PLEASE COME!! 4/10-12, 2009 Chicago,IL: NISN National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org/2009Conference/
Hotline: (773)942-2268
Feb. 10, All Out to Albany for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights!
From: domesticworkersunited@gmail.com
The world is changing around us. We have a new president, a new leadership in the NY State Senate, and the urgency of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Every day, domestic workers are losing their jobs, and will risk losing their jobs as they assert their most basic human rights.
On February 10, domestic workers will be traveling to Albany to push once again for respect, recognition and labor standards. 2009 represents our fifth legislative session of organizing, advocacy and action - to push history forward for this critical workforce whose work makes all other work possible.
Today, on this historic inauguration day, we ask that you pledge your commitment to moving real change forward by signing up to get on the bus with domestic workers as they step up their campaign for the Bill of Rights, toward bring value and respect to all work.
On February 10, buses will be leaving from in front of Barnes and Noble, on the North Side of Union Square Park in Manhattan at 6:30 am.
Take the 4/5/6/N/R/W/Q to Union Square
Food and transportation will be free for all participants, and a commemorative T-shirt, with donations welcome.
We will be returning to Union Square by 7:00 pm the same day.
RSVP today - let's move real change forward, and save your seat on the bus - domesticworkersunited@gmail.com, (212) 481-5747.
Please, also consider adding your name or your organizations name to the list of endorsers for the 2009 Bill of Rights Campaign, and helping with our outreach through sending out the attached flyer to your networks.
I am an immigrant. I migrated to the U.S. from the Philippines. Although it wasn't always the case, today I am learning to peel the shame I used to feel about being an immigrant. Some cringe at the word "immigrant"; some take and use it as an insult. Many believe that it's an F-word; a word that's a curse, a taboo, something dirty, a word people aren't suppose to use, it's thrown around like a weapon of hate.
The history of the word, from my understanding, is that it was used to place an identifier on a group that was seen as an 'other.' It has been posed to me that perhaps the word "immigrant" should not be used in the first place. But I disagree; eradicating the word isn't a protest of disregard of the power of the ruling class. but rather it's an admittance of their power.
Instead of using "immigrant" as an F-word, I'm suggesting that people remember that language is ours; We determine its meaning and its development, not the other way around. I am an immigrant; I migrated from one place to another. There is nothing wrong with that.
(My particular interest is in the undocumented immigrant experience, particularly undocumented immigrant youth. This blog seeks to journey into learning about the lives of immigrants, documented and undocumented alike, and the politics surrounding the subject.)
The history of the word, from my understanding, is that it was used to place an identifier on a group that was seen as an 'other.' It has been posed to me that perhaps the word "immigrant" should not be used in the first place. But I disagree; eradicating the word isn't a protest of disregard of the power of the ruling class. but rather it's an admittance of their power.
Instead of using "immigrant" as an F-word, I'm suggesting that people remember that language is ours; We determine its meaning and its development, not the other way around. I am an immigrant; I migrated from one place to another. There is nothing wrong with that.
(My particular interest is in the undocumented immigrant experience, particularly undocumented immigrant youth. This blog seeks to journey into learning about the lives of immigrants, documented and undocumented alike, and the politics surrounding the subject.)
"google that!"
Immigrant Rights are Human Rights; If a group of people can be oppressed, who decides who's next?
Inform yourself and others, go to google.com and youtube.com and check out things like:
I.C.E. Detention Center / Hutto Dention Center / DREAM Act
Inform yourself and others, go to google.com and youtube.com and check out things like:
I.C.E. Detention Center / Hutto Dention Center / DREAM Act
Thursday, February 5, 2009
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