Convocação Urgente - Sobre Imigração, Carteira de Motorista e outros assuntos

Amados (as) da Mídia: 

Por favor, nos ajudem a divulgar esta reunião em seus programas.

Amado (a) Pastor (a) e Líder Comunitário:

Existe um tempo para pensar, conversar e discursar. Chegou o tempo para ação. Esta é a maior oportunidade dos últimos 20 anos para os imigrantes tornarem-se cidadãos dos Estados Unidos. Há legislação sendo preparada agora mesmo no Congresso que vai afetar para o bem ou para o mal a cada um de nós.

Você como pastor (a) e líder pode e vai levantar-se para defender os membros de sua comunidade.

Em dois dias, nesta Terça-Feira, muitos (as) pastores (as) e líderes vão se reunir para planejarem como nossa comunidade pode responder a estes desafios que dizem respeito a todos nós. 

Queremos o fim das deportações sumárias; uma legislação imigratória pelo Congresso que abra caminho para 11 milhões de imigrantes tornarem-se cidadãos dos Estados Unidos; acesso a Carteira de Motorista de todos os habitantes em nosso Estado e um Salário Mínimo em torno de $11.00 para cobrir todas as perdas causadas pela inflação dos últimos anos.

REUNIÃO URGENTE PARA 

PASTORES (AS) & LÍDERES

9/4/2013 - 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Olive Garden Restaurant

1 Worcester Rd  (Route 9) Framingham, MA 01701Tel. (508) 879-7285 Especificamente: Pastor (a); sua Igreja e sua Comunidade conta com você. Com muita gratidão.

Josimar Salum

Cell 774-696-3714

    

   628 Somerville Ave Somerville, MA 02143

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Lewis Finfer <lewfinfer@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Pastor,

This is a follow up to the April 2 Pastors meeting where we discussed the national immigration legislation with a chance for a path to citizenship and the state legislation on access to driver's licenses......

We are having a follow up planning meeting on Tuesday April 9 at 1:30 at the Olive Garden Restaurant located at 1 Worcester Road in Natick, MA.

We will discuss these issues and what possible joint action that Brazilian pastors and their congregation members can take together to impact these issues.

Issues for discussion:

1. National Immigration Reform legislation that is moving forward in the US Congress.  A lot depends on how much time will be required before someone can get citizenship.....community groups, labor unions, religious congregations and most Democratic Congressman want a 7 year path to citizenship and most Republicans want a 15-20 year path or not path to citizenship.

2. Stopping deportations of non-violent offenders....the Obama Administration has said they will only deport those who commit serious crimes called felonies but it seems that many others are being deported for minor violations

3. State legislation to allow undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses

4. State legislation to raise the minimum wage from $8 an hour up to $10 or $11 an hour.....580,000 people in Massachusetts earn $8-$12 an hour and a large number of immigrant earn low wages

Action to discuss---what action would Brazilian pastors want to take with their congregation members?  A joint action of many hundreds of congregation members meeting with members of Congress and state legislators this spring would be very timely and helpful?

Latino Evangelical Churches that we are working with are taking action like this so it would be important for the voice of Brazilian pastors and congregation members to be taking your own action at this time when these major national and state issues affecting Brazilian immigrant are being decided.

Who is Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN)?

We approached Josimar Salum about meeting with Brazilian pastors. 

We have worked with some Brazilian pastors in our community work in Fall River, Peabody, and Framingham/Marlborough too.

MCAN is a faith based federation of faith based community improvement organizations of congregations in Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford, Lynn/North Shore, Worcester, and Springfield. We also work in Boston and Framingham 

We worked on recent actions for national immigration reform held in Brockton on February 23, in New Bedford on March 9, in Boston on April 6, and the upcoming one in Lynn on April 20.  

We worked to found the Metro West Immigrant Workers Center to help Brazilian and Latino immigrants with problems where they work if their employers don't pay them wages they are due or make them work in unsafe conditions

Contact persons:  Lew Finfer  LewFinfer@gmail.com  (617) 470-2912,   Tomas Gonzalez  (617) 905-1123    tomasgonzalez15@gmail.com 

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Lewis Finfer, Director
Massachusetts Communities Action Network
1803 Dorchester Avenue  Boston, MA 02124
(617) 822-1499    www.mcan-oltc.org <http://www.mcan-oltc.org>
affiliated with the PICO National Network