Big rally/festival: for immigrant rights, and civil rights and against war in SF

[John Paramo <albatrosrojo2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

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PRESS RELEASE
Immigrant Pride Day 2002
Saturday, October 12, 2002
24th Street - Between Mission St and South Van Ness
Mission District - San Francisco

Transportation:
BART (24th and Mission)
MUNI: 14 Mission, 49, 67

For Immediate release Contact: 
Berta/Carlos at(415) 452-9992

THOUSANDS TO DEMAND AMNESTY FOR IMMIGRANTS, DRIVERS
LICENSES FOR NON-CITIZENS,DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND
AGAINST WAR
More than 70 organizations to hold a cultural festival
with tables and booths, speakers and community
organizing

Immigrant Pride Day 2002, an event endorsed and
organized by more than 70 unions, community
organizations and political groups, will 
feature speakers, a movie theater, one stage with
international folk music, dance and performances,
another one with hip-hop, rap and rock in Spanish and
informational tables and booths. The event will take 
place on Saturday, October 12, 2002, from 10 AM to 5PM
in San Francisco's Mission District. The event will be
held at 24th and Mission, right next to the 24th and
Mission BART station.

We are living in times when the government is applying
repressive measures against immigrants, passing
legislation to further erode our Civil Liberties and
expects immigrants and Americans in general to 
embark in the unending "war on terrorism" against
peoples and nations around the world. In that
atmosphere, hate crimes against immigrants 
and people of color are rising. Thousands have been
detained since September 11 without being charged with
any crime, many deported without recourse.

Immigrant Pride Day 2002 is a pro-active,
community-based response to these threats to our
rights and our lives. It is designed to educate,
organize and mobilize the "invisible" population of
California, the more than 25% of its people, the
immigrants.

It is a day to celebrate immigrants' social, cultural,
and economic contributions to the country, as well as
a day to educate everyone on the achievements and the
culture of those who contribute daily to our 
society without any recognition, forced, for the most
part, into a category of virtual apartheid.

During the event a "Popular Consultation" will take
place, where immigrants and their allies will be asked
to cast their opinions on a number of critical
political issues, such as the Bush Administration's
war plans, the USA PATRIOT Act, the US government's 
decision to increase harassment of immigrants after
September 11, as well as their opinion about
California Governor Gray Davis' decision 
to veto the "Drivers' Licenses for Immigrants Bill."

Saturday, October 12, 10AM-5PM, 24th Street between
Mission Street and Van Ness, Mission District, San
Francisco.

Organizer:

Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI)

Sponsors: 

Instituto Familiar de La Raza
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1555
Left Party
SF Immigrant Rights Commission
Glaziers Architectural Metal and Glass Workers Union
SF Labor Council (AFL-CIO)

Initial list of endorsers:

Frontlines newspaper; La Raza Centro Legal; El Buen
Samaritano Family Resource Center; Coleman Advocates;
Poder; St. Peter's Housing Committee; Progressive
Left; Ellas en Accion- National Center for Lesbian
Rights; Asian Women's Center; La Casa de los Jovenes;
United Farm Workers of America; Communities United
Against Violence; CISPES; Vietnamese Residents'
Association; SF Tenants Union; International Indian
Treaty Council; CARECEN; Citizens Project; Immigrant
labor Organizing Committee; Horizons Unlimited;
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts; Mujeres
Unidas y Activas; Arriba Juntos; El Tecolote
newspaper; SF Day Labor Program; December 19
Argentinean Solidarity Committee; West Bay Pilipino
Multi-Service Center; Families in SROs Collaborative;
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; The 
Religion and Immigration Project, USF; Neighbor to
Neighbor; Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights;
Green Party; Mexican Solidarity Committee; SF Women
Against Rape; Women's Building; and many, many others.



PROGRAM FOR THE EVENT

Speakers throughout the event:

Supervisors Matt Gonzalez and Chris Daly
Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Leland Yee invited (to be
confirmed) A speaker from the ILWU and an speaker from
the SF Labor Council invited (to be confirmed)
Carlos Petroni, Berta Hernandez and other community
leaders

ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS:

Danzantes Aztecas; Mariachis "Los Cachorros"; Grupo
Duende de Sara Molina (Flamenco); Mario Luis y
Vibracion Latina (salsa); Huehuecoyotl (Mexican folk
dance ensemble); Orquesta Kalichin (Peruvian salsa);
Nachito y su guitarra (Mexican Folk music); Teatro
Callejero(youth theater ensemble); Mission Dance
(Japanese drumming); Fogo Na Roupa Carnaval
(Brazilian); Sonido Cali.

Las 15 Letras; OMD (of Mexican Descent) featuring
2-Mex; Epidemia; La Plebe; Blasfemia; D.J. La Viuda
Negra.

IPD Movie Theater (throughout the day)

El Norte, films about Iraq, Palestine, immigrants,
Latin America .

FREE ADMITTANCE - DONATIONS WILL BE HIGHLY REGARDED


More information, to volunteer or to table at the
event:
(415) 452-9992
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