CALLING ALL ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS:
JOIN THE SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS CAMPAIGN!
We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and Indigenous struggles across North and Latin America.
Anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest U.S. have come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders group.
This working group came out of the recent Consulta of the Northeast Anarchist Network (NEAN [1]) and Midwest Action Network (MAN [2]). The proposal was initiated by the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (BAAM [3]) and NYC Local Union of the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC [4]), and has been joined by anarchists from over a dozen other towns and cities.
In light of the escalating war on Indigenous communities in Mexico and immigrant communities in the United States, in light of military and paramilitary aggression against the peoples of Oaxaca and Chiapas, in light of Plan Mexico and the Security & Prosperity Partnership, in light of recent attacks on immigrants here in the U.S., and in light of the corporate invasion and displacement of their communities, we have no choice but to respond.
The campaign arose in response to calls to action from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN [5]), from the Council of the Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magon (CIPO [6]-RFM [7]), and from New York City's Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB [8]).
Please join us in Solidarity Without Borders, endorse this campaign, and begin to organize within your communities and alongside us.
Things you can do:
1. Join the existing groups in your cities and communities working for the rights of undocumented immigrants.
2. Bring attention to the ongoing repression of the popular movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas.
3. Organize actions against your local ICE administrative and/or detention facilities.
For Solidarity Without Borders!
More info [9]: Call to action, goals and next steps
Contact: solidaritywithoutbordersgroup (a) gmail.com
For more information:
On the situation in Chiapas: http://chiapas.indymedia.org [10] (Spanish)
On the situation in Oaxaca: http://www.elenemigocomun.net [11]
On Plan Mexico: http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/planmexico [12]
On the Security & Prosperity Partnership: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0108sciacchitano.html [13]
On Movement for Justice in El Barrio:
http://www.narconews.com/issue42/article2037.html [14]
Movimiento page [15]
On the border & the war on immigrants: http://deletetheborder.org [16]
On immigrant solidarity groups in your area:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org [17]
http://www.fairimmigration.org/about/who-we-are.html [18]