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¡Valoriza la familia! ¡Para la crimegración! ¡Alto a la legislación del amor!
Acción electrónica contra el ICE y la Proposición #8: Una protesta virtual
de tres días para ¡DERECHOS HUMANOS PARA TODOS!
Desde el 20 de noviembre al 23 de noviembre de 2008
¡Alto a la violencia literal y simbólica en contra de familias de
inmigrantes y LGBTQ (Lesbianas, Homosexuales, Bisexuales, Transgénero y
‘Queer’)!
¡Alto a la criminalización de lo supuestamente indocumentado y no-normativo
¡Alto a los abusos de la detención de familias de inmigrantes por ICE!
¡Alto a la negación de reconocer familias de homosexuales!
¡Únete a una acción global durante tres días en contra del ICE y de los
grupos a favor de la Proposición #8 de Califonia!
Una propuesta de tres días en contra del ICE y los grupos a favor de la
Proposición #8 de California por su negación de ¡DERECHOS HUMANOS PARA
TODOS!
La propuesta virtual en contra del ICE y los grupos en favor de la
Proposición #8
LA SENTADA VIRTUAL CONTRA (ICE)
EMPIEZA
A la medianoche del 20 de noviembre, 2008 – Tiempo Pacifico (EEUU)
TERMINA
A la medianoche del 23 de noviembre, 2008 – Tiempo Pacifico (EEUU)
UNANSE A LA E-ACCION ELIGIENDO LA SIGUENTE PAGINA:
Y
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
EN ESOS DIAS Y HORAS
CLICK=ACTION
LA RAZON POR LA QUE ESTAMOS PROPONIENDO ESTA E-ACCION:
En los ultimos anos hemos sido testigos de como el movimiento
anti-migrante en los EE.UU. ha criminalizado y hostigado violentamente a
los migrantes. Esto ha resultado en un incremento de miedo entre los
migrantes, la intensificacion de violencia racial llevada a cabo por
civiles que actuan en contra de estas comunidades, y aumentado el nivel de
detencion y encarcelamiento de migrantes por parte de agencias locales,
estatales, y federales. Estas acciones realizadas o animadas por el estado
han contribuido al fenómeno de separación masiva de familias migrantes
observado a través de los EE.UU.
Mujeres migrantes cuentan historias de como sus esposos son detenidos por
la migra (ICE) cuando van hacia su trabajo y enseguida (ICE) regresa por
ellas a sus casas, acciones que a veces resultan en el abandonando de los
niños al cuidado de miembros de la familia o en las manos del estado.
Llamadas hacia migrantes que han ganado algun premio son usadas para
confirmar la presencia de la persona migrante en su hogar. Cuando es
confirmada, en minutos (ICE) llega a sus hogares, a menudo en atuendo no
identificado, y se llevan a las personas migrantes. En algunos casos ninos
son deportados con sus madres porque no hay nadie con quien dejarlos.
Ninos abandonados con nineras despues de que sus padres son detenidos por
(ICE) tambien son historias comunes. Estas narraciones de separacion y
truma son naturalizadas en las experiencias de migrantes.
Esta accion es un intento para crear solidaridad contra las acciones del
Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE), una
agencia del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, establecida según para
resguarder la seguridad nacional contra “criminales” y “terroristas.” Bajo
este aspecto, las acciones de (ICE) sirven para aterrorizar comunidades
migrantes y contribuye a la violencia
vivida por familias migrantes afectadas por las deportaciones.
La construcción de familias migrantes como violables es arraigada en una
larga historia de agresión contra la gente de color en los EE.UU. La
reproducción biológica forzada contra esclavos; la imposición de
internados para niños indígenas; la prohibicion de migración de personas
de Asia a fines del siglo 19 y que termina a mediados del siglo 20;
deportaciones masivas similares a las que estan sucediendo occurrieron en
los 1930s y de nuevo en los 1950s; estos proyectos americanos son ejemplos
históricos de la violación continua contra familias de color en los EE.UU
que persiste hoy en dia.
La separación contemporánea de familias migrantes que es resultado de
acciones estatales realizadas para segun protejer la frontera es en
realidad una extension de esta larga trayectoria de violencia infligida
contra familias de color.
Unirse a este movimiento contra las acciones de (ICE) no significa
sólamente tomar accion contra las atrocidades cometidas contra familias
migrantes, pero tambien significa adoptar una actitud contra el daño
historico y persistente causado en comunidades de color por parte del
estado en los EE.UU.
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Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In - NOVEMBER 20th to
NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!
VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE’S LEGISLATION!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and
Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups
for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
FROM NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
STOP THE LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND LGBTQ
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) FAMILIES!
STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED UNDOCUMENTED AND NON-NORMATIVE!
STOP THE DETENTION ABUSES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BY ICE!
STOP THE REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE SAME-SEX KITH AND KIN!
JOIN A 3 DAY GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ICE AND
PRO-CALIFORNIA PROPOSTION 8 GROUPS!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and
Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups
for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
The Virtual Sit-In On ICE and Pro-8 Groups
STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:
OR
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.
CLICK=ACTION
WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR THIS E-ACTION:
In the past few years we have witnessed and felt the sting of the
anti-immigrant movement in the United States, its violent targeting and
criminalization of immigrants. The results: heightened levels of fear
among immigrants, escalated racialized violence perpetrated by civilians
against immigrant communities, and increased levels of detention and
imprisonment of migrants by local, state, and federal agencies. These
phenomena either performed or encouraged by the powers-that-be have
contributed to the massive separation of immigrant family across
time-space. Simultaneously in the past few years we have witnessed the
effects of other concerted attacks on the integrity of love’s many
manifestations—a rolling back of legislation that begins to recognize
same-sex family structures. The results: an embargo on family and love,
blocked adoptions, healthcare, unions. Whether one supports gay marriage
or not in the theoretical, the ongoing perpetuation of inequalities
presents a clear-cut case of human rights abuse. Queers of color know that
attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer)
families are not distinct, but instead are clearly linked examples of the
U.S. right-wing’s “acts of transfer.” “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender immigrants and their families are uniquely vulnerable,” says
Rachel B. Tiven, Immigration Equality Executive Director, “detaining more
immigrants, with less judicial review, will put the lives of innocent
people at risk.” Don’t cede the category of “family”! Realize political
kinships and affinities! Bypass EITHER/OR politics, embrace BOTH/AND
coalitions!
This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to
gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security
established to allegedly guard national security by targeting “criminals”
and “terrorists,” and the actions of right-wing organizations which
devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to define the category of
Family in the narrowest terms imaginable. Constructions of immigrant and
queer families as violable are rooted in long histories of aggression
against humanity; which have and continue to establish hierarchies of
personhood. The forced biological reproduction of slaves; the enforcement
of boarding schools for indigenous children; the banned migration of
Asians beginning in the late 19th century and ending in the mid 20th
century; massive deportations during the 1930s and again in the 1950s;
systemic legislative and juridical “privileges of unknowing” against
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—these American
(sic) projects are but a few examples of the continuous violation of
“family values” in the United States. The contemporary separation of
immigrant and queer families resulting from state practices to police
internal and external borders is a piece with the long trajectory of
violence inflicted on so-called non-normative families. Join this
nonviolent direct action against ICE and Pro-California Proposition 8
Groups to speak out against BOTH recent atrocities against families AND
persistent violence(s) exacted on peoples with histories.
1] Senate Immigration Bill Removes Added Burden on Same-Sex Couples Sought
by House
http://www.hrc.org/1462.htm
2] Joseph Nevins on “Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of
Global Apartheid”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/20/joseph_nevins_on_dying_to_live
3] Fear grips immigrants after raid at Mississippi plant
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-08-27-immigration-raid-miss...
4] Mexican’s Death Bares a Town’s Ethnic Tension
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/05attack.html
5] Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR200806...
6] Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States
Deportation Policy
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/us0707/
7] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcment
http://www.ice.gov/about/index.htm
8] Immigration Raids Trample the Constitution Without Securing the Nation
http://www.aclunc.org/news/opinions/immigration_raids_trample_the_consti...
9] American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
10] Asian American History Timeline
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html#3
11] Latinos in the United States: Invitation and Exile
http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/spanish/classes/uslatino/latinos_c...
12] Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese on Approval of
Proposition 8
http://www.hrc.org/11522.htm
13] Ugly Betty Speak Out Against Prop 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9HfNwMKZ0E
14] Betty la Fea Hablan en Contra de Prop 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQf0kumpZQ&feature=related
15] Postville, Iowa Struggles on After ICE Raid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zCQHX9Lgg
THIS E-ACTION is an Artivist Performance by
Electronic Disturbance Theater
SPONSORED BY
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance, Globalization, and Transnational
Exchange
Presented by The UCLA Center for Performance Studies
November 20-23, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
Hosted by bang.lab CALIT2/UCSD
http://bang.calit2.net
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups
for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:
OR
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.
CLICK=ACTION
FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-ACTION
Please contact: Ricardo Dominguez: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
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