Supporting “Good Trouble” Protest in Rancho! Adelante!
Scapegoating at the highest levels attacking our immigrant communities to hide the systemic reasons for why immigrants come here, blaming them for the state of the economy, and to hide the tremendous profits made by multinational corporations here and abroad from their labor. We know who the real criminals are – and it is not our hard-working immigrant families. As the studies in this article show: “About 68% of those had no criminal convictions and an additional 57% had never been charged with a crime.”
Liberan a tres jornaleros arrestados en redada de Pomona en abril pasado. Fueron defendidos probono por la clínica de derechos de los inmigrantes de la Universidad del Sur de California y las fianzas pagadas con donativos de la comunidad. Los jornaleros no están solos. Three day laborers arrested in a Pomona raid last April have been released. They were defended pro bono by the University of Southern California Immigrant Rights Clinic, and their bond was paid with community donations. The day laborers are not alone.
With thousands at the Non-Violent Direct Action Training in Los Angeles! Moved by the speakers, workshops, and calls to action to “build power on the ground” (such as summer of resistance, boycott of Home Depot, and building coalitions between labor, immigrant rights, faith-based, multi-racial, intersectional, LGBTQ, and community- based organizations).