Chicago Workers Protest Social Security Letters
'No-Match' Letters Have Some On Edge, In Trouble With Employers
CBS 10-11-07
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Rafael Romo
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(CBS) CHICAGO A government letter is at the center of a Social Security controversy for workers' rights, discrimination and illegal firings.
Student groups IDEAS, UCSA and Samahang Pilipino delivered 7,700 letters they collected in support of the California DREAM Act (S.B. 1) to the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Office in Los Angeles on October 10, 2006. KRC joined them with letters collected from Health Day.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 10, 2007
Contacts:
Paulina Gonzales, UNITE HERE Cell: (323) 485-3055
Rini Chakraborty, Sweatshop Watch Cell: (818) 291-3229
Sookyung Oh, NAKASECOffice: (323) 937-3703
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Labor, Community Leaders in Los Angeles Respond to Judge’s Ruling on New Homeland Security “No-Match” Rule
Judge issues ruling today to stop DHS from hijacking error-prone SSA database as a tool for improper immigration enforcement
No Match = No Sense, No Justice
교차로 10-9-07 A1, A4
이민 노동자 권익 단체， 노동및 커뮤니티 단체， 종교 단체들은 지난 3일 오전 10시 한인타운에 소재한 사회 보장국 앞에서 국토안보부의 이른바 ‘No Match’ 레터 에 대한 항의 집회를 갖고 사회보장국 의 지역 담당자인 피터 D. 스펜서에게 항소서를 전달하였다.
This information comes from the CALIFORNIA STATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (http://www.csustudents.org/)
CALL-IN SCRIPT
Call to state your support for the California Dream Act
Statewide Call-in day Tuesday September 25, 2007
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Student immigrants lobby for legal residency: Train rides and campus protests are among tactics. A bill that could grant green cards is due to come up in Senate.
(Los Angeles Times 10-5-07 B6)
riKu matsuda at KPFK 90.7 FM interviews with Joann Lee, Directing Attorney at LAFLA, and Yongho Kim, Immigrant Rights Project Coordinator at KRC
[audio:http://krcla.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/kpfk-10-4-07.mp3]
kpfk-10-4-07.mp3
STOP SSA from using no-match letters as weapons against workers!
Please sign-on to the letter for California groups and join the action at the local SSA office in Los Angeles next week!
What: Press Event & Rally at Local SSA Office
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: SSA office in Los Angeles, 4000 Wilshire Boulevard (@ Wilton)
S. Korea native fights for rights of immigrants
Chung-Wha Hong
New York Immigration Coalition
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