Vol.61/No.28 August 25, 1997
March For Immigrant Rights Set For October 12
NEW YORK - Plans are under way here to build an immigrant
rights demonstration scheduled for October 12 in front of
the United Nations. The demonstration, called by Coordina
dora 96, is being organized out of the offices of the
Immigrant Workers Association, explained Mónica Santana,
one of the local organizers. Santana, also a leader of the
Latino Workers Center in New York, explained the importance
of the next event. It will be "a press conference at the
United Nations on August 29 to help to publicize the
demonstration." Along with several other immigrant rights
organizations in the region, they are collecting signatures
on a petition in support of a bill in Congress "to reinstate
benefits for legal immigrants who are not citizens," and for
"a new general amnesty for all undocumented people."
Santana added that on August 30 there will be a meeting
in New York of organizers of Coordinadora 96 from around the
country. The meeting will be open to all those who want to
help build the October 12 demonstration at the United
Nations. Coordinadora 96 is the coalition that built the
20,000-strong march for immigrant rights in Washington,
D.C., last October. There are also plans for a "Continental
Conference" on immigrants rights in the Dominican Republic
late in September. For more information on all these
upcoming events call Miguel Maldonado at the Immigrant
Workers Association in New York at (212) 505-0001.
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