#migrantpower

[anonchavez]

"#Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine" #MigrantPower https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2sm3NBpmZ/?igshid=lb2tvpd95ci8

[supporthosechi]

Today, in Flushing Queens comrades will gather to mourn the death of Yang Song and share collective outrage at the continued criminalization of massage and sex working migrant people. We send love, support and righteous anger as we rise up alongside our comrades today.

Alisha wanted to share these words with folx as they head to the vigil action, "We love and support all sex workers, and their right to be heard, especially on this day. This day that we will never forget. We will never stop demanding justice for Yang Song, and her family. It is proven fabric threaded together is stronger. What more is there to say about resilient hoes, woven together by a common purpose!"

[supporthosechi]

We were proud to join our comrades in Red Canary Song 红莺歌 at their teach-in this past Friday, March 29th, to counter the carceral anti-massage (and sex) worker narratives being pushed by CM Koo and the NYPD in Flushing, Queens! RCS distributed hundreds of pages of resources, know your rights documents, statements from migrant massage workers, information about direct service providers who support (im)migrant communities who are experiencing violence/criminalization, and more. 

Photo credit to Emma Whitford and Decrim NY! 

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Here was the statment one of our organizers read aloud at the teach-in: 

The Support Ho(s)e Collective sends its love and solidarity to Red Canary Song and all of you today who want an end to the harassment and criminalization of our immigrant, migrant working communities. 

There are a myriad of organizations in the struggle for decriminalization, sex workers rights and legitimate anti-labor trafficking endeavors. It’s going to take all of us, advocating and fighting to build a better world—one that recognizes our value, humanity, bodily autonomy and agency as sex working or trading people. A world that protects our trans and GNC fam, a world that is free from white supremacy and bigotry. A world that truly believes Black lives matter. A world that fully acknowledges sex work is work. A world without police, without prisons, and without the criminalization of survival. 

The Police raids must stop. The violence of these tactics in the name of rescue has never been justifiable. The targeting of vulnerable communities like migrant or new immigrant workers must stop. If you’re concerned about labor trafficking, remember this, the Police traffic survivors of violence to the courts and jails not to support or services. 

Like our comrades in Red Canary Song we want police out of massage parlors. We want an end to police demanding sexual services for free and entrapping workers! We want an end to you coercing people to become informants! 

We want an end to threats and empty promises of protection! We know the police do not protect sex working or massage working people. We know that we must insist and demand on community-led solutions to harm. We know that we must listen to, and respect the self-determination of migrant working peoples if we are to see our movement for Decrim and our broader communities grow and thrive. 

We will not have safer communities through policing! We will not have safer communities through demonizing outdoor and street based sex working and trading people! We will not have safer communities so long as elected officials only care about their wealthy and well-connected constituents who are dripping with respectability politics that shames their neighbors! 

We will only see personal and political safety when those directly impacted lead their communities, develop solutions that do not relay on fear, arrest, entrapment, deportation and incarceration that the police bring. We will only see safety when the cops are out of parlors and massage workers are able to freely and openly address the real harms, grievances and struggles they already self-organize to address every single day without the threats and harassment they currently survive! 

All power to migrant sex workers! All power to migrant massage workers! Solidarity forever! 

[supporthosechi]

This Friday (3/29) We will be holding space and presenting a statement of solidarity with migrant massage and sex working people at Red Canary Song's community sidewalk teach-in to counter the carceral narratives being used against sex workers in Flushing!

[juliosalgado83]

Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon. Last week, the Trump administration made the move to dismantle Temporary Protected Status (TPS), leaving nearly 300,000 people vulnerable to deportation. TPS is a program that grants a temporary visa to refugees that allow them to live and work in the U.S. while also giving them some protection from being made to return to their home countries. The U.S. has granted TPS to refugees from 10 countries, all which have been devastated by natural disasters or wars: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. It's difficult to look at the termination of this program and not wonder what will become of this nations, especially since many of them have experienced U.S. interference in some way, whether military or bureaucratic. So how can we end the program and begin sending people back to countries where there is still an immense amount of disparity and violence? How do we reconcile this move with the sins of American presence and intervention in these various nations? The U.S. should not remove the program and destabilize the lives of 300k refugees once more. Doing so just adds more unnecessary trauma and anxiety to the lives and complexities of the refugees who have built here. Putting an additional 300k people in the crosshairs of DHS' detention and deportation machinery is as cowardly as it gets. Artwork by Julio Salgado. Blurb written by @eslvis. #culturestrike #editorialcartoon #trump #immigration #savetps #savetpsnow #migrantpower #immigrantart #IllegalsInTimesOfCrisis

[culturestrike]

Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon. Last week, the Trump administration made the move to dismantle Temporary Protected Status (TPS), leaving nearly 300,000 people vulnerable to deportation. TPS is a program that grants a temporary visa to refugees that allow them to live and work in the U.S. while also giving them some protection from being made to return to their home countries. The U.S. has granted TPS to refugees from 10 countries, all which have been devastated by natural disasters or wars: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. It's difficult to look at the termination of this program and not wonder what will become of this nations, especially since many of them have experienced U.S. interference in some way, whether military or bureaucratic. So how can we end the program and begin sending people back to countries where there is still an immense amount of disparity and violence? How do we reconcile this move with the sins of American presence and intervention in these various nations? The U.S. should not remove the program and destabilize the lives of 300k refugees once more. Doing so just adds more unnecessary trauma and anxiety to the lives and complexities of the refugees who have built here. Putting an additional 300k people in the crosshairs of DHS' detention and deportation machinery is as cowardly as it gets. Artwork by @juliosalgado83. Blurb written by @eslvis. #culturestrike #editorialcartoon #trump #immigration #savetps #savetpsnow #migrantpower #immigrantart

[culturestrike]

NEW PODCAST EPISODE, featuring the amazing and talented San Jose undocuqueer poet/artists, Yosimar Reyes. Link: bit.ly/cspodcast7, (or click on link in our bio section). In this 7th installment, @yosirey, @eslvis, and @thechoselyfe discuss: the end of DACA, and climate change as it relates to the undocumented experience in the United States. Please take a listen, and if you like what you hear, give it a like and a share to help spread the word! #culturestrike #defenddaca #daca #immigrantart #immigration #podcast #migrantpower #not1more

[culturestrike]

Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon! Today, the Department of Homeland Security issued a set of orders that effectively criminalize all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and places the vast majority of them at risk for deportation. The memos call for all ICE and CBP agents to identify, capture, and quickly deport as many undocumented immigrants as they encounter. They also call for the collaboration of police departments in immigration enforcement, calls for hiring an additional 10,000 immigration agents, the possible expansion of detention centers from 40,000 beds to 80,000 beds, and the beginning of the construction of a border wall at the US/Mexico border. The only group of undocumented immigrants that seem to be spared for now are DACA recipients, young people who were brought into the country before the age of 16. This represents approximately 700,000 youth who have been granted this temporary protection. In a news conference last week, Trump expressed having conflicting thoughts about the fate of this group of young people. But even still, several DACA recipients have been caught up in raids and arrests, with one having his DACA privileges terminated due to alleged gang affiliation (the youth vehemently denies any gang affiliation). As it stands, the Trump administration is currently saying that DACA youth will be exempted from deportation, but ICE's actions say otherwise. The DACA filter is there now, but one better believe that the White House is searching for a way to sidestep the program. White House press secretary Spicer said, "Everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time." Know your rights! Organize! If ICE is planning on hiring 10,000 more agents, we need 30,000 additional organizers! Art by @juliosalgado83. Blurb by @eslvis. #artforchange #immigrants #immigration #daca #nobannowall #socialjustice #racialjustice #immigrantsrights #not1more #migrantpower #refugeerights