May Day March for Immigrant and Worker Rights / Marcha del 1ro de Mayo para los Derechos de lxs Trabajadorxs e Inmigrantxs

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10º Aniversario: Marcha del 1ro de Mayo para los Derechos de los Inmigrantes y Trabajadores

domingo, 1ro de mayo de 2016, 2pm

reunimos a las 1:30pm en frente de Voces de la Frontera (1027 sur de la calle 5)
Marchamos a las 2pm a la corte del condado de Milwaukee

Marcha por:
Nuestra victoria sobre la ley estatal anti-inmigrante AB 450
La defensa de DAPA y DACA +
Movilizando el voto latino en números históricos en las elecciones de noviembre
Salarios justos y la libertad de organizar en el lugar de trabajo
La defensa de las escuelas públicas

Más información:
Milwaukee: (414) 643-1620
Madison: (608) 212-1267
Racine: (262) 748-7349
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390
Whitewater: (414) 418-8424
Walworth County: (714) 262-2229
Appleton: (920) 460-8312
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390

Here’s the schedule for the day:

Dontre Day

March/Rally
12:30 p.m. leaving 27th and Center at 12:45 p.m.

¡No a la Junta de Control Fiscal en Puerto Rico!

¡FBI: Alto a la persecución de independentistas en Puerto Rico!

¡Libertad para Puerto Rico! ¡Libertad para Oscar López! ¡Libertad para Ana Belén Montes!

No to Wall Street’s Fiscal Control Board in Puerto Rico!

FBI: Stop persecution of independentistas in Puerto Rico! 

Free Puerto Rico! Free Oscar López! Free Ana Belén Montes!

Given the emergency events in Puerto Rico regarding the possible imposition by the US government of a Fiscal Control Board that will administer the island, forcing payments to bondholders at the expense of the people, whose representatives will lose the little control they had on any aspect of the nation, a group of trade unions has initiated a call for a demonstration on May Day in PR to reject the FCB.

The situation in Puerto Rico is tremendously dire and the people are subject to daily attacks from all sides, government, private companies and above all, Wall Street. Without jobs, the young generation has been forced to leave the island and emigrate to the United States, depriving PR of future generations and productivity.

The basis for a social convulsion is developing. Even a pro-statehood advocate, federal judge Juan Torruella, of the Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st circuit in Boston, warned that “to eliminate the little space of self government that he island has, can “unleash not only simple civil disobedience or resistance, but radicalization or direct violence, such as the one that happened in Puerto Rico in the 1930, 1940 and 1950”.

Those who have bravely defended the possibility of real sovereignty in PR have been the pro-independence fighters and activists. There is ample evidence of this in Puerto Rican history since the 1898 US invasion. That is precisely the reason the independentistas have always been persecuted and repressed.

Repression of independentistas

That is why it is not a coincidence that last week the FBI began a new campaign of harassment against separatists there. Three patriots and former political prisoners, Juan Segarra Palmer, Orlando González Claudio, and Norberto Cintrón Fiallo were arrested to force them to give a DNA sample to the FBI. There is a list of 16 people in total. Obviously this has all the markings of a setup being prepared.

We cannot forget that this is the same FBI that cruelly and coldly killed Filiberto Ojeda Ríos on September 23, 2005; shooting him and leaving him to bleed to death without allowing any assistance by a doctor. And the FBI choose the Grito de Lares Day, a sacred date for the independence movement, to deliver the message: The US will not allow any resistance to its colonial domination of Puerto Rico.

This is also the same FBI accused in the article titled FBI Admits manipulated evidence in death penalty cases!

These two facts make urgent a response of solidarity by the Diaspora Boricua and all their supporters. Against repression of independentistas and against the Fiscal Contro.

This week, the Grass is Greener will have Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ and the co-founder of the Moratorium Now Coalition http://moratorium-mi.org/ as our guest. He will be focusing on May Day in Detroit, the appeal hearing of Rev. Pinkney on May 11, and the PGA protest in Benton Harbor on May 28th. So listen in on Riverwestradio.com online or over the airwaves on 104.1FMlp, WXRW at 8pm CST.

Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan African Newswire and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (mecawi.org).

By Teresa Gutierrez

http://bit.ly/1WuX2ks

Gutierrez has been a co-coordinator of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights for a decade and is currently campaign manager for the Workers World Party 2016 election campaign.

May Day actions this year mark the tenth anniversary of the upsurge of immigrant workers that gave birth to today’s national immigrant rights movement…

In the past 10 years, it has been demonstrated that the workers cannot count on Washington for any relief. In fact, it is Washington that puts them in harm’s way.

They cannot count on the Democrats who, despite the good intentions of some, wear the complex shackles of the capitalist system that will rein them in every time.

That is why, in this period, it is important to look to the youth.  Black and Brown youth are especially upping the ante and are challenging and shutting down not only Trump events but challenging the Democrats as well.  Black and Brown youth have seen the truth and are coming to realize it is they who have the power, not the elected officials.

Immigrant youth are coming to protests demanding not legalization but LIBERATION. Revolutionary attempts are being made to unite the immigrant rights struggle with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The masses can be confident that the next upheaval around the corner will be an escalation that will bring real change.

Immigrant workers are permanent members of the U.S. working class, despite the ruling class’s attempts to expel them. As workers, they are the gravediggers of our oppressors.

Voces de la Frontera

Scott Walker just signed an anti-immigrant bill. In the national political debate we are seeing unprecedented attacks on workers, immigrants, Muslims, people of color, the LGBT community, and women.

When our community is under attack, what do we do?

Click here to join Voces de la Frontera this Sunday afternoon for the Wisconsin May Day March for Immigrant, Worker, and Student Rights!

May 1st is a national day of action to stand united against hate and racism. Click here to learn about the dozens of cities taking part!

In Milwaukee we’ll start with a community fair at 12pm in front of our offices at 1027 S. 5th St., and then we’ll march at 2:00pm to the Milwaukee County Courthouse downtown.

We are excited to announce that speakers will include Russ Feingold, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Milwaukee Alderman José Pérez, and a Voces de la Frontera family that would benefit from DAPA.

At the street fair we’ll have great food and music and community groups will be offering resources, including the 16th Street Community Health Centers, who will be offering free blood pressure and HIV testing. We will also have information about voter registration, English classes, and citizenship.

Sunday we march to demand the US Supreme Court uphold DAPA and DACA+ (an expansion of deportation protections to parents and Dreamers), to urge the City of Milwaukee to create local identification cards, and to begin mobilizing the vote against hatred and bigotry.

Where will you be on May Day? March with us!

Click here to donate to help pay the costs of the march.

Solidarity,

Christine Neumann-Ortiz

Executive Director

May Day March for Immigrant and Worker Rights / Marcha del 1ro de Mayo para los Derechos de lxs Trabajadorxs e Inmigrantxs

ENGLISH BELOW

10º Aniversario: Marcha del 1ro de Mayo para los Derechos de los Inmigrantes y Trabajadores

domingo, 1ro de mayo de 2016, 2pm

reunimos a las 1:30pm en frente de Voces de la Frontera (1027 sur de la calle 5)
Marchamos a las 2pm a la corte del condado de Milwaukee

Marcha por:
Nuestra victoria sobre la ley estatal anti-inmigrante AB 450
La defensa de DAPA y DACA +
Movilizando el voto latino en números históricos en las elecciones de noviembre
Salarios justos y la libertad de organizar en el lugar de trabajo
La defensa de las escuelas públicas

Más información:
Milwaukee: (414) 643-1620
Madison: (608) 212-1267
Racine: (262) 748-7349
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390
Whitewater: (414) 418-8424
Walworth County: (714) 262-2229
Appleton: (920) 460-8312
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390
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10th Anniversary: May Day March for Immigrant and Worker Rights

Sunday, May 1st, 2016 2pm

Assemble at 1:30pm at Voces de la Frontera (1027 S. 5th St. in Milwaukee), march at 2:00pm to Milwaukee County Courthouse

March for:
Our Victory Defeating Wisconsin’s Anti-Immigrant Bill AB 450
Defending DAPA/DACA +
Mobilizing the Latino Vote in Historic Numbers for the November Presidential Election
A Living Wage and the Freedom to Organize in the Workplace
Defending public schools

Milwaukee: (414) 643-1620
Madison: (608) 212-1267
Racine: (262) 748-7349
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390
Whitewater: (414) 418-8424
Walworth County: (714) 262-2229
Appleton: (920) 460-8312
Waukesha: (262) 271-2390