Carlos Canales This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Immigrant Solidarity Network for Immigrant Rights:: NO CLEAR ACT, PATRIOT ACT, IMMIGRANT BASHING, SPECIAL REGISTRATION

   www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cg - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/18/2005   Last Visited: 11/30/2006

   Their organizer, Carlos Canales, in 2001, came to Freeport to protest this police brutality. He helped organize the workers and Freeport residents to demand a legal and protected shape up site.
   
   Canales was arrested with the workers, and press coverage revealed the racism of the Village of Freeport, which was facing a suit by NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer for discriminatory raids on Latino homeowners. . ('State Shows Inspections in Freeport Show Bias': 10/20/02, NYT) Mayor of Freeport William Glacken agreed to a legal shape-up site, quietly giving its administration to Catholic Charities rather than to the workers' committee, United Day Laborers of Freeport (UDLF), or the community group, Freeport Community Worklink Center (FCWC).
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   The funders expressed open opposition to the FCWC and to Canales.
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   They forced Canales to write a plan which, rather than urging contractors toward the trailer, threatened repercussions if workers didn't go there.
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   Carlos Canales went to the Home Depot Parking lot on Tuesday, October 24th to investigate these events, and was talking to two day laborers when the police told him to leave. He said he was not seeking work, and was just talking to his friends, and the police went over to the security guard at Staples, asked him to request an arrest, and arrested Canales.