1/24 Los Angeles, CA: Community Forum on Immigration

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Border01@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:58:40 EST
From: SIUHIN@aol.com
Subject: 1/24 Los Angeles, CA: Community Forum on Immigration

Tuesday Night Forum on Immigration
An Community Event Co-sponsor with National Immigrant Solidarity network

January, 24, 2006 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
"The Onion," 9550 Haskell Ave., North Hills CA.

Lee Siu Hin of the National Immigrant Solidarity Network will facilitate a planning meeting to develop a strategy to help defeat the anti-immigrant bill (H.R. 4437- the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005) that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec.16, 2005.

Lee Siu Hin is a cofounder of ActionLA in Los Angeles
http://www.actionla.org/  and the
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/
, a reporter for Pacifica Radio KPFK-Los Angeles, a member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and a national leader of United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), and the Latin American Solidarity Coalition.

The Tuesday Night Forum, sponsored by the Social Concerns Committee of the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 PM. Guest speakers discuss current social justice issues from a progressive point of view usually not covered by the corporate media.

The Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society, also known as "The Onion," is located at 9550 Haskell Ave. in North Hills. From Los Angeles take the 405 freeway north, exit left (westbound) on Nordhoff, go two blocks and turn right on Haskell.
It's on the right side just past Plummer. $2.00 donation. The Onion is wheelchair accessible. http://webcom.com/onion/concerns.htm
http://webcom.com/onion/concerns.htm

Please Sign the Petitions to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bills!
An Appeal from National Immigrant Solidarity Network


January 20, 2006
URL: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

_Please Lick Here to Sign the Petition!_
http://www.actionla.org/features/view.php?id=387

We are asking you for your help in collecting signatures for a petition (please see attached) addressed to the Los Angeles City Council requesting they adopt a resolution in favor of the immigrant community. The petition will be hand delivered to City Council on February 2nd. Our voices need to be heard and we need to defeat H.R. 4437 the moment it reaches the Senate. Currently, folks in D.C. are speculating that the issue of immigration will be taken up in mid February. If City Council approves the resolution it will be an issue the lobbying committee of the city takes on in D.C. as a priority.

_Please click Here to Sign the Petition!_
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Recent News About the Bill:
12/22: _More on the Sensenbrenner/King Bill and Next Steps in Comprehensive Reform Advocacy_ http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi

bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0375

Read More Information_ http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/#hr4437

Anti-Immigrant Bill, PATROTIC Act
Our Next Struggle
Commentary: National Immigrant Solidarity Network
January, 2006
Unfortunately, despite strong protest from immigrant, human rights, labor and civil liberty groups the U.S. House passed the disgraceful anti-immigrant H.R. 4437 -- the "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005" by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter T. King (R-N.Y.).

It's clear that President Bush, along with the Congress, is again spinning rhetoric to blame immigrants for causing all the world's problems.

It's also clear that the President, right wing Republicans and even many Democrats will use immigrants as scapegoats for the Nov 2006 mid-term elections. They will use any possible means to secure conservative/right wing votes by focusing on blaming people of color and immigrants, and by attacking abortion
rights and the rights of LGBT people.

Our struggle will be long and hard, but that doesn't mean we should have no hope. While the House vision of the Bill has passed, we still can mount a strong opposition against the upcoming Senate version, which will be introduced and debated sometime in February, 2006.

Now that we have finished the holiday season, we should gear up our fighting spirit to build multi-ethnic community actions against the final passage of the Senate bill early next year.

Unity is very important! This is NOT only about immigrant rights, it is also about human rights for everyone. An injury to one is an injury to all!

Activists and organizers have a particular responsibility to point out the links between Katrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the U.S. war in Iraq. Understanding the connections between our individual conditions of life and the lives of people everywhere in the world allows us to come together and organize across all borders. We need to make the connections between wars in Africa, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine and
Korea, and sweatshops in Asia as well as in Los Angeles and in New York; international arms sales and the WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labor and child soldiers; multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home--then we can win the struggle.

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