Presente! (eBook, ePUB)

Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial
Redaktion: Tzintzún, Cristina; de Alejo, Carlos Pérez; Manríquez, Arnulfo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate "browning of America." Left-leaning journalists, on the other hand, foreground victimization, emphasizing the plight of immigrants, stripping them of their agency. Neither captures the range of experiences within undocumented immigrant communities, and both fail to see immigrants as active participants in their own struggle for racial and economic justice.

Presente! offers a rare perspective on the immigrant-rights movement, written by immigrant workers themselves. Including a range of essays exploring the intersection of race, class, and immigration in the United States, this anthology challenges its readers to move beyond a "legalization-only" framework and embrace a broader vision for social justice organizing embodied in the work of grassroots organizations across the country resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change. Offered in a dual-language edition, with a foreword by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzáles.

Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project, a Texas based workers' rights organization.

Carlos Pérez de Alejo is the executive director of Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives.

Arnulfo Manríquez is an organizer at Workers Defense Project, where he organizes immigrant construction workers to defend their labor and human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849351676
• Artikelnr.: 43837402

Autorenporträt

Cristina Tzintzún: Cristina Tzintzún is Director of Workers Defense Project, and co-founder of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition. Tzintzún contributed chapters to Colonize This! and Yes Means, Yes!. She also covers immigration rights issues for the daily newspapers Ahora Si! and El Norte. Omar Angel: Omar Angel is originally from Oaxaca, Mexico. Angel holds a Law Degree from the University of Veracruz, and for the last five years has been working in the US with the Workers Defense Project, the Immigrant Worker Centers Collaborative in Boston, and Workplace Project in Long Island. Carlos Pérez de Alejo: Carlos Pérez de Alejo works with Third Coast Workers for Cooperation, a cooperative development center. Carlos has been an organizer with the Workers Defense Project and a member of the Student/Farmworker Alliance. His writings have appeared in Yes!, Z Magazine , and Dollars and Sense.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
By Juan González
Introduction
By Tzintzún, Angel, and Pérez de Alejo
Part I: Our Problems
No one is illegal: The New Sanctuary Movement
By Elvira Arellano
Why I struggle: NAFTA and Immigrant Workers' Rights in the US
By Maria Duque, Workers Defense Project
Globalizing Struggle: From Civil War to Migration
By Pablo Alvarado, National Day Labor Organizing Network
Indigenous organizing beyond borders: achievements and challenges facing
immigrants By Bertha Rodríguez Santos
Part II Our Responses
Introduction
By Tzintzún, Angel, and Pérez de Alejo
Starving for a Dream: Undocumented Youth Up the Anti
By: Pamela Reséndiz
When we hit the streets: Immigrants organize largest marches in US History
By Jorge Mujica, March 10th committee
Apartheid in Arizona: When ICE and Criminal Justice Converge
By Rosalba and Cesar López of Tierra y Libertad
From the Factory Floor to the Barrios
By Viola Casares & Petra Mata Fuerza Unida
Harnessing our Collective Power: The Economic Boycott of 2006
By Gloria Saucedo, La Hermandad Méxicana
Part III The Future Struggle
Dignity at Work: The Cooperative Difference
By Ivette Melendez, WAGES
Building a New Labor Movement: Immigrant Workers take on fast food giants
By Lucas Benitez, CIW
I am Still DREAMing: A Vision for the Future Struggle
By Manuel Ramírez
Black and Brown United: We Are on One Path to Achieve Equality
By Dennis Sorriano