Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network

May 5, 2012

Please join our annual Immigrant March in support and solidarity with Cleveland’s immigrants.

Since Market Square is still under construction, our march will be held downtown this year.

Saturday May, 5, 2012 ~ 2P.M.

Public Square

SW quadrant

in front of Tower City

September 28, 2010, the Immigrant Support Network hosted an event called: Racism, War, Failed Economics, and IMMIGRATION: Why should I care? Immigration is the hot topic of the year: The New Arizona Law, Islamophobia in New York and elsewhere, undocumented workers, failed border enforcement, the Dream Act, etc.   However, all too often the discussion fails to describe how our system as a whole is broken and how all these aspects are intertwined. Our talk “Racism, War, Failed Economics and Immigration” will take a holistic approach of trying to systemically identify cause and effect relationships that have structurally contributed to our current Immigration dilemma.

The two guest speakers who shared their knowledge on these issues were Eloy Garcia, a member of the Christian Peacemakers Teams (CPT) and Elizabeth Zunica, a recent John Carroll graduate. Elizabeth spent her summer on the U.S. – Mexican border working for “No More Death” shared her personal experience about border dynamics and gross-roots movements in opposition to SB 1070.

Eloy García is a member of the Colombia CPT project. He is a Chicano activist Attorney, US Army Veteran, Catholic lay missionary, and SOA “86” prisoner of Conscience from New Mexico. Eloy has most recently worked in Bolivia in the push for the nationalization of the country’s petroleum industry, in the northwestern United States organizing for immigration reform, and in the deserts of Arizona working on immigration detention issues.

For the folks who couldn’t make it to our talk or who would like to listen to it again, we put an edited recorded version of it on our website. Please click this link to access our broadcast.