Voice of Revolution

April 10 Day of Action

Rally for Immigrant Rights!

- National Immigrant Solidarity Network -

Recognizing that the USA is a nation of immigrants, join local actions on April 10 in a massive rally to:

. Stop the anti-immigrant House resolution 4437
. Stop all attacks against immigrants
. Stop criminalization of immigrant communities

We demand comprehensive immigration reform, including:

. A path to citizenship, not a temporary guest worker program
. Family reunification measures
. Worker protections
. Full rights for all immigrants!

April 10 Events by State (as of April 2, 2006)

ARIZONA

Tucson
NW corner of Ajo and 12th at 9 AM.
March to Armory Park 6th Ave and 13th St.
Rally at Armory Park 12:30-3:00 PM.
Contact: Jennifer Allen
(520) 623-4944
jallen@borderaction.org

COLORADO

Colorado Springs
Contact: James Johnson
(303) 698-7963 x128
jamesj@seiu105.org

Grand Junction
Contact: James Johnson
(303) 698-7963 x128
jamesj@seiu105.org

Telluride
Contact: Oscar S. Meza
(970) 417-9634
unhite@hotmail.com
Flyer: English: http://www.cirnow.org/file/317.doc
Spanish: http://www.cirnow.org/file/318.doc

NEBRASKA

Omaha
Contact: Darcy Tromanhauser
(402) 438-8853
dtromanhauser@neappleseed.org

TEXAS

El Paso
Contact: Fernando Garcia
(915) 577-0724
bordernet2001@yahoo.com

Houston
Contact: Autumn Weintraub
(713) 397-4492
weintraa@SEIU.ORG

San Antonio
Contact: Arnulfo de la Cruz
(210) 241-1712

ARKANSAS

Little Rock
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Arkansas State Capitol
Contact: Neil Sealy
(501)376-7151
aracorn@acorn.org
Flyer: http://immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/A10ArkansasFlyer.pdf

FLORIDA

Ft. Myers
Contact: Luis Ibarra
(863) 227-0008

Homestead
6:00 p.m. Harris Field, corner of Campbell Drive and US 1, Homestead, FL
Contact: Jonathan Fried
(305) 281-9377
fried_jonathan@yahoo.com
Flyer: English: http://immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/A10Homesteadflyer-eng.pdf
Spanish: http://immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/A10Homesteadflyer-esp.pdf Creole: http://immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/A10Homesteadflyer-creole.pdf

Miami
Contact: Maria Rodriguez
(305) 573-1106 x1160
mrodriguez@fiacfla.org

KENTUCKY

Lexington
10:00 a.m, Downtown Courthouse Plaza
Contact: Brian Rich
(859) 699-7224
brich@kccir.org
website with flyers: www.kccir.org

NORTH CAROLINA

Raleigh or Siler City
Contact: Marisol Jimenez McGee
(919) 835-1525
Marisol@elpueblo.org

WASHINGTON, DC

3 PM Assemble at Malcolm X. Park, Euclid & 16th
4 PM Rally at Washington Monument
Contact: Juan Carlos Ruiz
(414) 758-0600
juancarlos@core.com
Flyer: English: http://www.cirnow.org/file/343.pdf
Spanish: http://www.cirnow.org/file/344.pdf
also, visit: www.cirnow.org/content/en/april10_2006.htm
for latest A10 rally information

NEW JERSEY

Newark
3-6 P.M. Liberty State Park, NJ
Partha Banerjee, New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, (973)621-0031
Esther Chavez, American Friends Service Committee, (973)643-1924
Kevin Brown, SEIU-32BJ, (973)824-3225;
Diana Mejia, Wind of the Spirit, (973)538-2035; windofthespirit@verizon.net
Rita Dentino, Casa Freehold,(732)492-1852
ACORN-NJ (973)645-1377
Hans Arnesen, Jubilee Interfaith and Gamaliel Foundation, (908)352-5154

NEW YORK

New York City
3:00 - 7:00 PM at City Hall
Contact: Laura Eldridge
(212) 388-3131
LEldridge@seiu32bj.org

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston
Contact: Marcony Almeida
(617) 350-5480 x205
malmeida@miracoalition.org

PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia
12noon - 2:00pm
Love Park, 16TH Street and J.F. Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia
Contact: Ricardo Diaz
(484) 410-9992
diazr@daywithoutanimmigrant.com
Web: http://www.daywithoutanimmigrant.com

OHIO

Cincinnati
Contact: ACLU of Ohio
(216) 472-2220

MICHIGAN

Detroit
Contact: Juan A. Escare¤o
(313) 962-5290 x20
juanescareno@mosesmi.org

ILLINOIS

Chicago
Date: April 10
Contact: Mehrdad Azemun
(312) 332-7360 x14
mosman@icirr.org

MISSOURI

Kansas City|
Date: April 10
Contact: Melinda Lewis
(913) 677-0100 x119
Flyer: English: http://www.cirnow.org/file/329.pdf
Spanish: http://www.cirnow.org/file/330.pdf

CALIFORNIA

Santa Ana
Javier Gonzales, SEIU 1877, (310)567-7895 javogonz@mac.com
Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana
(323)269-1575
nativo@mapaca.org

San Jose
Salvador Bustamante, SEIU Local 1877
(408)210-6908
bustamante@seiulocal1877.org

Los Angeles
David Huerta, SEIU Local 1877, (213)798-6902
Xiomara Corpeno, CHIRLA:(o) (213)353-1333/(c) (323)606-3082

Long Beach
Judith Vega, SEIU Local 99
(213)215-6845
lasydaisi2000@yahoo.com

East Los Angeles
Carlos Montes, SEIU Local 660,
(213)368-8674 cmontes@seiu660.org
Lester Garcia, Inner City Struggle
(323)780-7610
edjustice68@yahoo.com

Riverside
(pending host)
Sandra Gonzales-Castro
(213) 368-7432
Gonzales@seiu.org

San Fernando Valley
Gloria Saucedo, Hermandad Mexicana
(818)989.3019
gloriacau@hotmail.com

Fresno
Armondo Elenes, UFW
(661)725-9730

Bakersfield
Geiv Kashkooli, UFW
(213)216-3523
giev@nextel.blackberry.net

South Los Angeles
(Pending host)
Sandra Gonzales-Castro
(213) 368-7432
Gonzales@seiu.org

San Diego
Sandra Gonzales-Castro
(213) 368-7432
Gonzales@seiu.org

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April 10 NYC

We Produce, We Demand: Justice for All Workers

- Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines -

Today, Monday, April 10, join Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, Damayan Migrant, Workers Association, Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines, the Immigrant Communities in Action Coalition and many, many others as we say:

We Produce, We Demand: Justice & Protection For All Workers!
Legalization Not Criminalization! No To U.S. War Here & Abroad!
Family Reunification Not Separation! No To U.S. War & Plunder of Our Home Countries!
Immigrants Fight Back Against Exploitation & Racism! Legalization Not Deportation!

In response to anti-immigrant legislation under consideration in the Senate, thousands of immigrants and allies, workers, and youth walking out of high schools will march together on April 10th's Immigrant Rights Mega Rally at City Hall.

Choose one of two meeting sites:

1 pm in Jackson Heights, Queens (Broadway & Roosevelt at 74th St stop on E/F/V/R/G trains)
2 pm in Manhattan (World Trade Center station- Church & Vesey at E train stop)

The group from Jackson Heights will meet up at the WTC site and march all together to City Hall, where contingents will be converging from many directions at 3pm.

Walk Out, Take Off, Call In Sick----We Are The Workers Who Run This City And This Country, And We Will Not Be Silenced!

As momentum builds across the country & mixed messages reach our communities, the Immigrant Communities in Action contingent will march with these messages:

• The fight is not over! We have not won in the Senate. The bill still has anti-immigrant provisions to expand detention, deportation and border militarization in the bill. We must stand firm against all anti-immigrant provisions!
• We will not divide our communities! We will not trade off more deportations and policing of our communities and sisters and brothers at the border for the legalization of some!
• No guest-worker programs of work & leave!

For info on the Filipino contingent, call 212-564-6057 or contact@damayanmigrants.org.
For info on the Immigrant Communities in Action, call 718.205.3036 (English, Bangla, Urdu, Hindi) or (718) 298-5083 [Español] Email: ImmigrantCommunitiesinAction@gmail.com

A-10 NYC Mobilization Network For Immigrants Rights: List in Formation:

1199 SEIU Peace & Justice Committee, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, 32BJ SEIU, 5 Boros, AAFE, Action Wed, Adriano Espaillat (Assemblyman), AFL-CIO, African Services Committee, AFSC, AILA, Alianza Dominicana, Anakbayan NY/NY, Andre Lorde Project, Answer, APALA, Asian American for Equality, Asociación Comunitaria La Aurora, Asociación Egresados UASD, Asociación Mexicana Harlem, Asociacion Mexicana East Harlem, Asociación Tepeyac, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, Catholic Charities, Central Labor Council NY, Centro Comunitario, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan, CHANGE TO WIN, Chicano Caucus of Columbia University, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Chinese Progressive Association, CIR, Circulo Bolivariano Alberto Lovera, CIRT NYCPP, CISPES, CODA, Committees of Correspondence, CSEA, D.W.U., DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association, DC 37 Local 1549, DC 37, Domestic Workers United, Drum, DWDC, El Centro de Hospitalidad, El Puente, Emergency Broadcast Artist, Empire State Pride Agenda, Eyeopeners, Families for Freedom, Freedom Socialist Party, Fuerza de la Revolucion, Hispanic Federation, IBT, Iglesia San Romero, Immigrant Communities in Action, International Immigration Foundation, Internationalist Socialist, ISO / CCNY, JFREJ, Jobs With Justice, Jose Peralta (Assemblyman) , Jose Serrano (Congressman) , Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino Coalition, LABORERS, LAIC, Latinos 4 Progress, LCCA-NYCOSH Workplace Project, LFCS, LIUNA Local 78, LIUNA Local 108, Local 79, MAIZE, Make the Road by Walking, Maria Murillo (District Leader Washington Heights), Mex ED, MIGRANTE New York, Miguel Martinez (Councilman), Mothers on the Move, MRBM, National Alliance of Latino and Caribbean Communities, Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines, New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater NY, NICE, NJ Civil Rights Committee, NJ Immigration Policy Network, Nodutdol, Northern Manhattan for Change Democrats, NWBCCC, NY Labor Religious Coalition, NYC LCLAA, NYCCU, NYCPP, NYIC, NYS Communist Party, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA-NY) - New York Chapter, Pakistan Freedom Forum, People for the America Way, People Videos, People's Weekly World, Philippine Forum Justice for Immigrants, Puebla Sur del Bronx, Revolutionary Communist Party NYC Branch, RWDSU, UFCW, Salvadoran American National Network, SANDIWA Filipino Youth Organization, SEIU, Scott Stringer (Manhattan Borough President), Socialist Action, The New York Immigrant Coalition, U.S. Labor Against the War, Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland), UNITE HERE Local 100 and Local 6, United Brotherhood of TEAMSTERS, United Federation of Teachers-UFT , United Food & Commercial, United for Peace and Justice, United Haitian Association of USA Inc., United Methodist Church, WEP-Christian LES, World Can't Wait, YKASEC-Empowering the Korean American Community.

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Defending Immigrant Rights

High School Youth Stand with Workers

Across the country, during the month of March, high school youth walked out of class, defied police, school lockdowns, and threats of suspension to join -demonstrations defending immigrant rights. The youth organized to bring thousands of students and young workers to the massive marches, and inspired many others, including parents and many undocumented workers to join in. The youth took their stand with the workers, documented and undocumented, newly arrived immigrants and those who have worked and lived in the U.S. for years. The large majority of workers marching were Mexican but many other nationalities were represented. Guatemalan, Ecuadorian, Colombian, Haitian, Chinese, Korean, Irish, and more united as one to defend the rights of immigrant workers. More actions occurred April 1 and more are planned for April 10 and May 1.

March 26, 2006 - Immigrant youth demonstration in Fresno, California

In southern California, an estimated 40,000 youth walked out and joined demonstrations, usually for several days running. Teachers also joined with the youth in organizing lunchtime discussions of the problems facing immigrants and the repressive and divisive laws currently being considered in Congress.

In Fort Worth, Texas and other schools across northern Texas, thousands of students also walked out of class. One school of about 2,000 had only 130 students left in the building.

The same picture was painted in high schools in many other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and Georgia.

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Puerto Rican Independence Fighter

Defend Antonio Camacho Negron

Puerto Rican independence fighter and former political prisoner Antonio Camacho Negron was recently arrested by the FBI. An emergency picket has been organized in New York City for Friday, March 31, 5pm at the Federal Plaza. The many groups and collectives defending the right of the Puerto Rican people to end U.S. colonization and decide their own affairs will be participating.

In an obvious act of open impunity, Camacho was arrested while hearings on FBI repression and abuse in Puerto Rico were taking place in Washington, DC. The FBI repression includes the -assassination of Puerto Rican patriot and national hero, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos Antonio last year.

The timing was also brutal. Camacho was arrested on Tuesday, March 28th, during the opening meeting for the founding of the Comite Nacional De Descolonizacion (CONADE). CONADE is part of the national movement in Puerto Rico to end colonization and Camacho Negron has been a key organizer. The arrest is clearly designed to stop such organizing and further terrorize those who are taking up this fight. These crimes are being met with resistance and increased organizing.

Release Camacho Negron And All Puerto Rican Political Prisoners!
FBI Assassins Out Of Puerto Rico!
Independence For Puerto Rico!

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The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign

Demand Camacho Be Released from Solitary Confinement!

Below is a sample letter from the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign , calling on prison officials to release Camacho Negron from solitary confinement and provide needed medicine. (A pdf version of this letter is available here.)

Ricardo E. Chavez, Warden
Mdc Guaynabo
Metropolitan Detention Center
P.O. Box 2146
San Juan, Rq 00922
Fax: 787-775-7824

Re: Release from Solitary Confinement and denial of Medication

To Ricardo E. Chavez, Warden MDC Guaynabo:

Since Tuesday March 28th, 2006, Mr. Antonio Camacho Negron has been incarcerated in MDC Guaynabo for violating his parole conditions; conditions he has refused to accept because of his political views.

According to his attorney Ms. Linda Backiel Esq., he is being held in solitary confinement in a flooded room with no toilet paper and is being denied his medication for his gastrointestinal disease.

It is clear to us that Mr. Camacho Negron is being mistreated because of his pro-independence views. This is in direct violation of international norms, which prohibit discriminatory treatment of prisoners by prison personnel based on their political beliefs or opinions. [United Nations; Minimum Uniform Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (UNSMRTP), Rule A1 6(1).]

We ask that Antonio Camacho Negron be released from solitary confinement, that he receives his medication and proper medical care. You can be sure that we will be monitoring this situation and will advocate for his human rights.

Sincerely Yours,
Name:
Address:
Date:

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Freedom Month Calendar

April 5, 6:30-8:30pm

Learn about the Puerto Rican Struggle, the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and hear about the work of ProLibertad

ProLibertad: The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign has been working for the release of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners for over 10 years. With the release of 11 of the Political Prisoners in September 1999, we have re-dedicated our efforts to securing the freedom of the remaining Puerto Rican political prisoners. Through educational events, lobbying and public pressure work and activities it is our goal to secure the freedom of these patriots whose only "crime" has been the love of their homeland, Puerto Rico. We support the release of All U.S. held Political Prisoners, oppose the U.S. colonial control of Puerto Rico, U.S. imperialism throughout the world, and the U.S. military presence in Vieques

Join us in watching powerful political film like: Hasta Cuando: Documentary updating the status of the 15 of the Puerto Rican Political prisoners

Have you seen la Nueva mujer revolucionaria puertorriqueña? A film with the female Puerto Rican Political prisoners giving testimony and interview about the Independence struggle and their incarceration

Hosted by the Hostos Puerto Rican Club at Hunter College and The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign

April 17, Reception: 6:30pm-7pm, Program: 7pm

Celebration for International Political Prisoners

Hunter College West Building Room 217 (68th St. & Lexington Ave. off the 6 train). Videos & Speakers: Ashanti Alston: Jericho Movement, Toni: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Frank Velgara: ProLibertad, Lawyer: International PP Work, Representative from the MOVE Org., Representative from Al-Awda & others to be announced.

Cultural Presentation: by Tre'Dee and T. Hayes El of Collective Flow and Photo Exhibit of International Political Prisoners

Donation: Only $5! All proceeds to help the prisoners!

April 23, 11:30am

People's mass for the puerto rican political prisoners!

La Iglesia San Romero De Las Americas/UCC 2410 Amsterdam Avenue 4th floor (Between W179th-180th Sts.)

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign and La Iglesia San Romero De Las Americas/UCC welcome you to join us for a People's Mass dedicated to the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners.

Speakers:

Rev. Luis Barrios, LA Iglesia San Romero De Las Americas/UCC

Frank Velgara, ProLibertad

Take the 1 or 9 train to W181st and Broadway

April 25, 5-7pm

Freedom Now! The Cases of the Puerto Rican and Cuban Political Prisoners! NYU Kimmel Student Center. 60 Washington Sq., South Room 805 (Between. LaGuardia Place and Thompson). Did you know that the U.S. government will jail you for fighting against terrorism? Did you know Puerto Rico has been a colony for 107 years? Join us for an afternoon discussion on U.S. foreign policy with Cuba and Puerto Rico. Also, learn about the Puerto Rican and Cuban political prisoners! These nine revolutionaries have been jailed by the U.S. government for fighting for justice and freedom! Come and learn how you can join the international movement to free these political prisoners!!

A reception will follow with FOOD This event is brought to you by The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, LUCHA, ProLibertad and the Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5.

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Food Not Bombs Protests FBI Attacks

- Food Not Bombs -

Free-speech advocates and war protesters all across the United States will turn themselves in to the FBI this Friday, March 31. Through this action, participants will ease the workload of federal spies, freeing them up to engage in legitimate law-enforcement activities that will keep our country safer. Participants will also save taxpayer money, thereby demonstrating the patriotism of war opponents.

Through satire and humor, Food Not Bombs volunteers are calling attention to the serious issue of domestic spying by the Pentagon, NSA and FBI. In particular, the group is highlighting the fact that the FBI recently included Food Not Bombs on its "Terrorist Watch List." The FBI has been notified of this action and will have a duty agent on hand. The local office of the FBI indicated that Mr. McHenry is in fact under surveillance. Mr. McHenry co-founded Food Not Bombs which is an all-volunteer movement dedicated to non-violence that shares vegetarian meals to the hungry in hundreds of cities all over the world (www.foodnotbombs.net). As the movement's co-founder, he felt it was important to turn himself in along with the many other non-violent terrorists under investigation by the U.S. government.

The purpose of the "turn yourself in" action is to counter the chilling effect caused by government surveillance and to maintain a safe space for dissent. By embracing the title of "dissenter," protesters will defuse the Bush administration's campaign to discredit its foreign policy critics and will show that opposition to the war will not be silenced. Protesters will also highlight the hypocrisy of the Bush administration's policy of fighting for freedom abroad while squelching it at home - both through FBI spying on law-abiding peace groups and NSA eavesdropping on American citizens without obtaining warrants.

"The government's message has been 'trust us - we're only spying on terrorists and if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear,'" stated Michigan Peaceworks' program coordinator Joseph Kuilema. "But obviously, since they're also spying on law-abiding peace activists, that message is not true. The Bush administration has betrayed our trust."

Last week a law student in Austin, Texas reported that the FBI placed Food Not Bombs on the "Terrorist Watch List." The ACLU discovered a number of FBI memos stating that Food Not Bombs is under investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in California, Colorado, Missouri and a number of other states. Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry lives in Tucson, Arizona and recent Pentagon documents state that a protest against torture that he helped plan in November 2004 is considered an "ongoing credible terrorist threat." Two Food Not Bombs volunteers in Arizona were arrested on terrorism charges this past December. One volunteer, Bill Rodgers, was found dead in his jail cell in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Shades of COINTELPRO?

The Food Not Bombs case is the latest in a series of revelations of government surveillance of peaceful social change organizations, such as the American Friends Service Committee in Denver, Colorado; Patriots for Peace in Melbourne, Florida; and Merton Center. It raises fears among free-speech advocates that the Bush administration may be initiating a modern-day version of COINTELPRO (short for Counterintelligence Program) - the secret FBI operation in the 1960s and 1970s that gathered information on and attempted to destroy the anti-Vietnam War movement, the civil rights movement, and its leaders (most notably Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.).

For Your Information

For more articles on FBI Watch Lists:

"FBI Keeps Watch on Activists": www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0327-04.htm.
"FBI Officer Speaks at Law School, lists Indymedia": sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725460.php.
"Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?" www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/.
For further information: www.commondreams.org/news2006/0328-04.htm.

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