Category — AFSC Events

Monday (4/9): Help Amherst Preserve our Civil Rights

Join us at 6:30 PM on Monday April 9 at Amherst Town Hall in front of the Amherst Select Board to support a proposed town bylaw (Article 29 on the Amherst Town Warrant) to protect immigrants and to stop the Federal Government’s “Secure Communities” Program

MONDAY, APRIL 9th at the Amherst Town Hall, 2nd Floor
• 6:30-6:45 PM: opportunity to give public comments
• 8:15-8:45 PM (roughly): Article 29 formally presented before the Amherst Select Board
*** Come to a meeting in between the above 2 agenda items from 7:00-8:15 PM at Amherst Town Hall, 1st floor, for supporters of Article 29 to plan outreach to Amherst Town Meeting Members

In May 2012, the Amherst Town Meeting (a 250-member governance body for the town) will vote on a first-of-its-kind proposed bylaw that would take a step in preventing Federal Immigration authorities from tasking the Amherst police department in the enforcement of federal immigration policies. These policies already cause millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States to live in constant fear and isolation.

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Do you want to be involved in direct action? Want to train on how to engage in civil disobedience?

Join Paki Wieland and Jeff Napolitano for a civil disobedience training on February 25, from 9am to 4pm, in Northampton.

The training is free to all (donations graciously accepted), but we ask that you register below so that we can get a sense of the number of participants.

AFSC of Western MA (@AFSCWM) will be live-tweeting the president’s State of the Union speech tonight (starting at 9 p.m. EST). Please feel free to join us on Twitter at @AFSCWM – to comment, to retweet, to partake in the punditry!