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We Say:
  • Black, Latin@, Asian, Indigenous, Arab, White &emdash; In Unity there is strength.
  • ICE raids are racist, anti-union and violate immigrant and US workers' civil rights & divide families.
  • Jobs & homes, not lay-off and foreclosures. Stop demolition of public housing in New Orleans & everywhere.
  • No war in Iraq. Bring the troops home now.
  • Political asylum for Victor Toro. No deporation for Flor Crisostomo.
  • Money for levees in New Orleans, not the US / Mexico border wall.
  • Repeal NAFTA, no more U.S. trade agreements that force migration & cause lay-offs here.

Thursday MAY 1st

Stop the Raids & Deportations
Legalization Now · Justice for ALL

MASS RALLY for IMMIGRANT & WORKER RIGHTS

12 pm: Gather at Union Square, 14th Street & Broadway

4 pm: Rally & March

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May Day Actions in NYC and Beyond
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May 1st Coalition Forum
Saturday, May 31 • 2-6 pm
Church of the Village
48 St. Mark’s Place, New York

1 block south of 9th St., between 1st & 2nd Avenues
L train to 1st Ave. / F to 2nd Ave. / 6 train to Astor Place

2-4 pm Building the movement in solidarity with immigrants & workers: organizing labor, students, the progressive movement, etc. for social change

4 pm Teatro Callejera: No Abres La Puerta

4:30-6 pm: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: With or without documents, you have rights. Hear legal and other experts on how immigrants & workers have the right to organize unions, what to say if ICE comes to your home or community, etc.

Refreshments will be served. Donations welcome.

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April 25: Support for Sean Bell


May 1 Coalition members at a Queens rally in support of Sean Bell and all victims of Police Brutality. Protest held on the day 3 NYPD detectives in Sean Bell murder were acquitted on all charges.

March 30: Street Theatre


Street Theatre production of "No Habras La Puerta" by Las Mujeres por la Paz and May 1 Coalition.
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March 28: Press Conference & Picket at ICE


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Support the Victor Toro Defense Committee

Victor Toro, long-time political activist and community organizer, faces harrassment by by the Department of Homeland Security.

Stop ICE Raids NOW! Campaign

TELL HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHERTOFF, BUSH AND CONGRESS: STOP THE ICE RAIDS NOW!

Please join the MAY 1 COALITION's online campaign to STOP THE ICE RAIDS NOW!

YOUR EMERGENCY ACTION IS NEEDED NOW! Fill in Online Form Below

Tell Secretary Chertoff:

This Valentine's Day, Give the Gift of Love to the Children. STOP THE RAIDS!

As a country that claims to defend human rights in the U.S. and around the world and to value the integrity of the family, our government should:

  • Ensure the human rights of all people and that immigrant families are not broken apart
  • Stop breaking the civil rights of immigrants to enforce immigration laws
  • No one should be awakened by armed squads bursting into their homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons drawn taking away parents and relatives leaving children alone.
  • No child should be abandoned because ICE took their parent while at work
  • Let local authorities enforce local criminal laws

We have to speak up because if it were happening to us we would want others to speak out.

Left without her father as he was taken away in the raids on September 24 in Long Island. Crying and hugging her father begging immigration police: "Do not brake the arm of my father, do not take him away." She still asks her mother when her father will come back.
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To: Michael Chertoff, Chief, Homeland Security
CC: President Bush, Congressional leaders, and members of the media

Dear Michael Chertoff, Chief, Homeland Security

We ask you in the name of decency to stop the ICE raids in the homes and workplaces of the immigrant community. No family should have to endure armed squads bursting into their homes with shotguns and automatic weapons drawn. One's home should be a place of security and peace. Children should not be left alone or have to lose their parents through raids at their work, resulting in depression, traumatic stress disorder and separation anxiety. Children should live with love and joy. This is what America stands for.

This Valentine's Day, have a heart and STOP THE RAIDS!

Sincerely,
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NYC May 1st Coalition for Immigrant & Workers Rights
55 West 17 Street, #5C, New York, NY 10011
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c/o Teamsters Local 808, 22-43 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101 		Tel: (641) 715-3900 ext. 97869# (you must include #)
Tel. (516) 582-2720 (Spanish)
may1@leftshift.org
a member of the National May 1st Movement for Worker and Immigrant Rights (maydaymovement.blogspot.com)