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      <title>Minneapolis protest demands: Sanctuary for all, no to border militarization!</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Minneapolis protest demands immigrant rights.&#34;)&#xA;&#xA;Minneapolis, MN - The national flags of Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador fluttered above the Plaza Centenario in one of Minneapolis’s most immigrant-rich neighborhoods on May 11 as around 40 demonstrators demanded, “Stop militarization of the border!”&#xA;&#xA;!--more--&#xA;&#xA;The protesters distributed fliers to pedestrians on bustling Lake Street and bannered their message to the honks and fists raised in solidarity of passing drivers. Group chants included, “No ban! No wall! Sanctuary for all!” and “¡Zapata vive! ¡La lucha sigue!”&#xA;&#xA;Organized by the Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana coalition, the demonstration was endorsed by a host of immigrant rights, anti-imperialist and Latino community action groups. The event took place as the situation worsened at the U.S. -Mexico border and in the Central American countries undergoing massive refugee exoduses. Recent weeks saw armed, racist paramilitary groups rounding up people on the U.S. side of the border, the deployment of apartheid-trained Israeli troops to Honduras, and the deaths of multiple asylum-seekers in U.S. custody.&#xA;&#xA;In a speech, Kent Mori of the Anti-War Committee emphasized the role of U.S. foreign policy in fueling the violent conditions causing the refugee caravans. “In Honduras, for example, the Trump government continues to support a right-wing government that came to power under President Obama in a U.S.-sponsored 2009 coup. Specifically, the Trump’s administration supplied $200 million in military and police aid to the repressive Honduran government this past year,” he said.&#xA;&#xA;Mori continued, “The failed coup against the Nicaraguan government in 2018 is one recent example of the U.S. government funding unrest and violence in the region. Another example, this time in El Salvador, shows how the U.S. prepares for regime change operations by installing officials who would aid in the overthrow of popular, elected governments. Trump’s latest ambassador nominee to El Salvador, Ronald D. Johnson, shows this pattern clearly. Johnson is a former military officer and current employee of the CIA who has no experience in diplomacy. What is this guy’s purpose, if not regime change at some point in the future?”&#xA;&#xA;Sherilyn Young of Hands Off Honduras elaborated on the Israeli troop deployment, saying, “Through this ten-year agreement, 1000 Israeli soldiers will arrive to train the country&#39;s army for border protection.”&#xA;&#xA;“The Trump administration has demanded that the Mexican, Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran governments stop their citizens from leaving their countries and from coming to the U.S.,” Young explained. “It’s no surprise that the underlying goal is to train for border protection to stop migrants fleeing, especially children and Africans, as one news article stated. It’s no surprise that the Israeli army will share space with the Joint Task Force-Bravo of the U.S. armed forces at the Jose Enrique Soto Cano air base in Palmerola, south central Honduras.”&#xA;&#xA;Protesters also drew attention to repression at the U.S. border. Brad Sigal from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee said, &#34;We went on a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the only crisis we saw was the human rights catastrophe created by the Trump administration illegally denying asylum seekers into the country, as well as the native O&#39;odham people and border communities in Arizona that live under 24/7 military occupation by Border Patrol. This is the crisis that we must end, by fighting to end militarization of the border and winning legalization for all.&#34;&#xA;&#xA;Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana announced plans to continue mobilizing against U.S. militarism and oppression of refugees fleeing Central America.&#xA;&#xA;#MinneapolisMN #PeoplesStruggles #MinnesotaCaravanSolidarity #borderMilitarization&#xA;&#xA;div id=&#34;sharingbuttons.io&#34;/div]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Minneapolis, MN – The national flags of Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador fluttered above the Plaza Centenario in one of Minneapolis’s most immigrant-rich neighborhoods on May 11 as around 40 demonstrators demanded, “Stop militarization of the border!”</p>



<p>The protesters distributed fliers to pedestrians on bustling Lake Street and bannered their message to the honks and fists raised in solidarity of passing drivers. Group chants included, “No ban! No wall! Sanctuary for all!” and “¡Zapata vive! ¡La lucha sigue!”</p>

<p>Organized by the Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana coalition, the demonstration was endorsed by a host of immigrant rights, anti-imperialist and Latino community action groups. The event took place as the situation worsened at the U.S. -Mexico border and in the Central American countries undergoing massive refugee exoduses. Recent weeks saw armed, racist paramilitary groups rounding up people on the U.S. side of the border, the deployment of apartheid-trained Israeli troops to Honduras, and the deaths of multiple asylum-seekers in U.S. custody.</p>

<p>In a speech, Kent Mori of the Anti-War Committee emphasized the role of U.S. foreign policy in fueling the violent conditions causing the refugee caravans. “In Honduras, for example, the Trump government continues to support a right-wing government that came to power under President Obama in a U.S.-sponsored 2009 coup. Specifically, the Trump’s administration supplied $200 million in military and police aid to the repressive Honduran government this past year,” he said.</p>

<p>Mori continued, “The failed coup against the Nicaraguan government in 2018 is one recent example of the U.S. government funding unrest and violence in the region. Another example, this time in El Salvador, shows how the U.S. prepares for regime change operations by installing officials who would aid in the overthrow of popular, elected governments. Trump’s latest ambassador nominee to El Salvador, Ronald D. Johnson, shows this pattern clearly. Johnson is a former military officer and current employee of the CIA who has no experience in diplomacy. What is this guy’s purpose, if not regime change at some point in the future?”</p>

<p>Sherilyn Young of Hands Off Honduras elaborated on the Israeli troop deployment, saying, “Through this ten-year agreement, 1000 Israeli soldiers will arrive to train the country&#39;s army for border protection.”</p>

<p>“The Trump administration has demanded that the Mexican, Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran governments stop their citizens from leaving their countries and from coming to the U.S.,” Young explained. “It’s no surprise that the underlying goal is to train for border protection to stop migrants fleeing, especially children and Africans, as one news article stated. It’s no surprise that the Israeli army will share space with the Joint Task Force-Bravo of the U.S. armed forces at the Jose Enrique Soto Cano air base in Palmerola, south central Honduras.”</p>

<p>Protesters also drew attention to repression at the U.S. border. Brad Sigal from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee said, “We went on a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the only crisis we saw was the human rights catastrophe created by the Trump administration illegally denying asylum seekers into the country, as well as the native O&#39;odham people and border communities in Arizona that live under 24/7 military occupation by Border Patrol. This is the crisis that we must end, by fighting to end militarization of the border and winning legalization for all.”</p>

<p>Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana announced plans to continue mobilizing against U.S. militarism and oppression of refugees fleeing Central America.</p>

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      <title>In Zapata’s shadow, Minneapolis says “Yes” to refugees </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Minnesota protest rejects Trump&#39;s wall.&#34;)&#xA;&#xA;Minneapolis, MN - A sizable crowd gathered at the base of the statue of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata at South Minneapolis’s Plaza Centenario, February 2, for an event titled “Rally Against the Wall.” The demonstration was initiated by Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana, a coalition of international solidarity and immigrants’ rights groups in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. About 90 demonstrators chanted in support of the refugees travelling in large groups from Central American countries like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and condemned President Trump’s racist anti-immigrant views.&#xA;&#xA;!--more--&#xA;&#xA;Brad Sigal of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) was an emcee of the rally. During the rally he said, &#34;Today is the anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, an unjust treaty that the U.S. forced Mexico to sign at gunpoint in 1848. In that treaty the U.S. took half of Mexico&#39;s territory, which became what&#39;s now the southwest of the U.S. When they say &#39;we didn&#39;t cross the border, the border crossed us,&#39; it&#39;s literally true. The border was created by a historical injustice and it should not have a wall and should not be militarized. We demand legalization for all.&#34;&#xA;&#xA;University of Minnesota physician Dr. Miguel Fiol spoke of his experience with a medical delegation to refugee camps in Tijuana, Mexico. “We said, where are these ‘rapists and murderers’? There’s none of that out there,” he said. “Oh my god - there’s just kids and kids, and people, and families.”&#xA;&#xA;“Good people that travelled thousands of miles,” Fiol added. “We came out with the realization that they’re us. There is no evil out there.”&#xA;&#xA;Protesters connected Trump’s antagonism toward the refugees from Central America with longstanding, U.S.-fueled destabilization of that region. “We demand the stop of the U.S. support for the corrupt and criminal regime of Juan Orlando Hernández – “JOH” – sustained by army and police, trained and financed by the U.S. government and, some allege, Israel, Colombia and other right-wing governments in Latin America,” said Marcial Castro of Minnesota Hands Off Honduras.&#xA;&#xA;“All this condition – of poverty, insecurity, violence and repression by the government of Honduras – has been created after the military coup d’état of June 2009 in Honduras \[…\] followed by a stealing of the election by electoral fraud with the blessing of the U.S. government,” Castro explained. “We ask where the international community is now, watching and witnessing this human disaster and doing nothing.”&#xA;&#xA;Activists expressed fears that the ongoing U.S.-orchestrated coup attempt against the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela would lead to a similar situation. “Honduras is just one example of how U.S.-backed regime change has never improved the livelihoods of its victim nations,” said Cullom McCormick of the Anti-War Committee. “Should we invade Venezuela, its refugees would again be turned away from our border.”&#xA;&#xA;Demonstrators also highlighted the re-emergence of armed vigilantes in Guatemala, reminiscent of the U.S.-backed death squads of the 1980s that murdered thousands of indigenous Guatemalans. “On Sunday, January 27, an organized vigilante mob of Guatemalans, armed with clubs, machetes and rocks, attacked a group of caravan participants in the Guatemalan city of Técun Umán as they approached the border with Mexico,” said Sherilyn Young of Minnesota Caravan Solidarity, quoting from a press release from the Bay Area Migrant Welcome Committee. “Currently about 1000 caravanistas remain in the city of Técun Umán in three unprotected shelters, with vigilante mobs roaming. Approximately 2000 migrants in the most recent caravan are estimated to still be on the road yet to arrive at the city of Técun Umán. A second group en route from El Salvador is a couple days away.”&#xA;&#xA;Others cited environmental destruction by big corporations as a source of migration across the U.S. border. “In Mexico, and especially where I used to live, there was a lot of different companies and factories that went to my town, and they contaminated the land,” said Jovita Morales of Minnesota Immigrant Movement (MIM). “And people who are farmers, people who are growing their own food, they cannot cultivate them as were doing before, because of these companies who come and contaminate our town. So that’s one of the reasons that many of us come to different places: to find food, to find a job, to work and support their families.”&#xA;&#xA;Morales also pointed to the need for drivers licenses for undocumented people living in the U.S., a long-running demand of immigrant rights groups in the Twin Cities.&#xA;&#xA;Demonstrators spoke with passersby along busy Lake Street in the heart of the heavily Latino neighborhoods of South Minneapolis. Chants included, “No ban! No wall! Legalization for all!” “Venezuela is under attack! What do we do? Stand up fight back!” and “¡Zapata vive! ¡La lucha sigue!” – Zapata lives! The struggle continues!&#xA;&#xA;#MinneapolisMN #AntiwarMovement #PeoplesStruggles #borderWall #MinnesotaCaravanSolidarity #Zapata&#xA;&#xA;div id=&#34;sharingbuttons.io&#34;/div]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Minneapolis, MN – A sizable crowd gathered at the base of the statue of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata at South Minneapolis’s Plaza Centenario, February 2, for an event titled “Rally Against the Wall.” The demonstration was initiated by Minnesota Caravan Solidarity/Minnesota en Solidaridad con la Caravana, a coalition of international solidarity and immigrants’ rights groups in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. About 90 demonstrators chanted in support of the refugees travelling in large groups from Central American countries like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and condemned President Trump’s racist anti-immigrant views.</p>



<p>Brad Sigal of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) was an emcee of the rally. During the rally he said, “Today is the anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, an unjust treaty that the U.S. forced Mexico to sign at gunpoint in 1848. In that treaty the U.S. took half of Mexico&#39;s territory, which became what&#39;s now the southwest of the U.S. When they say &#39;we didn&#39;t cross the border, the border crossed us,&#39; it&#39;s literally true. The border was created by a historical injustice and it should not have a wall and should not be militarized. We demand legalization for all.”</p>

<p>University of Minnesota physician Dr. Miguel Fiol spoke of his experience with a medical delegation to refugee camps in Tijuana, Mexico. “We said, where are these ‘rapists and murderers’? There’s none of that out there,” he said. “Oh my god – there’s just kids and kids, and people, and families.”</p>

<p>“Good people that travelled thousands of miles,” Fiol added. “We came out with the realization that they’re us. There is no evil out there.”</p>

<p>Protesters connected Trump’s antagonism toward the refugees from Central America with longstanding, U.S.-fueled destabilization of that region. “We demand the stop of the U.S. support for the corrupt and criminal regime of Juan Orlando Hernández – “JOH” – sustained by army and police, trained and financed by the U.S. government and, some allege, Israel, Colombia and other right-wing governments in Latin America,” said Marcial Castro of Minnesota Hands Off Honduras.</p>

<p>“All this condition – of poverty, insecurity, violence and repression by the government of Honduras – has been created after the military coup d’état of June 2009 in Honduras […] followed by a stealing of the election by electoral fraud with the blessing of the U.S. government,” Castro explained. “We ask where the international community is now, watching and witnessing this human disaster and doing nothing.”</p>

<p>Activists expressed fears that the ongoing U.S.-orchestrated coup attempt against the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela would lead to a similar situation. “Honduras is just one example of how U.S.-backed regime change has never improved the livelihoods of its victim nations,” said Cullom McCormick of the Anti-War Committee. “Should we invade Venezuela, its refugees would again be turned away from our border.”</p>

<p>Demonstrators also highlighted the re-emergence of armed vigilantes in Guatemala, reminiscent of the U.S.-backed death squads of the 1980s that murdered thousands of indigenous Guatemalans. “On Sunday, January 27, an organized vigilante mob of Guatemalans, armed with clubs, machetes and rocks, attacked a group of caravan participants in the Guatemalan city of Técun Umán as they approached the border with Mexico,” said Sherilyn Young of Minnesota Caravan Solidarity, quoting from a press release from the Bay Area Migrant Welcome Committee. “Currently about 1000 caravanistas remain in the city of Técun Umán in three unprotected shelters, with vigilante mobs roaming. Approximately 2000 migrants in the most recent caravan are estimated to still be on the road yet to arrive at the city of Técun Umán. A second group en route from El Salvador is a couple days away.”</p>

<p>Others cited environmental destruction by big corporations as a source of migration across the U.S. border. “In Mexico, and especially where I used to live, there was a lot of different companies and factories that went to my town, and they contaminated the land,” said Jovita Morales of Minnesota Immigrant Movement (MIM). “And people who are farmers, people who are growing their own food, they cannot cultivate them as were doing before, because of these companies who come and contaminate our town. So that’s one of the reasons that many of us come to different places: to find food, to find a job, to work and support their families.”</p>

<p>Morales also pointed to the need for drivers licenses for undocumented people living in the U.S., a long-running demand of immigrant rights groups in the Twin Cities.</p>

<p>Demonstrators spoke with passersby along busy Lake Street in the heart of the heavily Latino neighborhoods of South Minneapolis. Chants included, “No ban! No wall! Legalization for all!” “Venezuela is under attack! What do we do? Stand up fight back!” and “¡Zapata vive! ¡La lucha sigue!” – Zapata lives! The struggle continues!</p>

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