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Across the country communities have been organizing for comprehensive immigration reform. In the past few months we have met with our local congressional leaders, 250,000 gathered in Washington DC in March, across the country over 500,000 marched for reform on May 1st, 65,000 in Milwaukee, and all across the country community leaders are escalating their movements and participating in civil disobedience. In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, our local community continues to be devastated by broken immigration laws and families are continually separated by unjust deportations. In April, religious and community leaders in Chicago sat in front of deportation buses and were arrested. Tomorrow, they will be risking arrest once again, this time in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, and Wisconsin leaders Fr. Bill Brennan, S.J., and Maria Morales will be joining them. Join us at Voces de la Frontera before they leave for Chicago for a brief press conference.
Press Conference featuring Maria Morales & Fr. Bill Brennan
When: 11am, Tuesday, May 25
Where: Voces de la Frontera, 1027 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Maria Morales, current Racine Coordinator for Voces de la Frontera, is a civil rights leader in Racine with deep roots in the community. Morales is the daughter of farmworkers and worked with Cesar Chavez on boycotts, marches and strikes in Racine. In the mid-80s she served as the first Latina president of the AFL-CIO Labor Council of Racine County and also served as President of the Spanish Center in Racine. Morales has been honored as an Unsung Hero by the City of Racine in 2007 and with the Humanitarian Award from the NAACP in 2008.
Father Bill Brennan, a 90 year old Jesuit priest of Irish descent, has been a prominent leader for social justice; especially in Latin America where he lived for many years during the period of US supported military dictatorships and is a strong leader in the current immigrant rights struggle. He is widely known in the faith community as an advocate for equal rights and international social justice.
Wisconsin Civil Rights Leaders Join Escalation of Actions for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
May 24, 2010Across the country communities have been organizing for comprehensive immigration reform. In the past few months we have met with our local congressional leaders, 250,000 gathered in Washington DC in March, across the country over 500,000 marched for reform on May 1st, 65,000 in Milwaukee, and all across the country community leaders are escalating their movements and participating in civil disobedience. In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, our local community continues to be devastated by broken immigration laws and families are continually separated by unjust deportations. In April, religious and community leaders in Chicago sat in front of deportation buses and were arrested. Tomorrow, they will be risking arrest once again, this time in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, and Wisconsin leaders Fr. Bill Brennan, S.J., and Maria Morales will be joining them. Join us at Voces de la Frontera before they leave for Chicago for a brief press conference.
Press Conference featuring Maria Morales & Fr. Bill Brennan
When: 11am, Tuesday, May 25
Where: Voces de la Frontera, 1027 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Maria Morales, current Racine Coordinator for Voces de la Frontera, is a civil rights leader in Racine with deep roots in the community. Morales is the daughter of farmworkers and worked with Cesar Chavez on boycotts, marches and strikes in Racine. In the mid-80s she served as the first Latina president of the AFL-CIO Labor Council of Racine County and also served as President of the Spanish Center in Racine. Morales has been honored as an Unsung Hero by the City of Racine in 2007 and with the Humanitarian Award from the NAACP in 2008.
Father Bill Brennan, a 90 year old Jesuit priest of Irish descent, has been a prominent leader for social justice; especially in Latin America where he lived for many years during the period of US supported military dictatorships and is a strong leader in the current immigrant rights struggle. He is widely known in the faith community as an advocate for equal rights and international social justice.
Mitos y hechos
Mito: Los inmigrantes se están apoderando de Wisconsin
Hecho: En el 2006, la población extranjera de Wisconsin representó un 4.4 por ciento de la población total - menos de 1 e 20 - comparado al 3.6 por ciento en el 2000.
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