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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
2:00pm
Location:
Boston Common/Lopresti Park, East Boston
Contact:
Description:
Join in marches to celebrate immigrant and all worker's rights!
11-12:30 Meet at Sacco & Venzetti Memorial, North End (416 Hanover St.) March to Downtown to Boston Common 12:30 Get in Barak Mobile to join march at 1pm Chelsea City Hall
“We are people. We are workers. We are change”
March starts in Everett City Hall at 12 noon, pass through Chelsea City Hall at 1pm, and end in Central Square, East Boston at 2pm where there will be performances and speeches.
May 1
st is a historic day marking workers’ struggles around the world. Originated in the United States to commemorate the struggle for the eight-hour work day, it has become a forum that immigrant communities have adopted across this nation to demand rights and dignity for all workers. As a diverse group of organizers and co-sponsors supporting the May 1st Coalition’s event, including non-profit community based organizations, labor unions, small business owners, elected officials, faith based organizations, and other allies.
Equal Civil Rights and Due Process for all
Public spending for jobs and the social well being, not for corporate bailouts or war
As part of nation-wide and state-wide efforts, we are also mobilizing to demand: •
Ending ICE workplace and residential raids
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Ending cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement (287g agreements)
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Ending “smart enforcement” against workers by using E-verify, I-9 Audits, and No Match Letters
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Ending abuses within the detention and deportation system
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Ending border militarization and the construction of border walls
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Ending corporate bailouts, stopping foreclosures and evictions and budget cuts that provide for basic public services
We will NOT support any proposal that: •
Further criminalizes immigrant workers
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Aims to disenfranchise and take away rights from workers
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Further creates divisions between US native born workers and immigrant workers
May 1
st highlights the dignity of immigrant labor and our contributions to this nation. We seek the same goals of equality, opportunity and prosperity that all working people in the United States have historically fought to achieve. We need to make sure that immigrant workers are heard and that just and humane immigration reform finally becomes a reality.