Dolores Huerta to speak at Hunger Strike on Tuesday in SF

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

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> HUNGER STRIKE AT U.S. FEDERAL BUILDING IN SAN FRANCISCO
> Broad Bay Area Coalition Launches Protest To Stop
> Anti-Immigrant "Specter Bill" Pending In Congress
> Dolores Huerta to Kick Off Hunger Strike
>
> Over 50 hunger strikers and community organizations will start a
> seven-day protest in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco on
> Tuesday, March 21 calling for fair and just immigration reform, and to
> denounce Senator Arlen Specter's bill that designates all undocumented
> immigrants as aggravated felons.
>
> Specter's bill allows for the indefinite detention of non-citizens,
> and criminalizes day-labor centers, churches, health clinics and all
> others who serve, help or work with undocumented immigrants.
>
> Led by the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC), the hunger
> strike places pressure on California Senator Diane Feinstein to oppose
> the Specter bill.  Senator Feinstein opposed the House of
> Representatives version of bill which passed on December 16, 2005 as
> H.R. 4437.  She sits on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee which
> continues debating the Specter bill this week.
>
> Hunger strike organizers plan daily, evening vigils, a worker-focused
> day on March 22, a National Day of Solidarity on March 25, and a
> closing march on March 27 to deliver thousands of postcards and
> petitions to Senator Feinstein.  Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the
> United Farm Workers of America, will kick off the hunger strike on
> Tuesday, March 21.
>
> WHEN:           Tuesday, March 21, 2006 ­ 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
>
> WHAT:   Press conference and start of hunger strike and week of actions.
>
> WHERE:  Front of U.S. Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San
> Francisco
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> WHO:            Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers of America
> Sheila Chung, Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
> Cesar Cruz, Hunger Striker
> Kyung Jin Lee, Korean Community Center of the East Bay
> Dr. Mac Jatto, Africa International Mission
> Hong-An Tran, Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
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> working to build a unified voice for immigrant rights that transforms
> and improves the lives of immigrants.  For more information about us
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