Like most corporations, U.S. Catholic bishops have based their business plan on a future U.S. where undereducated, poorly paid Hispanics form the majority of the population.
Rally supports Agriprocessors workers
07/28/2008 - JTA
An interfaith rally in support of undocumented workers arrested in a raid on a kosher slaughterhouse was held in Postville, Iowa.
More than 900 people, mainly Jews and Catholics, called for national immigration reform and support for the nearly 400 undocumented workers arrested in the massive immigration raid two months ago at Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat plant.
Spearheaded by Jewish Community Action, a Jewish social action group headquartered in Minneapolis, Sunday's event was co-sponsored by the local Catholic church along with the Chicago-based Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Jewish Labor Committee.
Seven busloads of Jewish activists from Chicago and the Twin Cities arrived in Postville to take part, including two busloads of teenagers from the Conservative movement’s Camp Ramah in Wisconsin.
“We’re here because we care,” Rabbi Harold Kravitz of Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minneapolis said at an interfaith service that preceded the rally. Biblical heroes Abraham and Sarah were invoked as “the first immigrants” to an overflow crowd that included women arrested in the federal immigration raid for working without proper documents.
“The immigration system is broken, the way we enforce working standards is broken,” said Vic Rosenthal, the director of Jewish Community Action, which brought the largest contingent of out-of-state Jewish supporters.
Funds are being raised to help the families of detained and unemployed plant workers, most of them from Guatemala and Mexico. Leaders of the Catholic and Jewish groups met with a representative from Agriprocessors before the rally, the first of several such discussions.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080728postvillerally.html
5 comments:
What a bait and switch - is there anyone dumber and more naive
Instead of focusing on the criminality of the cabal running the corporation - its US immigration laws and inability of the plant's workers to gain citizenship that is the problem.
Biblical heroes Abraham and Sarah were invoked as “the first immigrants” to an overflow crowd that included women arrested in the federal immigration raid for working without proper documents.
of course they conveniently leave out the fact that abraham and sarah were fabulously rich...
even the jewish community would have been willing to accept them with all that money...
"If they did they would have been protesting the workers' treatment by Chabad slave drivers before the raid took place. They're not even protesting the horrid conditions they worked under even now."
The national English-language Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward - http://www.forward.com - has been running articles exposing the treatment of workers at Agriprocessors for over two years. Look it up.
And such groups as the Jewish Labor Committee - http://www.jewishlabor.org - have been supporting the workers in their quest for better working conditions for over two years as well. Again, look it up.
I've said nothing about The Forward, so your comment on that is baseless. Long before the raid it was no secret that the Rubashkins are slave drivers and much worse.
It does appear that the 'Jewish' Labor Committee was working with the United Food and Commercial Workers union against Agriprocessors according to one sentence in The Forward from Nov. 2007. I've seen no evidence that any of the other organizations from the recent rally were protesting prior to the raid. I stand by my criticism of these organizations interjecting their self-serving "immigration reform" agenda into this matter.
What happened to the methamphetamine lab found there as reported by the JTA here:http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108541.html
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