Print Handouts for Globalization & Migrant Rights: Connecting Struggles Workshop: Presentation given in 2002 by Teofilo Reyes of the Transnationals Information Exchange and contributor to Labor Notes (and a member of the Global Justice Committee of Chicago Jobs with Justice), about linking immigrants with militant labor organizing… http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/ImmigrantsTroublemakers.pdf Statement issued by many of the leading Latino immigrant organizations in Sept. 2006, blaming trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA for forcing workers to migrate and calling for a new economic model… http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/LatinoTradeResolutionRelease.pdf Declaration issued from the historic 1st Latin American Migrant Community Summit (Cumbre) held in Morelia, Michoacán last May, which blames NeoLiberal economics for creating the conditions that force people to migrate… http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/Morelia_Declaration.pdf Article by Oscar Chacon & Amy Shannon of NALACC on the

Joycelyn Campbell, a Nanny from Manhattan, an immigrant from Barbados, and a leader in the Domestic Workers United organization discuss the lack of legal protections for domestic workers in the United States and the roots of this reality in racism as well as U.S. economic and foreign policy… http://www.archive.org/details/USSF-DomesticWorkersUnited1

Members of immigrant rights organizations from around the country speaking out against the “immigration reform” proposals that were being discussed in the U.S. Congress earlier today at a press conference held at the Immigrant Rights tent at the USSF. We received word later in the day, that the reform proposals in Congress were defeated – to the relief of everyone here. http://www.archive.org/details/USSF-ImmigrantRightsPressConference

Gerald Lenoir of the The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), talks about immigrant rights as part of the larger struggle for racial justice at the Immigrant Rights Press Conference at the USSF (United States Social Forum)... http://www.archive.org/details/USSF-BlackAllianceJustImmigration

Nancy Lenk – Deputy Director of AFSCME Local 1644, explains the attempt by Atlanta to turn Grady, a public hospital, into a privatized entity… http://www.archive.org/details/AFSCMEGradyHospitalAtlanta Nancy Lenk – Deputy Director of AFSCME Local 1644, talks about the negotiations over the march route for the opening rally of the United States Social Forum (USSF)… http://www.archive.org/details/RallyRouteUSSF The Hot 8 Jazz Band from New Orleans at the Opening Rally for the United States Social Forum (USSF)… http://www.archive.org/details/Hot8atUSSF