SF Procession for Immigrant Rights
Immigrants Bid Good Riddance to Bush, and Demand Change from Mayor Newsom to President Obama!
Coalition of over 30 organizations gather at City Hall to oppose recent anti-immigrant measures in San Francisco and demand passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform in DC
What: Procession to Mayor’s Office and Vigil at City Hall
Where: Inside SF City Hall
Main Lobby (Van Ness Side)
San Francisco, CA 94102
When: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 4:00PM
Who: The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee
a collaboration of over 30 organizations, hundreds of
participants, and city officials
SAN FRANCISCO – On January 21, 2009, the day following the historic inauguration of President-elect Obama, a coalition of immigrant communities and supporters from the LGBT, labor, and faith communities will gather at city hall to press Mayor Newsom to repeal recent anti-immigrant measures and to demand that President Obama maintain urgency for the passage of fair and humane comprehensive immigration reform.
The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee will lead a procession to the Mayor’s office to demand support for the Committee’s immigrant rights platform – endorsed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors. The platform includes specific policy recommendations for ending SFPD collaboration with ICE, repealing the city’s new policy of referring undocumented youth in the juvenile system to ICE without due process, preserving funding for essential services to immigrant workers and families, and ridding the city of other vestiges of the failed Bush administration.
The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee is a growing alliance encompassing immigrant rights advocates, labor groups, faith leaders, youth advocates, and LGBT activists. The Committee includes the African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center, ALDI, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Youth Advocacy Network, Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, Central American Resource Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Communities United Against Violence, EBASE, Global Exchange, H.O.M.E.Y., Filipino Community Center, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Instituto Familiar de la Raza, La Raza Centro Legal, La Voz Latina, Legal Services for Children, Mission Neighborhood Resource Centers, Movement for Unconditional Amnesty, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, PODER, POWER, Pride at Work, SF Immigrant Legal & Education Network, SF Labor Council, SFOP, St. Peter’s Housing, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Worker Immigrant Rights Coalition, and Young Workers United.
Contacts:
Evelyn Sanchez, (415) 572-0639 / evelyn@immigrantrights.org
Angela Chan, (415) 848-7719 / angelac@asianlawcaucus.org
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