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In Defense of Humanity, Create a Humane U.S. Immigration Policy
http://theinternationalcommittee.org/
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity endorses the following statement from the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity:
“The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity expresses its concern about the treatment at the United States border of immigrants fleeing from violence in their home countries, particularly from Central America and Mexico.
We express our horror at the separation of children from their parents – an experience from which these children may never fully recover, especially as it has been reported that many of these children, once in custody, have been subject to physical and psychological abuse, including sexual assault and the forcible injection of drugs.
In the last months, we have witnessed the grossest violation of human rights against immigrant families, particularly children as young as 3 months old. It is unacceptable for any decent person to allow the suffering that this new policy have caused to thousands of families to continue.
The outrage was so widespread nationally and internationally that President Trump was forced to change his position on the issue. On June 20 he announced that children will not be separated from his/her parents, but the order will lead to the indefinite detention of entire families. In addition, the Trump administration has not outlined any plans to reunite immigrant children who were already separated from their families. At least 2,300 children have been separated from their parents since the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced his “zero tolerance” policy in April.
Moreover, while it appears that the current solution is to jail families together, this is not proper either. These families crossing the border are not criminals, nor are they somehow subhuman as comments made by Trump about their allegedly threatening to “infest” the US strongly suggests. Rather, these are people who are desperately fleeing terrible situations in their country of origin – situations which the US played a key role in creating.
It is crucial that the US start to own up to how it has damaged the countries of Central America and Mexico from which these families are fleeing. There is no dispute about the fact that the US, through its support of death squad states in El Salvador and Guatemala during the 1980’s and early 1990’s, created an environment of brutal violence from which these countries have yet to recover. All told, around 75,000 civilians were murdered in El Salvador, largely by state forces that the US supported.
In Guatemala, around 200,000 people, mostly Mayan Indians, were murdered in what former President Bill Clinton later admitted was a genocide. In addition, young Salvadorians who came to the United States during the civil war became gang members as part of the culture facing their communities. In the ’90s, as the gang phenomenon got more complicated, the U.S. started deporting gang members who had committed crimes and murders in the U.S. back to El Salvador. Many of the women who come to the United States with their young children do so because of gang violence.
Meanwhile, the US also supported repressive forces in Honduras during the same period, and then, in 2009, supported a military coup which unseated a democratically-elected President and which instituted a period of repression which continues to this day.
In Mexico, US agricultural trade policies under NAFTA destroyed the livelihood of about 2 million small farmers, who then moved to cities ill-equipped to care for and employ them. This social dislocation has devastated the social fabric of Mexico. On top of this, the US has sponsored a drug war which relies on repressive security forces in Mexico. Brutal violence has arisen from this war, including the killing of 100,000 people and the forced disappearance of tens of thousands.
US economic and military policies have been imposed by local political and military elites in many Latin American and Caribbean countries. The elites have benefited while the majority have suffered and been denied basic safety and security.
Far from viewing the individuals and families fleeing such countries as criminals and interlopers, the US should welcome them as a very small gesture of atonement for what our nation has done to theirs. It is high time that the US recognize how it has spawned the mass immigration in our hemisphere, as well as in Europe where people are fleeing the numerous wars which the US has been waging in The Middle East and Northern Africa since 1990.
The US, which claims to espouse Judeo-Christian values, must take responsibility for the violence it has brought upon the world and the mass emigration which has flowed from it.
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity demands that the thousands of children who have already been separated from their parents be located and immediately reunited with their families.
Raise your voice, organize your civic and religious organizations and demand that U. S. policy makers, both Republican and Democrat, abandon the cruel and inhumane incarceration of immigrant adults and children. Let us legalize and normalize the lives of millions of decent, hardworking immigrants forced to live in the shadows of U. S. society. Let us develop a humane immigration policy. Let us work toward a more just, tolerant and equal world both within and beyond the U.S. borders.”
Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity (U.S. Chapter)
June 24, 2018
Sheboygan, July 1, 2018: Families Belong Together Sheboygan Rally
Hosted by Marcos Guevara
4 P.M. Fountain Park, Sheboygan
Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. It’s happening in Sheboygan County, too!
But we won’t allow it to continue. On Sunday, July 1st, Forward Sheboygan and the Sheboygan Chapter of Voces de la Frontera are organizing a rally in Fountain Park in Downtown Sheboygan to let local officials know that we’re watching them!
On Saturday, June 30, MoveOn, ACLU, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and The Leadership Conference (among many other organizations) are rallying in Washington, D.C., and around the country to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents! Follow this link to find an event in your area—there are many events planned in Wisconsin: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together
Trump and his administration have been systematically criminalizing immigration and immigrants, from revoking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to ramping up intimidating ICE tactics.
Join us on July 1st to send a clear message to our Local, State, and National officials: Families Belong Together!
Southeast, WI, June 28, 2018: Resist Trump In Wisconsin! Families Belong In Communities Not Cages!
Thursday, 8am: Families Belong in Communities not Cages
*****URGENT – URGENTE *****
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Thursday, June 28th
Resist Trump’s Visit to Wisconsin
Families Belong in Communities Not Cages
Buses & Caravan leave from 1027 S 5th St in Milwaukee at 8am
Please arrive at Voces at 7:30am!
Info: 414-643-1620
On June 28th, the white nationalist responsible for separating and imprisoning tens of thousands of immigrant families is coming to Southeast Wisconsin. Trump is coming for the Foxconn groundbreaking and to hold fundraisers for Scott Walker and is other Wisconsin Republican enablers.
Join us in a massive community response. We will leave from Voces Thursday at 8am in buses and a caravan to protest Trump’s visit to our community.
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jueves, 28 de junio
Protesta contra la visita de Trump A Wisconsin
Las familias deben permanecer unidas, no en Jaulas!
Autobuses y caravana salen de 1027 S 5th St en Milwaukee a las 8:00 am
¡Favor de llegar a Voces a las 7:30am!
Información: 414-643-1620
El 28 de junio, el supremacista blanco responsable de separar y encarcelar a decenas de miles de familias inmigrantes llega al sureste de Wisconsin. Trump vendrá para el inicio de la construcción de la fábrica de Foxconn y para recaudar fondos para Scott Walker y sus otros amigos republicanos.
Acompáñanos en una respuesta masiva. Saldremos de Voces el jueves a las 8am en autobuses y una caravana para resistir la presencia de Trump.
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Reflections on the Poor People’s Campaign in Michigan: Activists project the need for a broad based coalition of popular forces
Global Research, June 23, 2018
“…the role of the corporate and government-controlled media outlets in their lack of coverage of the PPC reinforced existing notions of censorship and bias against those concerns impacting the working class and nationally oppressed. With specific reference to Detroit, Flint, Benton Harbor, Detroit, Highland Park and other cities, the existence of a movement aimed at addressing the plight of the poor contradicts the contrived narrative of the for-profit and purported publically-funded press agencies.
This, of course, requires the development of deeper ties within distressed communities and population groups. Such an approach will ultimately lead to long-term solutions in the overall movements to transform the existing capitalist order towards full social equality, self-determination and economic justice.
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Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
Rev. Edward Pinkney of Berrien County Michigan demonstrates alongside the Poor People’s Campaign in Detroit on June 18, 2018
Milwaukee, June 28, 2018: Keep Families Together: End Trump’s Immigration Terror
Hosted by Young People’s Resistance Committee
Keep Families Together: End Trumps Immigration Terror
1031 S 9th Street, 6 P.M., Walker Square Park, Milwaukee
The Trump Administration has been running a terror campaign against immigrants in the United States. Most recently this has meant the separation of children from their families at the border. Join YPRC as we rally and demand:
1. An end to the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy on the imprisonment of immigrants.
2. The right of families to remain united throughout the entire process of petitioning for asylum.
3. For Anselmo Villarreal to step down from his current position as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Southwest Key Program (SKP) and publicly denounce the separation of children from their families under the current administration’s policy.
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La Administración de Trump ha estado llevando a cabo una campaña de terror contra los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Recientemente, esto se ha significado la separación de niños y sus padres en la frontera. Únase a YPRC a a exigir:
1. El fin de la política de cero tolerancia de la Administración de Trump sobre el encarcelamiento de inmigrantes.
2. El derecho de las familias a permanecer unidas durante todo el proceso de solicitud de asilo.
3. Que Anselmo Villarreal renuncie a su puesto actual como Vicepresidente de la Junta Directiva del Southwest Key Program (SKP) y denuncie públicamente la separación de los niños de sus familias bajo la política actual de la administración.
At Milwaukee ICE office June 21, 2018 / Photo: Joe Brusky
Midwest & Nationwide, June 30, 2018: End The War On Children & Families! Abolish ICE!
https://www.facebook.com/WeBelongTogetherUS/
We Belong Together is an initiative of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum, and others, to bring attention to the ways in which unjust immigration laws affect women, children and families.
CHICAGO, June 30: 11 A.M., 50 W Washington, Richard J Daley Center
DETROIT, June 30: 1 P.M., 1130 Clark Street, Clark Park Southwest Detroit
INDIANAPOLIS, June 30: 10 A.M., 46 E Ohio Street
MADISON, June 30: 3 p.m. State Capitol, 2 E Main Street
MINNEAPOLIS, June 30: 2 P.M., 1301 Second Avenue S, Meet Outside the Minneapolis Convention Center
MILWAUKEE, June 30, 1 P.M., 517 E Wisconsin Avenue
ROCKFORD, June 30, 10 A.M. 425 East State Street
OTHER CITIES IN WISCONSIN: WI: Appleton, Ashland, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Kenosha, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Onalaska, Oshkosh, Racine, Stevens Point, Wausau
OTHER CITIES: https://tinyurl.com/ydgycquh
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WISCONSIN RALLIES TO STOP THE INDEFINITE IMPRISONMENT OF FAMILIES & ABOLISH ICE
http://vdlf.org/wisconsin-rallies-to-stop-the-indefinite-imprisonment-of-families-abolish-ice/
Protest at Milwaukee ICE office June 21, 2018 / Photo: Joe Brusky
Milwaukee, June 21, 2018: From the Border to Wisconsin: Keep Families Together!
Hosted by New Sanctuary Movement Milwaukee and Voces de la Frontera
From the Border to Wisconsin: Keep Families Together!
310 E Knapp Street, Milwaukee, 9 A.M. (ICE Milwaukee Field Office)
ESPAÑOL ABAJO
From the Border to Wisconsin: Keep Families Together
Rally against Trump’s cruel policy of separating immigrant families at the border and in the Midwest.
Thursday, June 18th, 9am
ICE Milwaukee Field Office
310 E Knapp St., Milwaukee
Info: 414-643-1620
Join the New Sanctuary Movement of Milwaukee and Voces de la Frontera to demand that the Trump Administration stop separating immigrant families at the border, and that they stop separating immigrant families in places like Wisconsin also. We will rally with Franco Ferreyra’s family to demand that ICE release Franco, a father of 4 from Waukesha who qualifies for DACA. Sign the petition demanding ICE free Franco here: vdlf.org/sign-the-petition-to-ice-to-freefranco/.
We will hold a brief speaking program and then perform a Jericho Walk, an interfaith solidarity walk that draws inspiration from the Battle of Jericho from the Bible, when Joshua’s army marched around the city of Jericho seven times, “and the walls came tumblin’ down.”
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De la frontera a Wisconsin: ¡Mantenga familias unidas!
Manifestación contra la política cruel de Trump de separar a las familias inmigrantes en la frontera y en el Medio Oeste.
Jueves, 18 de junio, 9am
Oficina de ICE de Milwaukee
310 E Knapp St., Milwaukee
Información: 414-643-1620
Únase al Nuevo Movimiento Santuario y Voces de la Frontera para exigir que la Administración de Trump deje de separar a las familias inmigrantes en la frontera, y que dejen de separar a las familias inmigrantes en lugares como Wisconsin también. Apoyaremos la familia de Franco Ferreyra para exigir que ICE libere a Franco, un padre de 4 de Waukesha que califica para DACA. Firme la petición exigiendo Franco libre de ICE aquí: vdlf.org/sign-the-petition-to-ice-to-freefranco/.
Tendremos un breve programa con oradores y luego realizaremos una Caminata de Jericó, una caminata interreligiosa de solidaridad que se inspira en la Batalla de Jericó de la Biblia, cuando el ejército de Josué marchó siete veces alrededor de la ciudad de Jericó, y el muro cayó.
From the Border to Wisconsin: Keep Families Together!
Madison, June 18, 2018: Poor People’s Campaign Rally at State Capitol
https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-in-the-wisconsin-state-capital-on-june-18?clear_id=true
Wisconsin State Capitol•2 E Main St., Madison, WI 53703, 2 P.M.
Week Six (June 17 – June 22)
A New and Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative
This is the sixth of six weeks of nonviolent moral fusion direct action across the country to show our elected leaders we will no longer allow attention violence to keep poor and disenfranchised people down.
We will meet at Grace Episcopal Church, 116 W. Washington Ave., at 12:45 PM to prepare, then walk to the State Capitol across the street at 1:55 pm for the Rally at 2 pm. The area of the capitol is located between Carroll Street and West Washington Avenue.
Coming from Milwaukee? Ride the bus with us! RSVP for bus > https://goo.gl/forms/JvdHUGPCSWKcTjti2
Parking in downtown Madison
There is no parking at the church. There are a very limited number of short term parking stall (an hour or less) on the Capitol Square. Visitors parking on the square should be certain that they are NOT parking in a reserved stall.
For most visitors one of the city operated ramps in the downtown area is the best option; the City of Madison has more information.
Hope to see you soon!
Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign Coordinating Committee
