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The Sound Strike FundThe Sound Strike launches the “The Sound Strike Fund”, a fund that will bring economic support to organizations confronting the civil and human rights crisis in Arizona. Part of the proceeds from The Strike Fund will directly support two organizations, PUENTE Arizona and The Florence Project. PUENTE is a human rights movement born of the TONATIERRA struggle that works to resurrect our humanity by learning and teaching to eradicate intolerance when it presents itself at individual, economic, political, and social settings affecting our daily existence. Over the last three years PUENTE has focused on ending the criminalization of our communities and taken on Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the 287(g) agreements and all racist policies directly affecting the community. Puente organized four large-scale marches, the largest reaching 100,000 people. PUENTE also coordinated hundreds of solidarity actions across the country and has been able to raise the awareness of the Human Rights crisis in Arizona at the local, national and international level. The newest embodiment of racism and criminalization of our communities is SB1070. In response to SB1070 we have taken on five strategies to defeat this horrible law. The five strategies consist of; Legal, Civic Engagement, Community Education, Boycott and Non-Compliance. The five strategies also serve as tools to continue the development of Barrio Defense Committees and the organization of the most affected. We demand that the Obama Administration end community criminalization polices such as 287 (g) agreements and secure communities and demand that they take decisive action not to enforce local profiling laws such as Arizona’s SB1070. SB1070 can only terrorize our communities if the federal government cooperates with it. We demand that all ICE ACCESS programs such as 287(g), Secure Communities, and the CAP programs be suspended. Click here to Donate to Puente's efforts. www.puenteaz.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florence Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal service organization providing free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in Arizona. Although the government assists indigent criminal defendants and civil litigants through public defenders and legal aid attorneys, it does not provide attorneys for people in immigration removal proceedings. As a result, an estimated 90 percent of the detained people go unrepresented due to poverty. The Florence Project strives to address this inequity both locally and nationally through direct service, partnerships with the community, and advocacy and outreach efforts. The Florence Project provides and coordinates free legal services and related social services to the 3,000 indigent men, women, and unaccompanied children detained in Arizona for immigration removal proceedings. Through “Know Your Rights” presentations, self-representation packets, and videos, the Project strives to ensure that detained individuals have access to counsel, understand their rights under immigration law, and are treated fairly and humanely by our judicial system. The Florence Project’s work is carried out primarily through five programs: the Florence “Justice and Efficiency” Model, the Eloy Pro Se Model, the Detained Immigrant and Refugee Children’s Initiative, the Defending Immigrants Program, and the Integrated Social Services Program. Click here to Donate to help The Florence Project's efforts. http://www.firrp.org  |
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