Posts Tagged ‘Immigrant Solidarity’

Take Action with Amnesty International on Detention Centers and Women’s Rights

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

This week, hundreds of activists from Amnesty International are visiting their Congress people in their hometowns to speak out about Guantanamo Bay and Immigrant and Women’s Rights.

Back them up with emails and calls of your own to your Representatives and Senators:

We must remind ourselves and our legislators that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Immigrant Solidarity – End 287(g)!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Over 500 social justice advocacy groups have signed on to a letter demanding that President Obama take important action on immigrant justice, and now its your turn to get involved!

This letter makes the much overdue call for an end to the 287(g) program that allows local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws. The program has resulted in racial profiling of Latino communities, mass incarceration and deplorable human rights violations in places like Maricopa County, AZ, where inmates have been poisoned and publicly humiliated by racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Now is THE time to get on board and let the President know that you support this coalition and the END OF THE 287(g) PROGRAM! Click here to send an email to your Congress people and the President through the Detention Watch Network!

Tell DHS: Enough is Enough!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

From America’s Voice Online:

“Would you want to live in a country where armed government agents barge into your house without consent? Where innocent people are held at gunpoint in their own homes? Where children are threatened with guns if they don’t turn over their own parents?”

You do.

President Obama was elected on a promise of change and a message of hope, and its up to us to not let his administration forget it!

Visit America’s Voice Online and sign the petition to let DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano know that the ineffective and inhumane Bush-era immigration enforcement strategies have no place in our country!