Joanna
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Carrol:
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>immigration policies that the u.s. followed _before_ 1882 (the date of
>the Chinese exclusion act). Open doors, open citizenship, no questions
>asked.
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>This will increasingly come to define what we mean by _left_. In the
>future this demand will be what Out Now was in the late 60s and Freedom
>Now in the early '60s. The core of left organizing.
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>[WS:] I have nothing but praise for the open door policy, but I am afraid
>that at this junction of time it is mainly the Wall-Street types and
>libertarians who espouse it. Most of the traditional "target populations"
>of the left - blue collar, low-income, minorities, unemployed etc. - are
>deeply anti-immigrant and xenophobic - I am afraid.
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>To give you an example - not long ago I was involved in a project to
>organize a work center for Latino migrant laborers in Baltimore. The
>opposition came from Black housing project dwellers - and this was
>definitely the worst racist and xenophobic tripe I've experienced in my
>entire life.
>
>Wojtek
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