Rally to Free Farmworker Rights Leaders Enrique Balcazar and Zully Palacios and farmworker Alex!
Call to action by Migrant Justice-Vermont and Endorsed by Movimiento Cosecha, Real Food Challenge, Vermont Workers' Center, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice! United We Dream, T'ruah, Vermont Interfaith Action,Peace & Justice Center, immigrant service providers Somerville, MA,
The FANG Collective, @Women's March on Montpelier: Next Steps
@ACLU of Massachusetts, The Answer Coalition, Boston, Franklin Alliance for Rural Ministries (FARM-VT), March Forward Massachusetts, Food Solutions New England, NOFA/Mass, Unitarian Universalist Mass Action, Pioneer Valley Workers Center, NASW-VT
We will stand together to call on ICE to stop tearing apart our families and stop targetting farmworker's rights leaders ahead of an important bond hearing for 3 Vermont workers at 1pm for Enrique, Zully, and Alex!!!
We may--if all goes well--have a group that spends the night to pick up Enrique, Zully and Alex the next day!!!
More information on their cases: www.migrantjustice.net
This will be the first of several Migrant Justice Actions Kicking of National Farmworker Awareness Week!
Jose Enrique “Kike” Balcazar Sanchez, 24, and Zully Palacios Rodriguez, 23, were surrounded by four undercover ICE vehicles soon after leaving the Migrant Justice office in Burlingto, VT on Friday March 17 after being followed from a Migrant Justice organizing meeting. Migrant Justice organizers arrived on the site of the arrest in time to see the two being loaded into separate vans and driven away. The detention came two days after agents arrested dairy worker Cesar Alexis Carrillo Sanchez, 23, outside the Chittenden County courthouse Wednesday morning. At the time, Mr. Carrillo, known as Alex, was accompanied by his wife, Lymarie Deida, a U.S. citizen. The two have a four-year-old daughter together.