Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos

 

Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos

Start: Thursday, February 25, 2021 • 8:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

End: Thursday, February 25, 2021 • 9:30 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

Host Contact Info:  immigrantrights@dsacommittees.org 

El Grupo de Trabajo por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes de DSA los invita a un seminario web en español: "Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos."

Escuche a algunos de nuestros miembros sobre su trabajo en DSA y en sus comunidades.

Moderador: Blanca Estevez - Comité Político Nacional de DSA

Jorge Mujica, Organizador de trabajadores inmigrantes y de bajos ingresos con Arise Chicago. Arise Chicago crea asociaciones entre comunidades religiosas ytrabajadores para luchar contra la injusticia en el lugar de trabajo mediante la educación, la organización y la promoción de cambios en las políticas públicas. Miembro del Consejo Nacional de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y copresidente del IMWG de DSA.

Ald. Rossana Rodríguez - Concejal del Distrito 35 de Chicago y miembrx de DSA. Sus prioridades como Concejala incluyen proteger la asequibilidad del vecindario, apoyar a la población inmigrante de nuestro barrio y crear procesos más democráticos para que los residentes del barrio participen en las decisiones que afectan sus vidas.

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Join the Immigrants' Rights Working Group of Democratic Socialists of America for a Spanish webinar:  Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos.

Hear from some of our members about their work in DSA and their communities. 

Moderator: Blanca Estevez - DSA National Political Committee

Jorge Mujica,  Immigrant and low-income workers Organizer with Arise Chicago. Arise Chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes. Member of the National Council of the National Writers Union, and co chair of the IMWG of DSA. 

Ald. Rossana Rodriguez - Chicago 35th Ward Alderwoman and DSA member. Her priorities as Alderwoman include protecting neighborhood affordability, supporting our ward’s immigrant population, and creating more democratic processes so that ward residents are involved in the decisions that impact their lives.

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National Immigrant Rights Demonstrations

IMMIGRANTS RALLY BEFORE TRUMP: Immigrants and their allies will hold a national day of action on Saturday, with calls to halt deportations, preserve an Obama-era deportation relief program, and create sanctuaries against immigration enforcement. Organizers - the immigrant rights group United We Dream and Service Employees International Union, among others - have scheduled more than 50 events across the country. 

There is not a demonstration listed on the site for Sacramento.  If you know of such a demonstration in Sacramento, please post it in comments. 

Our Families Can't Wait - Alma Lopez

Our Families Can’t Wait.

In late January, a group of Dream Activists and young supporters in Arizona and other regions near the border met to analyze the campaigns of 2013 and to propose alternative strategies. They issued an open letter calling for a “practical legislative solution for immediate relief for families,  even if it doesn’t include a special path to citizenship" and urged supporters to engage in an aggressive campaign for a presidential executive order  to end deportations of family members of U.S. citizens. (Full text of the letter can be found here: http://ymlp.com/xgjuhqsygmguj)

 In January to get a sense of this viewpoint I interviewed Alma Lopez, an activist in Sacramento.  Alma had co-presented with me the workshop on immigration at the DSA national convention.

Question:

What do you think has been the effect of immigrant rights activism on young people?

“Young people have been playing a major role, along with students and the immigrants community members.  In Sacramento we have been coordinating with people in Northern and Southern California, with people who have been arrested in protests against ICE and deportations.”  

“The civil disobedience and the arrests, have played a major role in telling the community, and the general public, how important it is to keep families together and to come up with a policy that is fair and just for everybody.”

SF Supervisors Vote for Immigrant Rights

San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Vote for

Immigrant Rights Resolution Is Unanimous
Posted from Hermandad Mexicana.

 

By ALAN BENJAMIN

 

JAN. 29 -- Yesterday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution that calls upon President Obama to (1) stop the deportations, (2) extend DACA [Deferred Action] to all undocumented immigrants, and (3) end the firings of undocumented immigrants by means of  I-9 audits, E-Verify and employers' sanctions. The resolution -- which was initially adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council -- was introduced by Supervisors David Chiu, David Campos and Scott Wiener.

 

Earlier in the day, the San Francisco Labor Council and numerous immigrant rights and community-based organizations in the city held a rally / press conference on the steps of City Hall to convey the urgency of approving this resolution. Speaker after speaker decried the more than 2 million deportations under Obama and the tens of thousands of workers fired -- with their families torn apart -- because of lack of papers.

Drivers License bill passes - after decades.

Raises to the  state minimum wage also pass. 
Last night the California legislature passed the bill that has been blocked in the legislature for over a decade.

 At approximately 9:35 P.M., today - September 12th - the California Assembly passed AB60 by a vote margin of 55 to 18, one day after Assemblyman Luis Alejo had pulled his legislation to make it a two-year bill.  "Justice delayed is justice denied," responded Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo when he heard of Alejo's decision.  Cedillo is the original author of the driver's license legislation, AB60, in 1998 when he arrived at the state assembly. 

Alejo's decision was based on pressure both he and Assembly Speaker John Perez received from labor unions, in particular SEIU in the person of Eliseo Medina, International Vice President, and the California Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, who essentially ordered them to not proceed with the legislation.  It was never made clear what their real objections were only to say that they mentioned the issue of the distinguishing feature that the proposed license would bear, a DP instead of DL preceding the serial number that appears on the document.  However, it was rumored that the unions were seeking to extract some other favor or benefit from the governor and sought to hold the bill as leverage.

Why Organized Labor is active in immigrant rights

by Amy Dean

Maria Elena Durazo speaks during the Action Summit on Worker Safety and Health at East Los Angeles College, April 26, 2012. (Photo: Susan Goldman / US Department of Labor)

Immigrants' rights are workers' rights. These days, that idea is a principle held dear by the US labor movement. But that wasn't always the case.

As recently as the mid-1990s, many unions took protectionist stances against allowing new immigrants to come to this country. It was only after these unions saw the abuses that became prevalent under an employer-driven system for verifying immigration status that the labor movement embraced a new position. The movement recognized that for working people to thrive, all employees had to have full rights in the workplace.

Today, labor is one of the key forces pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington, DC. To learn more about the movement's advocacy and more about how unions transformed themselves into outspoken champions of immigrant rights, I spoke with Maria Elena Durazo. A daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers, Durazo rose to become the leader of the hotel and restaurant workers union in Los Angeles, the dynamic UNITE HERE Local 11. And, as chair of the national AFL-CIO’s Immigration Committee, Durazo is now a leading point person in the national immigration debate.

Knowing that many people are confused when hearing about union activism around immigration, I asked Durazo a straightforward question: Why is this issue a top priority for labor?

"It's bad for American workers for there to be 11 million-plus people out there working with no rights," Durazo said. "[These immigrants] are subject to exploitation. They are subject, as a result of that, to accept lower wages. They are subject to working in dangerous conditions. That is bad for those immigrant workers, and it is bad for American workers as a whole."

She continued: "We cannot have a prosperous nation and recreate the middle class as long as there is an underclass of 11 million people who do not have rights. By fixing this and getting them all on the road to citizenship, we address a huge issue that is the cause of enormous exploitation - of wage theft and other massive violations of labor laws."