We won't stop until everyone is free: Se exige alto a deportaciones y redadas / People demand an end to raids and deportations

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Se exige alto a deportaciones y redadas / People demand an end to raids and deportations

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/221044.php

Se exige alto a deportaciones y redadas
by Rockero Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
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LOS ANGELES - 12 octubre 2008 En medio de una celebración del Día de la Raza, se unieron alrededor de 75 manifestantes para reclamar justicia para los inmigrantes y exigir que se deje de redar y deportar a la gente.

En la placita Olvera, se celebraba el Día de la Raza con música, una feria de moles, bailarines, y alegría. Pero a pesar de todo el festejo, aún seguía presente el espíritu de la resistencia. Llegaron con sus cartelones para alzar sus voces, y luego marcharon hasta el edificio federal, donde están las oficinas de la migra. Allí manifestaron, y varios de ellos hablaron.

Un organizador con la Organización Socialista Internacional prestaba el uso de su megáfono para que los oradores pudieran expresar sus opiniones. Una señora declaró, "Tenemos que averiguar, ¿qué es lo que la migra está inyectando a la gente cuando los están deportando? Ha de ser una bacteria o algo porque ya han fallecido varios." Me dio un escalofrío.

Un grupo de estudiantes de Mt. SAC nos invitaron a un foro en su escuela donde van a haber presentaciones sobre cómo defender sus derechos, que se realizará el 14 de noviembre.

Poco después, los manifestantes decidieron volver a la placita, donde un agente de la policía intentó ponerle fin a la marcha. Pero los activistas ya habían decidido terminar para el día, y al policía no le quedó nadie para molestar.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/10/221065.php

People demand an end to raids and deportations
by Rockero Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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LOS ANGELES - October 12, 2008 Amidst a celebration of Día de la Raza, about 75 protesters gathered to demand justice and an end to the raids and deportations.

At la Placita Olvera, there was a Día de la Raza celebration with a mole fair, dancers, and other expressions of joy. Better known as "Columbus Day" in the US, or "The Day of Indigenous Resistance" in Venezuela, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the "birth" of the mestizo race. Some of those gathered, however, were in less a spirit of jubilation due to all the recent reports of ICE raids, deportations, and other forms of discrimination against migrants.

They arrived with their signs and bullhorns, a conglomeration of various organizations and individuals, to raise their voices. They subsequently marched down the street to the federal building, where ICE has an office. There a manifestation took place, and several of the people present spoke.

And then suddenly, a block away, a line of Aztec dancers danced across the street drumming opposition to the concept of Columbus having "discovered" a land they had known and occupied for centuries., This, a colorful and noisy addition to the atmosphere introducing the idea of "the other"....all those people made invisible by the powerful conquerors; people who now, 500 years later, are deemed illegal and hunted down in their own lands.

An organizer from the International Socialist Organization let speakers make use of his bullhorn. One woman's statement sent chills down my spine: "We have to figure out what they are injecting people with when they deport them. It must be some sort of bacteria, because people are dying from it. One lady right when they gave it to her, and then a guy a few days after he got it."

A group of students from Mt SAC invited us to a forum to be held at their school on November 14, where presenters will inform people of their rights and of what to do in case of an encounter with La Migra.

Soon thereafter, the protestors decided to return to the Placita Olvera, where they proceeded to circumambulate the bandstand. A police officer tried to harass them and stop the action, but the activists had already decided to call it a day, and the cop was left with no one to harass.

Un organizador
by Rockero Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
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