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From
the DataCenter's Criminal Justice
Program, Spring/Summer 2002:
Know Your Rights
Since September 11, Homies Unidos, a non-profit
gang violence prevention and intervention organization based
in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Los Angeles, California,
has been conducting "Know Your Rights" workshops
with youth in immigrant communities in Southern California.
The workshops are designed to keep youth informed about the
continuing crackdown on their rights, and to help plan strategies
for fighting back.
To develop the workshops, Homies Unidos asked
the DataCenter to gather information on immigrant incarceration
before and after September 11. Homies Unidos then used our
research to create workshop content and materials.
In addition to providing statistics documenting
immigrant incarceration rates, we created a "Know Your
Rights" factsheet that explains the
laws, executive orders and regulations that have stripped
basic rights from immigrants since September 11. The factsheet
summarizes key provisions of the so-called "Patriot Act,"
parameters of Presidential order on military tribunals, and
guidelines for using secret evidence against immigrants.
Download
"Know Your Rights" factsheet
(137 kb
PDF file requires free Adobe
Acrobat® Reader.)
For
further information or to get involved, contact Homies
Unidos.
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