Monday, June 14, 2010

Sacramento: Call to Action! City Council to take vote on anti Arizona law Resolution this Tuesday.

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Note: Arturo Venegas is the former police chief for Sacramento. It is good that he has come out strong against the new racist laws in Arizona.
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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Karen Bernal <nekochan99@hotmail.com>
To: sacramentofordemocracy@yahoogroups.com; wellstonesacramento@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 3:26:22 PM
Subject: [Sac4Dem] Call to Action! City Council to take vote on anti Arizona law Resolution this Tuesday.

Hello Karen,

I called you to let you know about the latest actions by the Latino Community in regards to the Az laws reso up for consideration by sac city council.

Please see attached email n forward to all your contacts.

Thanks.
Gustavo

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: gustavoarroyo1@gmail.com

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:57:30 +0000

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Subject: Fw: Call to Action! City Council to take vote on anti Arizona law Resolution this Tuesday.

From: Gustavo Arroyo <gustavoarroyo1@gmail.com>

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Community Members,

The Latino Community is outreaching to all our friends, brothers and sisters from every group throughout the Sacramento area to join the Latino Community in a show of solidarity this coming Tuesday, June 15 as the Sacramento City Council takes up the resolution to condemn the new laws in Arizona for a vote.

For several weeks members of the Latino community have been working really hard to ensure that the Sacramento City Council approves the resolution.

Attached below please find a call to action by former Chief of Police Arturo Venegas, who has been spearheading this issue locally, to get further details on the actions expected on Tuesday.

Please read and forward the call to action to all your contacts!

If you have any questions, please email me or call me at (916) 803-6981.

In solidarity,

Gustavo Arroyo

SAVE THE DATE & CALL TO ACTION

To my family and friends:

Please join us on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at 5:30 p.m., Sacramento City Hall , for the meeting of the Sacramento City Council as they vote on their resolution condemning Arizona 's anti-immigrant laws SB 1070 and HB 2162 and to adopt an economic boycott of that state. As in the past, the actual council discussion and vote will take place sometime after 6:00 p.m., but we are asking everyone to join us sooner so that you can get a seat in the council chamber.

This date has been provided to us by the office of City Council Member Rob Fong and it is set. There was talk of another date but that has all changed and Tuesday, June 15 is firm. The last city council meeting on this topic heard from many organizations and individuals, from a good cross-section of our community. It is extremely important that we all attend the June 15 meeting again and this time bring even more family and friends.

It is also very important that we email, mail, or phone the members of the city council and the mayor between now and June 15, 2010, with a message of support for the resolution and to let them know that this action is very important to our entire Sacramento community and to the nation in general.

Here are some of the key points made at the last city council meeting:

The Arizona laws force police to target anyone under "reasonable suspicion" who they think may be illegally present in the country when any law or local ordinance is being broken, no matter how minor.

The Arizona Police Chiefs Association, supported by the Major City Chiefs of America, have publicly spoken out that these laws will hurt law enforcement investigations since many people may not come forward to report crimes out of concern that they will be deported. Fear of the police or threats from criminals to report immigrants to the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement will make communities less safe.

We must It defend the civil rights of our most fragile resident in order to preserve our American democracy that has been won by the sacrifices of men and women through war and other actions. Very popular laws are not necessary right and just. Without righteousness, justice and the protection of our most fragile neighbor, you have no democracy.

The Arizona immigration laws are an illegal attempt by a state to perform federal government duties. States don't have the constitutional authority to make immigration laws.

Proponents of the Arizona law say that the law is just like the federal law and one law that is on the penal code of California . State's can't make laws to print money or enter into treaties or declare war or allow their officers to do what the federal government may be able to do because of the separation of powers between the nation and its states by our national constitution, the supreme law of the land. The California law that they claim is the same, was established by California Proposition 187 and the California Supreme Court has already held that unconstitutional and the law invalidated by the California Attorney General.

Thank you for your support and your help.

Arturo Venegas, Jr.

916.718.7607 - c

916.760.8857 - f

artvenegas@gmail.com

artvenegas@leei.us

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Friday, June 04, 2010

In praise of Latin American immigrants via World Affairs columnist Bernd Debusmann

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In praise of Latin American immigrants

World Affairs columnist Bernd Debusmann ~ Apr 30, 2010 09:39 EDT

The United States owes Latin American immigrants a debt of gratitude. And Latin American immigrants owe a debt of gratitude to lawmakers in Arizona. How so?

Thanks largely to immigration from Latin America (both legal and illegal) and the higher birth rates of Latin immigrants, the population of the U.S. has kept growing, a demographic trend that sets it apart from the rest of the industrialized world, where numbers are shrinking. That threatens economic growth and in the case of Russia (U.N. projections see a decline from 143 million now to 112 million by 2050) undermines Moscow's claim to Great Power status.

A country's population starts shrinking when fertility falls below the "replacement rate" of 2.1. births over the lifetime of a woman. For white American women, that rate is around 1.8 now. For Latin American immigrants, the rate is 2.8. According to the U.S. census bureau, nearly one in six people living in the U.S. are Hispanics. By 2050, they are projected to make up almost a third of the population.

That translates into the biggest minority group of consumers. Their spending is expected to exceed $1 trillion by next year despite the recession. A point worth noting but rarely mentioned in the often overheated debate about immigration: illegal immigrants in effect subsidize social security payments to Americans over 62.

This is because people working with false papers have their social security taxes withheld from wages but are not entitled to receive benefits. The sums involved are substantial — the Social Security administration has an "earnings suspense file" of payments under names that do not match social security numbers. The file has been growing by around $7 billion a year which goes to pay benefits to legal workers.

And the benefit to immigrants of the Arizona law?

"It may finally wake up the whole country to the consequences of the current approach to illegal immigration in which ever tougher border enforcement is seen as the only solution to the problem," says Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank. "That approach is gravely flawed."

So is the argument that the federal government has done so little to secure the U.S.-Mexican border that states need to take things into their own hands? The number of Border Patrol agents along the 2,000-mile frontier has doubled in the past five years, to 20,000. Arrests of border crossers have dropped 60 percent since 2000, evidence that tighter controls are discouraging illegal crossings (as does a shortage of jobs at a time of high U.S. unemployment).

A MESS THAT NEEDS FIXING

Under the law, the toughest of its kind in the country, state and local police are required to "determine the immigration status" of anyone "where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is illegally present in the United States." Failure to carry identification documents at all times would be grounds for arrest. Critics say "reasonable suspicion" opens the door to racial profiling.

Despite the acrimonious debate sparked by the Arizona law — which faces legal challenges and might never take effect — there is common ground on the issue between a good number of politicians on both sides of the aisle: the present system is a mess that needs fixing.

The last serious attempt to fix it was in 2006, when the U.S. Senate failed to agree on a bill that would have paved the way to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants — the most widely used estimate is around 11 million, most of them Mexicans — and introduce a guest worker program to meet demand for unskilled and low-skilled workers.

At the time, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, the Democrats' most vocal champion of immigration reform, asked its opponents what they were planning to do with the millions already in the country. "Send them back …? Develop a kind of Gestapo here to seek out these people that are in the shadows?" Critics of the Arizona bill think that prediction has come true.

Much of the immigration argument has glossed over the fact that for decades both the authorities and employers turned a blind eye to illegal immigration because the country has been deeply dependent on cheap labor — in effect one of America's ways of competing with the low-paid workers of the Third World.

The link between demographics and economic growth has rarely featured in the discussion but this week former president Bill Clinton took it up and added a frank interpretation of the anti-immigrant anger reflected by a nationwide poll that showed 60 percent of voters nation-wide favoring Arizona-type laws.

The real reason for anti-immigrant sentiment, he said, was the fact that the economic downturn in the last few years disproportionally fell on white males without college degrees, such as factory workers. "But they'll get more jobs if the economy grows. Their taxes will be lower if we've got more taxpayers. The pressures on Social Security … will be less if we have more people contributing to the system.

"So I don't think there's any alternative but for us to increase immigration," he said, adding that bringing in more immigrants must be part of the overall strategy.

So far it is not.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/04/30/in-praise-of-latin-american-immigrants/

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Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win!
~Peta-de-Aztlan~ Sacramento, California, Amerika
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
http://help-matrix.ning.com/
http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan
http://www.facebook.com/Peta51
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable."
~ President John F.Kennedy ~ Killed November 22, 1963
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Gente~VIDEO: Caravan LA --> AZ Social Justice Education V-blog #7

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Posted to ~ http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan where I have 500+ Followers
and http://www.facebook.com/Peta51 where I have 168 Friends

All of us progressive Chicanos-Latinos and progressive in general need to
better learn how to use Social Media in order to have a greater impact on
the world via Internet Power. Jose Lara is doing a great job in this endeavor.

Open up a Facebook Account and a Twitter Account. Reach out to others
outside of your comfort zone online and raise consciousness wherever you are.
We must go far far beyond preaching to the choir, only communicating with
those who share our identities and belief-systems. Evolve into being increasingly
more integrated with others of different backgrounds and belief-systems.

Remember the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The U.S.A. has a bad habit
of breaking its treaties. Descendants of those who are indigenous to these lands
cannot possibly be illegal immigrants as their/our ancestors have been here for
many centuries, way before the creation of the United States.

White people in general, though some of them could be our best friends, tend to
be racist in general because they fear those whom they do not know, fail to integrate
with others of different cultural backgrounds and need to be educated the same
as we do. All of us have room for Spiritual Growth!

In a way, Chicanos are the mythical 'lost tribe'. We are not fully a part of Amerika
and we are not fully a part of Mexico. Somos Chicanos! Our situation here inside the
United States resembles that of the heroic Palestinian people, though there are some
key historical differences. Many of our own are also being alienated from our own
ancestral homelands.

Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win!
~Peta-de-Aztlan~ Sacramento, California, Amerika
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
http://help-matrix.ning.com/
http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan
http://www.facebook.com/Peta51
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable."
~ President John F.Kennedy ~ Killed November 22, 1963
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From: Jose Lara <josexlara@yahoo.com>
To: humane-rights-agenda@yahoogroups.com; networkaztlan_action@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 9:24:24 PM
Subject: [NetworkAztlan_Action] VIDEO: Caravan LA --> AZ Social Justice Education V-blog #7

>>> Please Distribute Widely <<<

Check out video below of students, teachers and community activists explaining why they are traveling to Arizona to protest. This video was taken the night before the historic march that brought protesters from all over the country to Arizona to protest its racist and discriminatory laws that legalize racial profiling and bans ethnic studies.

Click Video Link Below:

http://tinyurl. com/29qeww5

Video features students from North Hollywood HS, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge and Teachers from Garfield HS and Santee HS in LA,

Warmly,

Jose Lara

Social Justice Educator

UTLA Raza Education Committee

Union del Barrio, Base Paulo Freire

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