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06-12-2006, 05:58 PM #1
Don't let your rights disappear, urges Latino leader
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06/11/2006
Don't let your rights disappear, urges Latino leader
By: Francine Maglione , Herald Press Staff
NEW BRITAIN - Immigration, war and human rights were the topics of the night Saturday at the American Friends Service Committee's annual dinner.
The dinner, held at Central Connecticut State University, honored regional activists that have made their mark in social causes, and featured Juan Jose Gutierrez, National Coordinator of Latino Movement USA, as the keynote speaker.
"The documented immigrant is used as a scapegoat to confuse the American public about the pressing issues of the day," said Gutierrez. "As we move forward in our own political revolution, I'm very concerned about what could happen in America."
Gutierrez's speech, titled "The Struggle for the Freedom of Today: Modern Day Slaves," focused on human rights for immigrants, and the idea that if the rights of immigrants are being held down, whose will be next?
"I think that Americans are dreaming if they think that just because they're Americans their rights are going to be respected," said Gutierrez. "These rights are being eroded as we speak.
"No matter what the right-wing America is saying, we will achieve our rights," he added. "We refuse to be modern-day slaves."
At the dinner, the group honored DACORIM (Danbury Coalition for the Rights of Immigrants) as well as activists Jerimarie Liesegang, Eric Stamm, Chris Towne, and Unidad Latino en Accion.
"We look for people who have been most active," said Meg Scata of the American Friends. "It's a way to come together and network."
The American Friends Service Committee was founded in Philadelphia in 1917 as a progressive Quaker group. It started as an anti-war organization that emphasized alternatives to military service. It has since broadened to campaign against the Iraq war and nuclear weapons, and promotes gay/lesbian and immigrant rights.
"The organization has just grown and changed from what was originally mostly a service organization for Quakers who were conscientious objectors to the war," said Keith Harvey, regional director of the New England region of the American Friends.
The group has also expanded its membership to reach all races and religions - not just Quakers.
"When one group of people has been held down the rest of us have to realize it," said Scata. "It's not about nationality, it's about humility."
"We're really living in very crucial times," said Gutierrez. "The citizens of America need to get activated politically so we can save our democracy."
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06-12-2006, 06:08 PM #2"The citizens of America need to get activated politically so we can save our democracy."
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06-12-2006, 06:15 PM #3The American Friends Service Committee was founded in Philadelphia in 1917 as a progressive Quaker group. It started as an anti-war organization that emphasized alternatives to military service. It has since broadened to campaign against the Iraq war and nuclear weapons, and promotes gay/lesbian and immigrant rights.We are NOT a nation of immigrants!
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06-12-2006, 06:29 PM #4"We refuse to be modern-day slaves."
The group has also expanded its membership to reach all races and religions - not just Quakers.
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06-12-2006, 06:37 PM #5
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"No matter what the right-wing America is saying, we will achieve our rights," he added. "We refuse to be modern-day slaves."
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06-12-2006, 06:53 PM #6
This is just another Hipanic idiot who is trying to scare Americans under a phoney guise to further his own cause: the promotion of illegal immigration. May the people who support him find themselves with the grief associated with diseased, uneducated and lawless scum from Mexico.
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06-12-2006, 07:57 PM #7
Modern day slaves....what a joke!! Nobody made them come here ....nobody made them take a low-paying job. Nobody made them do anything. It's illogical for them to be anything akin to a slave....just more like modern day leeches.
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06-12-2006, 08:54 PM #8
Rights? You have no rights in this country. Go back to your own country and utilize your rights there. I have seen this Guiterrez on many shows and programs, why can't we get the exposure this idiot does to spew about rights of illegals in this country?
Freedom isn't free... Don't forget the men who died and gave that right to all of us....
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06-13-2006, 01:22 AM #9
Hmmm, another pro-illegal immigrant advocate attempting to confuse the general public by referring to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS as immigrants. If it looks, smells, and feels like dog poop - it's normally dog poop! Do these idiots really think the American public is that naive?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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06-13-2006, 01:28 AM #10
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The American Friends Service Committee was founded in Philadelphia in 1917 as a progressive Quaker group. It started as an anti-war organization that emphasized alternatives to military service. It has since broadened to campaign against the Iraq war and nuclear weapons, and promotes gay/lesbian and immigrant rights.
"The organization has just grown and changed from what was originally mostly a service organization for Quakers who were conscientious objectors to the war," said Keith Harvey, regional director of the New England region of the American Friends.
THIS GROUP was one of the main groups to ENCOURAGE SPITTING ON OUR TROOPS when they arrived home.
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