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<p align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CHALLENGING ARIZONA’S SB1070
& FOX’S CLIMATE OF HATE</span></p><p style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">July 28, 2010</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align:left">Contact: </div><div style="text-align:left">Lily Huang (Student Immigrant Movement) – 857-204-5550</div><div style="text-align:left">Matt Andrews (Boston May Day Committee) - 617-633-1857</div>
<div style="text-align:left">Suren Moodliar (Boston May Day Committee) – 617-968-0880</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Activist Coalition of Immigrant Students & Grassroots
Organizations to Protest Arizona’s SB1070, March on State House & Fox News</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">When: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 5:30 p.m. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">Where: Park Street T-Stop (Tremont Street); March to Beacon
& Park Street; State House (Beacon Street)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align:left">What: On the 29th, Arizona's anti-immigrant State Bill 1070
is scheduled to come into effect. This law would encode racial profiling into
police policy and hold the threat of deportation over millions of workers. This
threat will try to divide-and-rule working people and keep immigrants from
being part of the fight back that is desperately needed against budget cuts and
layoffs.</div>
<div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Fox News personalities like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly have
been whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment. It is time to say, loud and clear,
to Fox News and the State House: "Working people must be united to stop
budget cuts and layoffs! Arizona laws will not spread to Massachusetts! We will
not buy into your culture of hate!"</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">The action connects affirmatively with the Student Immigrant
Movement and the growing <i>public</i> voice
of undocumented immigrants challenging the broken immigration system and
proposing alternatives. Among the stories told will be Gladys’—an undocumented
20 years old student who arrived here at 12 years of age from Mexico. She
speaks to her dreams and provides eloquent testimony to the dignity of
immigrants in the face of persecution and injustice. (see attached testimony).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">Who: Boston May Day Committee, Student Immigrant Movement, Brazilian
Immigrant Center, Boston Bolivarianos, International Socialist Organization,
Massachusetts Global Action, ANSWER Coalition, Socialist Alternative, Boston
Interpreters Collective, Boston Sass Attack Radical Cheerleaders, Socialist
Party, and Latin@s for Social Change.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Gladys’ Story:
Undocumented and Unafraid</span> </p><p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">My name is Gladys and I’m a member of the Student Immigrant
Movement. I came to the United States when I was 12 years old and I’m currently
20 years old. Like my parents I came here without having the proper
documentation to enter the U.S. However, the main reason why I came here was
because I wanted to see my parents who had to emigrate to the U.S from Mexico
the year before because they wanted to offer me, my brother and sisters a
better life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">For me one of the most exciting parts about the idea of
living in the United States besides being with my parents was the idea of going
to school, but I have to say that getting used to my new life was quite
difficult since I didn’t know a word in English. However, in school I always
tried my hardest to excel in all my classes because I always listened and
believed what my teachers told me that if I did good in school doors and
opportunities would open up for me. I graduated from high school with high
honors with a 4.1 GPA. However, despite having a 4.1 GPA I was not able to
attend the school of my choice because I did not qualified for financial aid
neither could I afford myself paying out-state tuition rates.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">My desire of becoming an educated person but most
importantly the need that I have to do something about my situation made me
join the Student Immigrant Movement. In SIM I found other students in my
situation. SIM has not only has reinforced my hope but most importantly has
given me the skills and the tools that I need to keep fighting for my dreams
and for other students’ dreams.</p><p></p>
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