Category Archives: Immigrant Rights

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

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Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

🔴LIVE NOW: The Summer of Resistance continues! ✊🏽 Los Angeles unions and immigrant justice groups are coming together in powerful, peaceful protest—through art, movement, and collective action—to protect our people and demand a future without deportations.🫂🧡
📢 Stand in solidarity! 🦋
🔴 EN VIVO: ¡El Verano de Resistencia continúa! ✊🏽Sindicatos y organizaciones por los derechos de los inmigrantes en Los Ángeles se están uniendo en una poderosa protesta pacífica—con arte, movimiento y acción colectiva—para proteger a nuestra gente y exigir un futuro sin deportaciones. 🫂
📢 ¡Únete y muestra tu solidaridad! 🦋⭐️

 

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“We Need To Continue Fighting, Continue Being United”

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“They want to intimidate us, and if we allow it, they win and we lose. They want to separate us. And if we allow it, they win and we lose. They want us not to trust each other. And if we allow it, they win and we lose. So we need to continue fighting, continue being united, wherever we are in this country, to protect immigrants.” – United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero

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Article In NewYork Times- How the Supreme Court Made Legal Immigrants Vulnerable to Deportation

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The injustices continue and we must keep organizing and exposing to turn this around – as two new Supreme Court decisions have left thousands of our immigrant families, who came here as a result of inequitable international power relations, colonialism, climate change, unjust trade agreements, and wars – open to unjust mass detentions and deportations.

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Invitation to Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage march on April 19 in Pomona

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You are invited to the Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage on Saturday, April 19 beginning at 9:30 am at the Pomona Valley Pride center (386 S Thomas St.) and ending at Tony Cerda Park (450 W. Grand Ave.).  The march and celebration are organized by local community-based organizations of the Pomona Valley region with the support of the Latino and Latina Roundtable. In addition to an annual purpose of building unity and to use our lives in finding solutions to community problems, this year’s theme is “Defending Human Rights and Immigrant Rights in Our Communities.”  All proceeds and donations from the Pilgrimage march and fiesta are used as scholarships for students and recent graduates who carry on the vision of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta through advocacy and community engagement. To date, every one of the scholarship recipients has graduated from a 4-year university.
This year, the Pilgrimage march begins at Pomona Pride Center (386 S Thomas St) at a 200-year-old tree to honor the elders in our community; proceeds through Pomona neighborhoods; to Tony Cerda Park (450 W. Grand Ave.) where a “young tree” will be planted to honor the unity of elder and young generations in constructing a more equitable society.  The march and ceremony will be led by the indigenous group Danza Grupo Macelloyo, Los Jornaleros del Norte, Union de Ranchos, and the scholarship recipients. The speakers will include Madeline Rios, Angela Sanbrano, Matt Sedillo, Joshua Swodeck, Tony Cerda, Karen May, Poet Laureate Natalie Sierra, Claudia Batista Perales, Jesse Trujillo, Yasmin Cardona, and Jaime Guitierrez, along with Mayor Tim Sandoval, Frank Guzman, and Jose Calderon.  Music will be provided by the nationally known Los Jornaleros del Norte, as well as the Cantaurtores, and the dA Center Mariachis. Inter-generational folklorico dances will be presented by Jalisco No Te Rajes and other local groups. Food will be provided by local vendors.
Some of the Sponsors include:  Latino and Latina Roundtable; 50th Chicano Moratorium, Pomona Valley Pride Center; Pomona Economic Oppty. Center;  Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe, LCLAA; Western University; Latino Student Union; Pomona 5K/10K committee; National Day Labor Organizing Network; Gente Organizada; UFCW Local 1428; PUSH; SEIU Local 1000; Union de Ranchos; UNITE-HERE Local 11; Lopez Urban Farm; LULAC; Ontario Future Alliance; dA Center; Gutierrez Law Firm; U of LaVerne; UAW; Cal Poly Chavez Ctr.
The Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage and Celebration Committee

Please join us for this Pro-Immigrant Rights March this Monday, Feb. 17 at 10 am (main and Mission)

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We urge your support for this Pro-Immigrant Rights March this Monday, Feb. 17 at 10 am (main and Mission) – as part of an ongoing campaign to turn around the attacks on our immigrant communities and to advance our efforts for our immigrant communities to be treated with dignity and full rights.

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Rosa Martha Zarate on Immigrant and Bracero Rights – Wednesday, April 13 at 3:20 pm

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Music, Writing, and Organizing for Immigrant and Bracero Rights: The Activism of Rosa Martha Zarate 

Rosa Martha Zarate, an organizer of immigrant workers and a musician who has given concerts in Central and South America (including Portugal and the United States) will present in Professor Jose Calderon’s Rural and Urban Social Movements class in Fletcher 104 at 3:20 pm on Wednesday, April 13. For those interested, you can also connect by zoom at: https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/86987777594

  Rosa Martha will draw on her own life in making the connections between her use of popular education and the art of music to community-based organizing and cross-border social movements in Latin America and the barrios of the Southwest.  She will also connect to her recent book Our Grandfathers Were Braceros” highlighting her support, in the last 20 years of the binational social movement of ex-Braceros.  The purpose of her book, as she has shared, is the recovery of historical memory in accompaniment of former bracero grandparents and the relatives of those who have already disappeared in their fight for justice.  Rosa Martha is the cofounder of Libreria del Pueblo, Inc., the cofounder of Calpulli, an international leader in fighting for the rights of bracero workers, and an organizer in advancing alternative economy projects in Indigenous and peasant communities in the US and Mexico.  The presentation is open to those who are interested and made possible by support from Campus Life. 

 

Jose Calderon is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site Virtual Town Hall

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Hello LRT Members and Friends,

We hope this email finds you in good spirits. Many of you have asked about the unaccompanied children and the intake site at the Fairplex. This is your chance to learn more. This is today, Wednesday, May 19th. There will be two town halls, Spanish (5pm) and English (6:30pm) to accommodate those interested.
1) Please share the flyer & email with your networks. 
2) Please share the flyer on your organization’s social media.
3) Join the town hall 
Zoom Links:
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Codigo: 913403
English 
Passcode: 853635

 

 questions or concerns contact Natalie: chaidez@fairplex.com
We appreciate your support for the unaccompanied minors.
In solidarity,
Lina
(909) 480-6267 ( LRT office)

Invitation to Fernando Pedraza Memorial and Ceremony on Wednesday, May 5

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 You are invited to the 14th Annual Fernando Pedraza Memorial and Community Celebration that will take place on Wednesday, May 5th on the corner of Arrow Highway and Grove Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga from 8 am – 11 am.  The day laborers and community will gather between 8 and 9 am – and the program of music by Son Real and Jornalero Radio, prayer by Deacon Mario Lopez, and ceremony, and speakers will begin at 9 am.  The memorial and celebration will commemorate the life of Fernando Pedraza and other day laborers who have recently passed away.   If you are attending the event, everyone will be asked to wear a mask and to practice social distancing.  For those who cannot attend physically but want to join in virtually, you can connect to the zoom link at 9 am:  https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/89559545594  

 

On Cinco de Mayo (May 5th), 2007, a spontaneous demonstration by the Minutemen against day laborers on the corner of Arrow Highway and Grove Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga, ended with the death of day laborer leader Jose Fernando Pedraza.  Fifty-seven year old Pedraza died at the corner where he waited on a daily basis for one-day jobs.  It is also the corner where Pedraza organized other day laborers to defend their rights.  In 2002, Pedraza was part of a court case against the City of Rancho Cucamongawho wanted to enforce a law disallowing day laborers to gather on the street.  In the recent months before his death, Pedraza had attended several meetings of the Rancho Cucamongacity council to support his fellow day laborers so that they could have a job center where they could be safe from hate-based attacks and traffic accidents.  

  

Pedraza, a Mexican immigrant and a father of five daughters and the grandfather of seven, was killed at 1 P. M. on May 5, 2007 when an SUV, that hit a car in the intersection, rolled onto the sidewalk where day laborers were gathered.  On any other day, the day laborers would have left by the noon hour.  On this day, the day laborers stayed because the Minutemen showed up to protest the day laborer corner. 

  

The Fernando Pedraza Memorial and Community Celebration is supported by the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, Latino and Latina Roundtable, Dale Show, and Radio Jornalera. 

Jose Calderon is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

 
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