Nation Wide Teach In On Civil and Human rights Violations in Maricopa County Arizona

Teach-In sponsored locally by Portland Jobs with Justice, VOZ Workers' Rights Education Project, PCASC, & ROP.

Monday February 23rd 7pm 6025 E Burnside

Last week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa, Arizona marched 200 chained and shackled immigrants from a detention center to a segregated "tent city," in the desert surrounded by a recently installed electric fence, where it will soon reach 120 degrees daily. Sheriff Arpaio has cut their access to healthcare and plans to force them to work in chain gangs if they "misbehave."

The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) along with National Jobs with Justice and a broad coalition of grassroots and national organizations are calling for nation wide teach-ins and actions leading up to a massive march and demonstration in Phoenix 2/28 to shut down the immigrant detention camp.

These teach-ins serve to resist the systematic normalization of hate and xenophobia occurring in Arizona through the use of immigration laws. Arizona is the testing ground for right-wing immigration policy. If we cannot stop it there, we'll see similar activities spread across the country. The teach-ins explore the latest civil and human rights violations in Arizona as an alarming trend to criminalize immigrants that last week reached apartheid-like proportions.

NDOLN is calling for federal intervention in this crisis and for Pres. Obama's appointee to the Dept. of Homeland Security, Arizona Governor Napolitano, to sever Sheriff Arpaio's agreement with federal immigration authorities due to his gross human rights violations. For more information contact Eliana at 503-236-5573