Hóla Casa San Jose Amigos,
Your
help is still needed:
Volunteers
and attendees are needed for a teach-in on June 17 sponsored by a number of
organizations including Casa San Jose:
Building Unity Against Hate: How the
prison industrial complex impacts our communities & what we can do to
change it - Saturday June 17 10:00AM-1:00PM
A number of activist groups in
Pittsburgh are coming together to examine the inter-connections of struggles
against growing police repression and criminalization of people of color in our
nation and community. We want to explore new and better ways to strengthen or
collective resistance and to improve our ability to protect the human rights of
all people in our communities.
Call for Volunteers:
· Set-up/Clean-up
· Refreshments committee
· Note taking
· Outreach-help us spread the word
about this event-help design or distribute fliers, share links with your
networks, etc.
· Interpretation/ translation (Spanish-English)—help us include non-native
English speakers participate fully in this event, or assist with translation of
outreach and educational materials, including the website.
Please
email your availability and interests to pghrights@riseup.net
Political action:
If State
Representative Dom Costa is your PA legislator (find out here) or even if he
isn’t, please come to the Town Hall With or Without Dom
Costa on Thursday, June 1 at 7 pm, at 118 52nd
St. in Lawrenceville (in the office building for Goodwill, not the store.) Local progressives have called on him to show
up to hear what his constituents say about the many urgent issues facing the state
legislature. There are 11 anti-immigrant
bills pending (described
here) and we need to tell him we expect him to vote
against them and support immigration justice.
Read this position
paper on immigration from the ACLU, which will give
you real facts and ideas you can use to help correct the false notions being
presented by anti-immigrant politicians and media outlets. You might even be able to bring around your
conservative Uncle Rex or next-door neighbor.
More news:
On May 25, Sister Janice was given the Neighborhood Leader Award for 2017 from the Pittsburgh Community
Reinvestment Group for her extraordinary work on behalf of her community.
Students in our
youth programs were treated to a trip to Kennywood on Sunday to take part in Kennywood
Latino Day – if you were there too, we hope you
had a día lindísimo. And many thanks to those of you who offered
to help with transportation at short notice!
Many thanks also to LACU and Kennywood who arranged for the tickets.
On June 3, Casa San
Jose will host an Immigration Law Clinic for our clients, where they will be
able to get power of attorney documents, and to have a legal screening with law
students specializing in immigration from the University of Pittsburgh School
of Law.
Our story, stay tuned: Jeimy
Sanchez, our Youth Coordinator, just returned from a trip to El Salvador and Guatemala,
so we’re anticipating some meaningful stories from her this week to include in
next week’s message.
Suggested if you’d like to read or hear more:
·
“Immigration
Arrests Rise Sharply as a Trump Mandate Is Carried Out,” from the New York Times, May 17.
·
“Federal
investigators are using a cellphone snooping device designed for
counter-terrorism to hunt undocumented immigrants amid President Donald
Trump’s immigration crackdown”
from the Detroit News, May 18.
·
“White
House Ends Congressional Bill Allowing Deportation Delays For Immigrants” from NPR News, May 25.
Thank you for joining
us.
