Let's show our solidarity on Wednesday at TCC-NE campus

A counter-demonstration is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th, on-campus at TCC-NE. This will be in response and opposition to the YCT’s (Young Conservatives of TX) “illegal alien round-up” action, similar to the one staged at UNT-Denton in January. Optimal time to be there on-campus tomorrow: 10:30am-12noon, in the Free Speech Zone.

I put together a little reading list of material one can find online that might better prepare us for Wednesday's action at TCC-NE. I also have compiled a list of possible slogans/statements/catch phrases folks might choose to use and/or put on signs.

Also---you might want to know that a member of the BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE system is Chicana Robyn Medina Winnett, who is also a poeta and teatrista. I know her and will be phoning her tomorrow morning (Tuesday) to hear what she has to say about the YCT's scheduled stunts and their tactics.

Because so little was prepared in advance to counter the Denton action and because SO much was done in Austin (causing the YCT to backpedal and cancel the action), I want to help be sure that the YCT group at TCC-NE realizes that they are indeed a small and misled minority. Tomorrow's event will certainly be an opportunity for education, outreach, and expressions of compassion in the face of misunderstanding and anger.

Please help spread the word and publicize these "counter" action plans, so we can have lots of community folks there to support the on-campus students opposing the YCT tactics of fear- and hate-mongering.

Statement from Linda Foley, area activist: "Underlying THEIR position is a complete disregard for the humanity of the people involved...otherwise they could not put on an action that is not very unlike a fox-hunt with dogs running down an animal."
 
"It also is bothersome because it encourages the dark element of human nature that can objectify human beings, which the Nazis were able to do with the Jews and make the "final solution" acceptable to the average German. It is not very many steps from there to AbuGhraib, so far as how far people are willing to go in the way they treat other human beings....as long as you can identify or label the other as an "enemy."
 
Something to think about.

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BACKGROUND READING:

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html

The Hispanic Challenge Samuel Huntington article
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2495.php

Latino Remittances Swell Despite US Economic Slump (Feb. 2003 article)
http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=89

Racist Myths about Mexican Americans
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/guadalu4.htm
 
Northeast Students Debate Affirmative Action
http://www.tccd.edu/collegian/
 
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Slogans and statements:

DON'T UNAMERICANIZE US!

HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY ARE NOT AT ODDS!

DO WE NEED A PERMANENT UNDERCLASS?

SEALING NATIONAL BORDERS IS A STEP TOWARDS FASCISM.

TO FURTHER UNDERMINE THE MOST VULNERABLE AND WEAK IS A SHOW OF WEAKNESS.

RACIAL PROFILING WILL SPLIT OUR NATION!

HATE IS NOT ACTIVISM.

WHATEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BRETHREN, THAT YOU DO UNTO ME.