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Greetings to all friends, to all those who are not resigned to the situation in which we live: police occupation of the streets, of the cities, raids, deportations, arrests, daily difficulties, the dispossession of our lives; the situation that pushes us to cede a major part of our lives to the bosses of every genre, to those who preside over our destinies, to power. If we've taken the road of revolt, it's for all these reasons, to retake the power over our lives, for the freedom to live.
international call for days of action on may 31st and the 1st of june
This is a video I got in my inbox from the CAUSA the immigrant rights coalition here in Oregon. It is a very inspirational video. CAUSA's website is www.causaoregon.org and their blog is www.causaoregon.blogspot.com
Caught this article about State Senator Rick Metsger, a Democrat. Seems he is great friends with the Xenophobes. Why would the Democratic Party would have someone like that as a member.
Food that Mexico could have easily produced itself must be purchased for ten billion dollars every year from the US. From Sept 2007 to April 2008, the prices for corn, wheat and rice soared 30 to 50 percent on average, according to data of the UN Food Organization (FAO).
information about arrest and further information about court dates
rally and march
A synopsis from an anarchist.
A live, point for point, blow for blow account of the Tacoma Smash ICE rally
Saturday the 26th (tomorrow) March in Tacoma Against ICE and the Northwest Detention Center. See y'all there!
One of the first immigrants' strike in Greece, against the humiliating salaries and the bad living conditions. Police and authorities backing the land-owners
Rally @ 12 PM---March @ 1 PM
Join us May 1st after the march and rally at the Park Blocks. Free food, live music, and family fun.
The Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee's leaflet for May Day 2008. A printable PDF version is available at:
 http://www.seattleaic.org/files/saic_march_on_may_day_2008.pdf
Our itinerary for next week. Come Smash ICE with us!
callout to Cascadia
Olin Study Group: 2008 MAYDAY DISCUSSION THIS MONDAY
Workers' Assembly on Immigration in Tacoma.
PMO is putting together a panel of speakers, and are looking for willing parties to discuss their experience at either last year's LA May Day or PDX's May Day of 2000.
video docu-short about the Northwest Detention Center
The US government will NOW begin deporting Vietnamese immigrants, under the recent Memorandum of Understanding, signed between the US and Vietnam on January 22. The US government has ignored efforts from Vietnamese community and lawmakers in the California Bay Area to delay the petition and attempts to inquire more from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about the nature of the deportations.
WEEK OF ACTION IN TACOMA! April 21-26, tentative itinerary
Join local groups this Wednesday, March 19, at 5:30 PM, to protest the former head of Latin American Coca Cola and ex-president of Mexico Vicente Fox's lecture at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Fox is known for his hand in creating the exploitative Plan Puebla Panama, his support of FTAA and NAFTA, and his readiness to answer grassroots resistance with violent repression in Texacoco, Atenco, Chiapas, and Oaxaca. Fox will be speaking on "Border Crossings: Immigration, Free Trade, and Security". Let's show him the door, in solidarity with those he has oppressed.
CALL OUT TO ALL ANTI-RACISTS/ANTI-FASCISTS!! The National Socialist Movement is organizing to march on Washington DC, Saturday April 19th... They must be opposed!
Tacoma Smash ICE is a collection of individuals concerned that not
only do the I.C.E (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) centers exist, but there is one on the tide flats in Tacoma, Washington. We intend to educate those in our community about upcoming events in april regarding the Tacoma Detention center and promoting self-organized action and protest against detention centers and borders of all kinds.
"The swan that floats and doesn't sink represents the intransitory in the transitory." (Heidegger) The Great Unraveling provokes the Great Refusal.(Krugman) "Truth is the first casualty of war." (Aristotle) Every war has two losers. We are called to resist the normalization of war.
The SAVE Act represents a failure in leadership and a cynically motivated attack on immigrant families. Contact your Representatives and tell them to oppose it.
Migrant March III
WELCOME TO PORTLAND - Potluck Event WHEN: Sunday, February 10th at 7:30 pm WHERE: Liberty Hall, 311 N. Ivy St. - Speech by Enrique Morones, member of Border Angeles - POTLUCK and Strategy Meeting - Lolo of "Comite Latino" to Play Cuatro & Sing
Migrant March III
WELCOME TO PORTLAND - Potluck Event WHEN: Sunday, February 10th at 7:30 pm WHERE: Liberty Hall, 311 N. Ivy St. - Speech by Enrique Morones, member of Border Angeles - POTLUCK and Strategy Meeting - Lolo of Comite Latino to Play Cuatro & Sing
The Finnish Chancellor of Justice is currently investigating for
possible irregularities and discriminatory treatment after the Swedish School of Social Science released documents relating to their decision to reject an internationally renowned SPACEPOL expert's candidacy for a limited track researcher position.
Do you remember last year's OFIR protest at PDX City Hall? THE ONE AT WHICH THE OFIR MEMBER IN THESE PHOTOS KEPT GIVING THE NAZI SALUTE? Well, they're baaaaack...
BE THERE!!!!!!!
What is the Northwest Detention Center?
On Tuesday, January 22nd, immigrants rights supports will rally at the state capital to tell Governor Kulongoski and the Oregon Senate and House that we support our community members, the health of the economy, and safety on our roads.
his show airs from 12 until 3pm on the local air america station.
On January 11th, over 3000 Oregon Residents gathered at the State Capitol to raise concerns over restrictions that will limit drivers licenses for immigrants, causing a crisis for their families and a danger to public safety.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 6:00 PM
Immigrant & Refugee Task Force Presentation to City Council Jefferson High School 5210 N Kerby, Portland
Reposting one story from -- Immigration News Briefs
This is really scary stuff ... "ICE Assistant Secretary Julie Myers acknowledged in September 2007 during Senate testimony that 56 deportees were administered psychotropic drugs between Oct. 1, 2006, and April 30, 2007."
upcoming events: immigrant & refugee task force
Where's the Left in worker solidarity--with immigrants?
An Oregon anti-immigrant activist and blogger is being held on five counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, two counts of sex abuse and two counts of hindering prosecution.
Peace and good will to ALL.
Peace and Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA fully support protecting the rights of working class people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and both socialist parties oppose building border walls. All the 2008 candidates, from the two socialist parties, favor strengthening ties with Mexico and developing policy that will benefit working people in both countries and worldwide.
The press conference held by former State Rep. Jeff Kropf, Voting Restrictionist Ruth Bendl, Jim Ludwick, President of anti-immigrant group Oregonians for Immigration Reform and anti-tax activist Jason Williams last Thursday was a failed attempt at playing on anti-immigrant sentiment to bash Oregon's Voter Registration process and the successes of Vote by Mail
What in the world is happening? When did anarchists stop being anarchists? Maybe sometime in the last 8 years, the effort to generalize anarchist ideas started to mean fusing liberal and third-worldist tendencies with the beauty of self-organization, mutual aid, and attack.
All you can eat vegan chili! Donations go to legal fees for people arrested at the Smash Tacoma ICE demonstrations on November 9 & 10!
For a report back of the Smash Tacoma ICE demonstrations see: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/11/368370.shtml
Currently in Austria the number of deportations is increasing. The forced deportations of "well-integrated" families has provoked particular outrage. More and more frequently people are pulled out of their beds in the early morning, brought to deportation jails, and are kicked out of the country in the course of mass deportations by charter flights. In this way numerous people are deported, although entire towns demand their right to stay.
There will be a film screening of "La Redada," a documentary about the ICE Raids at the Portland Del Monte plant, this Thursday November 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Portland State University. There will be a discussion with Maria Delgado, a raid victim, after the screening.
I went to the discussion on 11/8/07 to record the Immigration Policy, Law, and Enforcement event
This video is one hour and thirty two minutes and it is now hosted on Google here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5481959919867818272
There will be a film screening of "La Redada," a documentary about the ICE Raids at the Portland Del Monte plant, this Thursday November 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Portland State University. There will be a discussion with Maria Delgado, a raid victim, after the screening.
To those who call themselves the Minutemen, their friends and sympathizers- we have a question for you. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement? Maybe like many Americans you are not quite sure what NAFTA is. It is an agreement between the leaders of the North American countries to formalize the program of "structural readjustment" that has been in various stages of implementation for some time now. This readjustment is in truth vast and complex but we can narrow it down to a basic concept and a concrete reality.
In the 2008 election cycle, two initiatives (IP#19 and IP#112) will specifically target immigrant and refugee communities by cutting ESL funding, limiting access to civic participation, and requiring local government officials to corporate with federal ICE agents. If passed, these measures will heighten the atmosphere of fear and division for many Portland communities. Erecting barriers to education, mobility, leadership and voting, these measures will effectively silence the voice of individuals from already underrepresented populations and make Oregon a less equitable society.
Saturday Nov 10.2007 -- Some fifty people from the camp followed Border-Angels to a nearby grave-site for border-crossers, Holtville, CA. The site now contains some 500 graves, a site first created in 1994 in conjunction with Operation Gate Keeper.
I was there two years ago -- there were approximately 350 grave at that time.
Reporting of the attack from the Mexican side.
Monday Nov 12th, 2007 8:14 AM
Phone contact was made with the three brutalized No Borders Camp prisoners early this morning from jail in El Cento. Much information came to light, including the fact that they were refused medical treatment after repeated requests...this being contrary to what was told to the Legal Support Team by Border Patrol agents at Border Patrol station at around 11pm, who said "They (the prisoners) have refused further medical treatment."
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