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Phoenix: Counter-Demonstration Against Anti-Immigrant Protesters
Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 02:52 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
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The Phoenix Anarchist Coalition (PAC) calls for a counter-demonstration against the racist Americans First group, they will be protesting at the Mexican consulate in west Phoenix this weekend. Minuteman member JT Ready is organizing the protest to further slander working class Latinos as “Illegal Foreign Invaders” another typical racist and fear mongering response to working class self-organization.

POOR PEOPLE FIRST! COUNTER-DEMONSTRATION AGAINST ANTI-IMMIGRANT PROTESTERS!

Calling all anti-racists, anti-fascists, anarchists, human rights activists, and immigration advocates to join together in support of human freedom and the right of movement! No borders, no vigilantes!

WHAT: The Phoenix Anarchist Coalition (PAC) calls for a counter-demonstration against the racist Americans First group, they will be protesting at the Mexican consulate in west Phoenix this weekend. Minuteman member JT Ready is organizing the protest to further slander working class Latinos as “Illegal Foreign Invaders” another typical racist and fear mongering response to working class self-organization. The Phoenix Anarchist Coalition proclaims “ˇYa Basta!”- Enough already! We’ve had enough with their smear campaigns against immigrants and Latino working people, enough with the government’s campaign to criminalize and lock up immigrants, enough with racist militias and vigilante groups patrolling the border and recruiting in the cities, enough with the attempts of legislators to tear families apart and criminalize people, and enough with the border. It’s time for no more borders, as long as the rich can fly over them as they please, and money moves over them invisibly, then it too is time for labor, the creators of wealth, to move freely as well.

WHEN: 2 PM, Saturday, April 22

WHERE: We will be meeting at the northwest corner of 23rd Ave. and Camelback in west Phoenix. We will march down the street to the Mexican Consulate (19th Ave. and Camelback), where the Americans First rally is taking place, and where we will hold our counter-demonstration.

WHAT TO BRING: Signs and banners with pro-immigrant messages, noise makers (pots, pans, ghetto blasters, bullhorns), a mask (the anti-immigrant groups love to use video to intimidate counter-demonstrators aka freedom fighters, let them wish they could snap a pic of your beautiful mug), and most importantly, water.

A note: Ready has gone out of his way to let people know that anyone who advocates for the self-determination of immigrants, the landless, and the poor is NOT invited. So, we’ll invite all those that Americans First have disinvited, “Aztlan revolutionaries, MS-13 Gang Bangers, Mexican Gang Bangers, Illegal Aliens, OR American Traitors” please join us to confront these racist buffoons. To read the Americans First call to action, click on the link below:
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/40405.php

A new American revolution is on the way…let’s fight to win!

For more information, contact the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition at: pac@phoenixanarchist.org, or through http://www.phoenixanarchist.org