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Migrawatch Block Party
ozelotl July 12th, 2007
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
3:00 - 7:00 PM
River Park @ East Front St. in Watsonville
Please join us for the Migrawatch Block Party kick-off!
We will be building community and bringing immigration awareness to our different barrios around Watsonville. The main purpose is to identify and recruit precinct leaders in different neighborhoods to sign them up to the Migrawatch text messaging service and organize the people for the next time the migra terrorizes our community. There will be music, games and
jumping houses for kids, information tables, speakers and immigration experts to answer any question the people might have.
It is a potluck so please bring a dish to accompany the barbeque.
Join us in our efforts to empower the community.
All power to the people!
Brown Berets on Immigration
ozelotl May 22nd, 2007
By Ramiro
Human migration is a phenomenon as old as humanity. Throughout the ages humans have been known to migrate extensively all over the world. Indeed, it is migration which created human isolation and is therefore responsible for our current genetic differences and the makeup of the world today. One of the main theories in explaining the populating of Turtle Island is through migration of Asians along a temporary land bridge called the Bering Strait, although this theory is currently under much scrutiny.
Our gente are a historically migrating people. Every time we look at the official Mexican flag, or interchangeably the panquetzalli which is the flag the Aztecs used, we should be reminded of out migrating history, for that is what these symbols represent. The official story tells us the Aztecs (or Mexicah) followed their “god” Huizilopochtli’s orders to migrate south out of their current home, Aztlan, in search of an eagle devouring a serpent, perched on a cactus in the middle of a lake. Although the story is a metaphor, the migration did indeed happen. It took the Aztecs seven generations to reach their destination: Lake Texcoco, where they would build the beautiful Tenochtitlan, which would then become modern-day Mexico City. There should be no confusion as to our migrating nature as it is depicted in our most representative emblems and symbols.
United States Immigration History
The United States as a country was founded by European immigrants fleeing political or religious persecution, and done on the backs of a population which were victims of a different form of migration: forced migration. Africans were bought and sold as slaves for centuries after the colonization of Africa by initially the Portuguese, and afterwards by all other European imperialist nations. Migration has continued all throughout history until modern times, despite the strong objection to it by modern-day nation-states, or at least the objection to migration done without the relatively new notion of proper legal immigration proceedings.
Migrawatch Meeting
ozelotl May 10th, 2007
The Migrawatch network began as a campaign for the Watsonville Brown Berets, but it has evolved into a multi-layered and diverse group of individuals fighting for the rights of migrant people all around the Central Coast.
Migrawatch is currently very active. After the May 1st march and the sanctuary city resolution in the Watsonville City Council, the question has been posed: what’s next?
Please join our next meeting, Saturday, May 12th @ 6:00PM at the Brown Beret Headquarters. Our meetings are usually on Sundays at 3:00PM, but we moved it this week because of Mother’s Day.
For more information on Migrawatch and how you can help, visit http://www.migrawatch.org