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Estados Unidos. Trump: “¡Nuestro país es un desastre, el hazmerreír de todo el mundo!”.
ActualidadRT, Resumen Latinoamericano, 2 de enero de 2025.
El próximo mandatario estadounidense arremetió contra el Departamento de Justicia, el FBI y los fiscales demócratas por las “fronteras abiertas” tras el atropello de peatones en Nueva Orleans.
El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha declarado este jueves que el país “se está desmoronando” en medio de la “erosión violenta” de la seguridad nacional y de la democracia. Trump emitió sus comentarios críticos contra la Administración saliente de Joe Biden, después de la tragedia en Nueva Orleans, donde un veterano del Ejército de EE.UU., Shamsud-Din Jabbar, perpetró un atropello masivo que costó la vida a 15 personas y dejó decenas de heridos, inspirándose en los actos terroristas del Estado Islámico.
“¡Nuestro país es un desastre, el hazmerreír de todo el mundo! Esto es lo que pasa cuando hay fronteras abiertas, con un liderazgo débil, ineficaz y prácticamente inexistente“, escribió el próximo inquilino de la Casa Blanca en su cuenta de Truth Social.
El republicano también cargó contra el Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU., el FBI y los fiscales demócratas estatales y locales por no hacer su trabajo y revelarse “incompetentes y corruptos“. En lugar de “enfocarse en la protección de los estadounidenses de la “escoria violenta externa e interna que se ha infiltrado en todos los aspectos”, los organismos y funcionarios públicos se pasan las horas laborales “atacando a su oponente político”, se lamentó Trump.
“Los demócratas deberían avergonzarse por permitir que esto le ocurra a nuestro país. La CIA debe involucrarse ahora, antes de que sea demasiado tarde”, proclamó el presidente electo, quien agregó que la situación puede ser revertida solo con la “fuerza y un liderazgo poderoso”.
El mismo día del atropello masivo en Nueva Orleans, explotó un Cybertruck de Tesla cargado de pirotecnia y bombonas de gas frente al hotel de Trump en Las Vegas, muriendo el conductor del vehículo, Matthew Livelsberger, quien sirvió en la misma base militar que Jabbar. Trump no especificó si sus críticas se referían a ambos sucesos o a uno en particular.
Qué hacer cuando entre en efecto plan de Trump sobre la inmigración.Por Marco Vinicio González....,
Inmigrantes latinos y aliadlos, convocados por la organización comunitaria, CASA, protestan frente a La Casa Blanca para que se detengan las deportaciones. Foto: Cortesía.
En este programa de arranque de una nueva serie de análisis poselectoral, se pone foco en la respuesta que dan los gobiernos estatales y locales, y la sociedad civil en su conjunto a las amenazas y planes de Trump contra la inmigración en Estados Unidos. También se busca saber por qué hay algunos que desestiman la seriedad de dichas amenazas, bajo la creencia de que las deportaciones van a ser selectivas, sólo contra los criminales que tengan asuntos pendientes con la ley. Pero para quienes no tengan ningún asunto pendiente con la ley, dicen, si simplemente no se hace nada y se sigue trabajando honradamente como si nada pasara, nada va a pasar. O bien, están aquellos que afirman que Trump es puro bluf, y cosas por el estilo.
–¿Qué consecuencias podemos esperar para las familias y comunidades inmigrantes? -pregunta el director de Noticias de Radio Bilingüe, Samuel Orozco, en el programa de Línea Abierta que conduce.
En una publicación de la revista Palabra, dice, de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos, la veterana periodista Diana Solís “señala que algunos inmigrantes sin documentos no están esperando las consecuencias de las elecciones. Algunos ya están pasando a la clandestinidad”.
Y en Dallas, Texas, la organizadora comunitaria, Socorro Perales, sostiene que “algunos inmigrantes están tan escondidos que sus familias en México no han tenido noticias de ellos en varias semanas… están comprando teléfonos baratos, que son fáciles de descartar, y más difíciles de rastrear… Seguirán escondidos, y seguirán sufriendo emocionalmente”, deploró Perales.
Y es que el presidente electo señaló como principales prioridades de su gobierno, “Sellar la frontera y detener la ‘invasión’ inmigrante. Llevar a cabo la deportación más grande de la historia de Estados Unidos”, señala Orozco.
–¿Qué consecuencias podemos esperar para las familias y comunidades inmigrantes? -pregunta.
Porque durante toda su campaña “… Trump prometió deportar a millones de inmigrantes y poner fin a la ciudadanía por nacimiento para los niños nacidos en Estados Unidos de padres indocumentados”.
–¿Qué deben saber las familias inmigrantes?
Para entrarle al tema Línea Abierta llevó a cabo aquí un panel virtual con este grupo de líderes defensoras de los derechos civiles de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, que analizó entre otras cosas algunos de los comentarios recurrentes de los radioescuchas de esta red de emisoras de radio pública latina, como aquel que dice que “El que nada debe nada teme”, que hace suponer que nada va a pasar en realidad, que es un alarde de campaña de Trump y que no hay nada de qué preocuparse si uno no ha roto la ley.
Orozco aludió al perfil del gabinete que ha ensamblado Trump para el renglón de la inmigración hasta el momento, pudiera ser una señal del endurecimiento que se avecina, en contraste con la percepción de que “nada va a pasar”.
–¿Quiénes serán los primeros afectados, qué pasará con los beneficiarios de DACA, del TPS?
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Hay quienes piensan que inciada la campaña de deportaciones comenzarán las impuganciones legales contra las violaciones y atropellos a los derechos civildes de los inmigrantes, indocumentados y no, por parte de los agentes encargados de ejecutar la Ley de Inmigración.
Y otros piensan que para encontrarle sentido a los planes que el presidente electo prometió en materia de inmigración para echar a andar desde el día número uno de su presidencia, dice Orozco, refieriéndose al “mayor perativo de deportaciones masivas en la historia de Estads Unidos”.
-¿Qué significan para las familias inmigrantes las amenzas de Trump para negar la ciudadanía a los hijos de inmigrantes nacidos en Estados Unidos, qué pasos dar en caso de una redada de ICE a la comunidad, al domicilio o al trabajo?
De eso y otras cosas discuten las panelistas aquí.
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Voces invitadas: Rosalba Piña, Abogada de Inmigración, Chicago, IL; Mónika Y. Langarica, Abogada Sénior, Centro de Derecho y Política de Inmigración-CILP en la Facultad de Derecho de UCLA, Los Ángeles, CA; Keilly León, Organizadora para la Región Norte, Coalición pro Derechos de los Inmigrantes de Colorado-CIRC, Greeley, CO; Carolina Castañeda, Abogada y Formadora Principal, Centro de Recursos Legales de Inmigrantes-ILRC, Sacramento, CA, hoy desde Madera, CA.
Estados Unidos. El muerto en la explosión de la camioneta Tesla era un militar estadounidense
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Migrantes.NINGUN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL.por Melinka.2024.Movimiento de La Peña del Bronx.
Nuestra lucha simple y compleja, como la batalla por la vivienda y contra la mafia de los caseros, la lucha contra el Sida y el Asma, por una Salud digna para todos y sin discriminación, los enfrentamientos con la brutalidad policial, la defensa de los derechos de l@s Inmigrant@s, contra la represión y asesinatos policiales. Todo ello y nuestra proclama al situarnos EN CADA COYUNTURA.
Nuestra proclama al situarnos como una organización Comunitaria de base, autónoma e independiente del sistema político y tradicional del Estado. Nuestro objetivo es la Construcción de un Poder Popular Comunitario.
ES LO QUE HACE LA DIFERENCIA con la politiquería farandulera, exhibicionista, el Hollywood de Barrios, la corrupción y activismo sin brújula, individualistas, sin programas ni estrategias.
Nuestro sueño es «El gobierno del Pueblo, por el Pueblo y al servicio del Pueblo».
Todo lo cual nos puso ante grandes desafíos, liderar a las nuevas inmigraciones que venían al Bronx desde todos los rincones del mundo,los Mexicanos,Centroamericanos-Garífunas principalmente,los Dominicanos y otras inmigraciones numéricamente menor como las Sudamericanas.
Nuestra labor practica con la instalación de talleres de ciudadanías, entregando orientaciones sobre sus derechos, Educación Comunitaria, Popular y Política y la defensa de sus culturas ancestrales,multiétnica, multirracial y multicultural. Son las Ideas Básicas del Programa de la Peña.
Pasajes sobre la lucha y la historia de la Peña del Bronx.
Hace 37 años más o menos estas eran las historias que nos contaban del Bronx y que aún se cuentan, AUNQUE CON NUESTROS PROPIOS OJOS OBSERVABAMOS A UN BRONX, derrumbado, incendiado, una ciudad compuesta de «Yardas», sitios pelados con cementerios de carros destruidos, incendiados y humeantes. Por las calles nos tropezábamos con seres humanos destruidos por las drogas y los vendedores por todas las esquinas ofreciendo esta maldita Blanca Nieves y sus siete enanitos y otras yerbas a grito pelao, el Bajando y o Subiendo, Tatoooo, era el grito de noche y de día, frente a las casas y edificios. Estaba la gente en la calle como que no trabajaba,como que estaban enfermos, desempleados, no nos explicábamos el porqué, los disparos se escuchaban por doquier. Este era el paisaje que correspondía solo a una zona del Sur del Bronx. También se veían carros policiales arrestando solo a negros y latinos. Así no mas era, por aquí existían los más altos índices de desempleo crónico, los más altos índices de drogadicción,trafico,criminalidad y enfermedades Asma y SIDA. La crisis de vivienda golpeaba a familias enteras, los desamparados deambulaban de un lugar a otro, la deserción escolar y la organización de las gangas-pandillas como le dicen ahora, se aceptaban como normal, la violencia familiar, racial y discriminación se tornaba como algo institucionalizado, se aceptaba como forma de vida humillante y degradante. Esta situación se está haciendo patética y agrandando hoy con la crisis y larga recesión que se vive este 2024 en los EE.UU.
UN SOLO CULPABLE,ES LA PANDEMIA DEL CAPITALISMO,QUE HA PRODUCIDO GENOCIDIOS COMO EL DE VIETNAM,MEDIO ORIENTE Y MULTIPLES GUERRAS E INVASIONES IMPERIALISTAS.
El sistema, el poder y el gobierno con sus políticos y policías, se hacían de la vista gorda. A rio revuelto ganancias de pescadores. Con unos pocos votos Republicanos y Demócratas, ante esta macabra situación social han instaurado una dictadura de la corrupción, marginación y pobreza.
Es en este contexto que surge el Movimiento de La Peña del Bronx.
Nacíamos como la contrapropuesta a la decadencia y desesperanzas del Bronx. A nivel local las ONG o las mal llamadas organizaciones sin fines de lucro, iniciaban su agosto y una manada de mafiosos, llamados los «activistas», como los de los primeros tiempos del Bronx, se apropiaban, malversaban y robaban los dineros de Fundaciones, de la ciudad y del Estado.
A nivel internacional, se caían los muros y los socialismos del este, en América Latina las dictaduras militares y gobiernos autoritarios lanzaron el más feroz proceso de cambios contrarrevolucionarios, se produce un desbande social, político, exilio, exterminios y migraciones, lo que nos trajo hasta aquí, en pleno Bronx. Nos fuimos conformando como una luz en las tinieblas de las marginaciones y discriminación mas siniestra en el país más rico del mundo. Nadie apostaba por vosotros y nosotros.
Educados en la historia de lucha de nuestros pueblos, sus culturas y ejemplos como de hombres y mujeres como Gabriela Mistral, Violeta Parra,Rosa Parks, Albizu Campos, Joaquín Murieta,Malcom X, Martin L.Kings, Jhony Castro, Salvador Allende, Miguel Enriquez, Ernesto (Che) Guevara, y en especial por la sabiduría de nuestros hermanos los Pueblos originarios y Naciones Indígenas del Continente Aby Ayala, nos dimos a la tarea de proponer a la comunidad del Bronx la realización de una Peña y la que funcionaría en la Histórica Iglesia Santa Ana, ubicada en la esquina de la 140 ST. y Sant. Ann·s Ave, aquí en el corazón del Sur del Bronx.
Esta propuesta fue aceptada en primer lugar por los Padres Roberto Morales de Puerto Rico y Gustavo Pérez de Honduras, por un grupo de artistas Puertorriqueños que aglutinaba el querido hermano Nano Bauza-Don Jhony Castro, nosotros contábamos con conexiones con artistas de las comunidades indígenas de Sudamérica, Centroamérica y México.
Así, nos lanzamos con la Primera Peña el 13 de septiembre de 1987,una Misa Popular se combinaba con una Peña Folclórica. Y a partir de ese día,los eventos culturales, sociales y políticos se han sucedido hasta nuestros días.
Muchas han sido las situaciones, hechos y momentos felices, también los sinsabores de este transcurrir de la Peña.Rápidamente nos transformamos en un Movimiento Multicultural y multiétnico,nuestras razones culturales,se ampliaron a lo social, comunitario, político y multifacético.
La lucha por los derechos de la Mujer y nuestro combate a la violencia contra la familia, la defensa del núcleo del hogar, la defensa de los inmigrantes y sus derechos, nuestras posturas contra el racismo y la discriminación, las batallas por el Aire Limpio y el Medio Ambiente, nuestra defensa inclaudicable al lado de los movimientos y causa Feminista, Lesbianas y Gay, los que sábado a sábado ocupaban nuestros Local para sus actividades sociales y culturales. Manifestamos permanentemente nuestra solidaridad con las causas justas en el mundo y oposición declarada en contra de las guerras e intervenciones de los EEUU.
Nos enfrentamos a grandes desafíos,como señalarles un nuevo camino a transitar a las nuevas inmigraciones que venían al Bronx, a los Mexicanos,Centroamericanos,Garífunas,
principalmente los Dominicanos y otras inmigraciones Sudamericanas.NUESTRO OBJETIVO ESTRATEGICO ES LA UNIDAD CON EL PUEBLO AFRODESENDIENTES,UNIDOS A LA CLASE TRABAJADORA Y CON TODOS LOS POBRES Y MARGINADOS DE LOS EE.UU.
La Puerta Abierta del Local de la Peña a los talleres de ciudadanías, orientaciones sobre sus derechos y la defensa de sus culturas, Encabezamos marchas y protestas por la defensa de sus reivindicaciones.
Nuestro local fue también el de los independentistas Puertoriqueños, Periodistas dominicanos,sindicatos en Formación,Liga deportiva Salvadoreña,de Guatemala. La comunidad Garífuna fue un aliado fundamental en el sostenimiento y activismo de la Peña. Desde la Peña surgió El Congreso Nacional Dominicanos, desde aquí surgió la Parada Hondureña,la marcha de los chicleros hasta Manhattan,se articulaban variadas organizaciones Mexicanas por todo New York.
Se organizaron grupos de teatro como el Teatro Pax, grupos de artes Marciales, Club Deportivos, de Futbol Soccer, Las Nuevas Panteras Negras, el Taller de serigrafía. Desarrollamos variadas actividades con El Colegio Eugenio María de Hostos, en particular con sus organizaciones estudiantiles combativas.
Nos enorgullece haber recibido artistas y personalidades del quehacer político en los EEUU y América Latina. Cómo no destacar al Grupo Congreso de Chile, José Serrano Congresista del Bronx, de paso la Madre Teresa de Calcuta, Los Otavalos de Ecuador, Carolina Parra,Bill Cosby,representaciones de la ONU, el dirigente afronorteamericano Al Sharpton,Camilo Escalona del Partido Socialista de Chile, los Cónsules de Chile, Honduras, Venezuela y a nuestro Barrio del Sur del Bronx la visita de los Presidentes de Nicaragua y recientemente el presidente de Venezuela,un Ex Presidente de Guinea Ecuatorial, Delegaciones y grupos de artistas de Republica Dominicana y Puerto Rico, de México, Ecuador y Sudamérica, el presidente del Senado Hondureño así como el Ballet Nacional de la Danza Garifuna. Los creadores del Hip-Hop, los salceros, las bandas de la Bachata y el Merengue, los pintores, los muralistas, los Poetas,Pleneros,Pintores, escritores y músicos con raíces indígenas siempre han considerado a la Peña del Bronx como su Rincón Criollo y su Punto de Encuentro con lo multicultural y recreación.
Los medios de prensa nos visitaban y reportaban nuestra lucha: El Diario La Prensa, Impacto, Hoy, Univision, Canal 1, 41,47,7,5,12, New York Time, DayleNews,TVN,Honduras,Chile,Mexico Argentina, Canal 13 -Chile.
A nivel internacional Rebelión y La Haine, Revista del Sur, así como infinidades de publicaciones rebeldes e independientes nos han ayudado en esta causa liberadora en las mismas entrañas del monstruo.
Estamos contentos por haber ayudado a la ampliación y organización de otras comunidades. Nosotros aun persistimos,explicando que se trata de generar uno, dos, tres y muchos organismos de bases autónomos,democráticos e independientes del aparato corrupto y mafioso de demócratas y republicanos Solo una organización multiétnica, multirracial, de poder comunitario, puede ayudar a que se nos escuche y se nos resuelvan nuestras justas reivindicaciones por las cuales hemos luchados por todos estos años.
Hoy cuando estamos a 37 años de la fundación de la Peña, la situación de la comunidad en el Sur del Bronx no ha variado. Continuamos siendo el Lugar más Pobre de los EEUU,el más discriminado y con mayores índice de SIDA, Asma, Drogas, Desamparados E INMIGRANT@S. Cientos de filas de hambrientos se agrupan todos los días en los lugares donde entregan comidas-compras, comidas calientes, como lo es en la Iglesias como lo fue La Española en la 156 E. entre Union y Tinton. La discriminación campea como en los viejos tiempos,los políticos tradicionales no se dan por informado ni aludidos acerca del crecimiento inmigratorio en este Condado del Bronx, y no aflojan el hueso que le limosnean a las grandes Empresas, Fundaciones, recibiendo suculentos salarios por sus porciones de poder en la Presidencia del Condado, en las Asambleas y Concejos,son por tanto responsables por las paupérrimas formas de vida de los ciudadanos en particular en el Sur del Bronx-
Otra muestra del verdadero rostro del Bronx hoy en el 2024. Sólo basta ver los buses y vehículos que transitan rumbo a las cárceles del Estado de New York, donde un porcentaje considerable de nuestros vecinos están en carceles, muchas veces injustamente por razones discriminatorias y racistas.
LA POLICIA HACE Y DESHACE CON NUESTRA GENTE,ASESINA Y PERSIGUE CON UN RACISMO ENCIEGUESIDO Y CRIMINAL.ABOLIR LOS SISTEMAS POLICIALES RACISTAS Y REPRESIVOS.SI NO HAY JUSTICIA NO HABRA PAZ.LA LUCHA CONTINUA.
Los políticos corruptos son responsables del adormecimiento, ignorancia y desinformación de las antiguas inmigraciones, de la discriminación y marginación de las nuevas inmigraciones. A la burocracia y corruptos del partido Demócrata Republicano le interesa mantener por décadas en la desmovilización y desinformación a los vecinos. De esa manera cada cierto tiempo los utilizan como conejillas de indias, para su actos electorales, guerras y activismos puramente fiesteros y faranduleros.
Ellos son los que han impedido la sindicalización en el Bronx, de esa manera resguardan a patrones y explotadores que pagan salarios de esclavos, muchas veces son ellos mismos, los que mes a mes reciben remesas y otras formas de pago de los explotadores del Pueblo y racistas.
Han sido estos políticos y Policias los que alentaron la represión y discriminación en contra de la Peña del Bronx. Ellos, las policías, los caseros de la Mafia Italiana, Anntony y Macella, mas alguna ONG o disques Non Profi, encabezada por una mal llamada activista canadiense, hicieron lo imposible para sacar a la Peña del antiguo local que rentábamos, para después ellos mismos tomar posición en el que fuera nuestro espacio Por ello es que no todo ha sido de color de rosas,varios de nuestros dirigentes en distintos momentos terminaron arrestados ,el local que rentábamos muchas veces fue cerrado, allanado y nuestras comunidades cateadas y perseguidas.
Desde esta misma calaña se desprende la corrupta Mónica Santana, quien robo a la Peña del Bronx 15 mil dólares que nos habían donado por nuestra lucha por el cierre del incinerador criminal en el Sur del Bronx.
A pesar de estos sin sabores aquí estamos vivitos y coleando, con nuestros jóvenes 37 añitos y en variados espacios,acompañados como siempre con nuevos destacamentos y aliados comunitarios,con nuestras antiguas comunidades y una juventud que asume con nuevas iniciativas y propuestas el quehacer de la Peña en el 2024.
Hoy cuando el
mundo empieza a cambiar, los pueblos empiezan a su vez a sonreír una vez
más, la era TROMPISTA Republicana-Democrata.se agotó, algo parecido ocurre con el
neoliberalismo en nuestro continente y una insurrección popular se
extiende por toda La Patria Grande. Nosotros no podemos quedarnos atrás y
un granito de maíz podemos aportar a la causa mayor y el Bronx dice
Presente, con la Peña y nuestras comunidades. La lucha continua por
nuestros derechos Humanos y civiles, somos parte de la lucha de la
Patria Grande de Zapata,Che.Miguel.Gabriela Mistral y Simon Bolivar.
Nuestros nuevos espacios hoy son diversos, recorren Jardines,Barrios,Iglesias y agrupaciones sociales también diversas y nuestras demandas continúan siendo, esencialmente las de antes expuestas aquí en este pasaje sobre la historia de la Peña del Bronx, aunque ahora nos interesa en este Aniversario 37 poner el énfasis sobre nuestras demandas con la lucha de los inmigrantes y la construcción de un PODER POPULAR COMUNITARIO POR TODOS LOS BARRIOS y que también son las demandas de la Coalición 1 de Mayo del Bronx de la cual formamos partes:NO LA HABANDONAREMOS JAMAS.
Estas son nuestras demandas y que son también las de la Coalicion 1 de Mayo del Bronx.LAS DEMANDAS DE TODA LA CLASE OBRERA DEL CAMPO Y LA CIUDAD DE LOS EE.U.
1- Unir a tod@s los descontentos y efactad@s por la Crisis,Unir a tod@s l@s anticapitalista y antiimperialistas y avanzar hacia los sueños de Malcom X, Martin Lhuter King, Rosa Park, Angela Davis, Mumia y el Che Guevara. “POR UN GOBIERNO DEL PUEBLO AL SERVICIO DEL PROPIO PUEBLO”
Fin a las Guerras que propician los EE.UU E ISRAELMas los Paises Europeos acorralados por el Facismo,Racismo,Capitalismo Salvaje y el viejo Nazismo.
Que la crisis la paguen los Ricos, Ningún Dólar al Wall Street.
*legalización para todos las personas indocumentadas(40 Millones) * No a los muros en las fronteras * No a la criminalización de indocumentados ni a los que los ayudan * No a la detención y deportación de inmigrantes, pleno reconocimiento y protección de los derechos civiles a todos * Libertad a todos los inmigrantes detenidos * Pleno derecho laboral y protección para los trabajadores, sin importar su estado legal * Medidas para que las familias de inmigrantes puedan vivir iguales, sin separación familiar. Ninguna Redada MAS. No a la ley HR-4437 y cualquier compromiso relacionado con dicha ley *No a los cortes presupuestarios en la Salud, Educación y a familias de la Tercera Edad. * No más Violencia contra la Mujer, no más acoso, igualdad de salarios.
*No a las Leyes 1070 en ninguna ciudad ni Estados del País. Por el respeto a los derechos civiles a tod@s los seres humanos. *Por nuevas Fuentes de Trabajo para enfrentar el desempleo. El Desempleo se aproxima a los 50 Millones. Basta de Parches Míster BID-TRUMP.SON LAS BASES DE LA SOCIEDAD DEL CAPITALISMO SALVAJE LAS QUE ESTAN EN CRISIS.VIVEN UN COLAPSO Y UNA DECLARADA RECESION.L@S TRABAJADORES NO PAGAREMOS LA CRISIS DE LOS PATRONES ESPLOTADORES.?
NI DEMOCRATAS NI REPUBLICANOS SON EL CAMINO OKEY .?
Adelante con el 37 Aniversario del Movimiento de la Peña del Bronx.
A construir el Poder Popular Comunitario a nivel de nuestros Barrios y a Nivel Nacional, por todos los EEUU:Papeles para todos Ahora.LEGALIZACION Y LUCHAR,CREAR,
CREAR,CREAR,PODER POPUPULAR BARRIAL Y COMUNAL.A LEVANTAR EL
PROGRAMA DE TODO EL PUEBLO Y UNIR A TODOS LOS EXPLOTAD@S EN TORNO A UNA
SOLA PLATAFORMA DE LUCHA COMUNAL,SINDICAL Y POPULAR.
HONOR Y GLORIAS DE L@S QUE HAN CAIDO EN ESTA LUCHA COMUNITARIA POR EL PODER POPULAR.JHONY CASTRO FUNDADOR,NORMA MARINKOVICH.COLABORADORA,JOE PEREZ MIEMBRO,EAR GILMAN MIEMBRO Y DANILO LACHAPEL COLABORADOR.QUE DESCANCEN EN PAZ Y HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE.NO SERAN OLVIDAD@S.
NINGUN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL. Legalizacion ahora.
13 de septiembre,2024,Bronx,NY.
NEW YORK: No mientan no escondan la Verdad.
SOMOS MAS DE 30
MILLONES L@S
INDOCUMENTAD@S EN LOS
EE.UU.Legalizacion ahora…,
El «Mini» Manifiesto…, Introduccion:
GAZA Y LA PANDEMIA – Covid19 ES UN GENOCIDIO DEL CAPITALISMO SALVAJE GESTADO DESDE HACE MUCHO TIEMPO .La recesion economica que se arrastra desde hace una decada.La inscapacidad de todas las fracciones de la clase capitalistas y la de sus intrumentos politicos e institucionales.Arrastro a su vez a todos los Conglomerados Multinacionales,economicos,Militares,Financieros y Bancarios como el Wall Street,FMI,A los Grupos de los 7,8, y 20 a enfrentarse entre si.Por tanto la crisis se prolongo,dio paso a las conspiraciones,guerras y a un callejon sin Salida.UNA CRISIS CRIMINALCAPITALISTA,ECONOMICA Y FINANCIERA MUNDIAL LLEGANDO A PARIR LA MAL LlAMADA PANDEMIA QUE NO ES MAS QUE UN ENGENDRO Y CONSECUENCIAS DE LAS DESIGUALDADES IMPUESTAS POR EL CAPITALISMO Y POR SUS DIVERSAS PRACTICAS DE DOMINACION.REPETIMOS LA PANDEMIA ES UN GENOCIDIO Y LA PRIMERA CONSECUENCIA DE LA CRISIS DEL VIEJO SISTEMA CAPITALISTA E IMPERIALISTA MUNDIAL.LOS DISCURSOS Y ANALISIS.PROPUESTAS DE HAYER Y HOY SON LAS MISMAS BERBORREA DEL CAPITALISMO.ASISTIMOS OTRA VEZ A LAS ALTERNATIVAS. O SOCIALISMO LIBERTARIO O BARBARIE IMPERIALISTA.
Los Muerto que Hablaran.?.COBRARAN INDEMNIZACION Y HARAN QUE LOS RICOS DE LAS MULTINACIONALES,EL WALL TREET Y LA VIEJA DIRECCION POLITICA DEL CAPITALISMO SALVAJE.ARREGLEN EL CHANCHUYO Y PAGUEN LOS GASTOS DE LA PANDEMIA Y CRISIS HAN GENERADO.NI UNA CORA PARA LOS BANCOS Y NI UN PENI PARA EL WALL STREET.
El
«mini» Manifiesto: AQUI LA LUCHA
RECIEN COMIENZA.SE VIENEN A LAS CALLES 70 MILLONES DE DESEMPLEAD@S,30
MILLONES DE INDOCUMENTAD@S.En el 2006 eramos 12 MILLONES SIN PAPELES
RECONOCIDOS,HOY SOMOS MILLONES DE HAMBRIENTOS Y SIN VIVIENDAS. El NO
Pago de Rentas A LA ORDEN DEL DIA.,MILES DEDESAMPARAD@S,POBRES Y
MARGINAD@S EN EL EX PAIS MAS RICO DEL MUNDO.Quien Responde por los 185
mil Muertos de la Pandemia en USA.?.PARAR EL RACISMO Y BRUTALIDAD
POLICIAL.LA REPRESION POLICIAL Y UTILIZACION DE LAS FAAA NO ES LA
SOLUCION.RENUNCIEN-PRESIDENTES.A PREPARAR LA HUELGA GENERAL UNITARIA y a
Desmantelar el sistema Nacional de la Policia Racista y Fascistas ,
LA MIGRA ABOLIRLA YA. Existen y se vienen variadas Crisis CRIATURAS DE
LA CRISIS MAYOR.VAMOS POR MOVLIZACIONES A ESCALA INTERNACIONAL Y NACIONALES UNIDOS
CONTRA LA CRISIS MAYOR DEL CAPITALISMO SALVAJE A LEVANTAR EL PROGRAMA Y
LA ALTERNATIVA DEL PODER POPULAR,LA NUEVA SOCIEAD DE TOD@S L@S
AFECTAD@S POR UN MUNDO MEJOR.MIL FORMAS DE LUCHAS,MIL FORMAS DE
ORGANIZACION Y UNA SOLA PROPUESTA POR LA CUAL TOD@S A LUCHAR HASTA
VENCER,TENEMOS RAZONES,LA FUERZA Y LA VERDAD.NADIEN NOS TRANCARA EL
CAMINO.2024.por el Melinka….,PRESO POLITICO EN EEUU,TIENE (Prohibido
Salir del
Pais),INDOCUMENTADO Y PERSEGUIDO POR ORGANOS DE REPRESION DEL
IMPERIO.EL DRAMA DE LOS INDOCUMENTADOS SON LA CAUSA DE LAS
GUERRAS,INVASIONES Y GOLPES DE ESTADOS DE LOS EE.UU Y ISRAEL EN GAZA.
James Petras Para: ‘Rosario Campos’.
Fuente: La Rebeldía de los Inmigrantes
Barcelona.
http://barcelona.indymedia.org
Chile Rojo y Negro, Rebelde Siempre: Entrevista a Víctor Toro |
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Movement of La Peña del Bronx.
http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org
6 DE ENERO DE 2025.
https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org
National Immigrant Solidarity Network | Action LA Network.World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 epidemiological update – Special edition - 24 December 2024
A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS ATT00001.txt isn-request@lists.riseup.net en nombre de 李小轩 Siuhin A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS By David Bacon -- Jacobin, 12/15/24 https://jacobin.com/2024/12/deportations-unions-immigrants-organizing-trump https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-working-class-history-of-fighting.html The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other tactics. Time and again, immigrant worker activity has changed the course of society. It has produced unions of workers ranging from copper miners to janitors. It turned the politics of Los Angeles head. And it is this tradition of worker resistance that is the real target of immigration enforcement waves, both current and threatened by the incoming administration. Organizers of the past fought deportation threats just as we do today, and their experiences offer valuable insights for our present situation. Not only did they show tremendous perseverance in the face of direct threats to migrants, but these organizers also envisioned a future of greater equality, working-class rights, and social solidarity - and proposed ways to get there. Increased immigration repression has a way of making the bones of the system easier to see and the reasons for changing it abundantly clear. These organizations and coalitions defending immigrant workers, their families, and their communities have often been building blocks for movements for deeper social change. The rich tradition of worker organizing against immigrant repression is a story of courageous struggle and a reservoir of strategic thinking that can help immigrant workers and communities confront the promised MAGA wave of repression. It involves far too many organizations and fights to list here. This article aims to show what people faced, how they fought, and what kind of future they fought for. RICHMOND, CA - People of faith and immigrant families celebrate Passover and hold a vigil outside the Richmond Detention Center, where immigrants were incarcerated before being deported. An immigrant woman came with her two children to ask for help in getting her husband released. He was imprisoned in the detention center. The Old Threat of Mass Deportation In the outpouring of fear and outrage over Donald Trump's threat to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, many have drawn parallels to the mass deportations of 1932-33. At the height of the Great Depression, with hunger haunting the homes of millions of working-class people, relief authorities denied food to Mexican and Mexican American families. Racist bureaucrats appealed to the government to deport them, claiming that forcing them to leave would save money and open up jobs for citizens. These age-old lies have been recycled over the last century, repeated most recently by the MAGA campaign. Hunger was the most powerful weapon used to force people to leave. Thousands were swept up in street raids, and many more fled because of the terror these raids produced. Voluntarily or not, people were loaded into boxcars and dumped at the border gates. The euphemism of the '30s was "repatriation." Today's immigration enforcers call it "self-deportation." The idea remains the same, and Trump and J. D. Vance are only the latest proponents of this inhumane policy. People resisted deportation through the radical organizations of the era, from the Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española to the unions formed in bloody strikes in mines and fields. The largest farm labor strike in US history, the Pixley cotton strike, erupted in 1933 across the barrios of California's San Joaquin Valley during that peak deportation year. Radical activists were singled out for deportation and defended by communist and socialist defense organizations, including later the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. The Mexican government of the time, only a decade after the revolution, also protested and tried to help deportees. This history of resistance is as important to remember as the history of the deportations themselves. The organizations created by resistance, and the larger working-class movement of which they were a part, survived the deportation wave. While many groups were put on the attorney general's list of subversive organizations during the Cold War, others emerged during the civil rights era. When the immigrant rights movement peaked again in recent decades, it inherited this legacy. RICHMOND, CA - People of faith and immigrants at the last vigil in front of the West County Detention Center, where immigrants were incarcerated before being deported. After seven years of vigils, the Contra Costa Sheriff cancelied the contract with Federal authorities under which the jail has housed immigration detainees. Of the 178 detainees, supporters raised enough money to pay for 21 to be released to their families. Victor Aguilar and Hugo Aguilar are recently released detainees, in front of the detention center. Workers Win Over Their Unions One crucial battle was fought by a small group of workers in wealthy Palm Springs, California. Twenty-three years ago, Maria Sanchez, working at the luxurious Palm Canyon resort for $4.75 an hour, marched into the office of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 309. There she and her coworkers joined the union. The hotel hired security guards - dressed in uniforms mimicking those of the Border Patrol - and began firing workers. The immigrant housekeepers organized a silent march in the street outside, prayed in the parking lot, and refused to go back to work. With the support of Local 309, Sanchez and her coworkers stayed out on strike for four months. She lost her house and car, selling personal belongings to survive. The manager swore they'd never work there again. Despite his threat, the Palm Canyon was finally forced to agree to reinstate the workers with back pay. But when the hotel said only workers with legal immigration status could go back, everyone stayed on strike another month, documented and undocumented together. "I didn't care who had papers and who didn't," Sanchez told me then. "We decided that no one would go back until we all went back. The union didn't back down, and we won." What makes the Palm Canyon experience important today is not just the inspiring courage of the workers but the strategic ideas that guided them. They organized over the concrete conditions of their lives. Faced with legal repression and firings, they defied efforts to make them suffer. Knowing they couldn't fight alone, they looked for help, and the union supported them. Most importantly, they stuck together. "This is exactly what's leading unions to change their attitude towards immigration," explained John Wilhelm, then the national union's president. It was no accident that as the strike unfolded, the AFL-CIO highlighted the organizing of immigrant workers at its Los Angeles convention. Rejecting its history of support for anti-immigrant legislation, the union federation adopted a resolution calling for immigration amnesty for the country's then six million undocumented people and the repeal of employer sanctions - the 1986 law that made it illegal for them to work. Palm Canyon strikers were among the many witnesses at the subsequent union hearings organized around the country to expose the violation of immigrant workers' rights. SAN LEANDRO, CA - Members of ILWU Warehouse Local 6 and community supporters protest an immigration raid in which the company cooperated, during a union organizing drive at the Mediacopy plant. They confronted company managers in the plant office. Defending Against Raids in the Workplace The decades following the Cold War saw workers and unions developing increasingly sophisticated strategies to resist immigration enforcement. From factory floors to union halls, these battles helped shape today's immigrant rights movement. One of the first post-Cold War battles over immigration enforcement against workers took place at the Kraco car radio factory in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. Workers joining the United Electrical Workers stopped the production lines to force the owner to deny entry to immigration agents and saved one another from deportation. Later that decade, the Molders Union Local 164 in Oakland joined the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in suing the Immigration and Naturalization Service over its practice of having agents bar the doors of factories, holding workers prisoner, and then interrogating them and detaining those without papers. The case went to the US Supreme Court, which found the practice unconstitutional. In one of the last raids of the Bush administration, in 2008, immigration agents took 481 workers at Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, to a privately run detention center in Jena, Louisiana. They were not charged, had no access to attorneys, and could not get released on bail. Jim Evans, a national AFL-CIO organizer in Mississippi and a leading member of the state legislature's black caucus, said, "This raid is an effort to drive immigrants out of Mississippi and a wedge between immigrants, African Americans, white people, and unions - all those who want political change here." Evans, other members of the black caucus, many of the state's unions, and immigrant communities all saw shifting demographics as the basis for changing the state's politics. They organized the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) as a vehicle for protecting the immigrant part of that constituency. By the 2000s, these workplace battles had evolved into complex struggles over race, labor rights, and political power in the South. Howard Industries, a rare union factory in the state, paid $2 per hour less than the industry norm. "The people who profit from Mississippi's low wage system want to keep it the way it is," Evans said, charging that the immigration raid was used to keep the union weak. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1317's African American business manager, Clarence Larkin, told me that the company "pits workers against each other by design and breeds division among them that affects everyone. By favoring one worker over another, workers sometimes can't see who their real enemy is. That's what keeps wages low." MIRA activists met the raid with organizing, sitting outside on the grass with the families of those in detention. "When the shift changed, African American workers started coming out and went up to these Latina women and began hugging them," MIRA organizer Victoria Cintra remembered. "They said things like, 'We're with you. Do you need any food for your kids? How can we help? You need to assert your rights. We're glad you're here. We'll support you.'" In Mississippi fish plants, Jaribu Hill, the director of the Mississippi Workers Center, collaborated with unions to help workers understand the dynamics of race. "We have to talk about racism," Hill said. "Organizing a multi-racial workforce means recognizing the divisions between African Americans and immigrants, and then working across our divides." The Obama era brought a new tactic: mass firings. In 2011 Chipotle, the chain that made its fortune selling Mexican food made by Mexican workers, fired hundreds of them throughout Minnesota. Their crime was that they worked but had no immigration papers. They joined thousands of other workers fired in the Obama administration's key immigration enforcement program, which undertook to identify workers without papers and then force companies to fire them. With no job or money for rent and food, immigrants would presumably "self-deport." In Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco, over 1,800 janitors lost their jobs. In 2009, over 2000 young women at the sewing machines of American Apparel were fired in Los Angeles. Barack Obama's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton said that ICE had audited over 2,900 companies in just one year, and the number of firings ran into the tens of thousands. In Minneapolis, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26 helped Chipotle workers organize marches and demonstrations, cooperating with the Center for Workers United in Struggle, a local workers' center, and the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. Supporters were even arrested in civil disobedience at a Chipotle restaurant and mounted a boycott of the chain. As Trump's presidency approached, unions moved from reactive resistance to proactive protection. In the period before Trump took office in 2017, many unions expected that workplace raids and firings would be a large part of his immigration enforcement program as well. The hotel union in Oakland, California, developed a proactive strategy to keep ICE away from workplaces and asked the Oakland City Council to protect immigrants on the job. The council passed a resolution, noting it has been a "City of Refuge" since the anti-apartheid movement of the mid-1980s: "The City Council ... calls upon all employers to establish safe/sanctuary workplaces where workers are respected and not threatened or discriminated against based on their immigration status." Trump again threatens, as he did in 2016, to end federal funding to more than three hundred sanctuary cities. Moreover, many cities, and even some states, withdrew from the infamous 287(g) program, requiring police to arrest and detain people because of their immigration status. Trump promises to reinstate it and cancel federal funding to cities that won't cooperate. Like many unions looking for alternatives, HERE Local 2850 (now part of UNITE HERE Local 2) began negotiating protections into union contracts, requiring managers to notify it if immigration agents tried to enter, interrogate workers, or demand papers. The contract says the hotel has to keep agents out unless they have a warrant. The union then helped workers resist at one hotel where new owners demanded they show their immigration papers to keep their jobs. All the hotel's workers refused, documented and undocumented alike, and the company backed down. California's janitors' union, SEIU United Service Workers West drafted the Immigrant Worker Protection Act, a state law requiring employers to ask for a judicial warrant before granting ICE agents access to a workplace. It prohibits employers from sharing confidential information, like Social Security numbers, without a court order. The act came after years of fighting workplace raids and immigration-related firings. In 2011, Los Angeles janitors sat down in city intersections to protest terminations by Able Building Maintenance and fought similar firings in Stanford University cafeterias and among custodians in the Silicon Valley buildings of Apple and Hewlett-Packard. As Trump took office in 2017, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Filipino Advocates for Justice, and several other groups organized trainings to prepare workers for raids. Union members acted out scenarios that used job action to protect one another. Some were veterans of an earlier organizing campaign among recycling workers, in which they stopped work to keep the company from firing employees for not having papers. OAKLAND, CA - Immigrants workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers and community activists demonstrated in front of the Mi Pueblo market in Oakland against the firing of undocumented workers because of their immigration status. Thousands of workers around the country were fired as a result of the E-Verify document audits by the federal government. The Mi Pueblo demonstration was the second day of a three day hunger strike to protest the firings. Resisting in Working-Class Communities For decades, immigration enforcement has paired workplace enforcement with community raids and sweeps. Workers have expected labor organizations to oppose immigration enforcement in their communities with the same vigor that unions oppose workplace raids. Unions have often delivered, as have community organizations. The working-class neighborhoods of Chicago have a long history of huge marches to protest immigration raids. As Obama entered his second term in 2013, activist groups including Occupy Chicago blocked buses going to the immigration courts. Emma Lozano from Centro Sin Fronteras and other labor activists were arrested. Similar direct-action tactics were used in Tucson, Arizona, by young people who chained themselves to busses carrying detainees to the notorious special immigration court. Trump's 2016 campaign promised to make Chicago a focus for enforcement. As anti-immigrant hysteria promoted by his campaign spread, ICE began detaining people during traffic stops, knocking on apartment doors, and pulling people off the street for interrogation and detention. The enforcement wave, which continued through 2019, included sweeps of the corners and sidewalks near Home Depot and other gathering sites for day laborers looking for work. The public presence of day laborers has historically made them a particular target for immigration street sweeps. Activists met the Trump threat with actions. In July of 2019, thousands of people marched through the Loop in Chicago chanting "Immigrants are welcome here!" A day earlier, they'd shown up at the Federal Plaza after hearing that ICE agents were about to be deployed. Unions helped organize the resistance. Don Villar, a Filipino immigrant who headed the Chicago Federation of Labor, told protesters, "Throughout the labor movement's history, immigrants have enriched the fabric of our city, our neighborhoods, our workforce, and our labor movement. Many of the fundamental rights that immigrants struggle to attain are the same rights the labor movement fights to secure for all workers every day." Labor activist Jorge Mujica demanded "an end to the increase in deportations that began with the economic downturn. Instead of spending money on war, we want money spent on schools and mental health clinics that the City of Chicago is shutting down." Chicago also saw one of the most effective direct actions in the campaign against deportations. As President Obama mounted his 2012 reelection drive, young undocumented migrants, brought to the United States as children, occupied his campaign office. The occupation capped two years of organizing marches, ferociously fighting the detention of activists as they pushed for legislation to grant them amnesty from deportation. After reelection, Obama issued an executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), deferring their deportation. DACA has withstood a legal assault for a decade, but right-wing courts and the MAGA administration will undoubtedly attempt again to kill it. Its minimal protections be lost for hundreds of thousands of people, but that's not all: DACA recipients have to provide personal information on their applications, which immigration authorities could use to find and detain them in a new deportation program. The same problem confronts recipients of Temporary Protected Status, which allows people fleeing from environmental or political danger to stay and work in the United States. If Trump tries to withdraw the protection, even under legal challenge, the information necessary for detaining people is already in the government's hands. Haitian refugees in Springfield, Ohio, the target of J. D. Vance's racist lies about eating pets, undoubtedly feel a similar vulnerability. SAN LEANDRO, CA - Workers at the recycling sorting facility of Alameda County Industries walked out on strike to protest the company's decision to fire workers accused of not having legal immigration status. They weere supported by community leaders from a dozen organizations. Assisted by Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, they blocked the garbage trucks bringing waste material into the plant. Winning Back May Day The most effective wave of immigration resistance in recent history hinged on the huge immigration marches of 2006. That year, provoked by the House of Representatives' passage of HR 4425, the Sensenbrenner Bill, people poured into the streets by the millions on May Day. The bill would have made it a federal felony to be in the United States without immigration papers, a danger so extreme that every undocumented family was threatened with severe punishment. The outpouring relied on Spanish-language radio to spread the word. It also depended on the networks of immigrant rights activists and organizations, which brought together people from the same hometowns in their countries of origin. Unions were prominent among the mobilizers, organizing one of the two marches that took place on the same day in Los Angeles, each of which drew over a million participants. Unions and immigrant networks built marches of hundreds of thousands in cities across the country. The message was made even stronger by a grassroots movement, "A Day Without a Mexican," which urged immigrant workers to stay off the job to show the essential nature of their labor. When some participants were fired on their return, some unions became involved in defending their right to protest. The movement achieved its short-term goal: HR 4425 died. But the cultural impact was just as important. May Day had been attacked as the "communist holiday" in the Cold War, and celebrations became tiny or disappeared altogether. After 2006, the United States joined the rest of the world in celebrating it, and marches are now held widely every year. While not as large as in 2006, annual May Day marches bring out progressive community and labor activists in large numbers - and could provide a readymade vehicle for challenging a renewed Trump deportation threat. A similar bill, California's Proposition 187, which would have denied schools and medical care to undocumented children and families, also had unintended consequences. Proposition 187 convinced many Los Angeles immigrants and their citizen children to become voters, and the leftward movement of the city and state's politics owes a lot to that decision. As a result, labor now has a powerful political bloc in LA - in a city that was the "Citadel of the Open Shop" just a few decades ago. Both May Day and the Day Without Immigrants became a vehicle for protesting Trump's first inauguration. For example, in San Francisco, members of several chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America marked the first May Day after Trump's election with a direct action blocking ICE's garage doors with a human chain, brandishing signs reading "Sanctuary for All" and "We Protect Our Community." In the mobilizations around May Day and the Day Without Immigrants, labor support grew for immigrant workers facing raids. Four unions (Communications Workers of America, Amalgamated Transit Union, National Nurses United, and the United Electrical Workers) urged workers and labor activists to participate in both. "As leaders of the unions who supported Bernie Sanders for president, we refuse to go down that road of hatred, resentment and divisiveness," they declared in a letter. "We will march and stand with our sister and brother immigrant workers against the terror tactics of the Trump administration." SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEIU janitors from San Francisco and Los Angeles demonstrated in support of AB 450, a bill to protect workers during immigration raids and enforcement actions. Replacing Immigrant Workers Enforcement, however, doesn't exist for its own sake. It plays a role in a larger system that serves capitalist interests by supplying a labor force that employers require. Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than ever. Over 50 percent of the country's entire agricultural workforce is undocumented, and the list of other dependent industries is long: meatpacking, some construction trades, building services, health care, restaurant and retail service, and more. Trump would face enormous resistance from business owners if he tried to eliminate this workforce - an advantage and even a source of potential power for workers. In 2006, growers in California bused workers to the big marches, hoping the Sensenbrenner Bill wouldn't deprive them of labor. Within months of Trump's 2017 inauguration, agribusiness executives were meeting with him to ensure threats of a tightened border and raids would not be used when they needed workers. Just last month, construction companies in Texas were warning Trump that mass deportations would threaten their profits. But workers, communities, and unions can't depend on employers to battle Trump for them. What companies need is labor at a cost they want to pay. The existing system has worked well for them - but not for workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that about eight million of the eleven to twelve million undocumented people in the United States are wageworkers, and most are laboring for the minimum wage or close to it. The abysmal federal minimum of $7.25 per hour produces an annual income of $14,500. Even the higher minimums in states like California render an income of barely twice that. Social Security estimates that the average US wage is $66,000, but the average farmworker family's income is below $25,000. That enormous difference is a source of enormous profit. If the industries dependent on immigrant labor paid the national average, they would have to pay undocumented workers an additional $250 billion. The pressure is on Trump not only to guarantee workers but to guarantee them at a cost acceptable to corporate employers. Looking at his picks for his cabinet, it is clear that employers' needs come first. In his 2017 meetings with growers, Trump promised to expand the contract labor system, under which as many as 900,000 people recruited by employers work in the United States each year. These workers can come only to work, not to stay. Visa categories include the notorious H-2A program for farm labor, modeled after the old bracero program of the 1950s. Last year growers were given 370,000 H-2A visa certifications - a sixth of the entire US farm labor workforce. The program is known for abusing workers, and the recent reforms by Secretary of Labor Julie Su are already being targeted by growers and their MAGA allies for repeal. The H-2A program is already huge, but similar ones are growing in hospitality, meatpacking, and even for teachers in schools. There is no way this many workers can be recruited and deployed without displacing the existing workforce, itself consisting mostly of immigrants already living here. For farmworker unions and advocates, this poses a dilemma, and H-2A's expansion will deepen it. How can they organize and defend the existing workers, including their members, and at the same time defend, and even help recruit, those brought to replace them? H-2A farmworkers themselves, however, are not simply passive victims and have a history of protesting exploitation. Going on strike means getting fired, losing the visa and having to leave, and then being blacklisting from future recruitment. Nevertheless, despite the risks, these workers sometimes act when conditions become extreme. Unions like Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) in Washington state have assisted contract workers when strikes break out. Growers keep workers isolated, threatening them to make organizing as difficult as possible. In the meantime, FUJ and other unions protest the displacement, since the loss of jobs in farmworker communities means hunger and evictions. In many farmworker towns, the existing workers increasingly fear replacement, which makes strikes to raise wages risky and less frequent. Nevertheless, at the Ostrom mushroom plant in Washington state, the local workers, members of the United Farm Workers, have been on strike for two years against replacement by H-2A recruits. According to author Frank Bardacke, in the early 1960s, a growing willingness of braceros to leave their camps and join strikes by local workers cost the program its popularity among growers. That helped lead to its eventual abolition. The Trump program for supplying labor needs will pose these same challenges - but also opportunities for organizing. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Migrant farmworkers, domestic workers and their supporters marched through San Francisco's Mission District to call for passage of the Registry Bill, which would allow undocumented people to gain legal immigration status. The march was organized by the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform. Beyond the Deportation Threat In the civil rights era, fighting the mass deportations of the Cold War and the bracero program that gave growers the workers they wanted created two parallel demands. The leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement in particular - among them Bert Corona, Cesar Chavez, Larry Itliong, and Dolores Huerta - fought to end the program, a demand they won in 1964. But the movement did more than fight the abuse. It proposed and fought for more fundamental change. Much of this fight this took place on the ground. In 1965, the year after the program ended, Larry Itliong and veteran Filipino farmworker unionists started the great grape strike. That same year, the civil rights movement among Chicanos, Mexicans, and Asian Americans won fundamental change in US immigration law. The family preference system, favoring the reunification of families over the labor needs of employers, became the basis of US immigration policy, at least for a time. In the stream of people crossing the border, "we see our families and coworkers, while the growers just see money," says farmworker and domestic worker organizer Rene Saucedo. "So we have to fight for what we really need, and not just what we don't want." In other words, the struggle to stop enforcement and deportations requires fighting for an alternative. There have been many such alternative proposals in the past two decades, from the Dignity Campaign to the New Path of the American Friends Service Committee. Today the movement for an alternative is concentrated on the Registry Bill, a proposal that would give legal status to an estimated eight million undocumented people. The bill would update the cutoff date that determines which undocumented immigrants are eligible to apply for legal permanent residence. Right now, only people who arrived before January 1, 1973 can apply for it - a tiny and vanishing number. The proposal would bring the date to the present. Another, longer-range demand is the extension of voting rights. It is no accident that many of the counties and states where the undocumented workforce is concentrated, and where it produces the most profit for employers, are MAGA strongholds. If the whole working population of Phoenix and Tucson could actually vote, it would likely elect representatives who would pass social protections for all workers. Extending the franchise could add enough people to the political coalition in Mississippi to enable it to finally expel the Dixie establishment. So instead of thinking of the vote as a restricted privilege, as we are taught, we need to think of it as a working-class weapon - and understand how powerful class unity could make us across the lines of immigration status. By the same token, the political education of the US working class has to include an understanding of migration's roots and how US actions abroad - from military intervention to economic sanctions to neoliberal reforms - make migration a question of survival. When Mexican people fight for the right to stay home rather than coming north and elect a government that promises to move in that direction, they deserve and need the support of working-class people on the northern side of the border. Cross-border solidarity has a long history, but powerful media, cultural, and educational institutions deny us this knowledge. Without an independent effort to educate working people - whether by unions, communities, religious organizations, media workers, or progressive social movements - the door opens for MAGA and closes on our ability to organize in our own interest. Joining the rest of the world, as we did when we joined the international tradition of celebrating May Day in 2006, means recognizing the direction other countries are moving. With 281 million people living outside their birth countries and children perishing in the Mediterranean or the Rio Grande, the international community sometimes tries to step up. One such step was the United Nations Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. It supports the right to family reunification, establishes the principle of "equality of treatment" with citizens of the host country in relation to employment and education, protects migrants against collective deportation, and makes both origin and destination countries responsible for protecting these rights. All countries retain the right to determine who is admitted to their territories and under what conditions people gain the right to work. So far, however, only forty-nine migrant-sending countries, like Mexico and the Philippines, have ratified it. No US administration, Democratic or Republican, has ever submitted it to Congress for ratification. David Bacon @photos4justice on the daily lives and ongoing struggles (both personal and political) of farmworkers - interview on Against the Grain with C.S. 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Changes to COVID-19 surveillance over the past five years have been consistent, but integration is variable across regions. From the start of the pandemic until November 10, 2024, over 776.8 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 7 million confirmed deaths were notified to WHO across 234 countries. The majority of COVID-19 associated deaths occurred in 2020, 2021, and 2022, with increased immunity leading to a significant decrease in deaths. For the latest 4 week reporting period, from 14 October to 10 November 2024, 77 countries reported COVID-19 cases and 27 deaths globally. The number of reported cases decreased by 39%, with over 200 000 new cases and 36% of new deaths, compared to the previous 28 days. Overall, ICU admissions per 1000 hospitalizations have been decreasing since the peak in July 2021 when the rate was 245 per 1000 hospitalizations, dropping below 132 per 1000 hospitalizations at the beginning of 2022, and to less than 69 per 1000 hospitalizations by the end of 2023. At the beginning of 2024, there was an increase ICU admissions per 1000 hospitalizations, rising to above 191 per 1000 hospitalizations in March, and declining to 108 per 1000 hospitalizations in early November 2024. Meanwhile, deaths per 1000 hospitalization showed a consistent decline from June 2021 when they reached 253 per 1000 hospitalizations to a low level of 59 per 1000 hospitalizations in August 2023. Since January 2024, the rate has continued to decline reaching 41 deaths per 1000 hospitalizations by early November 2024. Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC), called "long COVID" by some, continues to pose a significant burden on health systems, with an estimated 6% of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections resulting in PCC symptoms. While severe COVID-19 is a significant risk factor for PCC, over 90% of PCC cases arise following mild COVID-19 due to the sheer volume of infections. Vaccination appears to offer a protective effect, reducing the likelihood of developing PCC. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has evolved since 2021, with high-income countries initially having higher vaccination rates. From January 2024, WHO shifted from measuring "continuous" COVID-19 vaccination coverage since the start of the vaccine rollout to measuring annual uptake. Using the new monitoring approach, as of the end of the third quarter of 2024, 39.2 million people in 90 Member States (representing 31% of the global population) received a dose this year, with 14.8 million in quarter three alone. In this special edition, we include:
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With U.S. capitalism has failing, they’re using China as their racist scape goat, had freaking increase its war drum against China. The U.S. military had piled up hundreds of military bases to encircle China with non-sense “China military threat” against China, that’s all our tax payers money with the expense of only benefitting psycho greedy military industrial complex!
U.S. and NATO are also bringing their toxic covert military cancel culture to Aisa, ordering it’s proxy from Japan, South Korea, China’s Taiwan to Philippines against China, a dream of creating another Asia-vision of Russian-Ukrainian conflict in East Asia, to destabilize Asia that only will benefit racist White-Anglo Saxon Partisan Male U.S. imperialists.
Instead of building mutual understanding and economic cooperation, U.S. are funding color revolution and psyops against China, include: Hong Kong color revolution riots of 2014-2019, so-called the “umbrella revolution”, or Xinjiang and Taiwan separatist movements.
The peace-loving and social justice activist from China and U.S. are loudly say NO to the U.S. imperialist agenda! And we had been building activist dialogues from both countries, delegations and fact-finding mission to China, as well as joint book project “Capitalism on a Ventilator” and “Voice of Xinjiang” “Vaccine and Sanctions” documentary projects.
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From: THE LEFT HOOK <thelefthook@substack.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Subject: This is How Big Tech Radicalized America and Helped Trump Become President
RNC and DNC: Two versions of anti-migrant policies.
The Republican National Convention, held in Milwaukee in July, was a blatant display of white supremacy and fascistic demagoguery regarding migrants. The Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago in August with a more inclusive and “progressive” façade, nevertheless presented a program that restricted the rights of migrants.
Regarding foreign policy, both parties supported jingoism and war-mongering, including backing Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine. This article, however, will focus on the two big imperialist parties’ rhetoric and program regarding migrants.
Despite the serious differences in their messaging rhetoric, both capitalist parties treated migrant families and undocumented workers as scapegoats, blaming them for the economic crisis and the difficulties faced by workers in the United States.
As in the prior two RNC gatherings, many speakers spewed hateful and fearmongering rhetoric against oppressed people, particularly immigrants and other non-U.S. citizens. RNC attendees waved signs that read, “Mass Deportations Now!”
Vitriolic bigotry was embedded in the RNC from beginning to end. For instance, the first two items of the preamble of its official 2024 program declare, “Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion,” and “Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.” (MSNBC, July 19)
The RNC has historically espoused anti-immigrant slanders, and former President Donald Trump raised the pitch of those hateful views when he became the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nominee. Trump repeatedly insulted undocumented workers with false charges. His campaign emboldened vicious reactionaries and encouraged violent attacks against migrant workers.
As the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, Trump is once again campaigning on a xenophobic and viciously anti-immigrant platform. Much like his 2016 and 2020 presidential runs, Trump is fixated on completing a racist “wall” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Unlike their Democratic Party counterparts, the Trump-led RNC has never even pretended public empathy towards migrants or refugees.
Democrats move to the right on immigration
In contrast to the RNC, the Democratic Party delegates and participants repeatedly tried to distance themselves from the blatant bigotry and toxic misogyny that was rampant throughout the RNC. Nearly every DNC speaker critically called out Trump by name.
While DNC speakers were less reactionary than RNC speakers, especially regarding domestic issues, there was a right-wing turn among the Democrats regarding immigration that even the corporate media noticed.
An Aug. 21 Newsweek article was entitled, “Democrats Show Rightward Shift on Immigration at the DNC.” The Los Angeles Times article that same day had this headline: “On Immigration, Democrats shift message to combat GOP attacks.”
The DNC featured several anti-migrant speakers who bragged about working with Congressional Republicans on a strict bipartisan “border security bill,” and they all blamed Trump for its failure to pass. At times, some DNC speakers sounded more like racist vigilantes and border agents than liberals rallying for an election victory.
One such speaker was Javier Salazar, the presiding sheriff of Bexar County, Texas. Dressed in his uniform and brandishing a badge on his chest, Salazer promised the DNC crowd that a Kamala Harris administration would be “tougher” on migration than another Trump administration. Salazar told the crowd, “Harris has been fighting border crime for years.” (San Antonio Report, Aug. 21)
One DNC keynote speaker who evoked anti-immigrant rhetoric was New York Congress Member Tom Souzzi. In fact, Souzzi flipped many Republican voters in his historically conservative Long Island district by campaigning against “sanctuary cities” and demonizing migrant families. He told the DNC delegates: “The border is broken. But this year, when Democrats and Republicans worked together to finally write new border laws, we were blocked.” (CBS News, Aug. 21)
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy was another presenter who echoed similar statements as Salazar and Souzzi, blaming Trump for “killing” their “bipartisan border bill. Murphy said, “It would have had unanimous support if it weren’t for Donald Trump.” (Forbes, Aug. 23)
Desperate attempts to “one-up” Trump
Several corporate media outlets called attention to the stark difference in the DNC’s messaging on immigration compared with the 2020 convention. As an Aug. 21 CBS News article noted: “The 2020 platform did not reference any restrictions on asylum. On the contrary, Democrats promised to ‘protect and expand the existing asylum system and other humanitarian protections’ and ‘end Trump Administration policies that deny protected entry to asylum seekers.’”
In contrast, “The party platform adopted at the DNC this week … embraced limits on asylum, a marked departure from its more progressive immigration stances in 2020. … The (DNC) 2024 platform says Democrats support quickly deporting economic migrants and calls on Congress to ‘strengthen requirements’ for asylum claims.”
Vice President Harris’s acceptance speech was also in lockstep with other DNC speakers who blamed Trump for blocking the bipartisan border bill. She said: “Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign … So, he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal.” She promised to “bring back the bipartisan border security bill.” (Forbes, Aug. 23) Remember that this bill would severely limit asylum.
Undocumented workers and migrant families are often forced to flee countries around the globe because of unbearable conditions brought on by world imperialism and in the Western Hemisphere, mainly by U.S. imperialism. The U.S. exports unemployment and imposes sanctions and military coups that drive people to leave their homelands.
Although this was rarely mentioned at the conventions, undocumented workers contribute billions of dollars into federal, state and local taxes annually. Yet, because they lack legal status, they receive little, if any, of the benefits due them. Meanwhile, on farms, in construction and in many cities, they perform much of the work that was recognized in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic as being essential to the functioning of society.
Big bosses aim to divide and exploit all workers
The ruling capitalist class knows it needs the labor of undocumented workers and is happy to superexploit them. But it is more important to the capitalists’
overall class interests to maintain divisions within the working class. The bosses rely on the strategy of divide and conquer, which means supporting propaganda that keeps workers pitted against one another – and especially on keeping workers who are citizens believing that the enemy is the migrant worker and not the boss.
Both U.S. capitalist political parties are fanning the flames of anti-immigrant frenzy to divide working-class voters and pander to backward segments of the electorate. The RNC platform explicitly dehumanizes migrants and has very little to say about permitting “legal” migration. While slightly less vile in their attacks on migrants, the DNC program sent a clear message that they are campaigning on a much more restrictive approach towards immigration than they did just four years ago.
Neither U.S. capitalist party represents the interests of the working class and oppressed peoples. While the Republican Party outright associates with fascist union busters like the Heritage Foundation, the Democratic Party presents itself as being more “pro-union” and at the same time puts forth an agenda that calls for the separation of migrant families and criminalization of undocumented workers.
Class-conscious revolutionaries understand that an injury to one worker is an injury to all working people. And this means regardless of possessing citizenship or the legal right to remain and work. Marxists know it is important to educate workers about the necessity of uniting with everyone in the working class and to reject the racist, anti-immigrant propaganda spewed by both capitalist parties that only serves the material interests of the employer class.
The late Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin wrote compassionately about the significance of internationalist, working-class unity. In conclusion of his 1913 essay “Capitalism and Workers Immigration,” he wrote: “The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited. Class-conscious workers, realizing that the break-down of all national barriers by capitalism is inevitable and progressive, are trying to help to enlighten and organize their fellow-workers.” (Pravda, Oct. 29, 1913)
Lenin’s approach, building working-class solidarity, is the way to confront the vicious xenophobic rhetoric of the RNC and the softer anti-migrant program of the DNC.
People Power.EL MELINKA SE APROXIMA A LOS 41 Años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,ESPALDA "MOJADA" EN LOS EE.UU.
Sunday,Juanary,29,1984
THE EL PASO TIMES.
EL 29 DE ENERO 2025. EL MELINKA CUMPLE 41 años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,
MOJADO,SIN PAPELES,
CLANDESTA EN LA LUCHA POR TOD@S L@S INDOCUMENTAD@S Y PROLETARIOS DEL MUNDO,LA LUCHA CONTINUA.EN LOS EE.UU.
41 años de indocumentado en EE.UU.por Victor Toro Ramirez...,
Introducion:
El
29 de enero de 2025, se cumpliran 41 años del dia que ingrese a los
EE.UU.Viajando desde Mexico DF,pasando por muchos pueblos hasta llegar a
Juarez despues de varias intentonas atravesando el Rio Bravo fue el
Domingo 29 de enero de 1984 tras una nueva tactica de madrugada ocurrio
el paso por el Rio Bravo y desde ahi al Aero Puerto de la Ciudad del
Paso.TX,con EL THE DEL PASO TIME el periodico mas importante de la
Ciudad bajo el brazo,haciendo como UNA PARTE que lo leia en el cual una
foto mia salia en Primer Plano y con una Entrevista habia realizado
dias antes en la ciudad de Juarez,poco a poco nos fuimos adentrando
hacia el Avion que ya estaba con los motores prendido y que me podria
llevar hasta Alburqueque y pasar los controles de la Migra y asi lograr
el objetivo.Lo que se logro y asi llegar hasta los abrazos de L@s
Herman@s nos esperaban en el Aereo Puerto de Alburqueque,N.Mexico.
People Power.EL MELINKA SE APROXIMA A LOS 41 Años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,ESPALDA "MOJADA" EN LOS EE.UU.
Sunday,Juanary,29,1984
THE EL PASO TIMES.
EL 29 DE ENERO 2025. EL MELINKA CUMPLE 41 años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,
MOJADO,SIN PAPELES,
CLANDESTA EN LA LUCHA POR TOD@S L@S INDOCUMENTAD@S Y PROLETARIOS DEL MUNDO,LA LUCHA CONTINUA.EN LOS EE.UU.
41 años de indocumentado en EE.UU.por Victor Toro Ramirez...,
Introducion:
El
29 de enero de 2025, se cumpliran 41 años del dia que ingrese a los
EE.UU.Viajando desde Mexico DF,pasando por muchos pueblos hasta llegar a
Juarez despues de varias intentonas atravesando el Rio Bravo fue el
Domingo 29 de enero de 1984 tras una nueva tactica de madrugada ocurrio
el paso por el Rio Bravo y desde ahi al Aero Puerto de la Ciudad del
Paso.TX,con EL THE DEL PASO TIME el periodico mas importante de la
Ciudad bajo el brazo,haciendo como UNA PARTE que lo leia en el cual una
foto mia salia en Primer Plano y con una Entrevista habia realizado
dias antes en la ciudad de Juarez,poco a poco nos fuimos adentrando
hacia el Avion que ya estaba con los motores prendido y que me podria
llevar hasta Alburqueque y pasar los controles de la Migra y asi lograr
el objetivo.Lo que se logro y asi llegar hasta los abrazos de L@s
Herman@s nos esperaban en el Aereo Puerto de Alburqueque,N.Mexico.
EL MELINKA SE APROXIMA A LOS 41 Años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,ESPALDA "MOJADA" EN LOS EE.UU.
Sunday,Juanary,29,1984
THE EL PASO TIMES.
EL 29 DE ENERO 2025. EL MELINKA CUMPLE 41 años INDOCUMENTADO,ILEGAL,
MOJADO,SIN PAPELES,
CLANDESTA EN LA LUCHA POR TOD@S L@S INDOCUMENTAD@S Y PROLETARIOS DEL MUNDO,LA LUCHA CONTINUA.EN LOS EE.UU.
41 años de indocumentado en EE.UU.por Victor Toro Ramirez...,
El
29 de enero de 2025, se cumpliran 41 años del dia que ingrese a los
EE.UU.Viajando desde Mexico DF,pasando por muchos pueblos hasta llegar a
Juarez despues de varias intentonas atravesando el Rio Bravo fue el
Domingo 29 de enero de 1984 tras una nueva tactica de madrugada ocurrio
el paso por el Rio Bravo y desde ahi al Aero Puerto de la Ciudad del
Paso.TX,con EL THE DEL PASO TIME el periodico mas importante de la
Ciudad bajo el brazo,haciendo como UNA PARTE que lo leia en el cual una
foto mia salia en Primer Plano y con una Entrevista habia realizado
dias antes en la ciudad de Juarez,poco a poco nos fuimos adentrando
hacia el Avion que ya estaba con los motores prendido y que me podria
llevar hasta Alburqueque y pasar los controles de la Migra y asi lograr
el objetivo.Lo que se logro y asi llegar hasta los abrazos de L@s
Herman@s nos esperaban en el Aereo Puerto de Alburqueque,N.Mexico.
3 DE ENERO DE 2025
PEOPLE POWER.
Chile Archive
https://www.lahaine.org/
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América Latina y el Caribe, presa de EEUU X Atilio Boron.
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Nuevo año X Eduardo Galeano.
Álvaro Uribe se propone regresar a la presidencia en 2026 X Horacio Duque.
El 10 de enero, más Maduro, más Revolución X Carlos Aznárez
La(s) identidad(es) del historiador x Enzo Traverso.
La pequeña burguesía y el problema del poder x Ruy Mauro Marini.
Los BRICS y el nuevo escenario mundial x Marcelo Colussi.
Anhelos insulares: Haití y R.Dominicana X Narciso Isa Conde.
El legado antiimperialista de Lenin X Claudio Katz - La Haine.
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[Podcast] PROGRAMA ESPECIAL DE RADIO LAFKENCHE: Marcha de Pobladorxs de Tomas y Campamentos de San Antonio y Cartagena
3 DE ENERO DE 2025
En los últimos quince años, cinco ex directores generales de Carabineros han enfrentado la justicia: Bruno Villalobos, Gustavo González Jure y Eduardo Gordon a los que este martes se sumarán los de Ricardo Yáñez y Mario Rozas por el delito de omisión por apremios ilegítimos ocurridos en el contexto del estallido social.
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