NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, DETAINEES AND ACTIVISTS
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, DETAINEES AND ACTIVISTS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2 PM, DELANEY HALL, NEWARK, NJ
A coalition of New Jersey/New York activists are organizing a RALLY to join the nationwide National Day of Action on Saturday, August 8, starting at 2:00 PM in front of Delaney Hall, 451 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ.
The coalition’s specific demands are as follows:
- Free Martin Soto, Free Them All, Close the Camps, Now!
- Equal Citizenship Rights for All Who Live Here!
- Abolish ICE and Stop Deportations!
- Stop Attacks on TPS, No Human is Illegal!
- Free Political Prisoners, Drop Charges Against the Prairieland Defendants and Minneapolis 15!
- Hands Off the Amazon Labor Union!
- General Strike to Shut Down ICE and the Concertation Camps!
One of the event’s organizers, Alec Courtney of Staten Island, New York, sums up the purpose for this event, as follows: “An injury to one is an injury to all. The way we are going to beat back Trump’s attack on immigrants and activists is by uniting our forces across the country. This is the important step we are taking on August 8.”
Courtney also emphasized that only a bottom-up, democratic movement can build the power we need to win our demands. “The August 8 National Day of Action has been the result of grassroots organizing by activists across the country meeting to democratically decide our demands and plan our actions. We all must be leaders to defeat the Trump regime’s murderous agenda at home and aboard, and win the world we want and need.”
“The recent death of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo at Trump’s Delaney Hall ICE dungeon underscores why we need to abolish ICE, shut down their dungeons, and guarantee equal rights for all who live here”, said Carol Lang of the Bronx, New York. She emphasized that “it will take shutting down the country, that is organizing a general strike, which will be the key to successfully winning our demands. “
