[statecom-discuss] FW: A Plea For New Bedford & Against Bostoncentrism

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From: "Thomas" <tfiori at mutualaid.org>
To: bostonanarchists at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [bostonanarchists] A Plea For New Bedford & Against Bostoncentrism
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:33:36 +0000
> My friend Camilo from New Bedford asked me to repost this....
> 
> A Plea For New Bedford & Against Bostoncentrism
> 
> Please mobilize people for this Saturday's rally in New Bedford.
> 
> New Bedford a City of Immigrants Rally
> Saturday, March 17th, 2pm
> Come out to support New Bedford workers and families.
> Gather at the Federal Building, Downtown New Bedford
> 
> Push Boston people to transcend Bostoncentrism! If this raid happened in
> Boston there would have already been national solidarity actions.
> Challenge the classism that ignores oppression when it does not happen in
> widely known places. Please come down, organize carpools and pressure
> Boston based organizations to provide buses for Saturday. We have to break
> out of the idea that the largest rallies should always be in Boston. I
> have driven low-income tenants, immigrants and youth of color up to Boston
> countless times for events and lobbying at the statehouse. Let's give back
> some of that solidarity that Southeastern Mass. communities have shared
> with Boston for years. We from Southeastern Mass. are mostly people of
> meager incomes yet we have made the commute to Boston and filled your
> ranks at protest after protest. Let's make it cool to come down here for
> once!
> 
> When they attack us in smaller working class cities like New Bedford we
> need to challenge the idea that resistance should be stronger or is
> strongest only in the big cities. The myth that activists only live in
> cities with a lot of affluent college students or cities where there is a
> concentration of capital. Let's make this rally truly a regional event.
> 
> Let's do it, COME ON DOWN.
> 
> Thanks for your solidarity - Camilo Viveiros
> 
> To counter raids like this from happening in other communities we need to
> stand up for New Bedford workers and their families and show that we will
> not tolerate this!
> 
> IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE TURN OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS TO SUPPORT NEW BEDFORD!
> 
> 
> -- 
> "What's as bad is that public movements can't grow into mass movements,
> not because of the apathy that (self-described revolutionaries) claim
> everyone else has but because of a fantastic elitism. If they organize a
> mass movement, they'll lose their identities. They won't be so much
> smarter than the people they're supposed to be organizing and providing
> models for." - Kuwasi Balagoon (writing a friend from prison) May 2, 1984
> 
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