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May 1, 2008

International Workers Day
Stop the Raids & Deportations
Legalization Now · Justice for ALL
EAST BOSTON/EVERETT/CHELSEA
MARCH/RALLY for IMMIGRANT & WORKER RIGHTS

An injury to one is an injury to all!

For more information about the East Boston/Everett/Chelsea march please contact: 617.889.6080

We Say:
  • Black, Latin@, Asian, Indigenous, Arab, White - In Unity there is strength.

  • ICE raids are racist, anti-union and violate immigrant and US workers' civil rights & divide families.

  • Jobs & homes, not lay-off and foreclosures. Stop demolition of public housing in New Orleans & everywhere.

  • No war in Iraq. Bring the troops home now.

  • Political asylum for Victor Toro. No deporation for Flor Crisostomo.

  • Money for levees in New Orleans, not the US / Mexico border wall.

  • Repeal NAFTA, no more U.S. trade agreements that force migration & cause lay-offs here.
The East Boston/Everett/Chelsea march has been endorsed by: Art Builds Community; ACE; Alfaro Enterprises, Inc.; American Civil Liberties Union; Bella Isla Cafe; Bishop Filipe C. Teixeira Diocese St. Francis; BOLD Teens; Boston School Bus Union-USW 8751; Boston Environmental Network; Boston May Day Coalition; Boston Tenant Coalition; Brazilian Immigrant Center; Brazilian Women’s Group; Brazilian Worker’s Center; Broadway Jewelers; Castillo Productions; Centro familiar de Adoracion; Centro Latino de Chelsea; Centro Presente; Chelsea ASAP; Charles Group Consulting; Chelsea City Councillor Marilyn Vega-Torres; Chelsea City Councillor Roseann Bongiovanni; Chelsea City Councillor Roy Avellaneda; Chelsea Collaborative; Chelsea Green Space Committee; Chelsea Latino Coalition; Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee; Chelsea Police Department; Chelsea School Committee Member Lucía Colón; Chelsea School Committee Member Melinda Vega Alvarado; Chelsea United Against the War; Chinese Progressive Association; CHOICE Thru Education; City of Chelsea; City of Everett; Community Labor United; Concilio Hispano; Clean Water Action; Danny Rodriguez; CSIO; CUDE; Dominican Development Center; Eastie Latino Magazine; EBECC; Edwin Mejia Law Firm; El Mundo Newspaper; El Salvador en el Aire; El Xielo; FMLN Boston; Gallego Real Estate; Gloribell Mota, Greater Boston Legal Services; HarborCov, Inc.; Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal CLA; Iglesia Metodista Unida “Nueva Vida”; Iglesia Santa Rosa de Lima; Iglesia Profetica Cristiana “El Tabernaculo”; International Action Center; Irish Immigration Center; Jarrett T. Barrios; Jobs with Justice Mass.; Jovanna Garcia; Kathy Brown; La Alianza Hispana; La Comunidad, Inc.; Law Office of Sylvia Guzman; Magacin 10AM 1600; Marcos & Neenah Luna; Maria Alamo; MASS COSH; MASSVOTE; Matahari Eye of the Day; Metapan Restaurant; MIRA; Neighbor to Neighbor; New England Human Rights for Haiti; NOAH; Now is the Time! Ya es Hora Ve y Vota!; Primo Simon 1600; Project Voice (AFSC); Radio Atlantica 1600; Rafael Perez; Representative Eugene O’Flaherty; Ritmo Guanaco 1600; ROCA Immigrant & Refugee Initiative; Salvadoreños Unidos en el Exterior; San Martin de Porres Church; Senator Anthony Galluccio; SEIU Local 615; SPC Noticias 1600; St. Luke’s/San Lucas Episcopal Church; Suffolk Building Services; Suffolk University Legal Services; Tito’s Bakery; Tu Casa Restaurant; ¿Oistes?; Painter’s Union District Council 35; Pioneer Valley; UMASS Gaston Institute; United for a Fair Economy; United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445; Women’s Fight Back Network


Thursday, May 1

International Workers Day
Stop the raids and deportations!

4:00 pm - Rally at Boston Common
5:30 pm - March to Copley Sq.

for more information: bostonmayday.org
Endorsers: AFSC Project Voice, Allston/Brighton Collective for Popular Assemblies, Allston/Brighton Neigborhood Assembly, ANSWER, PSL, Bikes Not Bombs, Boston Anarchist Black Cross, Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement, Boston May Day Coalition, Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Brazilian Workers Center, Centro Presente, CISPES, Community Church of Boston, CSIO Boston, Food Not Bombs, Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, Latinas/os for Social Change, International Action Center, IWW, Jobs with Justice, Lucy Parsons Center, Mass Global Action, MLK Bolivarian Circle, National Lawyers Guild - Mass., New England Human Rights Organization on Haiti, Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Students at Tufts Active for Immigrant Rights, Suffolk and Emerson Anti-Authoritarians, TJs Workers Collective.

International Women’s Day 2008: ‘We will organize & mobilize’
The Women’s Fightback Network—Boston organized a car caravan of women activists and supporters. A sound truck played music while young women leaders led chants and rapped. Passersby gave thumbs up and raised fists.

In driving rain, the caravan passed Boston Police Headquarters, where activists demanded an end to Criminal Offender Record Information laws, and Boston City Hospital, where chants echoed: “Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide.”

A Countrywide Financial Co. office, across the street from a homeless shelter, became the target of a militant action when women plastered a banner demanding an end to ALL foreclosures. Countrywide is a major predatory lender.

With music blaring and chants of “Jobs Not Jails,” the cavalcade pulled up to the Suffolk County Community Corrections Center—where 150 to 200 women are incarcerated, unfurled banners and formed a picket line. Prisoners put their hands on the windows and pumped their fists.




Activists Stop Eviction in Dorchester!
They began arriving at the two-family home at 26 Semont Street in working-class Dorchester shortly after sunrise on a freezing Jan. 23. Anticipating a constable’s early morning knock to evict Melanie Griffiths-Evans, tenants and homeowners—many themselves facing eviction and foreclosure—converged from the surrounding neighborhoods, determined that she would not face it alone...

Martin Luther King Day Means Struggle & Unity -
The First MLK Hip-Hop Rally

A militant youth-led Martin Luther King Day rally, march and speakout against racism filled the streets of downtown Boston on Jan. 21 with chants, hip-hop and spoken word calling for funding Dr. King’s dream, cutting the military budget and using the money for jobs, housing, education and health care...




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