Friday, May 1st: March for Immigrant Rights!
Hey Rise team and supporters!
I'm really excited about the work you all are doing and with May 1st around the corner, I know you will appreciate this new tool:
Presente.org is a new online Latino community that seeks to unify and amplify our political voice and serve as an organizing platform around the issues that matter to us most.
We're starting with immigration, but we won't stop there— our goal is to create a broad-based online community of Latinos and our allies strong enough to make the United States honor its promises and protect our people.
On May 1st, thousands will take to the streets to demand an end to immigration policies that marginalize and dehumanize millions of our people. We have learned a lot in this movement while policies and treatment have gotten progressively worse. Its time to capitalize on the momentum - This is our time!
Our power is in our voices and our numbers. Let's start a unified effort, affirming a simple pledge: to stand up and speak out for the interests of Latino communities. Please join - you'll see some of your friends have already signed on;) and just as important, invite more friends and family to do the same:
http://presente.org
Be Presente!
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The first 100 days of President Obama's administration are almost past, and we are still waiting for humane immigration reform. Though mass ICE raids seem to have stopped, Obama has made no clear commitment to end them.
Three years ago, millions of immigrants, Latinos, and people of conscience marked May 1st, international worker's day, with some of the largest mass marches in our nation's history. Now, we must march again and send the President and our country a message: our movement will not rest until our families are safe.
Two marches will be held in Los Angeles on Friday. Join one and march for immigrant rights!
The first is organized by the Southern California Immigration Coalition (www.immigration coalition.org) and begins at 1 pm in downtown Los Angeles at Broadway and Olympic. It will end at the ICE detention facility on Temple between Los Angeles and Alameda at 4pm.
The second begins at 1:30 pm in Echo Park at Echo Park & Park Ave and ends at Placita Olvera at 4:30 pm. It is organized by MIWON, the Multi-Ethic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network, CARECEN, the Central American Resource Center, and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
The struggle continues. Si se puede!
The Rise team
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