The Dominican Diaspora is convening Wednesday March 21st, 7-9pm Holyrod Episcopal Church 715 West 179th Street, NYC in solidarity with our kin on the island to show that we are many who want a country and society free of racism, hatred, and discrimination. We seek a better homeland, democracy, justice, freedoms, human dignity and rights. We condemn the ongoing racist and xenophobic threats against our Haitian brothers and sisters. We also condemn the politicians and elites who generate anti-immigrant fervor among Dominican society in order to distract from their own corruption and failure to address the basic needs and protect the rights of the country’s most vulnerable people. As immigrants and the children of immigrants in the United States, we know all too well that corrupt and incompetent politicians and elites use anti-immigrant rhetoric to distract from their own predatory behavior. We also know that this hateful rhetoric leads directly to the type of threats and violence we are seeing in Pedernales, putting countless families at risk. We stand with our Haitian brothers and sisters and their Dominican-born children, who are no different from the two million Dominicans who emigrated from the Dominican Republic in search of a better life for their families. #DominicanRepublic #Xenophobia #NoMasRacismoRD #EndStatelessness #AquiyAlla Gathering: Holyrod Episcopal Church 715 West 179th Street, NYC 7-9pm (at Holyrood Episcopal Church / Iglesia Santa Cruz)
