SUPPORT the NATIONAL WOMEN'S CAUCUS AGAINST ICE AND LOCAL POLICE COLLABORATION
Recently, a delegation of children from Arizona and throughout the country testified before Congress about the suffering they’ve experienced under this inhumane immigration system. Mothers, aunts and other women’s advocates visited members of Congress on the matter.
President Obama himself stated, "When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids – when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing… When all that's happening, the system just isn't working." Let's hold President Obama accountable to his words and tell him to stop programs that allow ICE and local police collaborations and that pave the way for harsh legislation like SB1070.
The National Women's Caucus Against ICE and Local Police Collaboration is comprised of the following organizations:
9to5 National Association of Working Women
9to5 Atlanta Working Women
9to5 Bay Area, CA
9to5 Colorado
9to5 Los Angeles
9to5 Milwaukee
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
Family Values at Work Consortium
Grassroots Global Justice
Jobs with Justice
MomsRising
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
New Moon Productions, Milwaukee, WI
Puente Movement, Arizona
Right to the City Alliance
Pushback Network
Virgina Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO)
Voces de la Frontera, Wisconsin
Download the July 15, Women and Children's Advocacy Day Report,
"Turning the Tide on Immigration Enforcement," here: PDF
For more information about ICE and Local Police enforcement programs, go to Uncoverthetruth.org
"WE ARE HUMAN" - DIANE SAWYER INTERVIEW PUTS HUMAN FACE TO VICTIMS OF SB1070
In a television segment titled "The Conversation: My Undocumented Life," ABC's Diane Sawyer interviewed a young woman named Erika, an undocumented woman and student in Arizona who has lived in the U.S. since age 11.
In the midst of the raging rhetoric around the immigration debate, it becomes all too easy for anti-immigrant supporters to forget that those who are being affected by SB1070 are human beings who want to be productive members of this society and to live with dignity. This is the face of the struggle against SB1070. Sawyer's interview puts a human face to combat the dehumanization and criminalization of immigrants and people of color who are the targets of hateful legislation in effect today in Arizona. (via Colorlines)
International Day of Non-Compliance Raises Questions of Broader Humanitarian Crisis in Arizona and the Country's Immigration Policy
Civil Disobedience and Protests in Cities Across the Country as well as Spain, Ecuador, and Mexico Signal a Partial and Temporary injunction is only a Small Step Toward Real Solutions for the Country's Immigration Policy & Arizona's Humanitarian Crisis
Phoenix, AZ - The day after Judge Bolton's partial injunction of Arizona SB 1070, communities across the globe participated in an International Day of Non-Compliance. The escalation of activities and the expansion of their reach demonstrate a turning point in the movement for human rights in Arizona.
The events signaled that the partial injunction would not solve the humanitarian crisis in Arizona. Carlos Garcia of the Puente Movement stated, "There is no partial solution to hatred. We reject unconstitutional laws and racist immigration practices that profile U.S citizens, separate families, terrorize communities, and rob us of our basic humanity."
Organizers drew the root cause of the issue to President Obama's federal enforcement ICE access programs that empower local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. Protestors called on the President to end the criminalization of migrant communities with "the stroke of a pen."
Beginning with a banner that was unfurled from a 230 ft. tall construction crane in Phoenix the night before, organizers linked the Arizona racial profiling law with 287g and Secure Communities, federal ICE access programs.
In Phoenix, more than 80 protesters were arrested in acts of civil disobedience. More than 30 blocked streets outside the Wells Fargo building that houses Sheriff Arpaio's office while others physically locked themselves to the entrance of Sheriff Arpaio's jail. Peter Morales, the president of the Unitarian Universalist Church, as well as Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement were among those who were arrested for blocking the jail's entrance.
Organizers in other cities also took more dramatic measures to highlight the need for Presidential action. In New York, a march shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for several hours. A dozen protestors blocked Wilshire blvd. in Los Angeles while people in Tucson, AZ shut down the highway.
"Solving this crisis means not just stopping SB 1070 and Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona but stopping all the Arpaios that the president's ICE access program is creating all across the country," explains Pablo Alvarado, Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
Recently, a delegation of children from Arizona and throughout the country testified before Congress about the suffering they’ve experienced under this inhumane immigration system. Mothers, aunts and other women’s advocates visited members of Congress on the matter.
In a television segment titled "The Conversation: My Undocumented Life," ABC's Diane Sawyer interviewed a young woman named Erika, an undocumented woman and student in Arizona who has lived in the U.S. since age 11.
