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Immigration Reform Now! Rally

January 21, 2013
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Outside Federal Courthouse, 141 Church St., New Haven CT
<div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">Immigration Reform Now! Rally<br /> Monday, January 21, 2013 4:00 pm <br />Outside Federal Courthouse<br /> 141 Church Street, New Haven </span></div> <div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"></span></div> <div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">Contact:&nbsp; Greg Williams <a href="tel:203-584-5784" target="_blank">203-584-5784</a> (YDS Seminarians for a Democratic Society),</span></div> <div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Megan Fountain <a href="tel:203-479-2959" target="_blank">203-479-2959</a> (Unidad Latina en Accion)</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">On the day of President Barack Obama's Inauguration and Martin Luther King Day 2013, let's inaugurate a new era. Let's commit to welcoming 11 million immigrants out of the shadows and into the rights of US citizenship. Let's bring all people under the same labor laws, so that businesses can no longer exploit second-class workers, robbing us all of decent jobs. We pledge to create a new system in which we don't have two classes of people - those who have rights, and those who have no rights. While Martin Luther King Jr. sat in Birmingham Jail after being arrested for violating segregation laws, he wrote that "there are just and there are unjust laws"; and he told us that we must not wait passively for change to happen, but we must take direct action to change unjust laws. Let us, as the New Haven and Connecticut community, commit to creating just immigration laws in 2013.</span></div>

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