[Mitai-announce] Human Rights of the US-Mexico Border, April 16

[Anahita Maghami]

MIT Amnesty International presents

Human Rights on the US-Mexico Border

featuring four student activists from the Tucson-based humanitarian aid
group "No More Deaths" (www.nomoredeaths.org)

Monday, April 19th
6:30 pm
4-237

Food will be provided


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*A morally intolerable situation inspired a remarkable humanitarian movement
in Southern Arizona in the spring of 2004. Driven by economic inequality,
thwarted by ill-conceived US border policy, and ignorant of the harsh
conditions of the Sonoran Desert, more than 2000 men, women, and children
have died trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States since
1998. Most of the deaths occurred in the brutal heat of the summer months.
With another summer of inevitable deaths looming, diverse activist
groups?along with concerned individuals?felt compelled to act to stem the
death tide and attempt to save at least some lives. The result was the
converging of hundreds of volunteers?local, regional and national?who came
together to work for one common goal: No Más Muertes: No More Deaths.*
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*No More Deaths is an organization whose mission is to end death and
suffering on the U.S./Mexico border through civil initiative: the conviction
that people of conscience must work openly and in community to uphold
fundamental human rights. Our work embraces the Faith-Based Principles for
Immigration Reform and focuses on the following themes:*
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*? Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance*
*? Witnessing and responding*
*? Consciousness raising*
*? Global movement building*
*? Encouraging humane immigration policy.*