Thread: MAJOR OBL CONFERENCE: April 10-12.

We definetely need to have someone attend that conference for intel. Their game plan regarding their intent to push forward an amnesty bill will be made known at this conference. Please forward this to patriots who live in the Chicago area so someone from our side can go inside the Goon conference incognito!.


http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/2009Conference/


National Immigrant Solidarity Network
4th National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference

April 10-12, 2009 UIC College of Medicine, Chicago, IL

http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org

Tel: (202)595-8990

(Registration Comming Soon!)

Stop Immigrant Raids! Support Immigrant Workers Rights!

Together We Build A New Immigrant Rights Movement!

Calling for Workshop and Speaker Proposals

Mark Your Calendar!

National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN), the leading national immigrant activist network, is calling for 4th Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference the weekend of April 10-12, 2009 at Chicago, IL!

The conference will be our strategy planning meeting for grassroots immigrant activists looking 2009 and beyond. We want to send a clear message to the Congress and our new President: Stop Immigrant Raids! Support Immigrant Workers Rights!

For more information, please visit: http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org/2009Conference/

We're begin accepting program, workshops and speakers proposals (See blow our workshop/program focus), please download the workshop proposal form (PDF, Word), and send your proposal to: siuhin@aol.com and info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org



Our Focus:
The conference will focus on building multi-ethnic, multi-constituent, broad-based grassroots immigrant rights movements run by de-centralized volunteer-based community-rooted immigrant rights activists from youth, workers and community members who can play more active role on campaign formulation and decision making for local coalition building to organize popular education campaigns, such as: campaign to against immigrant dentition, deportation & raids; immigrant labor rights movement; campaign against local anti-immigrant ordinance; and linking the immigrant rights movement with other struggles, such as: anti-war and anti-globalization movements.
We'll also discuss the lessons from the 2008 election and what we should expect from the new President and the Congress affecting immigrant legislation for the next two years.



Workshops and Strategic Campaign Proposal:
The conference will be focus on the following areas, at the end of the conference, we'll draft a strategic campaign proposal.

- 2008 Elections and How It'll Impact Immigrant Rights Movement
- Linking Immigrant Rights Movements with Other Struggles
- Immigrant Raids, Detention & Deportation
- Immigrant Labor Campaigns and Day Labor Centers
- Housing, Education and Healthcare Rights for the Immigrants
- No to the Border Wall and Militization of the Border
- Strategic Resources for the Immigrant Activists
- Support Local Chicago Grassroots Immigrant Campaigns
- Building a Multi-ethnic, Multi-Constituents-Based Immigrant Rights Movement
- Congressional Immigrant Legislation
- International Immigrant Rights Campaigns

Please contact us: siuhin@aol.com and info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org if you can help us.

In solidarity!

Lee Siu Hin
National Coordinator
National Immigrant Solidarity Network

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

If you have noticed any of my earlier posts I usually had something to say about the volunteerism that has already taken root among Americans (and mostly among conservatives) that is changing conditions in developing countries, like Mexico and others. It certainly is not limited to conservatives but the concept of short term volunteers helping established service groups really seemed to take off in the 1970's.

Contrast this with the "Progressive" idea that the US should expect to accomodate an everincreasing population----- to one billion people by 2100. Why should we? If we look at the infrastructure costs alone it is much cheaper to support community or infrastructure development in Third World countries than it is in the United States. I was looking at the costs for develping and maintaining a highway in southern Mexico, for example. Phenomenally cheap. And with all the oil revenue some of these countries have gotten, or will get, they should be able to afford it. OTOH, the United States is looking at some very costly infrastructure proposals. Much of it precipitated by the rapidly growing population.

Were it not for the present economic disparities I don't know why someone would trade a temperate climate for one where the winter takes up half of the year.

But try to explain all of this to OBL-types! If you don't get shouted down and labeled a racist, the next thing they will do is ignore you because you are not an academic expert. It leaves you longing for a rational discussion. Well, maybe someone like you should go and try to convey some sensible thinking to them. The intellectual climate in the US, as of late, has been apallingly bad.

Were it not for the present economic disparities I don't know why someone would trade a temperate climate for one where the winter takes up half of the year.

Where else can "dad" earn minimum wage and get even more $$$$ to have 8 kids with a "stay at home mom"?

Honduras has/had a building boom, they could use the workers, but nooo the work is too hard.

We definitely need to cut all incentives for illegal aliens and their spawn. If they can't find work, they can't eat and go home. If the welfare for anchor babies is gone, they'll stop having a kid a year. The important thing is for illegal aliens to go back to their countries of origin and take their kids with them.

Honduras has/had a building boom, they could use the workers, but nooo the work is too hard.

For pictures of Tegucigalpa projects:
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/construct ... jects.html

They need to unionize---or work out some cooperative projects to build their own homes. They would be living better than us.