Brief history
The Committee on a Moratorium on Deportations is a group founded in Chicago the spring of 2010 to create a space for individuals and organizations to discuss perspectives, share information and coordinate efforts in their fight to get from President Obama an Executive Order for a Moratorium on Deportation.
However, in early 2011 the undocumented youth who founded the MDC reached out to form a broader organizing community. Through an experimental series of speak-outs called “The ABCs of Struggle: A is for Amnesty and Abolition” and then through mobilizations for March 10th Liberation Square and the People’s Trial of Boeing action, the MDC changed from being a campaign to a meeting-place for a variety of immigrant-rights groups, anti-war and community organizations.
Currently, MDC has become a logistical host and intersectional platform for the planning process of Chicago Mayday 2011. A number of groups have answered the call of undocumented youth to build Mayday through a horizontal and democratic political process, and are using this site, as well as the main coordinates of MDC, as an appropriate and useful infrastructure.
For a sense of where we are now politically and organizationally, please see the information on March 10 and Mayday organizing.
***The Long and Detail History of MDC to come Soon!***
