Conscientious Objectors in Watsonville!
ozelotl May 10th, 2007
The Conscientious Objector panel will take place at the United Presbyterian Church in Watsonville on Monday, May 14th, @ 7:00PM.
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
Watsonville now a ’sanctuary city’; notification shut down
ozelotl May 10th, 2007
By amanda
via Santa Cruz IMC
The room was packed at the Watsonville City Council chambers on Tuesday May 8. Attendees were there to comment on one of the evening’s agenda items, a resolution Requesting the Suspension of Random Detentions & Arrests of Residents in Watsonville.
An emotional public comment period lasted for over an hour with the crowd bursting into chanting “si se puede” after on particularly moving commentary. Personal testimonies and comments ranged from accounts of “three days and three nights” of crossing the border to teachers sharing emotional stories of students distracted and wondering when the migra, or immigration enforcement, was going to come and take away them or their parents.