Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Protest and Presence at the Tucson City Council Meeting
5pm
Presidio Park
255 West Alameda
Tucson, AZ

On Wednesday, February 22nd, do the following THREE things to Protect Chuk Shon:

1) Contact the Tucson City Council
2) Protest outside the City Council meeting at 5pm
3) Attend the City Council meeting and stand against the Rio Nuevo Board

Contact the Tucson City Council
Tell them to stand strong against the Rio Nuevo Board suit! We need to demand that the land at the Chuk Shon site be restored and the Tres Mesquites landfill be remediated! Tell them that we demand:

Restoration of the land, especially the remediation of the Tres Mesquites landfill;
Representation of the people of Tucson and the Tohono and Akimel ‘O’odham nations on the Rio Nuevo Board–not appointees from the Governor and State Legislators who do not respect Tucson’s heritage;
Stand strong in the mediation and don’t give away our heritage–NO DEVELOPMENT that is not in accord with the original intentions approved by the voters!

Contact information for the Mayor and City Council:

Mayor Jonathan Rothschild
Email: mayor1@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4201

Ward 1 Council Member Regina Romero
Email: ward1@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4040

Ward 2 Council Member Paul Cunningham
Email: ward2@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4687

Ward 3 Council Member Karin Uhlich
Email: ward3@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4711

Ward 4 Vice Mayor Shirley Scott
Email: ward4@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-3199

Ward 5 Council Member Richard Fimbres
Email: ward5@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4231

Ward 6 Council Member Steve Kozachik
Email: ward6@tucsonaz.gov
Tel: (520) 791-4601

Thursday, February 24, 2012

Contact the Rio Nuevo Board!

On Thursday, February 24th, contact the Rio Nuevo Board. Tell them we demand:

• Restoration of the land, especially the remediation of the Tres Mesquites landfill;
• Representation of the people of Tucson and the Tohono and Akimel ‘O’odham nations on the Rio Nuevo Board–not appointees from the Governor and State Legislators who do not respect Tucson’s heritage;
• STOP THE SUIT against the city and people of Tucson!

Contact info for the Rio Nuevo Board:

Board Chair, Jodi Bain:
Email: jabdistrict@hotmail.com
Tel: (520) 721-1900
*Ask to speak to her directly, if if she is not available, leave a message.

Vice Chair, Mark Irvin
Email: mark@markirvin.com

Treasurer, Jeff Hill
Email: jhill548@aol.com

Secretary, Alberto Moore
Email: albertomoore05@gmail.com

Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facility District (520) 792-4800

Background:

The City of Tucson is in mediation with the Rio Nuevo Board, and we need City to stand strong for the people of Tucson and NOT to sell us and our heritage out!

The Rio Nuevo Board has decided to go ahead with its suit against the City and People of Tucson in their land grab attempt to take ownership of Tucson’s birthplace and to open it up for private development. This is in direct defiance of the original voter approved and community supported plans for the area to be a place that honors and celebrates Tucson’s heritage.

The Rio Nuevo Board is made up of SB1070 supporters, opponents of Ethnic Studies, NAFTA lawyers and big real estate developers. It includes members such as Rosemont Copper lobbyist Rick Grinnel and Alberto Moore, one of those responsible for the destruction of Barrio Viejo in order to build La Placita and the Tucson Community Center.

We cannot allow the original Chuk Shon to become a private profit playground for people who are completely out of touch with our heritage and community values.

Monday, February 20, 2012
12pm
Derechos Humanos office
631 S. 6th Avenue
Tucson, Az

Planning for the Migrant Trail ’12 (May 28-June 3, 2012) will begin on February 20, 2012.  Past participants, organizers, friends and allies are invited to help to plan the ninth year of the Walk.  This would be most convenient if you lived in the Tucson/Arizona community, but there are a few committee members that assist from afar, so please don’t let that discourage you!

If you cannot make this meeting but are interested in being part of the Organizing Committee, please let us know by either replying to this e-mail or e-mailing migrant_trail@yahoo.com.

Dec 9th

6:30pm

Armory Park

220 5th Street, Tucson, AZ

Join us as we kick off our celebration of International Human Rights Day (Dec 10) and International Day of the Migrant (Dec 18th).

We begin with a community screening of Letters from the Other Side/Cartas del Otro Lado, a beautiful film that paints a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities dying at the hands of globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.

The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

$5.00 suggested donation.

Nuestra Voz/Our Voice: Migration, Gender & Human Rights

Women & Violence, Women & Resistance

Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:30am-5:30pm

Join us for a day of speakers, workshops, and presentations led by women in the community who are working on issues of global justice. Lunch will be provided.

Workshops/Speakers will be in English & Spanish. Interpretation will be provided.

Also presenting Beyond the Walls: An Evening with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six, a play the brings us the stories of 7 prisoners in Colombia, as well as a community performance by Gabriela Galup!

Wakefield Middle School

101 W. 44th Street, Tucson, AZ

Child Care will be available- please RSVP to reserve.

$10 suggested donation $5 low income.

For more information, contact Derechos Humanos at 520 770-1373

9:00 – 9:30am

Check-in/Registration/breakfast

9:30 – 9:35am

Welcome and logistical info

bathrooms, interpretation, etc.)

9:35 – 11:05am

Plenary: Women and Violence

Panelists

Alana Tchirkine:  

Consent

Dereka Rushbrook:

Structural Violence and Economics

Montserrat Caballero:  

Immigrant Women and Violence

Anna O’Leary:  

Women in the Intersection

11:10 – 12:40pm

Workshops

Prison Divestment 

Corazón de Tucson (Spanish)

Know Your Rights

Promotoras de Derechos Humanos (Spanish)

Secure Communities

Promotoras de Derechos Humanos (Spanish with Interpretation)

Violence Against Women

Su Voz Vale (Spanish with Interpretation)

12:40-1:10pm

Lunch  

1:10- 2:30pm

Play:

From Beyond the Walls: An Evening with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six

 Artistic Performance:  

Gabriela Galup

2:30 – 3:45pm

Plenary: Women and Resistance

Panelists

Guillermina Torres, Derechos Humanos

Immigrant Women

Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, UA Mexican American Studies

Ethnic Studies 

Elisa Meza, UNIDOS

Youth Organizing 

Brenda Límon, Pan Left, Tucson Samaritans

LGBTQ Community

3:50 – 5:20pm  

Workshops

Consent

Alana Tchirkine (English)

Food Justice

Tierra y Libertad (English with Interpretation)

Youth Organizing

UNIDOS (English)

Media

Pan Left Productions (English)

5:25pm 

Closing Remarks  by Isabel Garcia

Informational Protest and Rally

Friday, August 12, 2011

4:00pm

Tucson Police Department

270 S. Stone Avenue

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson – After months of political and legal maneuvering to avoid questions of transparency, accountability, and fundamental due process, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, August 5, 2011, announced its unilateral decision to rescind all Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and 40 states in its “Secure Communities” program, effective immediately. This unprecedented fingerprint-sharing process between ICE and local police has acted as a “dragnet” to identify and deport record numbers of undocumented migrants, resulting in the devastation of families and communities and spawning strong fight-backs across the country and decisions to “opt-out” by three states, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

These MOA provided the framework for their relationship, including an option for states to terminate their participation, which DHS simply wiped out with this move, clearing the road for their intended national implementation by the end of 2013.

The flagrant disregard of the serious grievances presented by communities across the country will only serve to continue to undermine any good will our communities have for this administration. DHS has run roughshod over our families and communities, and now that we have exposed this strategy to deport thousands, as well as its intentions to extend this data-gathering scheme to the rest of us through its connection with the FBI’s Next Generation Information System, this rogue agency suddenly states they can continue without the approval of the states.

The establishment of a new Advisory Taskforce to review the allegations of racial profiling, detentions and deportations, and other serious human rights violations, was done only to cover up and otherwise white-wash the real history of this program. We are asking that Tucson Police Chief, Roberto Villaseñor, who has been named as a member of this Taskforce, to resign and not legitimize a program that will result in the most massive deportation process we have ever seen.

Join Derechos Humanos, Southside Worker Center, Tierra y Libertad, and the members of the Border Solidarity Delegation at 4:00 PM, on Friday, August 12, 2011, at an informational protest and rally in front of the Tucson Police Department headquarters on Stone Avenue, and in our petition to Chief Villaseñor to resign from this Taskforce.

Conveners of the delegation are the New York- based DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and amazing organization that seeks to raise the leadership of low-income, South Asian immigrants to lead policy and social change that impacts their own lives, and Vamos Unidos, which organizes Latina/o immigrants, currently predominantly street vendors, for economic and racial justice, immigrant rights, and police accountability.

 Participants in the delegation include members of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Breakthrough Media, and ACLU-Arizona.

We are excited to have such incredible allies come out and share this experience on the border.

Please join us for the following events:

Thursday, August 12, 2011

Weekly Community Vigil

Thursdays, 7 pm

at El Tirado Shrine (on Main Street, between Simpson and Cushing Street)

Join us as we remember our sisters and brothers that die in the desert every day, and discuss the growing concerns over U.S. immigration and border policies.

Friday, August 12, 2011

STAY TUNED FOR A COMMUNITY-WIDE ACTION AGAINST “SECURE COMMUNITIES” THAT WILL BE DONE IN COORDINATION WITH CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY!

Friday, August 12, 2011

Community Reception

7:30 pm

Raices Taller, 218 E. 6th Street, Tucson, AZ

Join us at a community reception to welcome the members of the delegation that will be joining us to learn more about the struggles in Arizona, as well as share their stories of struggle and resistance.

The event will be held at Raices Taller, celebrated as Tucson, Arizona’s only Latino based contemporary nonprofit cooperative art gallery and workshop.

This event is free and open to the community.

Dessert and beverages will be served.

For more information, contact Derechos Humanos: 520.770.1373

invite you to a

Community Potluck

Friday, August 26, 2011

6:30 pm

Armory Park 220 S. 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ

Join Derechos Humanos and the Tucson New Priorities Network for a potluck to discuss this exciting new movement. The New Priorities Network is a national network of groups that seek to fund urgently needed jobs and restore vital public services by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and substantially cutting the core Pentagon budget. Tucson New Priorities is a part of this network that has been formed to “move the money” from military to local programs and to help our struggling states, cities, and communities. For more information please visit www.TucsonNewPriorities.org and www.NewPrioritiesNetwork.org

$5 suggested donation

Please bring a dish to share

For more information: 520.770.1373



Sunday, July 17, 2011

5:00pm

Douglas border, at the memorial cross in honor of Carlos (see directions below)

Douglas, Arizona