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Author: Gloria Monti <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12/10/94 10:37 AM
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Please, read & sign. This is very important.
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Date: 10 Dec 94 09:49:00 EST
From: GROVER FURR <[log in to unmask]>
To: godard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: MLA Resolution vs Proposition 187
Here it is! Thanks so much for helping in this way.
Please ask everyone to forward support for the resolution (MLA members)
to me, at [log in to unmask], by Dec. 24.
Sincerely,
Grover Furr
Resolution in Opposition to Proposition 187
WHEREAS the recently-passed ballot California initiative called
Proposition 187 has called for the denial of public education--at
the primary, secondary, junior college, college, and university
levels--to undocumented workers and their children; and
WHEREAS public school teachers have been required to help verify
the citizenship status of their students, in effect to serve as
INS agents; and
WHEREAS Proposition 187 was passed in an election year
characterized by an alarmingly xenophobic and racist atmosphere
in which undocumented workers became scapegoats for the economic
problems facing California's working people, even though
immigrant workers, both undocumented and documented, continue to
be a mainstay of California's economy; and
WHEREAS the dangerously fascistic implications of Proposition 187
are revealed by the fact that the "Save Our State" movement
backing Proposition 187 was funded in significant part by the
Pioneer Foundation, a group that has since the 1930s been
committed to demonstrating the genetic inferiority of African-
American and other nonwhite peoples; and
WHEREAS the Modern Language Association is committed to extending
education to all segments of the US population and is unalterably
opposed to all forms of xenophobic and racist ideology and
practice;
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Modern Language Association condemns the
denial of public education to undocumented workers and their
children in California and takes steps to publicize this
condemnation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the MLA urges present and future
public school teachers not to cooperate with the State request to
verify the legality of their students' immigration status; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the MLA refuses to hold any meetings
or conventions in California until such a time as the anti-
immigrant provisions of Proposition 187 are repealed.
We the undersigned members of the MLA, urge that the above
resolution be discussed and passed at the 1994 Convention.
NAME (Print/Signature) DEPT/INSTITUTION
1. ___________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________
(over for additional signatures)
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