Teach-In: Turn The Tide Against Hate
On February 4, 2009 Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa, Arizona marched 200 chained and shackled immigrants from a detention center to a segregated “tent city,” in the desert surrounded by a recently installed electric fence, where it will soon reach 120 degrees daily. Sheriff Arpaio has cut their access to health care and plans to force them to work in chain gangs if they “misbehave.” He issued a press release the day before inviting the press to witness the forced march through the streets of Phoenix, Arizona. The House Judiciary Committee recently issued a letter stating that, “racial profiling and segregation are not acceptable” and demanded that the Department of Justice investigate Arpaio's tactics.
Immigrants' rights are under unprecedented assault across the country, but nowhere more so than in Arizona.This teach-ins serves to resist the systematic normalization of hate and xenophobia occurring in Arizona through the use of immigration laws. Arizona is the testing ground for right-wing immigration policy. If we cannot stop it there, we'll see similar activities spread across the country.
It is crucial that you join this historic, nationwide struggle. Turn the Tide Against Hate.
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