Refugee Caravan Gathering-- May 7, 2017
Refugee Caravan Gathering
Reunión con la Caravana de Migrantes Refugiados
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Sunday, May 7th, Border Action in Tijuana-San Ysidro to defend asylum seekers’ rights
Conclusion of the 2017 Refugee Caravan
On Sunday, May 7th, Refugee Caravan participants will take action one last time to defend their right to live in safety, without the fear of detention and deportation. They are Central Americans who fled death threats and persecution, organized in southern Mexico and traveled together on foot, by bus and on top of the cargo train, raising their voices all along the way to demand respect for their rights as refugees.
Dozens of individuals - ranging in age from less than two months to more than fifty years old and including women, men, children, members of the queer community, and unaccompanied minors - will present themselves to US officers at the San Ysidro port of entry (El Chaparral) to seek asylum.
We demand that the US government process their claims as required under the law by referring them for a credible or reasonable fear interview, and not turn them away as US Customs; Border Protection agents have frequently and increasingly done.
10 am- we will have an international gathering with members of the community in both sides of the fence at Friendship Park (where the Wall meets the sea).
1:30pm- we will hold a press conference outside the offices of Grupos Beta, a Mexican immigration agency. We will denounce the collaboration between US and Mexican authorities in deterring asylum seekers.
2:30pm- the Refugee Caravan participants will march to the border, accompanied by other volunteers, organizers, and human rights observers..
The Refugee Caravan is calling on you to stand in solidarity with those who have been forced to abandon their homes and families, to flee for their lives after losing loved ones to persecution, to endure a long, hard and dangerous journey north.
Domingo, 7 de mayo, Acción en la Frontera de Tijuana para defender a los derechos de las personas refugiadas
Conclusión del Viacrucis de Refugiadxs
El domingo, 7 de mayo, integrantes de la caravana de refugiadxs tomarán acción una última vez para defender su derecho de vivir con seguridad, sin el miedo a la detención y a la deportación. Son centroamericanxs quienes huyeron de amenazas de muerte y persecución, se organizaron en el sur de México, y viajaron a pie, en bus y arriba del tren, alzando sus voces en todo el camino para exigir respeto a sus derechos como personas refugiadas.
Decenas de individuos - con edades desde menos de dos meses hasta más de 50 años e incluyendo mujeres, hombres, niñxs, miembros de la comunidad queer y menores no acompañados - se presentarán a oficiales de migración de EEUU en la entrada de San Ysidro para pedir asilo.
Exigimos que el gobierno de EEUU procese sus casos como se debe bajo la ley, que es referirles a una entrevista de miedo creíble o razonable, y no rechazarles como lo han hecho ya muchas veces y cada vez empeorando.
A las 10am habrá un encuentro internacional en ambos lados de el muro del Parque de la Amistad (donde el Muro entra al mar.)
A la 1pm haremos una conferencia de prensa afuera de las oficinas del Grupos Beta, una agencia mexicana de migración. Denunciaremos la colaboración entre autoridades de EEUU y México para detener a solicitantes de asilo.
A las 2:30 pm, participantes del Viacrucis de Refugiadxs marcharán a la frontera, acompañadxs por voluntarios, organizadores y defensores de derechos humanos.
El Viacrucis de Refugiadxs le hace a usted un llamado a solidarizarse con las personas que se han encontrado obligados a abandonar sus casas y sus familias, huir por sus vidas después de perder a seres queridos a la persecución, y aguantar un camino largo, duro y peligroso hacia el norte.
May Day: May 1st, 2017
May Day
Teach-in
On Steps of B Building facing Park Blvd.
San Diego City College
- 8:30: Gather at B Building
- 9:00: Greeting and Music by La Rondalla Amerindia de Aztlan
- 9:05: Jim Miller, Professor, English and Labor Studies: May Day History and how it is relevant to current threats to labor and democracy in the Trump Era.
- 9:15 Rosi Escamilla, Professor, English and Chicano Studies: Lucy Parson’s speech and how it speaks to the present
- 9:25: Justin Akers-Chacon, Professor, Chicano Studies: May Day and the History of Immigrants’ Rights Struggles
- 9:35: Enrique Davalos, Professor, Chicano Studies: How Communities are Resisting the Current Assault on Immigration Rights
- 9:45: Doc Rivera, EOPS Counselor and Personal Growth Professor: Students as Workers and Activists (Music)
- 10:00: Masahiro Omae, Professor, Political Science: Economic Inequality and Its Effects on Policy and Democracy
- 10:10 Alejandra Lucero-Canaan, Professor, English and Yaneth Escobosa, City College Alum, Honors Staff: How the Material Consequences of Economic Inequality Intersect with Race and Gender
- 10:20: Laila Aziz, Board Member, Pillars of the Community, Director of Operations, Metro San Diego: The Prison Industrial Complex as One of the Wages of Economic Inequality
- 10:30: Kelly Mayhew, Professor, English, Labor Studies Program Coordinator: How Economic Inequality Intersects with Climate Justice
- 10:40: Gerald Vanderpot, City College Classified Staff: The Existential Threat to Public Education
- 10:50: Christy Ball, Professor, English: Students and Adjuncts as Disposable People in the Trump Era
- 11:00: Music by La Rondalla Amerindia de Aztlan before student march and speak out.
Marches
11:15 Student March around campus:
Sign making at B Building for people arriving from elsewhere
Sign making at B Building for people arriving from elsewhere
Student performances, music, and Speak Out
1:00 Rally at City College (Building B)- AFT, Student, and Community Speakers; music
2:00 March from City College to Federal Building
3:00 Protest in the Federal Building
4:00: March from the Federal Building to Chicano Park
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