THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS her sisters; a Jewish rabbi in whose organiI choked up a bit with gratitude for their zation’s office the original Voting Rights Act leadership, and with gratitude for all the was drafted; Black Baptist and AME clergy members of the movement, including Continued from page 12 taking their place in the Black church’s long members of my own family, who risked legacy of working for justice. We were joined their lives over the years to secure the right ideals as well as to the promises in our by representatives of secular social justice to vote for all Americans. founding documents. It brought the public and voting rights organizations. Before I was arrested and spent the night pressure that compelled LBJ to use the The Rev. Timothy McDonald, who pas- in jail, I delivered a message to President powers of his office to pass civil rights and tored in Martin Luther King Jr.’s church and Biden: When the president of the League of voting rights legislation. who serves as the co-chair of People For the Women Voters is willing to risk arrest, when I was proud to stand outside the White American Way, the organization I lead, led pastors in Dr. King’s lineage are willing to House with so many religious leaders: a us in singing and prayer and brought pow- risk arrest, when Catholic nuns are willing to Catholic nun representing thousands of erful words of truth. risk arrest to call you to fulfill your promise
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out the anti-Blackness, government hypocrisy, and human rights violations against the Haitian people in the United States and worldwide. We are urging governments to uphold international laws and norms that govern the asylum process. For more information on Haiti and Black Migration AfroResistance’s Black Migration Working Group Are you raising a troubled teen? contact https://us02web.zoom.us/ Know someone who is? meeting/register/tZUsd-yopjojE9RGet: Teen Preganancy & Teen Drug Abuse 2Hx9aezoRy37OHbhmO20p. Its’s a 60 minute DVD full of sound insight.
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rights. These migrants many times have been denied the possibility of accessing food or hygiene items, and when they sell any to them, they do so at ridiculous prices, almost 10 times above their commercial value. “Even street vendors raise our prices, they don’t want to rent us to sleep because we are Haitians, not even with our babies.” The non-possibility of a place to stay to rest from the long days of travel, during which many have died on the way, such as the young pregnant Haitian who died on a bus while traveling from the city of Pasto to the city from Cali on Aug. 14, 2021. The refusal of the Colombian government has gone beyond the rules and has not allowed, nor guaranteed a dignified treatment in which women, men, youth, girls, and boys of Haitian origin are treated as human beings and not as animals. Despite the situation generated by COVID-19, we can say that there is no political will on the part of governments to provide decent living conditions, far from any act that promotes racism and xenophobia. If at present a minimum of transit conditions have been provided for the Haitian migrant population, it is due to the economic factor, since the confluence has been massive, according to reports from the terminal, they have managed to have almost 800 migrants within their facilities per day with initial transit to the city of Cali, however, currently they have enabled a direct route to the city of Medellín and then move to Necoclí, then go in a fleet or canoe to Capurganá, and then enter the Darién Gap. Also called the jungle of death, where more than 500 kilometers of dense jungle full of poisonous and dangerous animals, rivers and streams, etc. await them. They will walk through, with suitcases, with their children, pregnant women, sick women and men, to all of the above are added rapes of women, robberies and murders, but their desire to have better living conditions for themselves and their families coupled with a state of mind that is only fueled by hope can more than hold back that degree of desolation that is felt when one of their loved ones stays or is forced to stay on the road.
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