[Mitai-announce] CORRECTION: Human Rights of the US-Mexico Border, April 19

[Anahita Maghami]

Quoting Anahita Maghami <azad at MIT.EDU>:

> 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
>
>
> *
> *
> *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.*
> *
> *
> *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:*
> *
> *
> *? Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance*
> *? Witnessing and responding*
> *? Consciousness raising*
> *? Global movement building*
> *? Encouraging humane immigration policy.*
>
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