No Soy el U.S. Army. Hispanic JROTC cadets resign to protest border militarization in Los Angeles, California

“Latino Cadets Publicly Resign From JROTC in Protest to U.S. Troops Being Deployed to U.S.-Mexico Border

The Coordinadora Estudiantil de la Raza (CER), a coalition of middle school, high school, college and university students from over twenty campuses throughout the southland, will hold a press conference at the Edward Roybal Federal Building on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 5:30 pm.

During the press conference the CER, along with allies, internationally known conscientious objector Pablo Paredes, Spokesperson of the Frente Continental Isaura Rivera, UCLA Professor Juan Gomez Quinones, will publicly declare their opposition to the deployment of U.S. military troops at the U.S. Mexico-Border. The CER and allies believe that 3,000 human lives lost at the border since 1994 is already too much blood spilt for a broken immigration policy. Therefore they reject current presidential and legislative proposals for troop deployment and demand an immediate demilitarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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