Thread: New group hopes to enlist immigrants into Occupy Wall Street

New group hopes to enlist immigrants into Occupy Wall Street movement
OWS Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group formed

nydailynews.com
by Albor Ruiz
Saturday, December 10 2011, 8:00 PM


The OWS Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group has been organized in order to mobilize immigrants to join forces with the OWS movement.

It has been reported dead many times, but to its enemies’ chagrin, the Occupy Wall Street movements is alive, active and growing.

Immigrants are one of the latest groups joining the OWS ranks.

Few would dispute that there is no group more clearly part of the 99% than immigrants. Yet they have been mostly absent from the movement that emerged as a protest against precisely the kind of injustices and abuses immigrants endure every day.

But to address this disconnect, a group of immigrants, advocates and union people founded the OWS Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group with the purpose of mobilizing immigrants to join forces with the OWS movement.

Just a few weeks after the Zucotti Park occupation started, in the first week of October, two people involved from the beginning of the movement, Phil Arnone, one of the 700 protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge, and Emma McCumber, who slept many nights in the park, contacted immigrant workers' centers and immigrant rights' advocates to connect with existing community work and OWS.

“We established ourselves as the Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group, and have met every Tuesday night since Oct. 4,â€

Good when they get arrested, they'll pick up a charge of resisting arrest too!