LOS ANGELES, June 4—The Committee of Workers in Resistance just concluded a tour here of Anibal Lucas and René Moreno of Maya K’iche, a community group that has been helping organize solidarity with the 361 workers arrested in March in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at the Michael Bianco leather plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

At a June 2 public meeting at the Echo Park Methodist Church, Moreno said, “We removed the veil that covers the abuses, physical and emotional, that occur with these raids.” In the discussion, a Honduran worker, Romualdo Ajwitz, stressed the need to respond to the police attacks on immigrants. “I was shot in the back by the police at the May 1 demonstration,” he said, referring to the police riot here, in which cops fired rubber bullets on protesters. “We cannot allow these injustices to take place.” The tour included speaking engagements at several churches, a Service Employees International Union local, and cultural centers.

—MICHAEL ORTEGA