace or school as the migrant and refugee caravan nears or reaches the U.S. border. Shut down ICE offices, rally at detention centers, and schedule rush hour marches.
BUILD SOLIDARITY
We as workers, students and youth have more in common with the migrants who are fleeing conditions that have been manufactured by global capitalists and the Pentagon, than with these same bosses who refuse to pay workers a living wage or fight against enacting universal health care or workers’ rights.
As women, LGBTQ, queer and Trans activists, we extend our hand to our refugee sisters, brothers and siblings to build solidarity.
It is critical that we guarantee our opposition to every form of racism both at home experienced by Black and Brown people in every major city and corner of this country — along with fighting to say no to the racist policies that target Muslims, African, Caribbean and Latinx migrants. We say No Walls against Mexico or Palestine.
It’s important to remember that the refugees who embarked on this grueling march are doing so because of U.S. imperialist policies that have left a legacy of violence, oppression and crushing poverty forcing people to flee their homes and risk everything.
TO THE GI TROOPS
To those rank and files GI’s being sent to the border, we call on you not to go. If you are already there, then conduct work slowdowns, get sick, but most of all follow your conscience — don’t shoot or brutalize defenseless unarmed children, women and men.
The cost of this troop deployment is estimated to be $220 million: this is badly needed money that could be spent on schools, jobs and veteran services that have been slashed.
PUSH BACK TRUMP REACTION
It’s urgent that we do everything possible to push back the Trump reaction which has ushered in a violent neo-right-wing current that threatens everyone. We cannot wait until the elections; we must mobilize now!
We call on all groups to cooperate and work together to make this happen. We urge those who are able to also join SOA School of the America Watch at the border (You can contact them at: www.SOAW.org)
To sign on to this CALL respond on Facebook or email: WelcomeMigrantCaravan@gmail.com
Si se puede, Yes we can!
Initial signers:
Peoples Power Assembly, Baltimore
LA Workers Assembly
International Action Center West Coast
Al Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
American Indian Movement SoCal
Youth Against War & Racism
Reverend CD Witherspoon, President Emeritus, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Greater Baltimore
Brenda Gutierrez, founder, #MeToo March International
Departmento 19: FNRP/LIBRE/Alianza, OFICIAL (U.S. branch of Honduras liberation forces)
Katarungan: Committee for Peace, Justice and Human Rights in the Philippines
Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) NY
Parents to Improve School Transportation (PIST), New York
Solidarity with Novorossiya & Anti-Fascists in Ukraine
Humanity First
California for Progress
Prisoners Solidarity Committee
Puerto Rican Alliance
Union of Progressive Iranians
Harvard Blvd Block Club – South Central Los Angeles
Lizz Toledo, LCSW, Latinx LGBTQ activist
Jennifer Eun Joo Kim, Korean American activist, New York
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice
Project Solidarity, New York
Baltimore Bus Riders Union
Leslie Salgado, Chair, Friends of Latin America
Popular Resistance
Theresa Reuter, Artist
Reverend David Olsen
Baltimore Women United
Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition
Labor Against Racist Terror
Brown Black Alliance for Liberation
Black Workers Center, Baltimore
Bruce R. Allen, Paralegal
Assistance for the Resistance
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Anti Police-Terror Project
For more information: Call 410-218-4835
CONCRETELY — This is a CALL — specifics will be regularly updated and all groups are encouraged to post their actions on this event page. At this time, there is only estimated dates when the caravan will arrive at the border. Welcome Refugee Caravan
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