“National Week of Action as the Senate Reconvenes
Immigration Debates on Monday: Immigrants Demand Real Legalization & Reject Inhumane Compromisesâ€
As the Senate reconvenes on Monday, May 15th for the last stretch of its
immigration reform debate, immigrants in New York City will join thousands
across the country in a National Week of Actions from May 14- May 20 to say
“No Deal!†to a three tier legalization bill, guestworker programs,
increased enforcement, and border walls. Immigrants warn the Senate against
compromising our futures with the bill on the table which has drawn mass
opposition for its attempt to split up immigrant families and increase
criminalization through expedited deportation and indefinite detention.
Instead, Immigrant Communities in Action (ICA), a grassroots coalition of
diverse immigrant organizations across the city, stands firm in saying that
immigrants deserve no less than:
(1) Legalization for all immigrants; No guest-worker programs of work &
leave
(2) Improved and faster family reunification opportunities for all;
(3) Enforce the protection of human and civil rights by reducing detention &
deportation, ending collaboration between the DHS and public agencies, and
ending deaths & abuses of migrants at the borders;
(4) Non-compliance with the REAL ID Act and the guarantee of equal access to
driver’s licenses for immigrants;
(5) Equal protection of labor rights of undocumented workers
Press Release May 12, 2006
Contact: Monami Maulik, DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving): 347-385-9113 (English, Bangla/ Urdu/ Hindi), Miguel Ramirez, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan: (718) 704-6590 (English, Spanish)
Week of Action Events in New York City:
Sunday, May 14, 1:30pm at Episcopal Church, Misión San Juan Bautista
(940 E. 156 Street & Dawson Avenue):
Mother’s Day Message to Congress
The National Alliance of Latino and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) announces
its national campaign to expose the effects of the unfair immigration laws
on the family reunification. On May 14, we will celebrate “Mother’s Day†but
many mothers of our community have been separated from their children for
many years as a result of those punitive laws. A popular mass of community
members, religious leaders and elected officials.
Sunday, May 14, 12 noon at 120 Broadway:
Mother’s Day Plea: “Get Justice for My Sonâ€
The mother of Manny Mayi, a Dominican immigrant youth, killed by a racist
gang 15 years ago, will renew her request that New York Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer launch a special investigation into the brutal murder of her
son by bat and pipe wielding neighborhood thugs more than a decade ago.
Monday, May 15th:
Raising the Grassroots: The Future of the Immigrant & Racial Justice
Movements
A Panel & Community Dialogue among immigrant rights, racial justice, workers
rights, housing, LBGT rights, anti-war, and welfare rights organizers to
deepen our links in this historical moment of mass immigrant mobilizations
across the country. Organized by Movement Rising Initiative and
co-sponsored by ICA.
Tuesday, May 16th:
Asian Community Forum On Immigration Reform Organizing
Organized by NY City Councilman John Liu, CAAAV: Organizing Asian
Communities, the Urban Justice Center, and the Asian American Legal Defense
and Education Fund. Co-sponsored by ICA.
Tuesday, May 16th,6:30pm at LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th Street (btwn 7-8 Ave.)
National, International and Immigration Policies and the
Next Decade of HIV/AIDS
Panel, Film, and Discussion organized by The Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization
Project (CHAMP NY) and the LGBT Community Center in collaboration with ACT
UP NY. Current and proposed legislation on immigration threaten the lives
of people with HIV/AIDS and LGBT people.
Wednesday, May 17th, 6:30pm at Roosevelt Ave. & Elbertson St. (betw, 86-87
St): Queens Immigrant March for Legalization, not Deportation
Immigrants from dozens of countries, particularly Latino and Asian, two of
the largest groups in Jackson Heights, will march in unity. Families and
children will speak who will be torn apart if a “3 tier†legalization,
guestworker, and more deportation provisions remain in legalization.
Organized by ICA.
Friday May 19th, 11:ooam 16 E 34th St Between 5th and Madison, 6th Floor.
Cornell Labor Center
Domestic Workers United Press Conference
Release of Unprecedented Study—“Domestic Workers in NY: Home is Where the
Work is: Inside NY’s Domestic Work Industryâ€. Organized by Domestic Workers
United and co-sponsored by ICA.
Friday, May 19th, 4:00pm, Location TBA:
Forum on War & Immigrant Rights
DRUM YouthPower! holds a community discussion with speaker Demond Mullins of
Iraq Veterans Against the War to discuss the link between the War abroad and
immigrant rights at home. Organized by DRUM.
Friday, May 19th , 7pm, Times Square:
Vigil to Commemorate Immigrants Who’ve Died at the Border
Organized by La AURORA and Immigrant Community Coalition of Washington
Heights & co-sponsored by ICA.
Saturday, May 20 , Location & Time: TBA
City-wide Immigrant Rights Mobilization
A mass mobilization of hundreds of immigrant organizations. ICA will
mobilize a multi-ethnic immigrant contingent. Organized by the New York
Immigration Coalition.
