Citizens for Immigrants
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”Today we stand in solidarity with the millions who contribute to our communities and economy while being denied full access to them. Our act of civil disobedience is performed with the belief that our laws can—and should—be better, and that our nation’s leaders cannot stand on the sidelines as our society’s core values are betrayed by a broken and immoral immigration system.
~ Joint statement of the band of 16 clergy and local leaders arrested in NYC today.
16 New Yorkers, including local clergy, labor and community leaders, and City Council members, were arrested in NYC today in an act of civil disobedience intended to escalate pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform in 2010. [Read more here.]
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”My decision to engage in civil disobedience today reflects my solidarity with all immigrants, documented and undocumented, that are struggling within a set of laws that are outdated and inhumane. My decision reflects my personal frustration with Arizona’s new law and with general inaction on immigration reform on a federal level, the crazy amounts of nativism and nationalism in the immigration debate (and in my inbox) and the constant dehumanization of immigrants who are my friends, neighbors and fellow movement shakers.
Dennis Chin writes in “Notes from a NYC Jail…” on the Standing FIRM blog. -
Video via @NDLON: No Papers No Fear Civil Disobedience at #DNC2012
The No Papers No Fear Journey for Justice performed Civil Disobedience in front of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC today. They asking President Obama if he wants his legacy to on the wrong or right side of the Human Rights Struggle. Do you want to be remembered as the president who deported the most people or the president who recognized the Human Rights of Migrants by stopping the deportations, collaboration between ICE and local law enforcement by stopping InSecure Communities and 287(g).
Filmed and Edited by Barni Qaasim and Jorge Torres(Source: nopapersnofear.org)
