[IMC-pgh-video] immigrant rights march, sunday

[david meieran]

is anyone planning on covering (either audio or video) sunday's  
immigrant rights march?

Title:
Rally to Say NO to Anti-Immigrant Policies

Event Date:
9/3/2006 3:00 PM

Description:
The National Week End Labor Day of Actions for Immigrants’ Rights:

Say NO to Anti-immigrant policies!

Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants (PFOI) invites you to march along on  
September 3, 2006.  We are marching in opposition to the cruel  
Hazleton ordinance passed on July of this year.  No to racist  
ordinances in Hazleton or anywhere!  March for Immigrants’ Rights!

Background:
Luis J. Barletta, the grand-son of an immigrant and mayor of  
Hazleton, PA, along with Hazleton city council, passed the Illegal  
Immigration Relief Act.  In an interview he stated that he wanted to  
make Hazleton “the toughest place on illegal immigrants in America”  
and accused undocumented immigrants of criminals.  The Act punishes  
landlords who rent to undocumented immigrants, any employers who hire  
them, and establishes an English-only measure that will  
disenfranchise immigrant communities..  The PA ACLU, the Puerto Rican  
Defense Fund and other activists and attorneys filed suit last month  
for unconstitutionality.  PFOI marches in solidarity with the  
Hazleton Rally for Immigrants’ Rights.

Starting September 2nd through the 4th, thousands of immigrants’  
advocates will march nationally in solidarity with the National Labor  
Day Week End Action for Immigrants’ Rights to say NO TO Anti- 
Immigrant policies!  Stop destroying families!  No more  
deportations!  Immigrants are not criminals!

Join PFOI on September 3rd and march with the national Immigrant  
movement.

Pittsburgh is proud to have a diverse workforce through its brave  
history and immigrants are part of the labor equation.  “An injury to  
Juan, an injury to Al.”

The National Immigrants' Rights movement demands:
“NO BILL IS BETTER THAN A BAD BILL”
Yes to full legalization/amnesty for all 12 million undocumented  
Immigrants Yes to a moratorium on ICE raids till all are legalized  
Yes to the expedited reunification of families Yes to full civil  
rights and liberties Yes to full worker’s rights No more border  
fencing No to criminalization No to any guest worker program No to  
the displacement of families No to the militarization of the border  
No to any detentions and deportations No to “HR4437” or copycats like  
HR4437-light, “S2611”

No to increased enforcement along the border or interior

PFOI is a member of the Immigration Solidarity Network and the  
National Alliance for Immigrants’ Rights

Location:
East Carson St and 22nd Street, by the Southside Public Library,  
Soutside

Contact:
PFOIinfo at gmail.com