Let’s march for immigrant and Workers’ rights!

We demand just and comprehensive Immigration Reform Legalization NOW!

STOP the attacks on immigrant workers!
STOP the raids and deportations!
Stop breaking families apart!

Come and join us
When: May 1st 2007, 4:00pm
Where: SW park blocks and SW Salmon St., Portland
What to Bring: food, water, and white, red or blue T-shirt and all of your
friends!

This event is organized by the Portland Immigration rights Coalition
composed of major labor, faith, community and grassroots organizations in
the Portland area.

For more information contact VOZ at 503-233-6787, AFSC at
503 230-9427, Jobs With Justice at 503 236-5573, or PCASC at 503 236-7916

Every weekday from 11:00 to 1:00 you can find English classes at Laughing Horse Bookstore on NE 10th and Burnside. We are a self-run group of volunteers working with VOZ to fill what we see as a need among the day laborers: an accessible source of help with English. You don’t have to buy a book to come to our classes, or pay a fee or commit to a schedule. We as teachers work under the model of popular education, and we focus on the English that day laborers need and use: “pull it tight,” for example, has come up twice this month. In this way popular education demands a two-way conversation—that phrase had never leapt out at me as difficult to understand (though it is), and I had to ask about the context. Two day laborers started telling me about their work, which lead to errors committed through misunderstandings, which lead to more tough phrases, and how we feel when we make mistakes . . . while English isn’t the only thing being taught here, I’m also not the only one teaching.

For more information about classes, contact Liz John (johne [at] reed.edu) or Genevieve Roudane (roudaneg [at] reed.edu).