Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
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“The issue is not the right to work. Everyone has the right to work. The
Right to Work is an inherent Human Right, not a delegated privilege. The issue is the criminalization of
migrant workers and their families by racist regimes of “lawful employment”
that disguise ethnic cleansing. In
terms of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as Migrant Workers, it is an issue of
colonization and self determination.”
Phoenix, AZ - In solidarity with the national and international condemnation of the raid of retaliation at Uncle Sam’s restaurant last week conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), the Comités de Defensa del Barrio
conducted a press conference in front of the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) offices in Phoenix on Wednesday. Coming in the wake
of the May 24, 2013 US Court decision by Judge Snow in the Melendres v. Arpaio case
where the MCSO was found guilty of Racial Profiling, the raid at Uncle
Sam's restaurant on July 17 has been condemned as an open act of racial
persecution and blatant state racism directed at Mexican Workers in
particular by Sheriff J. Arpaio.
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| From Selma to Phoenix, from Civil Rights to Human Rights, Indigenous Rights and the Rights of Mother Earth! |
Although
five of the detainees were released by Maricopa County Sheriff Bill
Montgomery by Wednesday July 24, the Comités de Defensa del Barrio have
demanded that all detainees be released and end to discriminatory law
enforcement practices and policies MCSO.
"We demand their release by ICE immediately. The Barrio Defense Committees TONATIERRA had one of their
members arrested in the raid. We demand his liberation as well as the
liberation of all involved, and an end to criminalization of all migrant
workers and their families.
We demand the Right to Work with
Dignity. No more Raids. No more racial profiling. No more abuse and retaliation
by Sheriff Joe."
Demanding the restitution of the Rule of Law, based on fundamental respect for Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Indigenous Rights in Maricopa County, the Human Rights Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio is planning a Tribunal of Justice for September 16, 2013 to address the ongoing and systemic violations of these rights by law enforcement authorities of the state in Arizona.
Demanding the restitution of the Rule of Law, based on fundamental respect for Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Indigenous Rights in Maricopa County, the Human Rights Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio is planning a Tribunal of Justice for September 16, 2013 to address the ongoing and systemic violations of these rights by law enforcement authorities of the state in Arizona.
A specific issue to be addressed in the proceedings of the Tribunal of Justice will be the call by the international community for repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, and the implications in terms of DISMANTLING: The Doctrine of Discovery and US Citizenship.
The Human Rights Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio carries as mandate the full recognition, respect, and protection of the Human Rights of All Peoples articulated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).
The Right of Memory
NO somos Ilegales! NO somos criminales! Somos trabajadores de Pueblos Originales!
NO somos Ilegales! NO somos criminales! Somos trabajadores de Pueblos Originales!
Adopted
by the United Nations General Assembly
10
December 1948
Article 23
Article 23
1) Everyone has the right
to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of
work and to protection against unemployment.
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Tuesday July 17, 2013
Arpaio: The Tough Sheriff of Maricopa County
"Stopping
Mexicans to make Sure they are legal is not racist. If you have dark skin, you
have dark skin! Unfortunately, That is the look of the Mexican illegal."
Files of Maricopa County
Sheriff J. Arpaio
quoted on page 28 of U.S.
District Court Case 2:07-cv-02513-GMS
Document 494 12/23/11
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Links:
February 7, 2012
Memorandum to the US Justice Department
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November 8, 2012
Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Commision de Derechos Humanos
- See more at: http://cdb-tonatierra.blogspot.com/2013/05/discrimination-against-indigenous.html#sthash.z4blEQnc.dpuf******
Links:
February 7, 2012
Memorandum to the US Justice Department
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November 8, 2012
Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Commision de Derechos Humanos
"Stopping
Mexicans to make sure they are legal is not racist. If you have dark skin, you
have dark skin! Unfortunately, That is the look of the Mexican illegal."
Files of Maricopa County
Sheriff J. Arpaio
quoted on page 28 of U.S. District Court Case 2:07-cv-02513-GMS
Document 494 12/23/11
quoted on page 28 of U.S. District Court Case 2:07-cv-02513-GMS
Document 494 12/23/11
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Links:
February 7, 2012
Memorandum to the US Justice Department
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November 8, 2012
Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Comisión de Derechos Humanos
February 7, 2012
Memorandum to the US Justice Department
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November 8, 2012
Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Comisión de Derechos Humanos
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