City of Refuge : Stop the Refugee BAN action for Refugees NYC

The original "City of Refuge : Stop the Refugee BAN 24 hour Action" planned  for March 14 had been postponed because of SNOW: the blizzard that didn't.



Still it was a lot of snow, so they rescheduled to March 28 and NOW... we had RAIN.




 Cameras and Rain, an even less friendly combination, but curiosity took me down town anyway to 40 Wall St.


Day 1, March 28, 2017 (Noon-1pm) began outside a TRUMP Building at 40 Wall Street, followed by a night sleeping in a temporary "Tent City" outside historic Trinity Church.

[Trinity Church was a partner in this action]

"To bring attention to the need for more humanitarian refugee policies, Trinity is partnering with a coalition of organizations, including African Communities Together and the Interfaith Center of New York, to host a refugee action, including two marches, teach-ins, interfaith services, and an overnight “refugee tent city.”  

From Protest Press Release:

“We are calling for an end to the refugee ban, the preservation of asylum and TPS (temporary protected status), and truly humanitarian immigration policy. We will organize 24 hours of powerful actions in solidarity with refugees. We are invoking the spirit of the Statue of Liberty and the history of New York as a City of Refuge for immigrants and refugees from around the world.”

On Day 2, March 29, 2017,  the protestors would march to Federal Plaza, past the African Burial Ground, ending at Foley Square. But, first, March 28. Noon. I arrived outside the 40 Wall st Trump Building as the protestors were stacking their rafts. Inflatable dinghies. Very Orange.

Typically the Left knows street theatre photo-ops, making the trip worth the inclement weather. Lots of cameras were on-hand waiting. Ready.



As the small crowd grew, there were now a few signs carried by Koreans of MinKwon amongst the umbrellas.



Rafts laid out. Photos in rafts. A banner from African Communities Together. And a steady rain that was not abating. Still no one was leaving. Waiting patiently



The sound system spazzing in the rain caused a brief delay and then the speakers began. [VIDEOS next ]

The speakers included, Cesar Vargas , New York’s First Undocumented Lawyer

After a nearly three-year wait, a five-judge panel in New York ruled this week that César Vargas — a native of Mexico and longtime New Yorker — can be admitted to practice law in the state he’s called home since he was 5, even though he remains an undocumented immigrant.

Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer,  a refugee advocate

 Nisha Agarwal, Mayor's Immigrant Affairs Commissioner

 Amaha Kassa, African Communities Together

Elizabeth Arjok, Sudanese model and actor.

 Elizabeth fled South Sudan at seven years old and waited five years to be resettled in the U.S.
 


Their messages were clear: "Stop the attacks on illegal immigrants, Mr President. Stop ICE. Open Borders, Si. No to immigration laws. YES to Sanctuary Cities." Nothing new here but, still, they managed to hold a decent rally in the rain.

[Slide show of pictures]

After the speakers, I headed back up town so I didn't walk the brief jaunt to Trinity Church - a short hop away (see picture below) - as they carried their VERY orange rafts to the temporary Tent City they set up outside the church.
 

At Trinity Church the schedule would include:

1:30pm: Opening at Trinity Church (including interfaith prayer service)

2:30-3:15pm: Teach-In: Immigration Law & Know Your Rights
3:30-4:15pm: Teach-In: Sanctuary in the Workplace
4:30-5:15pm: Teach-In: Criminalization
5:30-6:15pm: Teach-In: Foreign Policy & Migration

6:30-7:30pm: Dinner /Break
7:30-9pm: Cultural Jam
9-10pm: Torchlight Vigil

10pm: Doors of Trinity Church are closed. Camp out will begin.

Preferring rain to a 'blizzard", the protestors spent the night in a Tent City at Trinity Church as they protested the REFUGEE BAN. (Picture from Trinity Church's Twitter feed)

 https://twitter.com/TrinityWallSt/status/847065420439977984

DAY 2 - March 29 - Foley Square.

The Sun was out. Temperature pleasant, even though the wind was a bit brisk. The protesters spent the night at Trinity Church and were now, after passing the African Burial Ground, ended their Action in Foley Square (across from Federal Plaza) and STILL with those orange dinghies and drums (lots of African Drums).

Wednesday's schedule - Day 2- included:

8:30-9:30am: Morning activity (leafleting, story sharing, “Call your Congressman/Congresswoman”)
9:30-10am: Closing at Trinity Church
10am-noon: The March to African Burial Ground & Federal Plaza
Noon: Closing Rally at Foley Square

Other than laying out those bright orange dinghys, this was a decidedly low impact second day protest/rally EXCEPT for some unplanned street theatre, unplanned by the protestors, was "Chairman Mao's", Gary Pneuff.

 
 "Build The Wall" Gary was back and he was NOT going to leave

But now wears a Trump hat and holds a Build the Wall sign, portable radio in hand, pacing back and forth during the speeches; chanting and singing LOUDLY (Kumbaya was his song of the day).


 
Crazy Gary from Staten Island is a "professional" heckler. May Day aka Commie Day is a favorite of Gary's. Every year he marches through Union Square giving grief to those who support Russian/ Soviet/Lenin  style Communism. Known to hurl profanities as he aggressively promotes his love for Red Chinese Communism.



So, Gary sporting a Trump hat and carrying a Trump/Pence sign, as well as "Build the Wall", begs the question from even the protestors on the LEFT, "WHAT is going on with Crazy Gary?"

He caused quite a bit of noise pollution for the intended speakers but the police took a tame approach to his presence. They tried to move him a few times, but he wasn't breaking any laws, so Kumbaya droned on loudly through Foley Square. Must say, had a bit of schadenfreude, watching the Left be harassed by one of their own- Gary certainly isn't one of ours ....

As for the Refugee Action, today was perhaps a smaller crowd. The African contingent was solid but minus the Korean faction. Rally points unchanged, focus was still on (illegal) Immigrants. Sanctuary. Trump and .... Killer Cops aka the NYPD.(Demoralizing the police is a huge non-stop campaign going on for DECADES.)



We heard a few speeches with GARY chanting and Kumbaya-ing in the background. Union shills. African immigrants. And Hawa Bah, the mother of a Muslim immigrant, Mohamed Bah. She claims he was murdered by the NYPD on September 26, 2012.

Not much if any media present. Not my problem. Nor probably theirs either. Act like the media is there. Recruitment rather than media impact is often the goal. One day. One protest. One new recruit at-a-time keeps the ranks-of-resistance and discontent roiling. A decades old methodology.

They. Never. Rest.

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NYU Students Demand Sanctuary Campus: Solidarity with Illegals

March 1, 2017 - 3 pm

  Sanctuary NYU Rally at NYU Kimmel Center

FYI- New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City; a world-class university, operating NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai and 11 global academic centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C.  Alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world. According to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a "Top Dream College."

video crowd - chants - indoctrination 101

The average NYU student seems to come from the faux 1 %. The privileged, pampered generation, taught by their Marxist professors to hate themselves. Therefore, they must apologize 24/7.
                                                       

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President Hamilton still refuses to declare NYU a Sanctuary campus. For a so- called progressive university this seems totally out of character. Some would say NYU is not progressive at all. We expect them to protect us. We have to make them. "Whose campus OUR campus!" 

 Intro for faculty member who began speaking (off-camera) "... next speaker is an NYU Professor" (CHEERS/applause)

"Dear Allies, Please join us at our rally in Kimmel from 3-4pm on Wednesday, March 1, to call on NYU to declare sanctuary campus and demonstrate its commitment to members of the NYU community made more vulnerable by the Trump administration. We want to emphasize that the event is for faculty, staff, and students!"

"Thank you all for being here. Do I really need this megaphone? You can't hear me without this? ... Well, first of all, I want to say how exciting the energy is in this room and (cheers) to underscore how important it is for our President to declare NYU a sanctuary campus. It's so important symbolically but it's actually incumbent upon us as students faculty and staff at this university to MAKE this campus a sanctuary campus without (my video begins) waiting for permission. (cheers)"

Video of faculty speech: Of course, they BELIEVE these ALTERNATIVE facts (they have no choice)

Transcription of her speech:

"Right now there are 500,000 unauthorized workers in  New York City. 99.9% of those do not have criminal records, other than committing the crime of having to cross the border without documentation. These unauthorized workers as you've heard, time and again, if you bought yesterday at whole foods, if you bought, you know, a garment of some local designer in So Ho or Brooklyn, these are the people who are sewing your garments and picking your  fruit. It's the reason why you have ENTIRE indigenous communities on Long Island from (? Chapa and Xauacca and D?... ?) picking our vegetables and our fruits. And it's why we get those vegetables and fruits so cheaply because, indeed, they ARE paid less than you would have to pay a person with documents.

This doesn't mean that WE can't, just because Hamilton hasn't declared this a sanctuary campus, it doesn't mean that WE CAN'T. I mean, imagine what it would be like if every dorm room, every office, every library, every classroom were OPEN to undocumented workers who are being PERSECUTED by ICE. If we really turned this into a sanctuary, just like Judson Church next door, can you imagine the optics of ICE agents trying to come and remove a mother or a father who's taking refuge in our university? Can you imagine the optics of  ICE having to storm a university campus to remove these people?

We have a very powerful role we can play, especially in New York City,  where so many, so many of our unauthorized immigrants work and..uh play, too.

The other thing that's very, very important to remember, especially, I love the chant, uh, you know, "Education and jobs rather than mass deportation". But, let's not kid ourselves. One of the reasons why Trump wants to expand ICE and deportation (and ...) that's his job program. Hiring 10, 00 or 15,000 more ICE workers, that's the extent of his jobs program. (light laughter) And so we have to, we have to, you know, increasing the military [a ?... after his jobs program] So we need to make this evident. It's  incumbent upon us, like I said, to be the voice, to be a sanctuary movement beyond whatever happens to may or may not declare.

One of the...we have to remember that sanctuary came into this country as part of the abolition movement. And so sanctuary never saw its role as limited to protecting, you know, the slaves that ran away. They saw their role as (??) the voices of those who have been enslaved. Just as we have to understand our role as very privileged faculty and students and staff (??) the voices of unauthorized workers in our community.

Beyond the DACA students that we have here, who we of course have to  protect, let's not  forget that DACA  students do still have some authorization. But what about their friends? What about their families? We have to figure out ways of (??) as a united community in the face of this blatant racist law that Donald Trump is trying to enforce.

The other thing that's very important is, I'm going to get a little nerdy on you all, is when Trump talks about all the jobs that NAFTA destroyed in the United States. What he doesn't tell you is all the jobs that NAFTA destroyed in Mexico. (applause/cheers) 4 million farms in Mexico were put out of work and when you put a Mexican farm out of work you put generations of workers out of work. Its not just the one farm owner. No. You're actually setting into motion hundreds of people per farm looking for labor. 

And that's why they're here, doing that agricultural work; those agricultural jobs. It's not a coincidence that 11 million Mexican unauthorized workers who are here, came after the passage of NAFTA. Because NAFTA destroyed jobs in that economy, just as it destroyed here. 'Cause the sole purpose of NAFTA was to lower the cost of labor across the Americas. It did so very successfully. And one of the consequences that we have now had to bring in to our community, people who are willing to do work, jobs that... whose payment has been pushed down.

So, we have to remember that, when NAFTA was negotiated, it negotiated for the free passage of goods. It negotiated the free passage of capital, but what was left out of that dream (??) labor. So that's what unauthorized workers are doing here, they're working. Because they can't find jobs in their country and because the price of labor has been pushed so far down that U.S. citizens can't afford to reproduce themselves, doing the jobs at that hourly wage.

So, uh, anyway (?) (cheers/applause) We don't have to communicate. We don't have to wait for Hamilton to declare this a sanctuary campus and to make it a sanctuary campus. Let's figure out ways of inviting those unauthorized workers into our class rooms, into our dorms, into our residential campuses, into our offices to share their stories and to, also, find refuge. Thank you."

I leave you with a few links that convey the warped perspective of the NYU students: "Whose campus, OUR campus."

Put Student Representatives on the Board of Trustees

In Solidarity,

"Hi All, Below are two links to some of the correspondence NYU Sanctuary has had with President Hamilton. Hope they help contextualize the the rally tomorrow!"

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"Establishing a Sanctuary Campus at NYU:  Explainer"

"NYU Sanctuary Edits to President Hamilton's Notes"

The Sanctuary Campus rally is in "support of the most vulnerable community members" ; to spread awareness about President Hamilton’s deliberate choice to not declare NYU as a Sanctuary

"President Hamilton, as you said that you are interested in substantive language and substantive actions. So why does NYU publicly celebrate the language of diversity and inclusion, and yet refuses to stand in solidarity with students who are at risk and people who are at risk, and stand up to this federal regime of White nationalism? In your refusal to declare Sanctuary, whose interests are you protecting?" #TeaWithAndy#NYUSanctuary

"You said you said you are taking all measures to protect undocumented students. I would like to know why in the month of February, did the Law school invite ICE recruiters onto campus?"#TeaWithAndy#NYUSanctuary

AND THAT MY FRIENDS, is what these very privileged students are bombarded with "day in and day out", compliments of the Marxist influence that runs deeply through faculty and staff at NYU. Progressives. Indoctrination 101. What a waste.


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Immigration Protestors-Thousands Jam Battery Park NYC

This was a protest ignited and  led by FAKE News.  Fake threats. Fed by unwarranted Fears.



January 29, 2017 - 2 pm



I arrived, surrounded by scores of eager "fools and tools", pathetic do-gooders, who RUSHed down the narrow side-streets of Lower Manhattan, signs in hand, faces laughing (and/or passionate).



They were coming to a "Yuge" Immigration protest against "all things TRUMP." The disaffected youth. Their angry elders. PULLED like the brain-dead Eloi of HG Wells OR ... like mindless lemmings- to-the-sea... choose one or all of the above... it was a PARTY!


(It was BIZARRE)

VIDEO

 Once again - just as the Womens' Hate March and Michael Moore's equally hateful Pre-Inauguration protest have revealed- this Battery Park event was, also, a coming together of white, educated- bored elite.



Yes, you will see a smattering of people-of-color assembled by the SEIU-Workers Party/Soc/Commie factions. (I saw this as I left)



The facts are: this is a WHITE fascist-led, down-with-America crowd. Giddy-gleeful with this new-found purpose-for-living.



And sad. Misled.



Betrayed....



But ... by whom?

VIDEO

There was one brave patriot who stood calmly within the crowds, holding his signs high.

Eventually some within the crowd made it their sacred duty to cover his sign with signs and even bags.  ( ... they tried ...)



Part 1- Flickr slide show

I saw "red people" - at Battery Park - Commies. LOTS of them. Comrades-in-arms.



Soc.Commie. Prog. Facisti, manipulating protest after protest.



VIDEO

If what just happened at NYU and Berkeley, riots to end all forms of free speech, if they accelerate - aided by the "non violent" thousands filling our parks and streets, then the future of our Republic is seriously at-risk.


These are the "fools"who  dutifully bring their hand-made signs and ...



.... stand for hours, cheering their 1984 news-speak leaders on to more and more rebellion.



Created by decades of naivete, rolling over, looking away, believing everyone has good intentions and foolishly believing that what has happened in Europe couldn't happen here.



Well, it has. Even these snowflakes may finally realize they too are no longer safe from real, hard-core anarchy.  The VIOLENT anti-fa factions have exploded on the State-side scene. They will eat their own if necessary.



It is NOT a game. Not for these black-clad and MASKED terrorists. Anarchists who never sleep.



Part 2 - Flickr slide show

Can the Trump Presidency turn back the clock on what has burrowed deep into our culture? Can the America that voted for him HOPE to see that CHANGE happen? Is it too late.

Part 3 - Flickr slide show

So many foolish faces. Stern, intense. 10,000 the police say. The Resistance intransigent. Unwillingly to compromise.



Their attacks on America grow stronger each day. They are RIGHT and GOOD - Every one else is bad



Part 4 - Flickr slide show

WILL there be war in the streets of America. Will there be a Banana Republic uprising. Like the Bolsheviks (a minority) took control.  They have a plan.



First up - murder the anti-fas (you can't control them - they've done their job)  Next, disarm the kulaks -  the middle class (Che-style) The soc/COMMIE/ facisti will be "In CHARGE"...  Or... Maybe NOT.



America has said NO to Left at the ballot-box. WE are the Revolution! If the Republicans hold firm against the jaws of anarchy. We can win.



The Time to act is NOW .... To Save the Republic. "Whose Streets- Our Streets" ... think about it....



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