Farmworkers Modernization Act.

 

I'm attending an event called THE FARMWORKERS MODERNIZATION ACT: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.

The Immigrants' Rights Working Group of DSA invite you to participate in a virtual forum on Thursday, May 27 @ 8pm eastern/5pm pacific.

Can you join me? Click here for details and to RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-farmworkers-modernization-act-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly?source=email&

Truth Act Forum and ICE

Truth Act Forum - Board of Supervisors Special Meeting Monday, 12/17 9:30 a.m. 700 H Street

Dear folks, this is a critical forum in which we need your support and attendance and willingness to provide a public comment.  Please share widely with all your networks. See attached flyer.  Thanks for your support

Join us in a show of solidarity to support transparency and accountability.   

What is the TRUTH Act Community Forum? 

The TRUTH ACT requires the local governing body of any county or city in which local law enforcement has provided federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to an individual during the previous year to hold a community forum to provide information to the public about ICE’s access to individuals and to receive and consider public comment. 

GENERAL TALKING POINTS

Here in Sacramento County, immigrants are a vital part of our families and communities.

• We need to recognize the humanity of every person who calls our county home, no matter their background, what they look like, or where they were born. Immigrants are our friends, our neighbors, and us.
• Nearly one in five residents of Sacramento County is an immigrant and are deeply rooted in our neighborhoods and communities.
• We know that true victory and liberation of our community is unattainable until there is an end to mass incarceration — an end to the profiteering of communities of color.

If we uphold our values, we’ll move Sacramento County forward.

• With relentless attacks on immigrant communities coming from Washington, we need to stand for compassion and shared humanity, and stand up against Sheriff Jones’s adoption of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant agenda.
• We will continue to stand by our values of shared humanity, equality, fairness, and justice to fight for a more compassionate Sacramento County.

Forum: The Sanders Campaign

Forum.  July 24, 2015.    7 PM.
The Sol Collective. Sacramento 2574 21st. Street. Sacramento
Sponsored by Sacramento DSA, the Sacramento Progressive Alliance  and more.


See post on Sanders and Black Lives Matters. DSA post on the left.

Bernie Sanders and the Hope for Democratic Socialism

Forum.  July 24, 2015.    7 PM.
The Sol Collective. Sacramento 2574 21st. Street. Sacramento
Sponsored by Sacramento DSA, the Sacramento Progressive Alliance  and more.

Forum paper - Challenging the criminalization of immigrants

 Top-down Comprehensive Immigration Reform Proposals and Compromises Lack Intelligence, Justice, and Democracy (April 16 2013) Manuel Barajas The Gang of 8 in the Senate proposed a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) that emphasized border security, guest worker program aligned with US economic interests, and an earned and restricted legalization path (Janurary 28, 2013). Soon after, President Obama in his State of the Union articulated a similar position, and asked congress to compromise on something he could sign (February 13, 2013). An illusion of hope was projected to the 11 million living in the shadows and their relatives/friends also living in fear of being separated from loved ones. Also exciting the public (March 29, 2013), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO/other conformists compromised on a lobbying platform that advances both of their interests. Their compromise also prioritized border security (e.g., e-verify) and permited another form of guestworkers—i.e., W visas—satisfying corporate interests and promising prevailing wages for labor. Past programs have made similar formal promises but failed in enforcing them. The Gang of 8, after listening to their powerful constituencies, now present a largely unchanged but more punitive CIR proposal that secures the border above all, permits guest workers, and lastly restricts and complicates legalization, where a great a majority will be disenfranchised and without guarantee to legalize even after 10 years of waiting.

Immigration Forum

photo. D. Bacon.

You are invited.

Campus/ Community Forum on Immigration. Friday, April 12^th.  5:30 – 8 :30 PM. Hind auditorium.  CSU Sacramento.

Be a witness to the powerful migration stories that will frame the discussion on immigration reform.

Testimony by high school students, community college, CSU and U.C. students and community members.

 Sponsors.  Immigration Working Group, Sacramento Central Labor Council, CFA,  Campus Progressive Alliance,  Sacramento Progressive Alliance Democratic Socialists of America, Sacramento Activist School, W.O.R.D.   and more.  No cost.

Information.  http://progressiveforum07.blogspot.com

Tens of thousands of immigrants and their allies marched Wednesday in a coordinated series of protest demanding that Congress approve new, comprehensive immigration reform for the 11 million immigrants currently living in the U.S.

Support rallies were held in cities and towns across the nation- including Sacramento. 
Hoy Marchamos.  Mañana Votamos!