La Otra New York Upcoming Activities

Saludos compas,

We wish to update you on the upcoming activities being organized by Movement for Justice in El Barrio. As La Otra Nueva York, we are preparing the following:

Tuesday, August 14th @ Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Movement for Justice in El Barrio will provide an organizing training at the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Action Camp. Students representing over 20 campuses from the Midwest and East Coast will participate in this workshop

Sunday, August 26 @ New York City – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s La Otra Nueva York’s March for Dignity & Against Gentrification.

Friday, September 21st @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s “La Otra Campana en Filadelfia” Public Forum hosted by Philly-Mexico Solidarity and to be held at LAVA Space.

Saturday, September 22nd @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s “La Lucha Inmigrante en La Otra Campana” Community Forum hosted by Open Border’s Project of North Philly.

Saturday, September 22nd @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Movement for Justice in El Barrio will convene the “Encuentro Regional con Adherentes de La Otra Campana”.

October, 2007 @ United Kingdom – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s La Otra Nueva York’s UK Tour. Public Forums and Community Meetings to be held with adherentes of la Zezta Internazional and anti-gentrification organizations on Movimiento’s Intercontinental Campaign for Humanity and Against Gentrification targeting the multi-national corporation Dawnay, Day Group.

October, 2007 @ London, England – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s La Otra Nueva York’s Intercontinental Action for Humanity and Against Gentrification.

November, 2007 @ Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut – Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s La Otra Nueva York Forum with Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan .

November, 2007 @ New Haven, Connecticut – Movement for Justice in El Barrio will convene the “Encuentro Regional con Adherentes de La Otra Campana”.


Source:
Movement for Justice in El Barrio/La Otra New York
movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com



WHO WE ARE:
We are the color of the earth. We are women, men,
youth, and children of corn. We are Mexicans. We
have not lived in our Mexico for a long time, but
Mexico is still the air we breathe, still the pulse of
our heart, it is still the thought that fills our
minds. We were born in Mexican lands and Mexican lands
were born in us.

We are Movement for Justice in El Barrio, an
organization of immigrants fighting for justice in
East Harlem.

As Mexican immigrants, we were forced to leave our
native country because of a savage neoliberal economic
system. Here in the U.S, we are affected by
neoliberalism on a daily basis. Gentrification pushes
us out of our homes in El Barrio. Exploitation at the
workplace forces us to work twelve hours daily for
poverty wages. Racist immigration policies attempt to
criminalize and dehumanize us.

In New York, we fight against neoliberalism in all its
forms. We fight against racism, xenophobia, sexism,
classism, and homophobia.

We fight for humanity.

That is why we fight for justice here in NYC and have
also joined the Other Campaign and the broader
transnational struggle for humanity and justice.