Democracy 3 general strike
In a Zoom press conference organized by Voces de la Frontera, Neumann Ortiz, immigrant essential workers, and John Rosenow, a dairy farmer from western Wisconsin, described their plans to participate in the general strike and their hope that Democrats would fight for a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrant essential workers, DACA recipients and farmworkers. Christine Neumann Ortiz of Voces de la Frontera in a Zoom press conference Tuesday Oct. “The Obama administration’s failure to lead on immigration helped pave the path for the far right in 2016,” she added. “As a movement for civil and labor rights for immigrant workers and their families, we will not accept a repeat of the betrayal of the Obama Administration that promised a path to citizenship but instead delivered more deportations and family separations,” Christine Nuemann Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera, said in a statement. One-day “Day Without Immigrants” and “Day Without Latinos” work stoppages have been staged on different dates since 2006 to demonstrate the United States’ economic dependence on undocumented immigrants and call for immigration reform.
economy and pressure congressional Democrats, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to keep a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in their Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill. The strike and student walkout, part of a series of nationwide days of action beginning on Monday, Indigenous People’s Day, is intended to underscore the contributions of immigrants to the U.S.
The immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera on Tuesday announced plans for a statewide general strike to be held Monday, Oct.