May Day Immigrant Rights March and Rally

05/01/2010 - 1:00pm
05/01/2010 - 4:00pm

 

Come Join the Annual Immigrant Rights March

You are all invited to join with us in a family-friendly, peaceful and faithful Immigrant Rights March this Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1:00 pm beginning at Union Park in Chicago (Lake and Ashland) and then the march will step off at 3pm to Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.

We are marching because:

Our immigrant neighbors are under increasing attacks.

  • Deportations increased during President Obama's first year in office, compared to the previous year.
  • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed on April 23 what is now the most punitive and sweeping anti-immigrant state law in the nation, making it a crime to be undocumented, and even to solicit work on a street corner.
  • Nationwide, the number of hate crimes committed against Hispanics and those perceived to be immigrants has increased each of the past years for which FBI data is available since 1990, according to a 2009 report by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

    We can fix our broken immigration system this year if we stand together in unity.
  • The momentum is there for Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation to be passed in the coming months, before the mid-term elections. Proposals include a tough but fair path to citizenship for non-criminal undocumented immigrants, paired with increased security at the border and enforcement of employment law. But we need to call on our elected officials to take courageous action!

As people of faith, we are called to welcome the stranger, to support family unity, and to build communities where all people are respected.

Please join us!

Look for the banners of the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition (CNSC) and Wellington Avenue UCC; or call the cell phone for Jenny Dale, Coordinator of CNSC at 773-551-1057.

The march steps off at 3:00 pm and ends at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago

We hope you can join us! For more information, call Jenny Dale at 773-551-1057.