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April 10: National Day Action for Immigration Reform
Major march in SF Urging Leaders to champion
inclusive immigration reform
When and where: Wednesday, April 10
· 3:00 PM: Program begins at 1 Post St.
· 3:30 PM: March leaves 1 Post St. Route includes stops symbolizing need for reform to protect worker rights (4 Seasons Hotel), family unity (at 6th and Market), and to end painful deportations (fed. building).
· 5:00 PM: Rally at old Federal...
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Why the AP’s Choice to Drop the I-Word is Crucial Victory
by Rinku Sen-Colorlines-
Wednesday, April 3 2013, 8:29 AM EST
We applaud the Associated Press’s announcement that it is eliminating the phrase “illegal immigrant” from the 2013 style guide. The AP Blog quotes Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll on the decision:
The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe...
Read more: Why the AP’s Choice to Drop the I-Word is Crucial Victory
Deportation TownHalls-SF & Oakland
End the Deportations! Citizenship for all! / ¡PapelesParaTodos Ya!
SF Town Hall
Thursday, March 21st
5:30pm-7:30pm
St. John the Evangelist
(1661 15th St. @ Julian)
Oakland Town Hall
Saturday, March 23, 1-4pm
Oakland BART station, 3rd Floor, 3451 East. 12th Street, 3rd Floor
Please join community-based organizations, interfaith groups, legal advocates, worker centers, labor and immigrant and community members from SF...
CJJC as Part of Nat'l Coalition Headed to DC to Raise Voices for Relief and Inclusion in Reform
On February 12 & 13, staff and members of Causa Justa :: Just Cause and allies from around the country are headed to Washington DC to call attention to the need for a real and fair plan for immigration reform. Four people representing CJJC include two staff members and two member leaders: Mai-stella Khantouche and Maria Hernandez.
"We Have Dreams Too:" 250 Workers to Gather in Washington DC
250+ Immigrant Workers Gather to Stop Deportations, Ensure Inclusive Reform
On Days of State of the Union and the First Senate Hearing on Immigration, Workers from Across Country Raise Voice for Relief and Inclusion in Reform
On the day of the President's State of the Union address, reconstruction workers from post-Sandy New York, raided factory workers from Chicago, guestworkers from New Orleans, day laborers,
Read more: "We Have Dreams Too:" 250 Workers to Gather in Washington DC
Two of our Members Need Help
Comrades, two of our beloved members, who have been together for 26 years, and both of whom have been members since 2009, need our help. They have marched alongside us at countless actions, donated food and drinks to our member meetings, and have participated actively in our Cafes, in short they have contributed to our movement for social justice and...
Hearing on ICE Detainers: Community Shares Powerful Stories, Testimonies and Truth
By Jarymar Arana
Community members of all colors, genders, races, ages, and immigration status gave witness to the injustice and flawed nature of the so called "secure-communities" program at the Alameda County Public Protection Committee Hearing on the policy of ICE Detainers, January 10. The room was filled, and there were about 30 or 40 testimonies -- all against S-Comm.
Read more: Hearing on ICE Detainers: Community Shares Powerful Stories, Testimonies and Truth
Keep our Families Together, End ICE Holds in Alameda County
Join us at the Alameda County Public Protection Committee Hearing on "ICE Detainers"
January 10th 1:00pm
@ 1221 Oak Street #512, Oakland CA, 94612
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http://www.facebook.com/events/219215554881048/?suggestsessionid=13522720491357586886
For the past two and a half years we have been pushing for an end to S-Comm and this is the first hearing in Alameda County where the Board of Supervisors will hear directly from our...
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New ICE S-Comm Policy: Not Meaningful Shift
Movement to pass TRUST Act spurs new guidelines from ICE, but few families will be kept together in practice
Announcement underscores need for Gov. Brown to sign TRUST Act to fill in significant gaps in policy
On Friday, Dec. 21, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced revisions to the controversial Secure Communities deportation program and immigration detainer requests.
In response to the announcement, Reshma Shamasunder, Executive Director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, issued the following statement:
"[Friday's] announcement by ICE regarding the S-Comm program reaffirms what immigrant advocates have been calling for after several years of watching the program's disastrous results in communities throughout California: S-comm is a program that should be scrapped because it makes no one safer and tears families apart. It further validates the painful experiences of ice cream and tamale vendors, domestic violence survivors, and so many other community members who have unfairly faced deportation.
Aint no Border High Enough
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Migration is a Human Right - New work, new shirt! |
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We’re headed to Washington in January to push the Obama Administration to enact the most pro-active immigration legalization possible. Our communities need an immigrant rights movement today more than ever: from de-linking immigration enforcement and local police, to ensuring young dreamers In the past year we, along with... |
Victory: Wells Fargo dumps 75% of its private prison stock
We are thrilled to announce that years of public pressure that CJJC helped lead finally pushed Wells Fargo to change course.
The bank faces a re-certification hearing under the Community Reinvestment Act, and in preparation for that hearing finally got rid of the majority of its investments in private prisons /detention centers that turn a profit from detaining immigrants and...
Read more: Victory: Wells Fargo dumps 75% of its private prison stock
Protest over Gov Vetoes: Oct 4 In SF
SF Immigrant Community Reacts With Outrage to Governor’s Vetoes
Groups Unite Around Vetoes of Trust Act, Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and Farm Workers’ Heat Protection Bills
WHAT: Immigrant groups respond in outrage to Governor’s vetoes of Trust Act, Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, Farm Workers Heat Protection Legislation
WHERE: State Building 455 Golden Gate Avenue
WHEN: Thursday October 4, 2012 at 11:00AM
WHO: Domestic workers, immigrant community activists, DREAM students
SAN FRANCISCO – Community leaders will gather in front of the State Building at 455 Golden Gate Ave. alongside several labor and community organizations to unite against the governor’s vetoes of key legislation to extend protections to the immigrant community: the Trust Act, the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and the farm workers’ heat protection bills. The protest comes as anger about the vetoes continues to simmer across the state, capturing national attention.
The TRUST Act (AB 1081 – Ammiano) would have limited unfair, costly detentions of immigrants in local jails for extra time, for deportation purposes- people who would otherwise be released. By vetoing TRUST, the Governor failed to heal the impact of an out-of-control detention and deportation program that has undermined public safety and deported 80,000 Californians to date – 7 in 10 of whom had no convictions or had only minor offenses.
The Governor also vetoed the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights (AB 889 - Ammiano), which would have ended the outdated exclusion of domestic workers from basic labor protections by extending rights such as overtime pay and meal and rest breaks to the childcare providers, housecleaners, and caregivers who care for California’s families and homes.
Governor Brown also rejected two farm workers’ heat protections bills: The Humane Treatment for Farm Workers Act (AB 2627 – Calderon) that would make it a misdemeanor crime, punishable by jail time and fines, to not provide appropriate water or shade to workers laboring under high heat conditions.
The governor also vetoed The Farm Worker Safety Act (AB 2346 - Butler) that would have allowed workers to enforce the state’s heat regulations by suing employers who repeatedly violate the law.
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Resilience in the Face of Broken Trust
Sunday night was a historic moment. Governor Brown vetoed the Trust Act, turning his back on immigrant communities in crisis. [español sigue]
He also vetoed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, the Farm Worker Protection Bill, and the UC Workers Bill — grassroots bills that would have uplifted, improved, and made safer the lives of the immigrant majority, people of...
The TRUST Act: Sign it Gov. Brown!
Our Work Continues With Resilience and Courage
By Cinthya Muñoz Ramos
Thanks to Melanie Cervantes, Favianna Rodriguez and ACUDIR for the collaboration on these beautiful posters!
As our newspaper goes into print Oct 12, we await a signature that would mean life-changing possibilities for thousands of Californians and their families, the fighting chance at staying together.
For the last two years Causa Justa has joined thousands of immigrant rights advocates, community organizations, clerics, legal experts, law enforcement leaders and lawmakers, in the fight to pass SB1081 the TRUST Act.
If signed, the bill would stop police from holding community members for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and likely deportation.
Under S-Comm, the fingerprints of everyone arrested by local police are sent to ICE. If the fingerprints flag someone for being in the country without immigration documents, federal agents can pick them up for deportation proceedings.
The question now is, will Governor Brown redeem himself by signing the Trust Act? Or will he only leave behind a legacy of enabling the separation of families?
After much negotiation it also includes an exception for those arrested with a previous serious or violent felony conviction and those merely charged with one. It was a compromise our communities took in hopes we would get some much-needed relief from the so-called “Secure Communities” program or, as we call it, S-Comm.
The TRUST Act addresses some of the problems associated with S-Comm which has turned a routine police stop into an immigration check point, while also giving incentive to racial profiling and pretextual stops which are all too familiar in our already over-policed communities. This has resulted in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people, without due process and the basic right to a hearing before a judge.
During his term as Attorney General, Governor Brown signed away the rights of our communities by enrolling California in the S-comm program.
The question now is, will Governor Brown redeem himself by signing the Trust Act? Or will he only leave behind a legacy of enabling the separation of families?
The signing of the TRUST Act would be a huge victory for our communities. We have been organizing for immigration reform for decades; against S-Comm for the last three years; and around the TRUST Act for over two years -- two years of house meetings, know-your-rights presentations, door-knocking outreach drives, community forums educating and holding elected officials and police enforcement agencies and sheriffs throughout the state accountable to our needs, our rights.
California has spoken against S-Comm, against police turning into immigration enforcement officers, and against the Arizonification of our counties. Signature or not, the work ahead is cut out for us. Our fight did not start with this important piece of legislation, and it will not end after it is signed.
The implementation of the Trust Act, or the fight in our counties if it is not signed will be just as important as the fight to get it and will require our strength, commitment and...
