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Cross Border Solidarity

The Coalition sponsored a Vigil of Resistance to Arizona’s Immigration Law in partnership with a National Weekend of Prayer & Action for Immigrant Justice. organized by Interfaith Worker Justice. LRCNYS is an affiliate of IWJ.

The July 2010 event in Albany, NY lifted up the experiences of local immigrants, illustrated the complex causes of immigration and demanded a just solution to the broken immigration system that gave rise to SB-1070. The law would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country without papers. SB-1070 was scheduled for implementation on July 29.

"Mexico: Corporate Hit Men Find New Ways to Turn a Profit" (Jan. 20, 2010) describes the lucrative business of the Zetas, a "murder-for-hire" firm stealing gasoline from Mexico's nationalized PEMEX petroleum company and reselling it to Texas oil companies. They're "doing the only noble thing under the NAFTA regime, mak[ing] money" , says author Todd Miller, a research associate for the North American Congress on Latin America.

NACLA is "an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from economic and political subordination."

The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labor and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.

For grassroots movement building and sharing of resources within the US-Latin American Solidarity Community, visit the INTERCONNECT web site and read the newsletter.

Last Updated:12/06/2011
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