Workers Resistance

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  • 3000 march for dignity and respect for immigrants in Minneapolis

    Minneapolis, MN – With chants of “Si se puede!” (yes we can!) and “Obama, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” (Obama, listen, we’re in the struggle!), 3000 people marched through Minneapolis for immigrant rights on Oct. 5, a national day of action for immigrant dignity and respect. This was the largest march for immigrant rights in Minneapolis in several years. The protest began at Basilica of St. Mary Church then marched through downtown Minneapolis to Hennepin County Government Plaza (also known as People’s Plaza).

    Marchers carried many different banners, signs and shirts, most of which called on Congress and President Obama to take action now to legalize all 11 million undocumented immigrants.

    Many unions brought contingents to the march, including Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE HERE, International Union Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 and others. Many Latino churches brought contingents as well. Over 20 buses also came from several smaller towns in greater Minnesota that have Latino immigrant communities.

    A No More Deportations contingent marched with two banners and several signs demanding “No more deportations,” “Legalization for all,” and “No militarization of the border.”

  • ILPS: In honor of the immortal General Vo Nguyen Giap

    Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Professor Jose Maria Sison,Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle(ILPS).

    We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, solemnly honor and render our highest respects to the immortal General Vo Nguyen Giap upon his passing away on 4 October. He was a close comrade in arms of the great Ho Chi Minh and outstanding hero, leader and commander of the Vietnamese people’s revolutionary struggles for national liberation against Japanese, French and US imperialism.

    He was born to a peasant family in 1911 but he was able to go to school. In 1922 he joined the anti-colonial student movement. After graduating with high honors from the university,he became a teacher and journalist noted for his patriotic and progressive views. In 1933 he became a member of the Communist Party of Indochina and soon a member of the leading core under the direction of Ho Chi Minh.

    He founded and led the Vietnam People’s Army under the leadership of the Communist Party. He adopted and developed the strategic line of people’s war against the foreign aggressors and occupiers of his country. He built the people’s army as the politico-military weapon of the Vietnamese people in order to achieve brilliant victories against the enemy.

    In late 1941, he formed the first guerrilla groups in the mountains of Vietnam. He made an alliance with the armed formation of a national minority in northeastern Vietnam. By mid-1945 he had some 10,000 fighters under his command and carried out an offensive against the Japanese invaders. Thus, the way was made for the Viet Minh to undertake the August Revolution on a nationwide scale, compelling Emperor Bao Dai to abdicate on 25 August and proceeding to the proclamation of Vietnam’s independence on 2 September 1945.

    He directed the people’s war that brought utter defeat to the French colonial army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. He mustered 100,000 fighters and another 100,000 workers (many of them women) to encircle and gain vantage points against the enemy. The heroic people’s army and the people struggling for national and social liberation under the leadership of the Communist Party inflicted heavy losses on the enemy forces and compelled them to surrender.

    The brilliance of Vo Nguyen Giap as a strategist of protracted people’s war came to the fore by reflecting and availing of the revolutionary determination and courage of the Vietnamese people against the US war of aggression from the 1960s to 1972. He and his people were not cowed by the US which had become the strongest imperialist power in the course of World War II. They fought even harder and more effectively even as US imperialism barbarically used weapons of mass destruction.

    The US killed one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians, who constituted a large percentage of the Vietnamese population then. This is reminiscent of the US butchery in the killing of 1.5 million Filipinos from 1899 to 1913, and more than 3 million Koreans from 1951 to 1953. To this day, the Vietnamese people continue to suffer from the chemical warfare waged by the US, which poured millions of liters of Agent Orange on Vietnam.

    As the US war of aggression went on, the people of the world, including the American people, were outraged by the barbarism of US military forces and were inspired by the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese people. The anti-imperialist and democratic movement expanded and intensified on a global scale. The US started to sue for peace in 1969 and withdrew from Vietnam under the Paris Peace Accord of 1972, after the death of 58,226 US troops and many more wounded.

    US imperialism accepted defeat as it was faced with the prospect of losing more troops and financial resources at a faster rate and as the American people and the people of the world condemned the war of aggression on an ever widening scale. The people of an underdevelopedcountry and victims of aggression achieved a resounding victory over US imperialism.

    Since then, the defeat of US imperialism in Vietnam has served to show the limits of US economic and military power and has inspired the oppressed peoples and nations of the world to persevere and intensify their struggle for national and social liberation. All peoples of the world emulate the heroic example and indomitable spirit of the immortal General Vo Nguyen Giap in fighting for national independence, democracy, socialism, international solidarity and peace.

  • West carries out attack in Somalia

    Minneapolis, MN – There are widespread reports in the international press of Western special operation forces launching an attack in the Somali coastal town of Barawa, which is located about 100 miles south of the capital city Mogadishu.

    Reports indicate the Oct. 5 attack was aimed at the Al Shabaab, an organization that is fighting to remove foreign troops from the country.

    In Washington D.C., Pentagon spokesperson George Little said, “I decline comment,” according to UK newspaper The Telegraph.

    The U.S. and its proxies such as Ethiopia and Kenya are trying to impose a puppet government on Somalia, in order to strengthen U.S. domination of the strategically important horn of Africa.

  • Large numbers of uninsured swamp Affordable Care Act Exchanges opening day

    San José, CA – On Oct. 1, millions of Americans without health insurance overloaded the opening of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or so-called Obamacare) online exchanges. Almost 3 million people tried to log on to the national www.healthcare.gov web site, while the California web site www.coveredca.com had more than 5 million hits.

    The large demand for health insurance that overwhelmed the federal as well as many state exchanges comes from the large number of people in the U.S. who have no health insurance. About 15%, or more than 45 million people, had no health insurance for all of last year according the newly released report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in 2012. Oppressed nationalities (African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos, Latinos and Native Americans) had even higher rates of going without health insurance, with the rate topping 30% for Chicanos and other Latinos.

    The main reason for so many people going without health insurance is that businesses have been cutting health insurance benefits for their workers. In addition, the restructuring of the labor market to replace full-time, permanent jobs with more and more part-time and temporary jobs that intensified during the last recession also means fewer workers have health insurance. While young people have the highest rates of lacking health insurance, the biggest drop over the years have been among workers aged 25 to 64.

    While the ACA promises to cover millions of Americans who lack health insurance, mainly through the expansion of Medicaid, which will be available in many, but not all, states to all low-income people. But millions more, including the 11 million undocumented in this country, will still not have health insurance even after the ACA is fully up and running.

    The fundamental problem is that it is not profitable to insure everyone, and that for-profit health insurance spends about ten times as much for administration, profits for share-holders, huge salaries for CEOs, than government health insurance does. With the ACA based on forcing individuals to buy health insurance from private insurers through a combination of penalties (individual mandate) and subsidies, it actually expands this expensive and wasteful part of U.S. healthcare.

    The example of Massachusetts, which pioneered a very similar plan to the ACA, shows both what this ACA can and can’t do. Massachusetts has the lowest rate of people without health insurance, at about 3%. On the other hand, Massachusetts is the most costly in terms of total health care spending, coming at 36% above the national average.

    To both cover all Americans and lower costs, what is really needed is a single federal government health insurance, similar to Medicare, but available to everyone, also known as a single-payer system.

  • Homeowners, neighbors demand shutdown of federal evictions

    Minneapolis, MN – Jaymie Kelly, a 30-year homeowner who faces imminent eviction at the hands of Freddie Mac, rallied with 40 neighbors at the U.S. Attorney’s office here, Oct. 3, demanding a shutdown of federally financed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac evictions – which continue during the government shutdown as an ‘essential service.’

    When Homeland Security told Kelly no one from the Attorney’s office could accept her petitions as a result of the shutdown, her supporters proceeded to decorate the outside of the federal building with petition signatures.

    “As aid to affordable housing is cut off, and our public officials won’t meet with us, Freddie Mac still thinks my eviction is an ‘essential service,’” said Kelly, who is fighting in an eviction defense campaign with Occupy Homes MN. “I have already paid for my home five times, but JPMorgan Chase and Freddie Mac have refused to negotiate with me. Freddie Mac must immediately shut down its evictions until it has a permanent director in place willing to work with homeowners like me. The government’s inaction could cost me my home of 30 years. But I am not leaving,and my community stands with me.”

    Kelly’s supporters then marched over to City Hall to demand Sheriff Stanek not use public resources to evict her. Sheriffs are expected to attempt to evict Kelly sometime in the next week. Her community is prepared to resist any attempt to evict her.

    In July, 75 community members drove off 30 sheriffs attempting to evict Kelly’s neighbor, Sergio Ceballos. Two months later, Ceballos remains in his home and is now in negotiation with JPMorgan Chase.

  • Homeowners, neighbors demand shutdown of federal evictions

    Minneapolis, MN – Jaymie Kelly, a 30-year homeowner who faces imminent eviction at the hands of Freddie Mac, rallied with 40 neighbors at the U.S. Attorney’s office here, Oct. 3, demanding a shutdown of federally financed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac evictions – which continue during the government shutdown as an ‘essential service.’

    When Homeland Security told Kelly no one from the Attorney’s office could accept her petitions as a result of the shutdown, her supporters proceeded to decorate the outside of the federal building with petition signatures.

    “As aid to affordable housing is cut off, and our public officials won’t meet with us, Freddie Mac still thinks my eviction is an ‘essential service,’” said Kelly, who is fighting in an eviction defense campaign with Occupy Homes MN. “I have already paid for my home five times, but JPMorgan Chase and Freddie Mac have refused to negotiate with me. Freddie Mac must immediately shut down its evictions until it has a permanent director in place willing to work with homeowners like me. The government’s inaction could cost me my home of 30 years. But I am not leaving,and my community stands with me.”

    Kelly’s supporters then marched over to City Hall to demand Sheriff Stanek not use public resources to evict her. Sheriffs are expected to attempt to evict Kelly sometime in the next week. Her community is prepared to resist any attempt to evict her.

    In July, 75 community members drove off 30 sheriffs attempting to evict Kelly’s neighbor, Sergio Ceballos. Two months later, Ceballos remains in his home and is now in negotiation with JPMorgan Chase.

  • ‘Starving the beast’ – Tea Party Republicans and the shutdown of government

    San José, CA – At midnight on Oct. 1, the federal government began a partial shutdown. Later that morning, hundreds of thousands of federal workers showed up to wind up work – putting up closed signs at national parks and monuments across the country and updating web pages saying that many functions were no longer available. Then they went home for an indefinite furlough without pay.

    Behind the partial shutdown of the federal government was the leadership of the House Republicans, who followed the lead of their right-wing Tea Party congress people. They needed to pass a bill to continue funding the government, since no budget for the 2014 Fiscal Year, which began Oct. 1, had passed. Instead, the House Republicans insisted on using the threat of a government shutdown to get what they wanted, which was to derail the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, even though the Senate, the president and the Supreme Court were against them.

    The House Republicans’ willingness to seemingly burn down their own house to rid it of what they saw as vermin (Obamacare), is not only extremism, but also comes from their right-wing view of the government. It was under the Reagan presidency in the 1980s that the term “Starving the beast” arose, as right-wingers targeted the federal government as a “beast” for its social-welfare functions, wanting to pare down the role of the government to basically prisons to protect property rights of the rich and the military to maintain the empire.

    Looking at a list of how agencies are being hit by the partial government shutdown, it is clear that many of the programs that the right wing hates will be hardest hit. Among the departments with the highest percentage of furloughed workers are the Department of Education (95%), Housing and Urban Development or HUD (95%), the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA (90%), and the Department of Labor (80%).

    On the other hand, the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, has only 15% furloughs, so one can expect the record deportations to continue. The Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, also has only a 15% furlough, so no let-up in spying and harassments of Muslim Americans, Arab Americans and anti-war and international solidarity activists is in sight.

    While the House Republicans say that they are targeting Obamacare, by and large the rollout of the Affordable Care Act set for October 1 was unaffected. While there were long waits for web sites to load and phones to get answered, this was largely because nearly 3 million people flocked to the U.S. government web site www.healthcare.gov and more went to state web sites such as www.coverca.gov in California.

    In contrast, Senate Democrats and the Obama administration value the role of the government, both to subsidize big corporations (as Obamacare does with big health insurance companies) and to maintain social peace through social welfare programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But they also support the military and policing functions of the government, as seen in the Obama administration’s attempt to unleash a military attack on Syria and the FBI coordination of local police efforts to smash the Occupy movements.

     

  • ‘Starving the beast’ – Tea Party Republicans and the shutdown of government

    San José, CA – At midnight on Oct. 1, the federal government began a partial shutdown. Later that morning, hundreds of thousands of federal workers showed up to wind up work – putting up closed signs at national parks and monuments across the country and updating web pages saying that many functions were no longer available. Then they went home for an indefinite furlough without pay.

    Behind the partial shutdown of the federal government was the leadership of the House Republicans, who followed the lead of their right-wing Tea Party congress people. They needed to pass a bill to continue funding the government, since no budget for the 2014 Fiscal Year, which began Oct. 1, had passed. Instead, the House Republicans insisted on using the threat of a government shutdown to get what they wanted, which was to derail the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, even though the Senate, the president and the Supreme Court were against them.

    The House Republicans’ willingness to seemingly burn down their own house to rid it of what they saw as vermin (Obamacare), is not only extremism, but also comes from their right-wing view of the government. It was under the Reagan presidency in the 1980s that the term “Starving the beast” arose, as right-wingers targeted the federal government as a “beast” for its social-welfare functions, wanting to pare down the role of the government to basically prisons to protect property rights of the rich and the military to maintain the empire.

    Looking at a list of how agencies are being hit by the partial government shutdown, it is clear that many of the programs that the right wing hates will be hardest hit. Among the departments with the highest percentage of furloughed workers are the Department of Education (95%), Housing and Urban Development or HUD (95%), the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA (90%), and the Department of Labor (80%).

    On the other hand, the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, has only 15% furloughs, so one can expect the record deportations to continue. The Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, also has only a 15% furlough, so no let-up in spying and harassments of Muslim Americans, Arab Americans and anti-war and international solidarity activists is in sight.

    While the House Republicans say that they are targeting Obamacare, by and large the rollout of the Affordable Care Act set for October 1 was unaffected. While there were long waits for web sites to load and phones to get answered, this was largely because nearly 3 million people flocked to the U.S. government web site www.healthcare.gov and more went to state web sites such as www.coverca.gov in California.

    In contrast, Senate Democrats and the Obama administration value the role of the government, both to subsidize big corporations (as Obamacare does with big health insurance companies) and to maintain social peace through social welfare programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But they also support the military and policing functions of the government, as seen in the Obama administration’s attempt to unleash a military attack on Syria and the FBI coordination of local police efforts to smash the Occupy movements.

     

  • Imperialism and War: Syria and the Middle East

    Fight Back News Service is circulating the following speech given by Joe Iosbaker to the Sept. 29 Chicago conference against drone warfare. Iosbaker, a member of the Chicago Anti-War Committee, was one of the main organizers of the massive march on the NATO Summit. He is also one of the anti-war and international solidarity activist raided by the FBI in 2010. 

    Introduction 

    At the start of this month, the whole world was tense as the U.S. proclaimed it was going to start missile strikes against Syria. It seemed likely that the U.S. wouldn’t stop after a few days of war, but would continue to attack Syria and cause as many deaths as the puppet FSA [Free Syrian Army] had caused in two and a half years.

    Then Russia proposed a diplomatic solution to take Syria’s chemical weapons and, to the surprise of all, President Obama accepted it. 

    But then John Kerry said that the U.S. would only go along with putting Syrian’s weapons under international control if there was the threat of force in a UN resolution. Then this Friday, the U.S. had to back down on that in the United Nations Security Council resolution on eliminating Syrian chemical weapons. They had to drop the threat of force if Syria doesn’t comply.

    Stepping back, we can see that for two and a half years, the U.S. has funded and directed forces to intervene, with the Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO and Israel playing roles; on the other hand, the U.S. has refused direct military action [such as]bombing, invasion. 

    What explains this contradiction? Why couldn’t the U.S., the most powerful military might on earth, carry out war on this small nation?

    There other developments about the U.S. intervention in Syria that seem contradictory:

    The U.S. has spent two and a half years funding and helping to direct an armed attack on the Syria’s government and the people of Syria. They intervened during the Arab Spring, the moment there was a mass protest movement there against unpopular policies of opening the economy to investment and then the resulting austerity measures.

    They armed the only forces they found, including forces aligned with the Salafist movement, Al Nusra Front and other Al Qaeda linked groups.

    On Sept. 26, we learned that the most significant of the ‘moderate’ armies fighting the Syrian government have quit the U.S. puppet FSA and joined forces with Al Nusra. They have called for an Islamic front, instead. 

    But in the Sept. 26 issue of Foreign Policy magazine, the most influential publication on the topic in D.C., they put out that they think Assad will go and be replaced by former Defense Minister, Ali Habib. The article reflects thinking in the White House about how to resolve the Syrian conflict, as well as the worries in Washington and Israel that the sectarian, foreign-led and dominated armies aligned with Al Qaeda would come to power if the U.S./Israel succeed in forcing out Assad. 

    How come the U.S. says that its main mission on earth is to fight Al Qaeda, but then it arms Al Qaeda against countries that have never attacked the U.S. Isn’t this a contradiction, too?

    Let’s answer that by looking at some general questions: What is the status of U.S. power in the world today? What factors is the U.S. dealing with? And what determines U.S. policy in a particular country?

    U.S. is weaker and there’s a rising trend toward independence from their control

    The world has changed since the days after 9/11. The camp of resistance is growing and U.S. influence is in decline. 

    The economic crisis gets part of the credit for that. Although the capitalists don’t suffer like we do when there’s a crisis, it has weakened the power and prestige of the rich countries and the corporations.

    But even before that, Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the Cheney/Rumsfeld plan to go after “Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan” had all been an effort by the U.S. to turn back the hands of time, to put the U.S. back on top of the world they had ruled in the 1950s and 1960s.

    The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended in defeat and stalemate. One clear consequence: the U.S. can’t use the method of massive invasions any more.

    And the role of Russia in the struggle over Syria shows that the U.S. has to deal with rising powers, like the BRIC nations. Russia and China made it clear the U.S. wouldn’t get a United Nations Security Council vote for this war.

    The people of the U.S., Britain and the other members of the NATO are sick of war and they’re sick of being lied to. When the U.S. upped the ante on Syria, things came to a head. President Obama found himself isolated on the world stage and domestically.

    So the sudden changes in U.S. plans around Syria are a result of contradictions: first, the U.S. puppet army is losing to Syria’s army and militia; second, there’s a contradiction between the U.S. and Russia, which is no longer standing aside while the U.S. wages war; and third there’s a contradiction between the U.S. and it’s NATO allied governments and the peoples of those countries.

    U.S. objectives remain

    Of course, the changes in military form haven’t changed the underlying content of U.S. objectives: this place is an empire. The rulers want cheap labor and control of natural resources in other lands. They are like vampires – they have to have it.

    On the one hand, the U.S. is weaker and unable to get what they want; on the other hand, they are compelled to keep trying. Rumsfeld’s vision of invading Syria is gone, at least for now. 

    But the arming of Al Qaeda armies is not a contradiction. U.S. imperialism will back whoever and whatever serves its interests. In one country, Al Qaeda linked is the worst threat to humanity; in the next country, they are recipients of arms and intelligence to fight a government that the U.S. has determined must go.

    New focus on Iran

    These losses have made the U.S. focus more on Iran. A new president in Iran doesn’t change that. The U.S. has adopted the stand toward Iran that they won’t accept an independent power in the Middle East. Syria is aligned with Iran, and so the fate of the two countries is tied together in the view of the empire.

    The Arab Spring: A threat, then an opportunity

    But right now the U.S. can’t handle a war of a similar or greater scale than Iraq. That’s why the U.S. was both anxious and excited by the Arab Spring. They used the dissatisfaction throughout the region, which was aimed squarely at U.S. puppets in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain, to go after governments with a history of independence from the U.S.: Libya and Syria. The U.S. maneuvered to take control of the situation and develop contradictions in their favor in Libya. With the success of their operation there, they felt they were in a much better position step up their attempts to topple the government of Syria.

    As in Libya, they offered support to the Islamists, even though supporting them in Libya resulted in ‘blowback,’ in the attacks on Western oil installation in Algeria and the U.S. embassy. 

    Summation

    The U.S. seems to be acting in a contradictory way in Syria, but something unites their decisions in every action they take: is it in the interests of U.S. imperialism?

    They want to go to war with Syria and Iran, but they don’t have the support or the resources for an invasion. 

    They want to bomb Syria, but they can’t get support at home or in Britain and more countries are standing up to them.

    They are willing to back any force against Assad, even though they worry about Israel, for example,being attacked by the mercenary armies they have created.

    New Tactics

    Invasions aren’t popular, and the U.S. can’t rely on an Arab Spring to emerge everywhere.

    If you can’t invade, how does an empire achieve its objectives of punishing independent people or rebellious populations? The answers: proxy armies, drone warfare and special operations. Proxy armies are being used in Syria and before that Libya. Drone warfare first emerged in use against Pakistan, because the Pashtun people that have been the main base of the national resistance live on both sides of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. The Obama administration then has taken the technology to Yemen, Somalia, Mali and Iran. We know that they intend to use it even more in the future because one growth area in the Pentagon’s otherwise shrinking budget is the budget for drones.

    Conclusion

    In our work against U.S. wars, we have to stand against threats to arm puppet armies; to assassinate or back coups; to carry out bombing and missile attacks; and we have to oppose drone warfare, as it is the most popular form of their undeclared wars.

  • National push for Deferred Action to apply to all undocumented immigrants!

    Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Legalization For All (L4A) network

    The Legalization For All (L4A) network is initiating an all-hands-on-deck, national push for Deferred Action to apply to all undocumented immigrants! Now.

    This coming Thursday, October 3, 2013 we are calling on President Barack Obama to make an executive decision: Make Deferred Action apply to all 11 million undocumented immigrants!

    June 27, 2013, L4A strongly condemned the inclusion of the Corker-Hoever amendment in the Senate 2013 Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) Bill. On that same day, the U.S. Senate passed the Corker-Hoever amendment by a 68 to 32 margin. The Corker-Hoever amendment would increase militarization on the border, expand the E-verify workplace enforcement, and try to track the more than one hundred and fifty million people who enter the United States each year. This same amendment called for an additional $46 billion to further militarize the border, including 20,000 more border patrol officers, hundreds of miles of new fencing, and mandates use of military technology. Attacks such as these would mainly be felt by Mexicans and Central Americans trying to cross the border, leading to even more deaths.

    Friday, September 20, 2013 the mainstream media announced that the CIR 2013 would not be brought up in the House of Representatives. During the lead up to this announcement, efforts around the country were being made to pressure Republicans to act. L4A organized National Call-In days pressuring Representative John Boehner, Republican Representative Paul Ryan and Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

    In Arizona, a group of young leaders took to the streets and stopped a Detention Center bus from deporting a bus-full of immigrants. They didn’t let it go anywhere. In Minneapolis, immigrant rights activists demanded a stop the deportations at the Hennepin County Jail. In Tampa, an immigrant rights caravan joined with the community and protested Marco Rubio. Los Angeles community members fought back against the use of neighborhood blockades by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).

    When President Barack Obama stated he had no intention of stopping the deportations of DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals) recipient’s parents, Obama chose to take a stand against the people. All 11 million undocumented also need a Deferred Action or an executive decision by the President to stop the daily, deportations of immigrants. We cannot let our families continue to be torn apart. These attacks on our communities and the silent raids of our homes and work-places is not how we want to continue living. We will not sit back and let these attacks continue. Enough is enough.

    It is also important to remember that while DA is our best option given that CIR 2013 is stalled, it is up to us, the people to demand what is most beneficial to us. This includes and is not limited to our L4A pillars:

    1. Legalization Now! The current Senate bill has a ten-year wait for undocumented to become legal permanent residents. This and other barriers will exclude many from legalization.

    2. No more militarization of the border! No drones! Right now hundreds of immigrants are dying trying to cross the border because the militarization of the border drives people to harsh desert areas. The current Senate bill will lead to military drones flying over millions of Americans who live within 100 miles of the border, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With the U.S. government already tracking our phone calls and emails, we do not want drones watching us around the clock.

    3. Stop the Deportations! Under the Obama administration, there are record numbers of deportations. There should be a moratorium on deportations while the legalization process is starting. Why should the government deport more people and tear apart families who will become legal residents?

    Join us. Invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/671834526162295/

    L4A: http://legalizationforall.wordpress.com/