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15th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration – “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”

MLK Justice Coalition cordially invites you to Celebrate the Life & Legacy of Dr. King! Hear from Community Leaders & Artists that are fighting to make King’s Dream a Reality! HEAR: Erica Lofton/Girls In Action – Fidel Verdin/The Peace Park – Maria Hamilton/ Mothers for Justice – James Macon/Amalgamated Transit Workers Union – Christine Neumann-Ortiz/Voces de la Frontera (March to the King Statue at 2:30) – Bring the Whole Family!

Dr. King day Jan. 16, 2012 Milwaukee.

The Obama administration just launched a new wave of deportation raids targeting children and families who fled violence in Central America.¹ It’s incredibly dangerous, irresponsible, and inhumane: since 2014, dozens of Central American refugees have been murdered just months after they were deported.²

Demand an immediate end to these inhumane deportation raids.

Many of the children targeted for deportation are facing a rushed, unfair process that gives them no chance to make their case in court.³ Children have been ordered deported after not showing up in court – despite the fact that they never received a notification to appear. The accelerated, aggressive deportation processes put in place by the Obama administration have led to these due process violations. To send refugees back into dangerous situations – especially without a fair process – goes against the values of the United States, and it may violate international law.

Join us in demanding that President Obama immediately stop the raids.

This new wave of raids is becoming an issue in the presidential campaign, so what we do now to stand up against the raids could have a huge impact on immigration policy for years to come.

We already know that the Republican presidential candidates, led by Donald Trump, are committed to harsh anti-immigrant policies. But with President Obama initiating these raids, it’s less clear what the Democratic party’s position is on immigration.

Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have spoken out forcefully against the raids and called for them to stop.^4,5 Hillary Clinton’s position is less clear – a campaign spokesperson said she has “concerns” about the raids, but she hasn’t called for them to stop.⁶ And in the past, she’s said that the unaccompanied children coming to the United States to escape violence in Central America should be deported.⁷ We need to raise our voices now to make sure all the Democratic candidates know we expect them to fight for justice for immigrants, and that they can’t take Latino votes for granted.

The U.S. legacy in Central America

Many of the immigrants who recently entered the country are fleeing violence in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala – countries with some of highest rates of violence in the world. Much of the violence – perpetrated by police, paramilitary gangs, and drug gangs – is the legacy of decades of anti-democratic U.S. intervention in the region.

Over and over again in Latin America, the United States government has undermined democracy, supported and trained oppressive military and police forces, and sent weapons. During the cold war, in the name of fighting communism, the CIA helped overthrow democratically elected governments, replacing them with violent dictators friendly to the U.S. The notorious “School of the Americas” – a U.S. military base in Georgia – trained Latin American dictators and their paramilitary foot soldiers in the use of torture and assassinations.

Demand an immediate end to these inhumane deportation raids.

U.S. aggression towards Latin America isn’t a thing of the past. In 2009, a military coup in Honduras – orchestrated by the country’s economic elite – overthrew democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya. The U.S. officially claimed to be against the coup – but the U.S. State department, led by Hillary Clinton, negotiated with the perpetrators of the coup, and did everything it could to ensure that Zelaya would not return to power.^8,9,10 Since Zelaya was overthrown, violence – from the government, gangs, and everything in between – has plagued Honduras.^11,12,13

In addition to the all the military and political intervention, the United States’ War on Drugs has fueled a massive criminal economy in Latin America, funding violent drug gangs that terrorize and kill.

The U.S. has an obligation to give refuge to all immigrants who come here to escape violence. But when children and families from Central America come to the U.S. to seek safety from the violence in their countries, the U.S. has a special responsibility, given the role it has played in the region. Instead, the Obama administration is sending people back into a violent environment the U.S. helped create, with very little regard for their safety or rights as human beings.

If enough of us call out President Obama now, it will help make this an issue in the presidential campaign, increasing the pressure on Obama to end the raids. It will also force Hillary Clinton to take a clear position for or against these raids, putting us in a better position to hold all the presidential candidates accountable to Latinos.

Tell President Obama: stop deporting people to their deaths.

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“Stop the War on Working Families!” – Join AWA at the AFL-CIO’s campaign kickoff event at the WV Capitol!

The Appalachian Workers Alliance would like to invite you to join us at the AFL-CIO’s “Stop the War on Working Families” campaign kickoff rally.

Wednesday Jan. 13, 2016 at 5pm
WV State Capitol Rotunda

“Beat Back Racist Right-To-Work!”
“Say NO to Jim Crow!”
“NO Charter Schools!”
“Fund PEIA: Make the Coal Barons Pay!”

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304.314.4340
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Fired Leaders Reinstated, Contract Gains

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Boston School Bus Drivers Union: USW Local 8751