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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Immigrant Justice Community Groups Come to Detroit to Say Another World Is Here Demanding Justice and Human Rights
Media Release Tuesday, June 22, 2010
(Detroit) “The immigrant community’s fight to stop racist laws and ordinances is transforming our country’s vision of civil rights,” declared Catherine Tactaquin, director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR), at the start of the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan. She said, “Immigrant voices lift up the Social Forum’s vision that ‘Another World Is Possible’ and that ‘Another U.S. is Necessary’ in a new way. NNIRR believes that that world is here when immigrant communities assert their rights and mobilize against hate laws and policies of criminalization.”
Some 30 member groups of the National Network (NNIRR), hailing from diverse regions of the U.S., including the U.S.-Mexico border region, the South and Southeast, and the East and West coasts, will present key workshops and participate in the People’s Movement Assembly on immigrant rights at the U.S. Social Forum.
Janis Rosheuvel, from New York-based Families for Freedom and member of the NNIRR board of directors, said, “The U.S. Social Forum is an amazing opportunity to envision another world for the people directly affected by the institutions that have control in our lives. We can say how change needs to happen with these institutions involving the criminal justice system around immigrant rights and the social justice movement in the work that we are doing.”
Member groups at the U.S. Social Forum, based in South Asian, Muslim, Latino, African, African American and Asian Pacific Islander communities, will lead workshop discussions focusing on grassroots organizing for rights; just immigration reforms, on globalization, migration and human rights; national security and immigrant communities; LGTBQ rights; and uniting interior and border communities against racism and militarism.
In closing, Monami Maulik of DRUM: Desis Rising Up & Moving and also a member of the NNIRR board of directors, added, “The U.S. Social Forum is a unique space and moment to reflect on the critical challenges facing all people of color, workers, women, including immigrant communities. DRUM with NNIRR members believe that not another world is not only possible but is being born in the struggles of migrant communities and of all the excluded and exploited. The Forum is an historic moment where you can hear all our their voices singing deep songs of justice and human rights for all.”
Immigration policy should be consistent with humanitarian values, and should never fail to recognize the dignity of all people.Immigration offenses have traditionally been civil offenses. Turning them into criminal offenses will further silence and oppress some of the country's most vulnerable residents, and solidify the existence of an underclass of undocumented persons for whom human rights and basic dignity are too often denied.
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Immigration policy should be consistent with humanitarian values, and should never fail to recognize the dignity of all people.Immigration offenses have traditionally been civil offenses. Turning them into criminal offenses will further silence and oppress some of the country's most vulnerable residents, and solidify the existence of an underclass of undocumented persons for whom human rights and basic dignity are too often denied.
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