SF Demonstration in Solidarity with Terrorized Immigrants in Arizona and Elsewhere

SF Demonstration in Solidarity with Terrorized Arizona Immigrants

Wells Fargo in Phoenix rents luxury office space as headquarters for the notorious Maricopa Arizona County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has been conducting a campaign of terror against Latinos, arresting and deporting hundreds, targeting day laborers, and stopping Latino drivers without cause. He is also brutal to working class US citizens, and several have died in his jails. Read more on Arpaio.

Immigrants and their advocates have held a 3-week protest at the Phoenix Wells Fargo building that Arpio uses (story,video) and Chicago has had a Wells Fargo demonstration also. Now it is time to hit Wells Fargo at their corporate headquarters here in San Francisco. Location: 130 Sansome (betw. Bush, Pine, map, # 2, 3, 4, 10, 30x, 76 buses, Montgomery BART) More info: Renee Saucedo at renee [at] lrcl.org, or 415-553-3404.

As one activist put it, "Arizona has become for the immigrant rights movement what Mississippi was for the Black Civil Rights Movement."

Wells Fargo leases office space to the Maricopa County Sheriff, Sheriff Arpaio, who has been conducting a campaign of terror against Latinos, inspiring widespread hate and racism and creating conditions for a burgeoning human rights crisis in Arizona. As one activist put it, "Arizona has become for the immigrant rights movement what Mississippi was for the Black Civil Rights Movement."

Sheriff Arpaio's actions include:
--Physically removing and driving migrants out of Phoenix.
--Charging undocumented migrants with felonies, including "co-conspiring to smuggle themselves".
--Arresting and deporting hundreds of migrants.
--Using fear and intimidation tactics against Latino residents of Maricopa County.
--Collaborating with ICE to deport migrants.
--Stopping Latino drivers without cause.
--Targeting Latino day laborers.

Many local and national organizations have converged in Phoenix and are holding long-term demonstrations in front of the Phoenix Wells Fargo Bank. Please join us on September 18!