Press Conference/Picket Line - PROTEST THE RACIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMMIGRANTS

Press Conference/Picket Line

PROTEST THE RACIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
Outside of Forum featuring anti-immigrant bigot
Stop the Raids and Deportations
Support Worker and Immigrant Rights
March on Mayday 2009

4:30pm, Thursday April 23
Outside of a Forum “ Intelligent Immigration Reform” at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street in Manhattan

On Thursday April 23 at 4:30pm, activists, students, trade unionist, and community organizers will hold a Press Conference and Picket Line in front of the“Intelligent Immigration Reform” forum at the New School For Social Research Tishman Auditorium. The Press Conference and Picket Line is being called by the Bail Out The People Movement and the May 1 Coalition For Workers and Immigrant Rights.

New School President Bob Kerrey, who recently ordered the NYPD to send in riot police to brutally crush a peaceful protest of New School students, has invited Mark Krikorian, executive director of the “The Center For Immigration Studies” and one of the most prominent leaders of the anti-immigrant campaign to participate in the forum. Other Forum participants include Michael Aytes, deputy director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Picket/Press Conference
6:00 pm: Bail Out the People Movement Organizers and Activists Meeting - 55 W. 17th St. 5th Floor, in Manhattan between 5th and 6th Avenues