Isn’t this nice? Gee I wish I had known about this event IN ADVANCE so I could have contacted ICE to meet the “undocumented” there.
The “organization” is LALDEF and you can read more about their aiding and abetting activities here
CONSULATE OF GUATEMALA
Location: Gymnasium of Saint Mary´s Cathedral, 16 Bank St. Trenton
Dates: June 16 and 17 (Sat-Sun)
Times: 8 AM - 5 PM
The staff of the Guatemalan consulate in New York will be returning to Trenton on Saturday and Sunday,
June 16 and 17, to issue passports, consular ID cards (matriculas), register minors, process estate documents,
and other documentation. This is a unique opportunity for those without current documents to obtain an ID that can be used to open a
bank account, obtain a Tax ID number (ITIN), and process other transactions that require proof of identity.
I know how sick I am of saying it, so I can only imagine how sick you are of hearing it but, please take the time out of your busy schedule to call your congresscritters! NumbersUSA gots the good stuff.
BFBVB member ThunderPig sent me video of an Pro-legal immigration (Im tired of calling patriotic Americans who are against ILLEGAL immigration anti anything) rally in his neck of the woods (North Carolina) after the show had already been put to bed. Video post here, he will be updating so check back and bookmark him!
You can see all of Immigration Watchdogs of the Ted Hayes rally…here. W/links to pix and first hand accounts of the day, welcome to the blogosphere baby this is how we do things!
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Interesting read here and the most interesting part is their “strategy” about how they intend to “defeat the Minutemen”.
Enjoy!
The key to defeating the Minutemen and their ilk lies in building activities that “undermine their confidence and delegitimize their activities.”34 This could involve a several-pronged strategy. First, the Minutemen’s links to fascism must be exposed through systematic propoganda, along with their racism and violent vigilantism. But we must also expose the complicity of the “mainstream” in creating both the economic conditions and the political climate in which they have a space to organize. Secondly, they must be confronted. The vigilantes thrive on intimidation. Everywhere they go they get positive media exposure and official recognition. Ignoring them hasn’t changed this. On the contrary, for obvious reasons, it has emboldened them. But the Minutemen and the far Right can be pushed back and relegated to the margins by counter-organization and counter-protest. [ Think again asshole ]
They have it all wrong! Strong counterprotests only get us MORE fired up and bring MORE people out!
Strong counterprotests discourage their “soft” supporters from turning out, helps to shift the political climate against them, and give confidence to those who despise them but are intimidated. The Minutemen will think twice about public mobilizations of any kind if they know that on each occasion they will find a larger contingent out to counter them and defend immigrants and their rights.
Finally, we must build genuine political alternatives based on the common class solidarity of native and immigrant, and between documented and undocumented workers. To their preaching of hate between different languages and nationalities, we must promote anti-racist, pro-immigrant working-class solidarity and unity on the basis of fighting for better wages, working conditions, and social services. Such a movement must be independent of both mainstream political parties, for the simple reason that both parties are largely responsible not only for attacks on the working class as a whole, but for stoking the anti-immigrant climate that they use to deflect anger at those attacks. A movement to challenge the Minutemen should be seen as a component part of the struggle to resist the government-led, bipartisan attack on immigrants-an attack that hurts all workers.
Josh Gryniewicz is a member of the International Socialist Organization in Chicago.