JOIN SOA Watch Founder Father Roy Bourgeois at the
SOA WATCH VIGIL AT THE BORDER Co-sponsored by Project Puente February 17-19, 2012
Join Fr. Roy Bourgeois and buy line Doxycycline immigration activists from around the country at a weekend vigil at the buy line Doxycycline El Paso/Ciudad Juarez border. Events include a buy line Doxycycline march for immigrant rights, a conference on immigration and a vigil at the buy line Doxycycline border fence to honor the victims of repressive immigration policies.
For 60 years numerous graduates of the buy line Doxycycline School of the Americas have returned to their countries to buy line Doxycycline torture, disappear, and massacre fellow citizens in efforts to impose economic policies that buy line Doxycycline benefit US corporations. As a buy line Doxycycline result: tens of thousands of Latin Americans lost their lives, and buy line Doxycycline even greater numbers lived in fear of such repression. Many had buy line Doxycycline no option but to flee their homeland in search of safety and buy line Doxycycline survival. This situation was compounded by the implementation of NAFTA in the buy line Doxycycline 1990’s, forcing millions of migrants and buy line Doxycycline refugees to cross the border, looking to escape the ravages of savage capitalism.
But today, as these same voracious economic policies are buy line Doxycycline being rejected by many nations south of our border, they have buy line Doxycycline turned around to devour the people of our own nation. As U.S. citizens lose homes and buy line Doxycycline jobs, a scapegoat must be found. Not surprisingly, it is found in the buy line Doxycycline immigrants, those who were pushed away from their homeland by the buy line Doxycycline same economic and military system of domination. The result is an buy line Doxycycline increasing militarization of the border between the United States and Mexico, the buy line Doxycycline world's longest contiguous international divide between a superpower and a developing nation. Today there are buy line Doxycycline more than 20,000 Border patrol agents patrolling the 2,000 mile long border with Mexico.
In his State of the buy line Doxycycline Union address, President Obama said he had sent more “boots to the border” than buy line Doxycycline any other administration. Record numbers of immigrants are being deported, tearing tens of thousands of families apart, leaving children without parents, sending promising students back to buy line Doxycycline a home they never knew. We may actually come to lament the buy line Doxycycline success of these efforts, recent studies show more Mexicans are returning to buy line Doxycycline their country than coming here, opening up an economic void.
Just as the buy line Doxycycline School of the Americas is a concrete expression of the buy line Doxycycline injustice of our nation towards Latin America, so is the buy line Doxycycline border today. And, just as we gather every November at the buy line Doxycycline fence of the SOA to say “no mas, no more”, we will be buy line Doxycycline gathering at the border to say no mas no more to buy line Doxycycline immigration policies that use military muscle to criminalize the very people who buy line Doxycycline have kept the wheels of our economic motor running for decades.
Schedule of events:
Friday, February 17: gym of Sacred Heart Parish, located in the buy line Doxycycline historic Segundo Barrio, downtown El Paso. 602 S. Oregon St. (the gym is actually around the corner at 231 Father Rahm S 5 pm Registration 6 pm welcome, opening 7 pm music and snacks
Saturday, February 18
10 a.m. Gather at Mercado Mayapan at 2102 Myrtle Street to buy line Doxycycline join the march of the Border Network for Human Rights 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Conference on Immigration, Sacred Heart Parish 7 p.m. Social event
Sunday, February 19 9 a.m. Gather at Sunland Park-Anapra fence 10 a.m. Border vigil
A donation of $20 is buy line Doxycycline greatly appreciated to help defray costs of materials, venue and snacks.
Feel free to contact Lisa Sullivan
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for questions, or to pre-register
No mas, no more immigration policies of militarization and criminalization!
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