{news} Fw: Tues. Rally for Immigrant Rights

[Justine McCabe]

FYI Greens--
Please  try to attend.
Justine 
   


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Stan H 
To: ctpeace ctpeace ; awda awda 
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: [al-awda-CT] Tues. Rally for Immigrant Rights

[It is very important that Middle East human rights activists organize and show up for this! - Stanley Heller]

Pro worker and immigrant rally organized by the Committee to Protect and Preserve Immigrant Rights Tuesday July 12, 2005
 5:30 pm Naugatuck Savings Bank parking lot, Straits Turnpike (Route 84 to Exit 17 Route 63 (Straits Turnpike) towards Watertown and in same parking lot as the KMART)

English flyer attached. Please forward to all your
contacts.

Text of the flyer:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your
teeming shore; send these, the homeless . I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"                        
November 2,1883 

The Statue of Liberty sends a clear signal that all are welcome here who have come to build a better life.

Real wages are not going up because of corporations investing outside of the US, trade agreements,
outsourcing and corporations looking to cut corners at the expense of workers, not because of new immigrants
come here looking for a better life just like all of us or our family before us.  

The Connecticut Committee for Immigration Control who has organized anti-immigrant and anti-worker meetings
in Danbury and West Hartford is going to meet at the American Legion Hall, 62 Bunker Hill Road Watertown,
CT. They blame immigrants instead of corporations for he bad economy.  

Let's send a clear message that we will not be fooled by their words.  They do not represent what is best
for all workers and for the United States and what they really want to do is to divide us using fear to
achieve their political ends. 
 
"It was really miserable in Italy. But in America, when you worked, you earned money and could eat and drink
what you wanted. I hate injustice and prejudice. So I said to myself, when I get old enough to marry, I'm
going to marry the first man who promises to take me to America." Clementina Todesco, (around 1900)

Committee to Protect and Preserve Immigrant Rights

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