Welcome Back, Freedom Ride!, No on 54, Opt Out

1. Education not Incarceration, Welcome Back to Struggle - Thursday, September 18, 5-7PM, Downtown Oakland Public Library, 125 14th Street

2. Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride - Saturday,
September 20, 2003, a March for Immigrant Rights will assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission between 3rd and 4th) at 11:00am and will proceed up Market St at 12 noon there will be a Program and Festival at 1:30 at the Civic Center

3. Opt Out of Military Recruitment Campaign Heats Up in LA

4. No on Proposition 54 Campaign - Please Volunteer! Keep the Momentum Up- The Delay is Not For Certain!!!
Ward Connerly Comes to Berkeley TODAY!! 5PM Bolt Hall


Education not Incarceration, Welcome Back to the Struggle
Thursday, September 18, 5-7PM Oakland Public Library, Main Branch, 125 14th Street
High school and middle school teachers, please invite students who you feel would be interested. Please e-mail me if you would like me to e-mail you a copy of the flyer to share with friends or post at your school or workplace.

Come socialize and network with Bay Area teachers, parents, students and
concerned community members who formed the Education Not Incarceration
coalition at a Back to School Social Gathering at the Oakland Public
Library Downtown Branch, 125 14th Street (near Oak St and Lake Merritt
BART Station), on Thursday, September 18 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. The
coalition that organized thousands to descend upon the State Capitol on
May 8th is gearing up for another school year of grassroots organizing and
social activism to shift public values and policies to support education
not incarceration. At the gathering, coalition members will lay out plans
for the new school year. We hope you will make it! For more information, please call 510-444-0484

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Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
Saturday, September 20, 2003, a March for Immigrant Rights will assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission between 3rd and 4th) at 11:00am and will proceed up Market St at 12noon there will be a Program and Festival at 1:30 at the Civic Center
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is a national mobilization to focus
public attention on workers rights and the injustices of current immigration
policies. This campaign will move the fight for immigrant worker rights.
Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement, buses filled
with immigrant workers (including undocumented workers) and their allies
will cross the United States from 10 different starting points (including
San Francisco), making over 80 stops across the country. The San Francisco
Bay Area Route has 106 freedom riders, and will make 12 stops (Sacramento,
Reno, Salt Lake City, Denver, Wichita, Kansas City, St Louis, Louisville,
Shelbyville, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Liberty Park, New Jersey, and New
York City) The attacks of September 11, and their aftermath, including the
sharp economic downturn that has imposed a great burden on immigrants, force
us once again to ask of ourselves, "Which sid e are we on?" And they bear
pointed and painful testament to the urgency of answering that question and
standing in unequivocal solidarity with our immigrant co-workers and their
families. The goal of the campaign is to demonstrate wide national support
for meaningful reform of immigration laws as we encourage civic
participation by new and future citizens.
The IWFR will educate the public and elected officials about three key
issues:
1) the need to provide, legalization and a "road to citizenship" for all
immigrant workers;
2) the need to allow immigrant workers to reunite their families;
3) the need to protect the rights of immigrants in the workplace.
4) the need to protect civil rights for all
The IWFR is being planned and carried out by a coalition of major
international unions, the AFL-CIO, national immigrant and civil rights
groups, religious institutions, student and community organizations,
prominent elected off icials and others.
The IWFR will be leaving San Francisco with a huge send off event on
Saturday, September 20, 2003, a March for Immigrant Rights will assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission between 3rd and 4th) at 11:00am and will proceed up Market St at 12noon there will be a Program and Festival at 1:30 at the Civic Center. I hope you will join this historic fight for rights of workers
in your community and strengthen this national movement for immigrant
workers across the country.
For more information on the IWFR please call our hotline in San Francisco at
415-292-1400 ext 23 and a volunteer will get back to you. you can also email
us at rvaldez [at] aflcio.org <mailto:rvaldez [at] aflcio.org

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Military Recruitment Opt Out Campaign Heat Up in LA

YO - L.A. STUDENTS - LISTEN UP!

Do you want the military down your neck?

A new Bush administration law gives MILITARY RECRUITERS access to YOUR INFORMATION (the names, addresses and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors in high school), UNLESS YOU OPT-OUT!

What is OPT-OUT? It is your legal right to notify your school that you

DO NOT want the military to receive your personal information.

IT IS YOUR CHOICE to keep your information private, while letting your name, address, and telephone number to be given to colleges, universities, and employers.

When do you OPT-OUT? Opting out must be done EVERY school year. This year the window of time is between SEPT. 15th and SEPT. 24th. It is important that you tell your school you want to OPT-OUT within this time frame. Juniors and seniors should be mailed the form in English and Spanish. If you need other languages - tell your school.

WHY SHOULD YOU OPT-OUT? Military recrui ters do not give a balanced picture about what it means to join the military. They are salesmen - They make $$$ off you. Do not let them hassle you! Get the facts about what it means to join the military before you have recruiters down your neck.

HELP GET THE WORD OUT- Parents and students should know of their rights to privacy from military recruiters. Tell them about opting out!



FOR MORE INFO: Contact Human Rights Committee, UTLA Andy Griggs (310) 704-3217 Andyca6 [at] aol.com or Arlene Inouye (626) 799-9157 aginouye
@aol.com, and we will connect you with organizations/students in your area.

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No On Proposition 54 Updates


Volunteer to Defeat Prop. 54!!


On Tuesday, October 7th California will vote on Prop 54 ­ the race information ban. This initiative would be devastating to public health, education, and civil rights in this state. Prop. 54 would deeply harm the essence of the work that we are doing for racial justice in education by making it impossible to record data on the inequities that exist.

Right now the polls are split. In a close race like this, outreach is crticial. COME JOIN CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE FOR PHONEBANKING AND STREET OUTREACH!

In the next week you can volunteer at these times at the CFJ Office:

Monday thru Thursday (9/15-9/19) 6pm to 9pm Phonebanking to voters
Saturday 9/20 from 10am-2 Street Outreach- Chabot Flea Market
Sunday 9/21 from 10am-2 Street Outreach
Monday thru Thursday (9/22-9/26) 6pm to 9pm

Please be on time! We will begin each volunteer slot with a short training. We will meet at the CFJ office: 1611 Telegraph, Su ite 317 (at the corner of 16th street in downtown oakland)

If you would like to help defeat prop 54, please call CFJ at:
510-452-2728.

This is a critical time to defeat this horrendous proposition!
Full details at http://www.Defeat54.org, http://www.caljustice.org, and http://www.DesisAgainst54.org



PROTEST WARD CONNERLY TODAY!
Demand his Immediate Removal/Resignation!Defeat Proposition 54!THIS TUESDAY 9/16, 5:00 PMOutside Boalt Hall off Bancroft and near Piedmont, UCB campus----------------------------------------------------The anti-affirmative action front man and author of Prop 54, Ward Connerly, is scheduled to debate on the so-called “Racial Privacy Initiative� at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School in Booth Auditorium at 5pm on Tuesday, September 16th.All those who want to defeat the attempted right-wing takeover of California and prevent any more racist ballot initiatives from being passed in the state, should come and PROTEST WARD CONNERLY AND DEMAND HIS IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION FROM THE UC BOARD OF REGENTS.By forbidding the state from collecting racial data, Proposition 54/RPI would render K-12 school integration illegal, ban any efforts to measure the effects of racist policies, make it impossible to utilize hard statistics to expose discrimination, and hamper medical research int o diseases that affect racial and ethnic groups to differing degrees.Segregationist Ward Connerly has also attempted to ban the ethnic studies and women studies departments, eliminate all ethnically based campus groups, and make voluntary desegregation in the public schools illegal.Do not allow him and the wealthy racists who finance his campaign to go unchallenged. Protest Ward Connerly, and help defeat Proposition 54 and defend our civil rights—show him his racist initiatives are welcome neither on our campus nor in our state!----------------------------------------------------Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration & Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)Meetings every Thursday 7:00 PM 106 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeleyhttp://www.bamn.com contact_bamn [at] uclink.berkeley.edu