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Thursday, October 19, 2006

PRESS ADVISORY

Joel Magallan, Asociación Tepeyac: (212) 633-7108 (w)

Shirley Lin, AALDEF: (212) 966-5932 x 213

Carolyn de Leon, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (718) 220-7391 x 11

[after 5pm] (917) 502-7698 (m)

Monami Maulik, DRUM–Desis Rising Up & Moving (718) 205-3036 (w)

Miguel Ramirez, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlán (718) 704-6590 (m)

Walter Sinche, NYUIR: (347) 684-7340 (m)

March and Rally Call from Diverse Community Leaders to all New Yorkers to Defeat Sensenbrenner and Demand FULL Legalization

New York Metro Area Immigrant Rights Movement Declares “Round Two”

In the face of recent anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress, New York United for Immigrant Rights (NYUIR)—a coalition of more than 60 immigrant and human rights organizations in the New York metro area—will hold its final pre-march press conference tomorrow, Friday October 20. Community leaders will invite all New Yorkers to the Saturday, October 21^st Rally and March to demand “NO DEAL: FULL LEGALIZATION NOW!” and to defeat the new wave of Sensenbrenner-backed attacks on immigrants.

Speakers will be available to provide testimony about the impacts of recent anti-immigrant policies on their communities in New York, Long Island, and New Jersey.

Press Conference Details

Date: Friday, October 20^th

Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Where: Asociación Tepeyac, 251 West 14th St. (btw 7^th and 8^th Avenues)

Who: Directly affected community members, community leaders, and religious leaders calling on all New Yorkers to mobilize and march on Saturday, Oct. 21^st

Brother Joel Magallan, Asociación Tepeyac

Aarti Shahani, Families for Freedom

Radhamés Pérez, Acción Comunitaria Aurora

Monami Maulik, Desis Rising Up & Moving

Manuel Castro, Latin American Integration Center

Carolyn de Leon, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

On Saturday, Oct. 21^st, the immigrant rights movement in New York will declare the beginning of “Round Two” of our communities’ response to Congress’ failure to propose and pass a full, fair, and humane legalization bill. Leaders, residents, and advocates will invite everyone in the New York metro area to join our campaign for human rights and the soul of American democracy.

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New York United for Immigrant Rights is composed of more than 60 organizations in the New York metropolitan area.

NY UNITED FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (List in formation):

Ad Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, AFSCME Local 375 of District 37, Al-Awda, American Friends Service Committee, Arab Muslim American Federation, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Asocacion Tepeyac, Audre Lorde Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia, Center for Immigrant Families, COALITION OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES: Acción Comunitaria Aurora, New York Civic Participation Project, Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas-UCC, Alianza Dominicana, Coalición por los Derechos del Inmigrante, Asociación de Egresados de la UASD, Asociacion de Mujeres Progresistas, Centro para el Desarrollo de la Mujer Dominicana, Caucus de Mujeres Dominicanas, Congreso Dominicano, la Voz Latina, Servicio de Educacion Basica, Programa de TV Hechos y Gente, Programa la Voz Latina WBAI, Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos (USA-RD)// Coney Island Avenue Project, Esperanza del Barrio, Families for Freedom, Greater NY Labor/Religion Coalition, IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN ACTION: Adhikaar, CAAAV- Organizing Asian Communities, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving, Forest Hills Community House, Humanist Center of Cultures, Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan // Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project, International Socialist Organization; Latin American Integration Center; Justice Committee; MAY 1st ALLIANCE: Anakbayan, NY/NJ,Association of Senegalese in America,BAYAN USA Philippine New Patriotic Alliance,CASA Freehold, NJ,Chris Silvera- Pres. National Teamsters Black Caucus, Sec.-Treas. Teamsters Local 808, Comite Latino Local 79, Ecuador Para Todos-Lenin Medina,Freeport Community Worklink Center- Long Island, Guyanese-American Workers United, New York, NY,International Action Center,Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino Coalition, La Peña del Bronx, Million Worker March, New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, NYC Working People’s Voice Newspaper, Pachamama NYC, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, Panama Vicente Alba- LIUNA Local 108, Philippine Forum,Nodutdol, Rev Luis Barrios- Iglesia San Romero de las Ameritas, The Workplace Project, Trabajadoras por la Paz, Troops Out Now Coalition// No One Is Illegal (NOISI) Coalition, Mercy Center, Northern Manhattan Immigrant Rights Coalition, NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Parents in Action, United For Peace and Justice/ NYC, Urban Justice Center, Workers World Party, World Can’t Wait.

All Out for October 21st!
MARCH & RALLY: NY United for Immigrant Rights!

Saturday October 21st.

We defeated Sensenbrenner last Spring, now let's keep fighting for our rights!

Millions of immigrants across the country united to defeat the worst immigration bill ever. Now, rather than hear our demands for real immigration reform, politicians are ramming through more laws to deport more people, take away more rights, and cause more deaths at the border. They are hoping that the immigrant rights movement is finished. Now, almost every immigrant rights organization in the city is uniting and calling our communities to act.

When: Saturday, October 21st gather at 1pm
Where: Union Square, March to Times Square
Info: 917-472-1105

**We are asking anyone that has had a friend or family member detained, locked up, deported, or deceased at the border to bring a picture of them to remember all of our loved ones.

October 21^st Demands

1. Legalization Now. No half measures, no half-statuses, no guestworkers. Create more opportunities for current and future immigrants to enter and stay. Support fair policies that allow people to live in peace in their home countries.

2. Keep Families Together. Stop detaining and deporting the parents of US citizens, US veterans, and our community members. Clear immigration backlogs. Pass laws that acknowledge and protect ALL families as we define them.

3. Due Process and Civil Rights for All. End all detentions and deportations. Repeal mandatory detention and deportation. Give immigrants a fair day in court, in front of fair judges, with fair laws.

4. Equal Rights for All Workers. Repeal employer sanctions that lower wages for immigrants and low-income workers by making work illegal. Stop hurting workers, street vendors, and small, immigrant businesses through raids, penalties and restrictions on licensing. Grant equal pay for equal work and stop dividing citizen and immigrant workers by selling their work to the lowest bidder.

5. Defend Minority Voters’ Right to Vote. Stop all forms of disenfranchisement. Laws requiring birth certificates and proof of citizenship create unfair barriers to voting for all of our communities. Create fair and accessible laws for all of our communities to vote.

6. No More Discriminatory Immigration Policies. Stop all forms of selective enforcement. Stop targeting Black, LGBT, Muslim and HIV+ immigrants. Protect all of our civil rights.

7. Stop Profiting from Immigrants’ Suffering. Stop abusing and exploiting immigrant and citizen workers. Stop the profiteering from jails and detention centers.

8. Create Community Safety. Stop creating a climate of terror and fear by using local and state officials to enforce immigration laws in schools, the DMV, Department of Corrections, etc.

9. No More Deaths at the Border. No walls, No killing, No abusing families crossing the border or starving families once they cross.

10. Everyone Must Take a Stand. No more silence. Our religious leaders, our teachers, our neighbors, our unions must all stand up and fight with us. Make NYC a sanctuary for immigrants.

NY UNITED FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS is composed of more than 60 organizations in the New York Metropolitan area (List in Formation):

Ad Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, AFSCME Local 375 of District 37, Al-Awda, American Friends Service Committee, Arab Muslim American Federation, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Asocacion Tepeyac, Audre Lorde Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia, Center for Immigrant Families, COALITION OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES: Acción Comunitaria Aurora, New York Civic Participation Project, Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas-UCC, Alianza Dominicana, Coalición por los Derechos del Inmigrante, Asociación de Egresados de la UASD, Asociacion de Mujeres Progresistas, Centro para el Desarrollo de la Mujer Dominicana, Caucus de Mujeres Dominicanas, Congreso Dominicano, la Voz Latina, Servicio de Educacion Basica, Programa de TV Hechos y Gente, Programa la Voz Latina WBAI, Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos (USA-RD)// Coney Island Avenue Project, Esperanza del Barrio, Families for Freedom, Greater NY Labor/Religion Coalition, IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN ACTION: Adhikaar, CAAAV- Organizing Asian Communities, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving, Forest Hills Community House, Humanist Center of Cultures, Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan // Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project, International Socialist Organization; Latin American Integration Center; Justice Committee; MAY 1st ALLIANCE: Anakbayan, NY/NJ,Association of Senegalese in America,BAYAN USA Philippine New Patriotic Alliance,CASA Freehold, NJ,Chris Silvera- Pres. National Teamsters Black Caucus, Sec.-Treas. Teamsters Local 808, Comite Latino Local 79, Ecuador Para Todos-Lenin Medina,Freeport Community Worklink Center- Long Island, Guyanese-American Workers United, New York, NY,International Action Center,Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino Coalition, La Peña del Bronx, Million Worker March, New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, NYC Working People’s Voice Newspaper, Pachamama NYC, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, Panama Vicente Alba- LIUNA Local 108, Philippine Forum,Nodutdol, Rev Luis Barrios- Iglesia San Romero de las Ameritas, The Workplace Project, Trabajadoras por la Paz, Troops Out Now Coalition// No One Is Illegal (NOISI) Coalition, Mercy Center, Northern Manhattan Immigrant Rights Coalition, NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Parents in Action, United For Peace and Justice/ NYC, Urban Justice Center, Workers World Party, World Can’t Wait.