If they can shout you down in a meeting for speaking Spanish…

….then they will beat you down in an alley for being Latino.

And if adults who disrupt town meetings and shout down their opponents with hateful slurs and threats are portrayed on Fox News as  “good Americans,” then young people will take it to the next level.  In particular, this will be so for young people who are being taught to believe that the reason their lives suck is that immigrants “stole” their parents’ jobs and opportunities.

That ought to be the lesson of today’s account of six boys in Massachusetts – ages 11 to 14 – who severely injured a Guatamalan immigrant in an attack outside Boston. Authorities are investigating the possibility that the youths engaged in similar attacks against other Latinos, using “bricks, bottles and rocks.”

Don”t waste time shaking your head and wondering how this could happen…or what could have motivated these boys.  Just go to any meeting of your local anti-immigrant group and listen to the vile rhetoric of “good Americans.”  These kids are just acting out what they see and hear at home and on the news, and the only greater danger than their existence is the danger that the hate-mongers will begin to recruit and encourage them in their acts of violence.

Filed under: Fighting oppression, Immigrant rights

Advocates’ statement condemning expansion of anti-immigrant DHS 287(g) programs

There are areas where Barack Obama’s changes in personnel and policy have yielded some positive results for working people and poor people in the U.S.  And there are other areas where the president has not lived up to his promise.  Immigration is definitely one of those, in spite of the discussion about his plans for “comprehensive immigration reform.”  Recently, the administration approved the expansion of 287(g) programs in the U.S.  These are agreements with local law enforcement allowing them to enforce federal immigration law – a disastrous recipe to encourage the worst kinds of racial profiling and abuses.

Following is a recent statement issued by groups that have worked on immigrant rights issues, discussing the 287(g) expansion:

ADVOCATES ISSUE STATEMENT CONDEMNING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S

EXPANSION OF DHS’S FAILED 287(g) PROGRAM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2009

Media Contacts:

Adela de la Torre, Communication Specialist, National Immigration Law Center, 213.674.2832 (office), 213.400.7822 (cell)

Andrea Black, Coordinator, Detention Watch Network, 202-393-1044 ext. 227 (office), 520-240-3726 (cell)

Judith Greene, Director, Justice Strategies, 718-857-3316, jgreene@justicestrategies.net

Civil rights and community groups across the country denounce Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano’s plans to expand the highly criticized 287(g) program to eleven new jurisdictions around the country.  The program, authorized in 1996 and widely implemented under the Bush Administration, relinquishes, with no meaningful oversight, immigration enforcement power to local law enforcement and corrections agencies.

Since its inception the program has drawn sharp criticism from federal officials, law enforcement, advocates and local community groups.  A February 2009 report by Justice Strategies, a nonpartisan research firm, found widespread use of pretextual traffic stops, racially motivated questioning, and unconstitutional searches and seizures by local law enforcement agencies granted 287(g) powers.  Justice Strategies recommended the program be suspended.  “We found evidence that growth of the 287(g) program has been driven more by racial animus than by concerns about public safety.  The expansion of this deeply flawed program cannot be justified before a thorough test of corrective actions shows solid proof that they have been effective,” reports Judy Greene, Director of Justice Strategies. A March 2009 Government Accountability Agency (GAO) report, criticized DHS for insufficient oversight of the controversial program.

Also in March, the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation into Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, to determine whether Arpaio is using his 287(g) power to target Latinos and Spanish-speaking people.  In Davidson County, Tennessee, the Sheriff’s Office has used its 287(g) power to apprehend undocumented immigrants driving to work, standing at day labor sites, or while fishing off piers. One pregnant woman—charged with driving without a license—was forced to give birth while shackled to her bed during labor. Preliminary data indicate that in some jurisdictions the majority of individuals arrested under 287(g) are accused of public nuisance or traffic offenses: driving without a seatbelt, driving without a license, broken taillights, and similar offences.  Such a pattern of arrests suggest that local sheriff’s deputies are improperly using their 287(g) powers to rid their counties of immigrants, by making pretextual arrests that are then used to forcefully deport people. “We need only look at the example of Maricopa County to understand the devastating effects the increased 287(g) program will have on our communities,” said Chris Newman, Legal Programs Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.  “The Obama administration must recognize that the 287(g) program is predatory and ripe for corruption and profiling that will harm community stability and safety for everyone.”

The Police Foundation, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Major Chiefs Association have expressed concerns that deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce civil federal immigration law undermine the trust and cooperation of immigrant communities, overburdens cities’ already reduced resources, and leaves cities vulnerable to civil liability claims.  “When victims and witnesses of crime are afraid to contact police for fear of being jailed or deported, public safety suffers,” said Marielena Hincapie, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center.

Napolitano’s July 10 announcement that DHS has granted 11 new jurisdictions 287(g) powers stunned advocates who had been expecting a major overhaul of – or end to – this failed program.  “DHS is fully aware that the abusive misuse of the 287(g) program by its current slate of agencies has rendered it not only ineffective, but dangerous to community safety.   It is surprising Napolitano did not simply shut this program down.  Expanding this failed program is not in line with the reform the administration has promised,” said Andrea Black, Coordinator of the Detention Watch Network.

Signatory Organizations:

A Better Way Foundation, New Haven, CT

All of Us or None, San Francisco, CA

Border Action Network, Tucson, AZ

Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY

Center for Media Justice, Oakland, CA

Detention Watch Network, Washington, DC

Families for Freedom, New York, NY

Florida Immigrant Coalition, Miami, FL

Grassroots Leadership, Austin, Texas

Homies Unidos, Los Angeles, CA

Immigrant Defense Project, New York, NY

Immigrant Justice Network

Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis School of Law, Davis, CA

Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY

Justice Strategies, New York, NY

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA

Main Street Project, Minneapolis, MN

Media Action Grassroots Network, Oakland, CA

National Day Laborer Organizing Network

National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA

Partnership for Safety and Justice, Portland, Oregon

Project Rethink

Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA

Filed under: Immigrant rights

Is the border fence a joke? West Hartford restaurant owners thinks so.

Please contact these restaurant owners – Plan B and Taqueria Tavern at 138-140 Park Road in West Hartford, Connecticut – and tell them that the border fence is not a joke but a symbol of the thousands of people who every year die trying to cross the border into the U.S. Immigrant workers aren’t coming across that border because they hate their homelands or because they love the idea of working for subminimum wage and being treated like animals by U.S. employers. They come because U.S. economic policy and the big banks and corporations have devastated their communities and it’s cross the border or starve. There’s nothing funny about racist jokes and we won’t tolerate it in our community.

Taqueria Tavern
(860) 899-1981

Plan B Restaurant
(860) 231-1199

An Of(fence)ive Image, Intended Or Not

Hartford Courant
Helen Ubiñas
July 9, 2009

There were a good number of people eating outside Taqueria Tavern and the adjoining Plan B restaurant the other day, but no one seemed to pay much attention to the fence with metallic strips between the two eateries.

A reader had tipped me off about some curious decor at the new Mexican restaurant on Park Road in West Hartford, and suggested I go take a look.

So, I grabbed one of my more measured colleagues and while we waited for our food at an outside table we debated whether the fence was as offensive as the reader had said.

Could be a cattle fence, he reasoned.

Could be.

Or some rustic Tex-Mex take-off?

Maybe.

Or just some cheesy addition to go with the equally cheesy cigarette receptacle shaped like a cactus. Also a possibility.

But then I asked our waitress what the fence represented.

The liquor commission mandates a division between eateries, she said, while grabbing the check.

Oh, if only she had stopped there.

But she didn’t. It’s supposed to represent the border fence, she continued. Inside, she told us with cringing enthusiasm, they even have a sign, one side pointing to the U.S., the other to Mexico.

[continued at An Of(fence)ive Image, Intended or Not]

Filed under: Fighting oppression, Immigrant rights

CT Law Tribune: “Public defender cleared of all charges”

Connecticut Law Tribune
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Copyright 2009, ALM Properties, Inc.

Public Defender Cleared Of Charges

Arrestfollowed an unusual encounter with ICE agents

By DOUGLAS S. MALAN

Supervisory Public Defender Elisa Villa was cleared of all charges Wednesday morning stemming from her arrest after an unusual confrontation in a Bristol courthouse earlier this year.

In a brief court proceeding, Waterbury Superior Court Judge Frank A. Iannotti granted a motion by Villa’s attorney to dismiss all charges. Those charges included breach of peace, interfering with a peace officer and hindering a prosecution by a peace officer.

“It’s a successful resolution to the case,” said Edward J. Gavin, who represented Villa. The state’s attorney’s office “saw the legal issues and the claims and acted with all reason.”

Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Paul Murray, who prosecuted the case for the state, declined comment.

Villa was arrested this spring after a confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who attempted to take Anselmo Antonio-Valerian into custody during a court appearance on a minor traffic violation.

Judicial marshals at the courthouse claimed that Villa was interfering with ICE agents by keeping Antonio-Valerian in the public defender’s office. State police were called and when ICE agents got access to Antonio-Valerian in the hallway, the police claimed that Villa, who is about 5-foot-2 and 115 pounds, pushed one of the officers.

David Peck, who represented Antonio-Valerian, said he never saw Villa push anyone.

Gavin continues to deny the shoving incident happened and said the breach of peace charge was dismissed for lack of evidence.

Gavin noted the other charges were dropped because, by statute, ICE agents are not considered peace officers, and therefore the charges did not apply.•

Filed under: Immigrant rights

Police Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis: Implications for Workers and the Oppressed

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, covering the annual May Day demonstrations in southwest Detroit on May 1, 2008. (Photo: Alan Pollock).

As the capitalist downturn deepens state repression escalates against people in the U.S. and internationally

by Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire

Over the last several months, a series of dramatic cases involving police killings of civilians have brought to light the essential role of law-enforcement within capitalist societies. Numerous cities throughout the United States have seen a dramatic increase in the murder of African Americans by cops as well as the escalation of raids and deportations against immigrants both legal and undocumented.

Although the problem of police terrorism and repression has existed for well over a century in the U.S., even going back to the period of slavery and the post-civil war era, since the beginning of this decade, there have been disturbing trends indicating that the level of repression is reaching critical proportions. This rise in reported incidents of police brutality and killings of civilians is taking place at the same time as the economic underpinnings of low-wage capitalism continues to deteriorate.

[More at Pan-African News Wire]

Filed under: Economic crisis, Fighting oppression, Immigrant rights, Police brutality

SUPPORT PRO-IMMIGRANT STUDENT ACTIVISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA

[The following statement by the University of North Carolina chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was forwarded to me by comrades from the International Action Center.  From the news coverage of the successful SDS protest against anti-immigrant bigot Tom Tancredo, it is already clear that there will be a backlash. UNC officials have already said that they plan to "investigate whether to bring charges" against SDS activists, who they accuse of interfering with Tancredo's right to free speech - or is it his right to hate speech?  In the process, racists that planned the event, the cops who brutally attacked the protesters, and former congressman Tancredo, who uses his "free speech" to whip up violence against immigrants will be held blameless.

As it says below, please send statements of solidarity to the SDS activists who successfully challenged Tancredo.]

SUPPORT PRO-IMMIGRANT STUDENT ACTIVISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA

Send letters of solidarity asap to SDS activists at Unc.sds@gmail.com

*Statement by UNC Students for a Democratic Society on the protest of Tom Tancredo*

Press contacts:

Linda Gomaa – (704) 737-2728

Tyler Oakley – (919) 537-8665

Scott Williams – (919) 794-1429

Carlos Montes, Southern California Immigrants Coalition – (213) 712-0370

April 15, 2009

Former congressman Tom Tancredo was invited to speak at UNC on April 14 by Youth for Western Civilization, a newly-formed white supremacist organization on campus. Many student organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society, organized protests and alternative responses to the event. The violence and extreme force used by the campus police against the demonstrators caused an escalation that led to the event being shut down.

Over 200 people, including multiple student and community organizations, used a diversity of tactics to protest Tancredo, who is a symbol of hate, racism, and the scapegoating of immigrants. Some organizations wanted to challenge Tancredo through debate at the event; others, including SDS, marched from the Pit to Bingham Hall to protest outside the event; still others wanted to shut down the event entirely. It is extremely unfortunate that a lack of coordination between the different tactics employed led to the Carolina Hispanic Association and others’ dissent being silenced.

SDS was part of the march to Bingham Hall. Some members also sat quietly in the audience to challenge Tancredo with questions at the end of the event. We are proud to see that so many people came out to participate in the demonstrations. At the same time, it is regrettable that police violence led to an escalation which prevented many individuals and organizations from expressing their dissent towards Tancredo through speaking at the event.

There have been many accounts of what happened outside; some are based in fact while others are wildly speculative and untrue. As participants of the outside protest, these are our accounts of what happened:

• The march route was planned to start in the Pit, pass through Bingham once, then hold a rally outside.

• Police stopped the march in the lobby of Bingham.

• A few minutes later, Tancredo entered the building. No one tried to block him, but some protesters were shoved into the wall by Tancredo’s entourage.

• Not long after, two women were dragged out of Bingham 103 by police and thrown to the floor in the lobby. Demonstrators chanted, “Shame on you,” and attempted to help them up.

• Five minutes later and without verbal warning, police started pepper-spraying. Contrary to police reports, the pepper spray was not “broadcast” into the air; it was sprayed directly at people’s faces.

• Officer Twiddy sparked his taser over people’s heads, threatening to tase them.

• Another police officer pulled a woman’s hair.

• Protesters were pushed out of the building, after which they continued to rally in front of Bingham for the duration of the protest.

• Shortly after protesters were ejected, a window of Bingham 103 was broken.

**It is our firm belief that the actions of the Campus Police caused the escalation outside the event. All organizations involved in the protest were non-violent. Rather, it was the violence employed by the Campus Police that created a climate of fear and chaos. The issue is not about a broken window; it is about broken families, deportation and xenophobia.

We would like to clarify that SDS did not participate in the event with the intent to shut it down, but we are not surprised that it happened. Tancredo is a national symbol of hate and racism. Thus, it is no surprise that his attempt to scapegoat immigrants garnered strong opposition. In this time of economic crisis, it is more important than ever to challenge bigoted and racist views. Standing up to his destructive rhetoric has given strength to groups around the country. Immigrants rights organizations nationwide are applauding the protest of Tancredo at UNC. Carlos Montes, with the Southern California Immigrants Coalition, said, “I support the students right to protest racist Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has to be confronted and exposed wherever he speaks. The students should be commended for their action.”

In response to the police conduct on April 14, we demand an immediate investigation into the actions of the Campus Police, and call for a standing student review board to oversee all police conduct on campus.

We further ask that organizations and individuals who are supportive of the protest that transpired express statements of solidarity with SDS, which is currently being attacked by anti-immigrant, right-wing forces on and off campus.

No human being is illegal. Solidarity with all immigrants!

Students for a Democratic Society

UNC-Chapel Hill

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.chapelhillsds.org

Filed under: Fighting oppression, Immigrant rights

May Day 2009

Filed under: Immigrant rights

To start Obama’s dialogue on immigration, stop the ICE raids!

Today’s New York Times says that President Obama has announced that he intends to begin a national discussion on immigration that would end with the passage of legislation aimed at comprehensive immigration reform by the Fall of this year.  The Times also says that Obama’s plans for this discussion including some avenue by which undocumented immigrants can attain legal status in the U.S.

Flyer for Great American Boycott, May 1, 2006

A national dialogue on immigration is long overdue.  So far the exchanges have been one-sided.  In 2006, tens of millions of immigrants and their supporters came out into the streets in May Day demonstrations across the U.S. to demand an end to an immigration policy that keeps them hiding in the shadows and that punishes them for merely wanting to work to support their families.  The national boycott, in which many industries with large concentrations of immigrant workers virtually came to a halt for 24 hours, was the first great political strike by workers in U.S. history.  In its wake, many civic organizations, community groups, churches and labor unions saw the justice in the immigrants’ demands and began to find ways of opening doors for them at the community level.

The response from the government, however, has been three years of repression, with Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) agents leading the charge, often with the support of local police departments, terrorizing immigrant communities through the use of gestapo-like tactics to round up, imprison and deport thousands of people.  Right behind them were racist public officials raising and often passing laws and ordinances that target immigrants, Spanish-speaking people, Muslims, and people of color generally.  And cheerleading for these thugs have been a parade of right wing radio, television and print “commentators” as well as hate groups like the Minutemen.

For that reason, one of the first conditions for a national dialogue has to be an end to ICE raids and the release of thousands of people who are currently in detention camps and prisons awaiting immigration court proceedings. This cannot be a discussion about immigration in which immigrants are not allowed to participate freely and openly, or a national dialogue about what “those people” do or do not deserve.

Sadly, Obama’s political allies seem to envision something very much like that.  The Times says that:

. . . Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Mr. Obama’s hometown, Chicago, has been on the road most weekends since last December, traveling far outside his district to meetings in Hispanic churches, hoping to generate something like a civil rights movement in favor of broad immigration legislation.

However, it goes on to observe that in these church meetings “Illegal immigrants have not been invited to speak.”

May 1, 2009 will mark three years since those amazing and courageous demonstrations that swept the country.  The news that Obama will seek to begin a national dialogue on immigration should be seized upon by everyone concerned about social and economic justice.  May Day is the perfect time to begin that dialogue with large demonstrations by immigrants and non-immigrants together for the fundamental human right to live and work without fear.  Communities marking ths important holiday – International Workers Day, as it is celebrated around the world – should raise as a cental demand that Obama order an end to the ICE raids so that immigrants can participate in this discussion about their future in a meaningful way.

Filed under: Immigrant rights, Justice, justice

Connecticut’s immigrant rights movement needs a wake-up call

On Friday, Elisa Villa, a public defender in Bristol, was arrested for attempting to stop federal ICE agents from taking a client, Anselmo Antonio-Valerian, into custody who had come to court to face a motor vehicle charge.

I’m not going to waste more than a sentence on the people who think that Elisa’s arrest this a good thing: hard working people who come to this country so that they can make a life for themselves and their families are in my view more entitled to be called “citizens” than the scumbag UTC executive and his wife who are squabbling over how to divide up their millions in a divorce battle.

But as I read this very short article about Elisa’s arrest and Anselmo’s seizure by ICE, I could clearly picture the two different-but-the-same reactions that many of my friends in the immigrant rights movement will have:

One group – the liberals – will tut-tut and shake their heads and say something like “I agree with the sentiment, but none of us can take the law into our own hands!”

The other group – the radicals – will turn red in the face and blurt out “Her arrest is an outrage, but individual actions won’t change things, we need organized protest!”

What it seems no one will say is the uncomfortable truth: We, the well-meaning people who make up the backbone of the immigrant rights movement here in Connecticut, both the liberals and the radicals, both the activists who organize and the supporters who turn out and write letters and sign petitions, have failed Elisa and Anselmo.

Liberal immigration activists are nodding politely over tea with our congressional representatives – the ones who will tell us privately how deeply moved they are by the stories of suffering of immigrants, while publicly putting “Secure the border” at the top of their immigration policy wishlists, as if immigrants were an evil, invading army.

Radical immigration activists are organizing yet another picket line. Because if we can get 25 people to a picket today, then we can have a public meeting denouncing ICE next week and get 50 people there. And maybe next time we can get 50 people to a picket and then 100 people to the next public meeting.

Meanwhile, in virtually every discussion with people in Connecticut who are undocumented, I hear the same litany of needs recited:

1. I need identification, and especially I need to be able to get a driver’s license. In Connecticut, you have to be able to drive to work, and if I drive, then the police can stop me and arrest me. That’s how a lot of people end up being detained by ICE.

2. I’m afraid of the police because they stop us and question us even when we’re not doing anything wrong, and that’s when people end up getting arrested for minor charges, and then are turned over to ICE in court or in jail.

3. My employer and my landlord take advantage of me because they say that if I complain about not getting paid for my work or if I insist that they do something about the heat not working in the winter, then they will report me to ICE, or they will call the police on me and when they find out I have no papers, they will turn me over to ICE.

It would be wonderful to build a movement that could force elected officials to take up the issue of federal immigration reform. It would be wonderful to have a movement strong enough to demand that ICE raids stop. And we can do those things. But I say we can do them only if we first build a movement, made up of both immigrants and non-immigrant supporters, that fights for the needs of the people here and now.

The rudiments of this movement exist. In New Haven and Hartford, activists have passed ordinances that help to protect immigrants from police harassment, that open the doors for them to bring their concerns to local government agencies and local officials. We need to organize to pass similar ordinances in Waterbury and Stamford and Bridgeport, as well as smaller cities like Meriden and New London and New Britain. And when we have fought those battles and raised more public consciousness about who Connecticut’s undocumented immigrants are and what they need, then there’s the big fight for access to state drivers licenses.

Similarly, there are people working in Stamford and New Haven and Hartford and Bridgeport to help immigrant workers get paid for their work when their employers cheat them, and to target sleazy landlords who rent rat–infested and unsafe apartments to people who are undocumented. But we need to take these fights out of the courtrooms and out of the health department offices and housing offices and into the streets. When an employer tells a group of ten workers that he isn’t going to pay them for the last month’s work, there should be one hundred people picketing his house and his jobsite the next day.

On some level, we all know that these things are needed. But breaking out of the pattern of politely urging reforms or loudly demanding change is hard. Better to keep on doing what we’re comfortable with or good at, right? But in the meantime, people like Anselmo will be detained and deported for minor traffic violations, and courageous people like Elisa will put themselves on the line to fight for them. And things will not change.

Filed under: Fighting oppression, Immigrant rights

Junta Workers Center: Homemakers and companions recover over $16,000 in wages

[Our congratulations and solidarity go out to the New Haven homecare workers and to the folks at Junta Workers Center on this significant victory for workers' rights.]

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 8, 2009

CONTACT:

Laura Huizar, Program Coordinator for Economic Development

(203) 787.0191 or laura.huizar@juntainc.org

HOMEMAKERS AND COMPANIONS RECOVER OVER $16,000 IN WAGES

New Haven homecare provider failed to compensate employees for work performed

New Haven, CT – On December 29, 2008, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled in favor of fifteen homemakers and companions who filed suit in May 2008 against their former employer, New Haven-based By Your Side Homemaker and Companion Services, LLC, for failing to pay in full for work performed. The women alleged that their employer repeatedly failed to pay them in a timely manner, paid them with checks that did not have sufficient funds, or refused to pay them at all. The court has awarded a total of $16,155.32 to the group, which includes liquidated damages in the amount of double the wages lost for each plaintiff.

Many of the women involved in the case worked for weeks without pay in order to continue serving their homebound clients, but all were ultimately forced to leave the company after its owners repeatedly ignored their demands for payment. “The company played with us,” says Betzaida Rodriguez, one of the plaintiffs. “When a laborer performs his responsibilities in a good and efficient manner, employers must do the same and pay their workers.” Today, the women involved continue to suffer from the company’s failure to compensate them. “My credit has been ruined and I can’t open a bank account anywhere,” states Glenda Rodriguez, another plaintiff in the case.

The homemakers and companions were able to organize themselves with the assistance of the Worker Center at JUNTA. The Center offered a place where they could share their stories, build strength as a group, and connect with Yale Law School students who provided legal representation in the case. “We are proud of these women who refused to accept their employer’s abuse and we are hopeful that this victory will encourage more workers to assert their rights,” said Laura Huizar, a worker rights organizer with the Worker Center.

JUNTA is the oldest Latino non-profit organization in New Haven and offers a wide range of programs including Adult Education, Economic Development, Cultural Awareness, Legal Advocacy, Family Management and Youth Services. JUNTA’s Worker Center, which operates at JUNTA’s offices, is dedicated to education, leadership development, and organizing as strategies for addressing workplace injustice in the New Haven area.

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Economic Development, Program Coordinator
JUNTA for Progressive Action, Inc.
169 Grand Avenue
New Haven, CT 06513
Tel: 203.787.0191, ext. 16
Fax: 203.787.4934
www.juntainc.org

Filed under: Immigrant rights, Justice, justice, Labor solidarity