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NO CONTESTA PREGUNTAS - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

2/23/2017

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Last Thursday February 17, 2017 Margo Cowan, Pima County Public Defender and long-time community activist launched a public campaign to support the local Latino undocumented community.  At a rally at Pueblo High School in South Tucson, Margo advised the expectant crowd of about 300 people to do three things:

​1.  Pick up the poster and put it in a window in your house.  Better yet, take several posters and share them with your neighbors.  "We have printed 20,000 posters and our hope is to see them all over the city."

2.  Put a red dot on the Tucson map so that everyone can see where these posters are.  I put my red dot at my neighbor's address and took another poster for my home in Portland, Oregon.  

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  1. 3.  Fill out the forms that make me your attorney.  If you are stopped by the police or ICE, refuse to answer questions.  You have the right not to answer questions.  Tell them that you have an attorney. Show them the legal document as proof.
  2.   Take down their name, badge number and date and time of this encounter and bring the paper to the next public meeting with me.  ​    

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MARGO BEING INTERVIEWED BY SPANISH TELEVISION IN TUCSON
What is powerful about this campaign is that it empowers citizens to organize and to defend their rights.  Know Your rights training is happening in many communities in the USA.  Find one in your city and sign up.  We all should know our rights. 
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MARGO COWAN AT PUEBLO H.S. ROLLING OUT THE CAMPAIGN WITH THE LATINO COMMUNITY.

I wish every community had a Margo Cowan, an attorney willing to defend hundreds of people.  Think outside the box - work with your neighbors to ensure that everyone is protected and that they know their rights.  Become an undocu angel and carry the papers and information in case one of your friends or neighbors is threatened with deportation.  
In Portland, Oregon there are several KYR trainings being planned through VOZ, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and IMIRJ, the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice. CAUSA, the statewide Latino organization is always sponsoring KYR events.  www.imirj.org and www.causa.org.  Get involved - now is the time to resist with resilience and spirit!
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