"What's an American to do?"

by: Thurman Hart

Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:05:36 PM EDT

Poor Diane Reaves.  She had to cancel the hate-fest once before because she feared gang violence, although the police had no idea what she was talking about.  I guess the threats weren't actually scary enough to report to the police (but they get free press).

Poor Diane Reaves.  She fears for the safety of her family.  So much so that she had to take her kids out of school and home-school them.

Poor Diane Reaves.  She fears for her children's education.  So much so that she had to take her kids out of school and home-school them (sounds familiar, right?).

Poor Diane Reaves.  She can't get her story straight.  She fears para-military events, but she stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Minutemen.  She's confused.  She wants to crack down on illegal immigration in Lakewood to prevent crimes in Newark and Oregon.  She thinks Lakewood, NJ is a sanctuary city, but it's Lakewood, Ca. 

Poor Diane Reaves.  She's just a Humble Angel trying to keep her city free of immigrants like Mexicans and Jews.  She's a patriotic and law abiding citizen who will sue the pants off of veteran groups and hold meetings in their parking lots if they won't open their doors to her.

Poor Diane Reaves.  I'm just picking on her and smearing her good name, right?  Here she is convicted by her own words:

Let us not turn this into another CONFRONTATION CONCORDIA - those who are familiar with this event, should think twice before you attempt to stop me from speaking. Have you forgotten already?? I haven't, and I think those who may be responsible for trying to shut me up, and shut me out; would do well to remember the day that an Israeli Leader was shut up and shut out...

I had to look up the reference.  It would seem, if I am to apply the analogy correctly, that poor Diane Reaves is threatening the American Legion with a violent takeover if they don't let her spew her hate from their building.  How ironic that the point of the documentary was to increase voting by moderate factions in the Concordia University student elections so that radical extremists could not use public facilities to advance their hateful agenda.

Poor Diane Reaves.

ICE raid in Englewood??!!

by: lsanchez490

Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 12:23:28 AM EDT

END THE ATTACK ON IMMIGRANTS!
DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF ALL WHO LIVE AND WORK IN NEW JERSEY!

STATE-WIDE SPEAK-OUT AND PROTEST MEETING

Saturday March 31 1:00 PM
Paul Robeson CenterBusch Campus
600 Bartholomew Rd
Piscataway, NJ

Immigrants in New Jersey, as in the rest of the United States, are facing increasing attacks. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids are being stepped up, tearing families apart, detaining and deporting those who have lived here for years. Demagogic town governments are taking anti-immigrant measures. Morristown, for example, is planning to deputize its police as ICE agents.  Massive workplace raids like the recent one in New Bedford, Mass. can happen at any time. A New Jersey radio station, 101.5, has called for people to turn in their neighbors as suspected undocumented immigrants, encouraging vigilantism.

The attacks on migrants are attacks on all of us. They are aimed at maintaining an underclass of workers who are too terrified to assert their rights to decent pay, working conditions and living conditions.  No one, not even the government, wants to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants who are vital to the economy. The attacks and anti-immigrant laws aim to drive down the cost of all labor, benefiting employers, pitting worker against worker, and hurting us all.

We are fighting back, immigrants and native-born united!  We are speaking out against the attacks and the demagogic proposal in towns like Morristown's and Freehold.  We are starting to organize a Rapid Response Network which will give aid to those confronting ICE raids or employer abuses of immigrants. We are joining with organizations across the country to organize a Second Great  Boycott.

Speak out for the rights of ALL!

We invite your organization's endorsement and participation in this event and in an April 3 noon press conference in New Brunswick

Endorsing organizations(list in formation):
NJ May 1 Coalition
IRATE/First Friends
NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee
Philippine Forum
United Day Laborers of Freehold

Interested in reading about progressive Morristown:
Town seeks new power over illegal immigrants
Morristown wants to give its police the same authority as federal officers

Much respect to Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo.
Hispanics steamed by shock radio stunt

And from a New York Times Article, good old Freehold.

PUBLIC LIVES; Back in the Fight He Picked Decades Ago
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By LYNDA RICHARDSON
Published: March 17, 2004

CESAR A. PERALES, the president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is revved up. But he is not losing his cool. (He is too cool for that.) He is talking about the fund's wranglings in federal court over the attempt by Freehold Borough in Monmouth County, N.J., to prevent day laborers from gathering at a vacant lot to scout for work.

''The question of the treatment of day laborers is so flagrant, I feel it viscerally,'' Mr. Perales says, leaning over to emphasize the point. ''This is to me as horrific as the segregation that the government imposed in the South. We're seeing local governments treating undocumented workers in a similar fashion, marginalizing them, not wanting them to live where they live. This is a fight that will take a long time.''