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NEW YORK CITY
2:00pm
RALLY at ROOSEVELT PARK in CHINATOWN
(Grand St. between Forsyth and Chrystie St.,
B/D Train to Grand St. Station)
3:00pm
MARCH to UNION SQUARE
1. REPEAL EMPLOYER SANCTIONS
Employers’ sanctions is a law that was passed 20
years ago in the name of punishing the employer,
but in reality criminalizes immigrants and creates
an underclass of labor who have no rights or protection
under the law. Under this modern slave law[1] undocumented
workers do not even have the freedom to sell their
own labor. Because of this law, the underground
economy is expanding, dividing native-born, documented,
and undocumented workers. This creates cutthroat
competition and keeps workers from organizing together,
causing workers’ wages to plummet and making life
harder. In the midst of this economic crisis, reforms
that strengthen employers’ sanctions will cause
working people to suffer more, creating mass unemployment
while forcing some to be completely overworked.
We urge Obama not to strengthen employers’ sanctions
but to repeal the modern slave law. Furthermore,
we want him to legislate equal rights for all workers
and create an on-going mechanism for undocumented
workers to
adjust their status.
2. DUMP MAYOR BLOOMBERG
Stop Mayor Bloomberg from shifting the economic
crisis onto the backs of working people and stop
him from dividing our communities.
Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing racist
rezoning plans -- from Harlem to Willets Point in
Queens, and from Sunset Park, Brooklyn to the Lower
East Side and Chinatown in Manhattan -- that serve
the interests of developers and rich whites while
displacing low-income working-class people of color.
He has slashed the budget for crucial services,
while increasing the cost of living for working
people, essentially robbing the working poor to
feed the filthy rich. Bloomberg has grown to be
the richest man in NYC while working people have
grown poorer. We call on all New Yorkers to Dump
Bloomberg this year.
We march to forge unity among immigrant and native-born
workers, to stop the attacks on working people,
and build a movement to demand equal rights for
all workers.
For more information,
contact the Break the Chains Alliance, c/o NMASS
212-358-0295 | info@breakthechainsnow.org
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