A Project of YAOTL

STOP RIGO’S DEPORTATION! November 30, 2009

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Stop Rigo’s deportation
Stop the deportation of undocumented students
Fight for fair immigration reform!

The work to stop Rigo’s deportation continues.

This student from the University of Illinois at Chicago is a good person, student, an asset to the community, a friend.
His set date for deportation is December 16th, 2009, and most legal options have been exhausted.

His deportation, and the deportation of other undocumented immigrant students illustrate what is wrong with current immigration laws. We need to demand that ICE immediately halt Rigo’s deportation through an administrative closure or to defer his deportation proceedings, stop deporting immigrant students, and that our legislators work to quickly pass just and humane immigration reform.

Rigo and millions of others like him can not wait.

We have just 16 days to show ICE that we have had enough of seeing our youth deported. We have just 16 days to send thousands of faxes to DHS Secretary Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. We have just 16 days to stop Rigo’s deportation!

What you can do:

• Show your solidarity on Friday December 4th to the Rally to Stop Deportations, 10:00 am at the First United Methodist Church, (77 W. Washington St) – Flier attached
• Invite your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members, to come be in solidarity to stop the Deportation of Rigo Padilla and Pass Immigration Reform, because we cannot let one more youth get deported. Use the facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=179828538299&ref=ts
• Make sure you have sent a fax! We want to send 10,000 by the end of this week. It’s free to you, and no need for a fax machine. It goes to ICE director John Morton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Senators Richard Durbin and Roland Burris. Together these faxes show that Rigo has support from his community, and CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

  Send your fax here: http://icirr.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=184

• Get your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members to send a fax too! Bring a lap top to a class, a gathering, a school hallway, an after-school activity, and have people send faxes on the spot (you would need internet connection). Alternatively you can gather people’s Name, E-mail, Address, Zip Code, and tell them you will submit the fax online for them (show them the text of the fax).
• Volunteer to get arrested in December 12th. If Rigo’s deportation has not been addressed, we are planning on organizing a civil disobedience action downtown Chicago. There would be trainings for the participants, and conversations with the police. Anyone who is interested must be a U.S. citizen, over the age of 18, and have no outstanding warrants.

Thank you for your continuing work and support

If you have any questions please contact Tania at  ilehlainat@gmail.com

350 Chicago Climate Action Saturday Oct. 24th October 23, 2009

Support Clean Air in Chicago and a strong International Cimate Treaty!
Mass Rally on 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action
October 24th, 2009 at 1 p.m. in Pilsen
For more information go to: www.howgreenischicago.org
Organized by: Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, LVEJO, Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network of Chicago

Sk8 in the Hood Auction 8/22-8/29 August 23, 2009

Sk8 in the Hood Auction

LVEJO in partnership with Sk8 Gallery announce the Sk8 in the Hood Auction whose mission is to build a bridge between the  the artist’s community and LVEJO .Through this collaboration we intend to bring awareness to our communities about the environmental justice issues which effect us all through environmentally themed shows .

~25% of all the profits generated by the sales of the boards will go to LVEJO with some artist donating all the profits earned by the sale of their work.

~The Gallery will continue to travel throughout different venues in the chicagoland area and the hope is to contribute to need for awareness of  Environmental Justice issues on a  national scope.

~Sk8 Gallery is a project  sponsored by Rock N Jewels.

Each of these is on auction at E-bay currently, for only one week!  Ends Saturday the 29th of August.

Clicking on the link below for any skateboard deck, goes safely to the “Active” auction page for this item on E-bay.

This auction is for hand painted uniquely themed skateboard decks only. No other hardware.
The number (#) is the matching E-bay item number

Third Annual Skate in the Hood Jam! August 13, 2009

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           We hope this message finds you in good spirits.  Come to Little
Village this Saturday for Our Third Annual Skate in the Hood Jam.  Check out
the flier.  Come in the morning for family events and to learn about
community organizations.  The skate competition will start at 1:30 bands
will play at 4 till 8 and a DJ will bless the tables till 10 pm.
Peace and blessings
YAOTL (young activists organizing as today's leaders)

"La lucha por justicia corre por mis venas, corazon acelerrado con el ritmo
de mi gentes" 

"We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to
change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good
ends"- Mary McLeod Bethune

"We must strive to become good ancestors" 

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Upcoming Event! July 30, 2008

Media Training for the Youth July 8, 2008

Media training during the week of spring break.YAOTL took a week long media training facilitated by Marisol Becerra (LVEJO board co-chair and co-founder of El Cilantro-the youth newsletter) and Mindy Faber (Open Youth Networks). The youth learned how toconduct interviews with community members, document their stories to address and highlight environmental justice issues and how to edit videos. Mindy Faber facilitated workshops on how to embed video taken during the CATT (Community Asset Toxic Tour) onto a google map; creating a digital environmental justice map of Little Village. They started a blog to showcase their articles and poems from El Cilantro digitally and their videos. The blog will serve as a digital platform for young people to express their concerns and organize across issues affecting young people locally, regionally, nationally and even globally.

Second Annual FCYO

Two YAOTL members attended the second annual FCYO convening in the Bay Area in late April. Eleven national environmental justice organizations with strong youth leadership bodies were granted funds and brought together to share strategies and best practices and to build a platform for a youth led environmental justice movement. Brenda and Juan facilitated a hands on activity to illustrate the concept of environmental justice. They shared their environmental justice map as a tool to strengthen the movement.