GRAN MOVIMIENTO POR DERECHOS CIVILES EN CIUDADES DE EEUU

LOS ANGELES

DREAM ACT:

Ley para el Desarrollo, Asistencia y Educación
para Menores Extranjeros.

SAN FRANCISCO

Detenidos al entrar
a la oficina de la Senadora Dianne Feinstein

WASHINGTON

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Sentada frente a la Casa Blanca
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"Todas estas protestas han concluido con arrestos, pero han comenzado a dar forma a un movimiento pro reforma migratoria que recuerda el inicio de la lucha por los derechos civiles hace 50 años en este país"
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WASHINGTON

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Representante Luis Gutiérrez

"ARREST ME, NOT MY FRIENDS"

Arrestadme a mí, no a mis amigos !
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TUCSON, ARIZONA

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Sentada en la Oficina del excandidato presidencial republicano
y Senador por el Estado de Arizona John McCain
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"'despertó el movimiento de los derechos civiles del Siglo 21', asegura Warren Stewart, pastor de una Iglesia Bautista en Phoenix"
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TUCSON, ARIZONA

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Sentada en la Oficina del excandidato presidencial republicano
y Senador por el Estado de Arizona John McCain
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Courage in Arizona (N. Y. T.)
Valor en Arizona

Four young immigrant students risked everything on Monday when they sat down in Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson and refused to leave. They were urging passage of the Dream Act, a bill offering a citizenship path to illegal immigrants who, like them, were brought to the United States as children, too young to have willfully broken the law.

Cuatro estudiantes inmigrantes jóvenes arriesgaron todas las cosas el Lunes cuando ellos hicieron una sentada en la oficina del Senador John McCain en Tucson y se rehusaron a salir...

For the undocumented, any encounter with law enforcement is perilous — especially in Arizona, where a new law pushes the hunt for illegal immigrants beyond the limits of reason, proportion and the Constitution.

Three of the student protesters were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. Though later freed, they faced the risk of prison and deportation to press for a bill.

Who else has shown such courage in the long struggle for immigration reform? Not Mr. McCain, who ditched his principled support of rational immigration legislation to better his odds in a close re-election campaign against a far-right-wing opponent. Not President Obama, who has retreated to lip service and vagueness in his calls for reform. Not his administration. The Justice Department has stood by as a civil-rights coalition — the American Civil Liberties Union, Maldef, the N.A.A.C.P., the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and others — has swiftly sued to block the Arizona law.

Other supposed defenders of immigrants, Democrats in Congress, have lost their voices. Senators Charles Schumer, Robert Menendez and Harry Reid, mindful of November elections and frustrated Latino voters, have unveiled a blueprint for immigration reform that parrots Republican talking points about clamping down the southern border and treating the undocumented as a swelling tide of criminals.

Good immigration reform needs a good bill, and the administration and the president and Democratic leaders haven’t yet offered or convincingly fought for one. The fight for reform is stalled. It could be simple acts of protest that ignite a fire. Half a century ago it was young people, at lunch counters and aboard buses across the South, who help galvanize the movement for civil rights, and to waken more powerful elders to injustice.

The disobedient students in Arizona, and four others who walked to Washington from Florida this spring to press for the Dream Act, want the opportunity that others take for granted: the chance to earn college degrees, to forge better lives, to fulfill their potential in their home country. These are dreams that to them are well worth the risk.

Los estudiantes en desobediencia civil en Arizona, y otros cuatro caminaron de Washington a Florida esta primavera para presionar por el Dream Act...
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NUEVA YORK

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PLAZA FEDERAL 26

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"Estos simples actos de protesta pueden iniciar un incendio"

advierte The New York Times
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Findlayter, organizador: “Nuestros actos de desobediencia civil son realizados bajo la creencia de que nuestras leyes, pueden y deben ser mejores”
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NUEVA YORK

PLAZA FEDERAL 26

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“Hemos hecho las marchas, los mítines, las llamadas, los faxes, pero nuestro mensaje aún no llega “, dijo Chung Wha Hong, director ejecutivo de la Coalición de Inmigración de Nueva York.
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“Estos actos de desobediencia civil son sólo el principio porque el nivel de frustración y coraje está alcanzando una nueva altura. La gente está dispuesta a poner sus cuerpos en la línea a lo largo del país”, señaló Hong
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NUEVA YORK

PLAZA FEDERAL 26

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"Más actos de desobediencia civil están planeados cada lunes durante las próximas semanas en ciudades como Nueva York, Los Ángeles, Seattle, Milwaukee, Washington, Baltimore y Miami."

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"El próximo 29 de mayo también se planea el Día Nacional de Solidaridad con Arizona, donde se esperan más protestas y manifestaciones de este tipo."