[nyfoil-l] Reminder: 3/23 3 PM EST NISN May Day National Organizing Conference Call

Thu Mar 22 23:51:46 CDT 2007

Reminder: 3/23 3 PM EST NISN May Day  National Organizing Conference Call  

For more information, please  visit:
_http://www.MayDay2007.org_ (http://www.mayday2007.org/) 
_http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/)  

Dear Immigrant Activists:

We are inviting you to join our next National Immigrant Solidarity Network  
(NISN) May Day 2007 organizing conference call at Friday, March 23,  3:00 - 
4:00 PM EST (12:00 - 1:00 PM PST)

Dial-In Number: (605)725-3600
Participant  Access Code: 91030

The purpose of the call is update everyone the latest May Day 2007 national  
and local organizing, as well as exchanging ideas for the immigrant  campaigns.

Here's the lists of the panel speakers and the agenda:

1) Introduction:

2) Legislative Updates:
- Eddie Acosta (National Worker Center Coordinator,  AFL-CIO): The "Unity 
Blue Print" for Immigrant Rights.

- Sue Udry (United For Peace & Justice, Washington  D.C.): How we can learn 
lessons from anti-war legislative strategy on  immigrant rights legislative 
campaigns.

- Lee Siu Hin (National Coordinator, National Immigrant Solidarity  Network): 
 The "Ten Points of Unity" for Immigrant Rights, and the  upcoming May Day 
organizing planning.

3) Some local and national May Day Immigrant  campaigns:
- Kate Raven (Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA):  linking immigrant rights 
with antiwar/anti-globalization movement+Global  Exchange April Immigrant 
Rights Tour.

- Jesse Martinez (Interfaith Worker Justice Iowa): Iowa  area organizing

- Marc Rich (UTLA, Los Angeles March 25th Coalition): Los  Angeles May 1 
organizing

- Domingo Garcia (Mega March Coalition & LULAC 102  Oakcliff/Dallas): Dallas 
area organizing

- Speaker from New York May 1st Coalition: New York  area May 1 organizing

Each speakers will have up to 5 min speaking time.

4) Q&A, next steps and next conference call

I hope you can join the conference call to be part of the historical May  Day 
2007 organizing!

For more information, please visit: _http://www.MayDay2007.org_ 
(http://www.mayday2007.org/)  

In solidarity!

Lee Siu Hin
National Coordinator
National Immigrant Solidarity  Network

May Day 2007 Points of  Unity 
On May Day 2007, National Immigrant Solidarity Network is calling  for a 
multi-ethnic, decentralized, multi-topic and multi-tactic national day of  
mobilization to support immigrant workers rights. 
Our ten points of unity (based on our _Jan  29, 2007 open letter to the 
Congress_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2007/openletter12907.html) ): 
1) No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the  
immigrant communities. 
2) No to militarization of the border. 
3) No to the immigrant detention and deportation. 
4) No to the guest worker program. 
5) No to employer sanction and "no match" letters. 
6) Yes to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.  

7) Yes to speedy family reunification. 
8) Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law. 
9) Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers. 
10) Yes to the education and LGBT immigrant legislation. 

We acknowledges that there'll be multiple call to actions from across the  
country to organize May Day 2007, and each coalition will present their sets of  
demands. We should respects each other organizing and encourage and supports  
everyone's issues: 
1) Multi-ethnic, Decentralized and Multi-topic mobilization: while everyone  
will pledge to support immigrant workers rights at May Day 2007, local groups  
can choose to includes any other topics for their mobilizations: civil 
rights,  anti-war, Katrina, labor rights, health care...., etc. 
2) Decentralized Multi-Tactic May Day organizing: We will encourage everyone  
to organize their actions at May Day, but will let local groups to decide 
what  they want to do at the day: march, boycott, strike, lunch action, vigil,  
community event, conference or congressional lobby day,  etc.

Understanding the connections between our individual conditions  of life and 
the lives of people everywhere in the word allows us to come  together and 
organize across all borders. WE NEED to link the connections  between: wars in 
Africa, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine & Korea with  sweatshops in Asia as 
well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales  and WTO, FTAA, 
NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child  solider; multinational 
corporations and economic exploitation with racism and  poverty at home--then 
we can win the struggle.

Let's all come together, on May Day 2007, to build a new  immigrant rights 
and civil rights movements! 
Join Our May Day 2007 Planning  List! 
 (http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/mayday2007)  
Please Endorse Our May Day 2007  Call 
_Join  The Call!_ 
(http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2007/endorsement.html) 

_Download the May Day 2007 Outreach Flyers!_ 
(http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2007/flyer.html)  
Please Donate! 
 (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2007/donation.html)      

Upcoming  Actions

April 18: National Call-In Day to the  Congress 
Just before the May Day 2007 mobilization,  we'll organize a national call-in 
day to the Congress, based on our May  Day 2007 10 points of unity.

This will be a call to once again  to clearly put our immigrant demands for 
the May Day 2007 mobilization to  the Congress and the media.

April 23 -29: National Training Calls to Prepare May Day 2007  Mobilizations 
We will organize a week of training calls for  pre-May Day 2007 organizing, 
date and time: TBA.

- Legal (know your rights)
- Media/Messaging
- Direct  Action

If you would like to be one of the panel expert speaker,  please contact us: 
_info at immigrantSolidarity.org_ (mailto:info at immigrantSolidarity.org) , phone:  
(202)595-8990

May Day 2007  National Day of Mobilization

Wear White T-Shirt, organize actions to support immigrant  rights!

1) Multi-ethnic, Decentralized and Multi-topic  mobilization: while everyone 
will pledge to support immigrant workers  rights at May Day 2007, local groups 
can choose to includes any other  topics for their mobilizations: civil 
rights, anti-war, Katrina, labor  rights, health care...., etc. 
2) Decentralized Multi-Tactic May Day  organizing: We will encourage everyone 
to organize their actions at May  Day, but will let local groups to decide 
what they want to do at the day:  march, boycott, strike, lunch action, vigil, 
community event, conference  or congressional lobby day, etc. 
Please post your event at our calendar:  
_http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/calendar/Calendar.php_ 
(http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/calendar/Calendar.php)  or click 
 (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/calendar/Calendar.php) 

July 27-29 2nd  Annual National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
University of  Richmond, Richmond, VA.

Mark your calendar! Please come  to attend our 2007 national grassroots 
immigrant strategy conference at  Richmond, VA! We envision this is a conference to 
review our strategies of  immigrant campaigns for the first 6 months, and 
plan our strategies for  the 2007-2008. 
If you have any suggestions, please contact us:  
_info at immigrantSolidarity.org_ (mailto:info at immigrantSolidarity.org) , phone:  (202)595-8990

National Immigrant Solidarity Network
No Immigrant  Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!
webpage: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ 
(http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) 
e-mail:  _info at ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ 
(mailto:infor at ImmigrantSolidarity.org) 
New York:  (212)330-8172
Los Angeles: (213)403-0131
Washington D.C.:  (202)595-8990

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Immigrant Solidarity Network  and the May Day 2007 organizing. 

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