*The anniversary of the ratification of the 14th amendment to the constitution

Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants!
Defend Immigrants’ Right to Asylum! Overturn DHS v. Thuraissigiam
Trump and Pence Must Resign or Be Removed By Any Means Necessary!
Minneapolis Has Shown the Way; The Real Power is in the Streets!

THURSDAY, JULY 9 at 6 PM
OAKLAND: RALLY and MARCH at Plaza de la Fuente on International Blvd. between 34th and 35th Ave. (near Fruitvale BART)
Keep safe from COVID-19: always wear a mask in public

In one month, a new mass movement for civil rights and social justice led by black youth, has drawn in millions and changed more history for the better in the United States than all the speechifying and maneuvers of the politicians in the last fifty years. Millions of people yearning for freedom and a new America not distorted by the racist institutional inequality of our society now are in control of our nation’s future in a way no politicians of either party currently are.

The Supreme Court’s majority decision denying Donald Trump the ability to end DACA, written by Chief Justice Roberts, is but one example of the recognition of the powers that be of just how explosive our movement is when combined with the immigrant rights movement of 2006 led by the Latina/o and immigrant communities. Every police officer now knows that if they murder someone, they potentially face a national spotlight on themselves and their actions. Our movement can and must show them that they could remain behind bars for a very long time. One of the most important lessons of our movement is its unity and its integration. We are black, Latina/o, Asian, Arab, white, immigrants with and without papers, our struggles must become each other’s struggles to win.

Overturn Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam

July 9^th marks the 152^nd year anniversary of the of the ratification of the 14^th amendment, which promises equal protection of all citizens under the law. In its time the 14^th Amendment was a product of a historic struggle, the US Civil War, where millions of Americans died, and slaves were freed from bondage. To this day the 14^th amendment stands as a legal standard for equality that must today be defended for all Americans including immigrants.

The latest Supreme Court decision in the DHS v. Thuraissigiam is an attack on asylum seekers’ basic fundamental human rights and an expansion of Trump’s racist anti-immigrant program. This decision opens the door for Trump, I.C.E. and his right-wing supporters to make further attacks on the legal and political rights of all immigrants in America. It must be defeated. This should be a warning sign to the immigrant and civil rights movement that we cannot stop fighting in the streets until Trump is removed from office by any means necessary.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam is an attack on the right to fundamental due process for asylum seekers, specifically their right to have their case heard by a federal court and not be held indefinitely without a charge. The right to habeas corpus is a right every American has whether they are citizens or not. It is a right that has been used historically to free American slaves from bondage. The Supreme Court ruling is an attempt to give a roadmap for Trump and I.C.E. for how to deny asylum seekers their rights and set up a system of legal second-class citizenship for immigrants. Anyone risking their lives and the lives of their close loved ones to find freedom in the US more than deserves asylum and should be afforded the basic human rights protections in this country, including the right to a fair hearing of their case. No one should be condemned to an indefinite detention and subsequent deportation to their possible death.

Our movement in fundamental ways now is in a struggle that is life or death for many. We are being told that we must continue to go to work, we must return to school, we must return to business as usual even though Covid 19 hospitalizes and kills black and Latina/o people at 2-3 times a rate higher than white people. Immigrants in concentration camps and prisoners suffer in conditions that are impossible to remain safe. Our movement must broaden its demands and advance them consciously.

Right now, the politicians look to Donald Trump and Joseph Biden to save themselves. Our lives for them appear only as secondary considerations. Our response is, Justice for George Floyd, and thank you to our movement! Thank you, Minneapolis! Thank you for setting the example! Thank you for showing us what it means to take matters into our own hands! Thank you for showing us how to build our struggle without relying on the politicians, or the courts. Thank you for showing us that our real power is in our united struggle!

Black, Latina/o, Asian, Arab, white, immigrants with and without papers, if we keep marching and we force Donald Trump to resign or be removed before November, we can win!

PROGRAM OF ACTION FOR THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Justice for George Floyd! Real equal justice for all, at last. Jail all killer cops.
To protect the movement and save democracy, Trump must resign or be removed now, by any means necessary.

To empower the movement to end police racism and violence:

• Make all records of charges against police public—all cops with racist history must be fired—no more hiring of racist cops.
• Ban all lethal force by police, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, batons, chokeholds, all weapons of war and police techniques that carry a risk of killing people. Across the US, police departments have proven their incapacity to use such weapons and techniques, in particular in minority communities, in a way that is even remotely safe and not murderous.
• Free all protesters arrested during the course of the last weeks’ protests, with all charges dropped. The protesters are not criminals, but the heroes of our democracy.
• Police out of the schools.

Stop all the Trump-led steps towards a police state in America:

• The movement’s demands to end police brutality, racism, and abuse must be public policy. The movement must have the power to enforce its demands.
• The movement must defeat all Trump’s threats of a military seizure of power.
• Officers and rank-and-file soldiers must reject Trump’s call for the US military to be used against the American people. No racist civil war in America.
• Federal troops must be kept out of Washington, DC.

For the movement to unite all minority and oppressed communities in one mighty struggle for equal justice for all: 

• The movement has the power to change our country for the better if it unites black and brown and all defenders of democracy and equality in a single, independent, integrated struggle
• no more relying on politicians and political establishments that have failed over and over again for generations.
• The real power is in the streets.

Immigrant rights are civil rights:

• Immigrants must stay, Trump must go!
• Full citizenship rights for all immigrants.
• Full defense of the right of asylum. Overturn Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam
• No racist border wall; open the borders. Let the caravans in!
• Shut down immigrant concentration camps! No deportations!

To defeat injustice anywhere, the movement must fight for justice everywhere, and fight to save human lives against COVID-19.

• Defend Roe v. Wade.
• Free mass testing for COVID-19 available to all – whether the patients are symptomatic or not.
• Removing Trump will save thousands of lives—end his anti-science policy around COVID-19
• No School Re-openings to protect the children. In-person classes should resume only after mass testing has been systematically conducted to ensure the pandemic is under control.
• Defend quality public education–no school closings.