Thread: Pro-Amnesty Conference in Chicago. Mar-7

From the Opposition:

A celebration of the third anniversary of the March 10, 2006 march for Legalization for All

The crisis & our march to justice

2nd Annual Conference of the March 10th Committee



Saturday March 7th. Azteca Mall, 3200 S. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL., 60623



The immigrant struggle is everybody’s struggle. Everybody’s struggle is an immigrant struggle.

March 10th, 2006, gave birth to a mass mobilization for the legalization of the twelve million undocumented workers in the United Sates. But after three years, Washinton DC and the political right have only made the plight and uncertainty of millions of working families harsher.

Now, and after a decade of neoliberal policies that have taken the world to the edge of economic collapse, the uncertainty has spread to all the homes of this country’s working folks. In response, the American people stopped the political rule of the right, overwhelmingly voting for change.

In search of that change, immigrants are getting ready once again to march this May Day to demand justice and equality for all. With that purpose, the March 10th Committee invites you to a conference dedicated to discussing ideas for the next steps in the fight for social justice, while building unity between immigrant and native born workers.

Program:

SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH CONFERENCE

SCHEDULE



9:00-10:00

Registration

**Please note the General Workers Assembly starts at 9:00, other workshops at 10:00



9:00-12:00

GENERAL WORKERS ASSEMBLY

Participating in round table discussions:

Workers from Republic Windows, United Electrical Workers, Local 1110

Chicago Workers CollaborativeUnion Latina

Trabajadores de Pizza Hut, Tech Air and others

Moderator: Fernando Huerta (CWC)



10:00-12:00

WORKSHOP: Capitalism in crisis and its impact on immigrants

Panelists:

Lee Sustar – economic and labor writer for Socialist Worker newspaper

Mark Meinster, United Electrical Workers organizer

Moderator: Margot Nikitas, Jane Addams Hull House Museum


10:00-12:00

WORKSHOP: Health care crisis – its impact on immigrants and all workers

Panelists:

Kevin W. Minder, S.T.D. – Executive Director of the Center for Immigrant Healthcare Justice, St. Louis

Carrie Schiff - C-SPAN (Chicago Single Payer Action Network)

Pilsen Women's Medical Center

Moderator: Jane Anichini



12:00-1:00 LUNCH onsite - Vendors of the Azteca Mall will sale food



1:00-5:00

Youth and education Round tables

Moderator: Jorge Ortiz

1:00-2:00 Immigrant youth in education

Carmela GarcÃ*a, NEIU student, will kick off discussion



2:00-3:00 School/Campus Mobilizations

Eli MartÃ*nez, Movimiento Cultural Latino Americano

Kimberly Manzanares, UIC Against Budget Cuts and Mexican Student of Aztlán

Proyecto P’alante



3:00-4:00 The fight Against school Closings

Juan Ibarra Flores, Movimiento Cultural Latino Americano

Caucus of Rank and File Educators of Chicago Teachers Union

VOICE

Blocks Together



4:00-5:00 The Crisis and its affect on Youth

Ben O.



1:00-3:00 WORKSHOP: Responding to the Wars and Attacks on Immigrants

Panelists:

Laura Paz, Comité Anti Militarización (CAMI)

Vicki Cervantes, La Voz de Abajo

Rafael Cervantes, Chicago Otra

Moderator: Héctor Gamboa


1:00-3:00 WORKSHOP: Labor Struggles in the Economic Crisis

Panelists:

Representative from Unión Latina

Moisés Zavala, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 881

Sharon Smith, labor historian and author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Struggle in the United States

Moderator: Dulce Mora, Radio Arte


1:00-3:00 WORKSHOP: Repression and racism: An immigrant perspective

Panelists:

Ali Al Arian, Palestinian American whose father was political prisoner in US after 9-11

Alie Kabba, United African Organizations, CAAELLI: advocates against discrimination of African immigrants

Nancy Flores, struggles for justice for her family after a police officer was driving drunk and killed her brother

Moderator: Caty Bautista, South East Chicago Coalition for Immigrant Rights



BREAK 3:00 to 3:15

3:15-5:15 WORKSHOP: What do we want for Immigration Reform in 2009?

Panelists:

Jorge Mújica, March 10 Committee

José Artemio Arreola, ICIRR, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Kristin Kumpf, Interfaith Worker Justice Center

Claudia Lucero, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean

Moderator: Bridget Broderick, March 10 Committee



3:15-5:15 WORKSHOP: Voices from the struggles against the oppression based in gender and sexuality.

Panelists:

Allison Burque and Kimberly Lux University of Chicago Feminist Student Organization and the Chicago Dialogue Project

Missy Lorenzen, Join the Impact

Yasmin Nair, freelance journalist, Chicago LGBTQ Immigrant Alliance Gender Just

Owen Daniel-McCarter, Esq., Collective Member Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois

Moderator: Rosi Carrasco


5:30-8:00 PLENARY

THE NEXT STEPS: END THE RAIDS AND DEPORTATIONS AND ORGANIZING FOR MAY DAY

Panelists:

Rosi Carrasco, Latino Organization of the Southwest

Orlando Sepúlveda, International Socialist Organization

Carlos Arango, Casa Aztlán

James Thwinda, Chicago Jobs with Justice

Carmela GarcÃ*a, Movimiento Cultural Latino Americano

Moderator: Tania Unzueta

I guess there wasn't room on the agenda for the workshop that I proposed: Taking Jobs From Americans Is Good For Immigrants."