Shut Down ICE - Civil Disobedience Training

“Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

For 3 years now people have been marching, petitioning, lobbying for change. We have heard hopeful words from the Obama administration, yet as we write, more national guard are being sent to the border, families are being torn apart, our communities are being terrorized, and workers are sitting in detention centers, where documented human rights abuses have occurred.

May 1st will mark the 100th day of the Obama administration. In the first days of his administration, Obama signed an executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. There is no reason he can’t do a similar executive order to immediately stop the wave of immigration raids and deportations that are tearing apart families and communities around the country. We will not wait for justice, we will not wait as mothers and fathers are torn from their children. We will not be silent while community members live in fear. We will not tolerate workers being exploited.

We will not wait for justice to come at a more convenient time.

OUR DEMAND IS SIMPLE:

We demand that President Obama sign an executive order declaring an immediate moratorium on raids and deportations until a JUST immigration law is passed.

“I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington…I’m asking you to believe in yours”
Barack Obama

Three Nonviolent Civil Disobedience trainings building up to an action at ICE headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota:

1. April 15 7:30pm, Bethany Lutheran Church (2511 E. Franklin Ave. S., Minneapolis)

2. April 19th, 1:00pm, Macalester College, 4th Floor of Old Main (St. Paul)

3. May 1st Nicollet and 28th at May Day Rally

May 6th, 7:00am Protest at ICE HQ, 2901 Metro Dr., Bloomington, MN 55425