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Subject: JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!
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Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In - NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!
VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE'S LEGISLATION!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
FROM NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
STOP THE LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) FAMILIES!
STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED UNDOCUMENTED AND NON-NORMATIVE!
STOP THE DETENTION ABUSES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BY ICE!
STOP THE REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE SAME-SEX KITH AND KIN!
JOIN A 3 DAY GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ICE AND PRO-CALIFORNIA PROPOSTION 8 GROUPS!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
The Virtual Sit-In On ICE and Pro-8 Groups
STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:
http://bang.calti2.net
OR
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.
CLICK=ACTION
WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR THIS E-ACTION:
In the past few years we have witnessed and felt the sting of the anti-immigrant movement in the United States, its violent targeting and criminalization of immigrants. The results: heightened levels of fear among immigrants, escalated racialized violence perpetrated by civilians against immigrant communities, and increased levels of detention and imprisonment of migrants by local, state, and federal agencies. These phenomena either performed or encouraged by the powers-that-be have contributed to the massive separation of immigrant family across time-space. Simultaneously in the past few years we have witnessed the effects of other concerted attacks on the integrity of love's many manifestations-a rolling back of legislation that begins to recognize same-sex family structures. The results: an embargo on family and love, blocked adoptions, healthcare, unions. Whether one supports gay marriage or not in the theoretical, the ongoing perpetuation of inequalities presents a clear-cut case of human rights abuse. Queers of color know that attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer) families are not distinct, but instead are clearly linked examples of the U.S. right-wing's "acts of transfer." "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants and their families are uniquely vulnerable," says Rachel B. Tiven, Immigration Equality Executive Director, "detaining more immigrants, with less judicial review, will put the lives of innocent people at risk." Don't cede the category of "family"! Realize political kinships and affinities! Bypass EITHER/OR politics, embrace BOTH/AND coalitions!
This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security established to allegedly guard national security by targeting "criminals"
and "terrorists," and the actions of right-wing organizations which devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to define the category of Family in the narrowest terms imaginable. Constructions of immigrant and queer families as violable are rooted in long histories of aggression against humanity; which have and continue to establish hierarchies of personhood. The forced biological reproduction of slaves; the enforcement of boarding schools for indigenous children; the banned migration of Asians beginning in the late 19th century and ending in the mid 20th century; massive deportations during the 1930s and again in the 1950s; systemic legislative and juridical "privileges of unknowing" against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities-these American
(sic) projects are but a few examples of the continuous violation of "family values" in the United States. The contemporary separation of immigrant and queer families resulting from state practices to police internal and external borders is a piece with the long trajectory of violence inflicted on so-called non-normative families. Join this nonviolent direct action against ICE and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups to speak out against BOTH recent atrocities against families AND persistent violence(s) exacted on peoples with histories.
1] Senate Immigration Bill Removes Added Burden on Same-Sex Couples Sought by House http://www.hrc.org/1462.htm
2] Joseph Nevins on "Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid"
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/20/joseph_nevins_on_dying_to_live
3] Fear grips immigrants after raid at Mississippi plant http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-08-27-immigration-raid-mississippi_N.htm
4] Mexican's Death Bares a Town's Ethnic Tension http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/05attack.html
5] Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102192_pf.html
6] Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/us0707/
7] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcment http://www.ice.gov/about/index.htm
8] Immigration Raids Trample the Constitution Without Securing the Nation http://www.aclunc.org/news/opinions/immigration_raids_trample_the_constitution_without_securing_the_nation.shtml
9] American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
10] Asian American History Timeline
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html#3
11] Latinos in the United States: Invitation and Exile http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/spanish/classes/uslatino/latinos_carrasco.pdf
12] Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese on Approval of Proposition 8 http://www.hrc.org/11522.htm
13] Ugly Betty Speak Out Against Prop 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9HfNwMKZ0E
14] Betty la Fea Hablan en Contra de Prop 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQf0kumpZQ&feature=related
15] Postville, Iowa Struggles on After ICE Raid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zCQHX9Lgg
THIS E-ACTION is an Artivist Performance by Electronic Disturbance Theater
SPONSORED BY
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance, Globalization, and Transnational Exchange
Presented by The UCLA Center for Performance Studies November 20-23, 2008 University of California, Los Angeles http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
Hosted by bang.lab CALIT2/UCSD
http://bang.calit2.net
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:
http://bang.calit2.net
OR
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html
ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.
CLICK=ACTION
FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-ACTION Please contact: Ricardo Dominguez: [log in to unmask]
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list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic
study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit:
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