Rally and March to Free Jesus Gutierrez
UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza
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RELEASE JESUS GUTIERREZ FROM ICE CUSTODY!
CONDUCT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE KIDNAPPING!
MAKE UC-BERKELEY A SANCTUARY CAMPUS!
UC-BERKELEY RALLY and MARCH*
12:00PM Wednesday (same day), May 13th, at Sproul Plaza, UC-Berkeley
*This protest is endorsed by BAMN, AFSCME Local 3299, Xinaxtli, SOJA, NNIRR, ISO ============================================
At 4:30pm on Wednesday, April 29, two members of the UCPD entered Clark Kerr Campus Dining Commons. They spoke with a manager, who upon their request summoned Jesús Gutiérrez, a food service worker and AFSCME 3299 member, to his office and left him alone with the agents. (This same UCB manager, when approached by BAMN, denied knowing Jesús.) The officers arrested Jesús, took him to jail, and called ICE. He is now under ICE custody at Santa Rita Jail. No decision of deportation has been made, and he will have a court hearing May 21st.
THIS IS CAUSE FOR ALARM! We must make clear that it is not acceptable for UC police or ICE to kidnap anyone from our campus. They want to send a message to every immigrant student and worker that they are not welcome at UC-Berkeley or in America. We must make clear to them it is they who are not welcome on our campus or in our city. This overstepping by UCPD and ICE means that, by making the fight here, we can serve as an example of how to fight and win against ICE's racist kidnappers on any college campus in the country. To establish UC-Berkeley as a public university and an institution of enlightenment and intellectual honesty, we must defend the right of every student and worker to live, learn, and work without fear of being kidnapped by police or federal agents.
The individual (or individuals) who work for UC-Berkeley who are responsible for this arrest must be fired. An independent investigation must be conducted to determine who perpetrated this outrage.
We can win Jesús's release and make UCB a sanctuary campus if we take a stand now. At UCSB on May 24, 2007, Yoon Choi, a Korean student, was arrested by ICE (with the help of UCPD) and threatened with deportation. After UCSB negotiated with ICE, the government released the student four weeks later and she was able to complete her degree.
Chancellor Birgeneau must join students in demanding the release of Jesús Gutiérrez. Just as the City of Berkeley has a sanctuary policy that forbids its police and employees from assisting ICE, UCB must make clear, both in words and deeds, that it will not assist ICE in deporting its own students or workers in any way.
This must never happen here again. As students and workers, we have the power to shape the character of our education. It is the youth of America today who share the desire to live in an America free of racist prejudice and inequality, to live in an America of freedom and opportunity. We must take a stand! We can win!
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Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
www.bamn.com
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