Check out this short video of the HS student walkouts May 2, in Chicago!
Carlos Montes www.csosite.org www.fightbacknews.org Subject: ..11 High Schools walkout video DOCUMENTARY A MUST SEE. SPREAD FAR AND WIDE..STUDENTS WALK OUT OF 11 HS INSPIRED BY CARLOS MONTES BROWN BERET AND NOW THEY INSPIRE A NATION. NOT DREAMERS ANYMORE WIDE AWAKE A READY TO FIGHT!!!!! ALSO FOX WROTE A DECENT ARTICLE ABOUT THE EVENT. UNIVISION SAID THEY WERE CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF BINLADIN. THIS MADE THEM MORE ANGRY AND THEY HAVE CALLED A MOTHERS DAY MARCH CALLED 'HEY HEY OBAMA DON'T DEPORT MY MAMA" SUNDAY MAY 8, TO COOK COUNTY JAIL. SEE BELOW PRESS RELEASE. THIS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE AMAZING AND IF WE HAD HALF THERE ENERGY AND SPIRIT THIS STRUGGLE WOULD HAVE BEEN WON A LONG TIME AGO. THEY MAKE US ALL FEEL QUE SI SE PUEDE!!! Link To Walkout Video http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=vNIC9FPgGxo http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/05/02/pro-immigrant-demonstrators-block-traffic-chicago/ -- To all media: Contact Miriam Perez La Fuerza Juventud /Familia Latina Unida312/804-4808 Padre Landaverde Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 773/512-8015 HEY HEY OBAMA DON’T DEPORT MY MAMA CHICAGO MOTHERS DAY MARCH!!! Sunday Mothers Day May 8, 2011 12 Noon to Assemble Lincoln Church 2242 S. Damen 12:30pm March down Cermak to COOK COUNTYJAIL26th and California After a large walkout by 11 High Schools and a civil disobedience and arrest were made of students at City Hall May 2nd. La Fuerza Juventud was angered that reports from news portrayed them as celebrating the murder of BinLadin. “They killed Binladin and they still deporting us, why would we celebrate if we are punished for something we had nothing to do with, where’s the reform Obama”. Latinos got treated for 911 and we are innocent. Said Dora a young student who’s husband is facing deportation in June. 100’s of youth Undocumented, Citizens, Residents join for a Mother’s Day March calling for “Parole in Place “Humanitarian Visas for their Families, and those Youth that would have been eligible for the Dream Act will March from Lincoln United Methodist Church to Cook County Jail where hundreds have and are held and turned over to Custom Enforcement (I.C.E). and deported for minor traffic violations. Mothers will join them who have husbands and fathers in detention waiting deportation. My husband driving home from work already parked when Police who were following him asked him for his driver’s license, they arrested him and Wednesday he was deported. What am I suppose to do what do I tell our children?” Isabel “My Mother, Father and I are ordered to leave the country by May 21st. We have no criminal record I was 12 when I came here with my parents and brother I married a U.S. citizen. They already deported my brother, we would have been able to stay with the dream act, why are we being persecuted. No one will be safer in this country when they deport me and my family we are not criminals, not terrorist”. Vania “Obama said they’re only deporting criminals and that’s a lie. He will say anything to get the Latino Vote. We’re not dreaming anymore we are wide awake and ready to resist the assault on us and our families” Obama says he’s with us, when he deported more Latinos, and more than 70% with no criminal record more than any president in the history of the U.S. He is worse than Bush. We want Parole in Place now or no vote for Obama” said Lilly? Recently Senator Durbin re-introduced the Dream Act. The democrats got less votes and no chance to pass it and think were stupid they don’t have the votes we need relief now, my mom and me deserve to stay that’s what we were promised. Said Adrian We’re a lot of first time voters, No more lies, No more dreaming, we fighting the nightmare we will resist! I know you worried mom, but we have to resist to keep our family together. Happy Mother’s day mom. Evelyn La Fuerza Juventud Immigration Pro-immigrant demonstrators block traffic in Chicago Published May 02, 2011 | EFE Print Email Share Comments (3) Chicago – Pro-immigrant activists and students blocked traffic on Monday in front of Chicago city hall in a noisy demonstration of civil disobedience to demand the end of deportations and the associated separation of families. Several protesters eluded the police cordon and blocked traffic by laying down in the street for several minutes until they were removed, but not before resisting and struggling with the cops. Several arrests were made, but apart from the shouting, sirens, applause and boos from some curious passersby at the site, the situation did not escalate. To the sound of drums and chanting "Obama escucha, estamos en la lucha" (Listen, Obama: We're in the struggle), some 600 people gathered on the esplanade of the James R. Thompson Center, which houses Illinois state government offices. The protesters' aim was to form a human chain surrounding city hall, but they were prevented from crossing the street by police and kept at a distance. In the earlier incident, students making up the so-called Fuerza Juventud (Youth Force) and members of the organization Familia Latina Unida/Centro Sin Fronteras announced the creation of a resistance movement against deportations that "break up our families and destroy the future of the youth." Students from several Hispanic-majority high schools, who carried posters asking "Obama, where's the reform?" and "What happened to change?" issued a declaration stating that "our families are trying to survive in an exploitative and corrupt system." "We can't stay with our armed crossed. We're going to resist the separation of our families," they added. Among the first protesters to stop traffic were Salvadoran pastor Jose Landaverde and the president of Centro Sin Fronteras, Emma Lozano. Lozano called upon President Barack Obama to use his authority to grant temporary legal status or "parole in place" to undocumented immigrants who have U.S.-born children. Obama, she said, "deceived the Latinos to get their vote" in the 2008 presidential election and afterwards "blamed the Republicans" for not moving forward with his promised immigration reform. In the declaration, the protests said that Obama "has the moral obligation to fulfill his promises" of immigration reform and to halt the most massive deportations in the country's history. The demonstrators also directed their message to incoming Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who on May 16 will replace Richard M. Daley. "If the new mayor does not join with the City Council in a unanimous decision not to cooperate with the abusive programs of the federal government, we're going to resist," they added. An executive order signed by Daley prevails in Chicago prohibiting the police from "cooperating with and acting like immigration agents." Chicago and Cook County, where the city is located, have declared themselves to be sanctuaries for more than 250,000 undocumented immigrants living in the area, most of them of Mexican origin. Emanuel has declared his support for the sanctuary and promised that he will keep in place the ordinance that established it. -- Centro Sin Fronteras 2009 W. 22nd St. Chicago, Illinois 60608 773/847-7282 [email protected] Lincoln Methodist Church 2242 S. Damen St. Chicago, Illinois 60608 Adalberto United Methodist Church 2716 W. 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