- Breaking News FAB IDEAS FOR XMAS BREAKS
- Breaking News Wish you were.. HERE?
- Breaking News WIN an all-inclusive 11-night cruise
- Breaking News Holidays
Black leaders support immigrants
0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Apr 28, 2006 | by Angela Hill, STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND -- Several African-American religious and civic leaders in the East Bay have declared their solidarity with immigrants and are planning public forums and meetings at black churches and community centers in coming weeks.
The group Thursday announced its plan -- calling on African Americans to join with immigrants in a new civil rights struggle -- through a series of talks titled "A Conversation about Immigration."
"We want it understood this is not a divide-and-conquer issue where we will stand against our immigrant sisters and brothers under the false illusion they're taking jobs from us," said the Rev. J. Alfred Smith, senior pastor of Oakland's Allen Temple Baptist Church.
Most Popular Articles
Most Recent Articles
Most Popular Publications
Most Recent Publications
"We exploit these people by making them work at a subhuman wage and then throwing them away when we're done with them like tissue paper.
"We need to facilitate an educational and informed discussion on this, so that the immigrant community has some sense of hope. And more importantly for the majority community, to let them know that we feel as one with the immigrants."
For information , call the Oakland Community Action Network at 530-2448.
- Gap CEO volunteers to cut annual salary
- Readers Forum: Gov. Schwarzenegger should sign bill encouraging oil
- Controlling your dog or cat's arthritis pain
- Arroyo High School Class of 2009
- SoCal parents fight use of kids' images on adult Internet sites
- Mormon church changes stance on homosexuality
- Lake Chabot offers camping escape
- Oakland Tribune
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Empirically assessing the impact of BPR on banking firms
- Kemarie McMinn Named Executive Vice President of Halo Debt Solutions, Inc.
- Halo Debt Solutions, Inc. Supports Push Toward Industry Regulation
- Traction Named #1 Interactive Agency for 2009 by BtoB Magazine
- Halo Debt Solutions, Inc. Gives Debt Settlement a Face-Lift
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking