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Local Latino and African American activists are traveling together to Washington, D.C. this weekend for the launch of a major campaign to renew momentum on fixing America’s broken immigration system. A national pledge and petition drive will demonstrate the continued support for immigration reform while policy makers will be challenged to refrain from pushing policies that divide our communities.
Voces de la Frontera and its allies - Students United in the Struggle (SUITS), Students United for Immigrant Rights (SUFRIR) and the Campaign Against Violence – will join hundreds of leaders and advocates from immigrant rights organizations from 30 states at a summit held by FIRM (Fair Immigration Reform Movement) from February 10-12. Participants will co-ordinate a two-year campaign strategy that merges immigration reform with a national Campaign for Community Values, bringing together a wide array of groups around the country’s shared problems, including healthcare and the economy.
“We are not backing down. We need each other – our families, our neighbors, and our faith communities — in order to make change. Now is the time to come together,” said Melanie Benesh, Youth Organizer with Voces de la Frontera. “We need real solutions to the issues we face – immigration, health care, housing, wages. Vital members of our American community, including immigrants, are suffering right now because of Congress’ lack of action.”
Jessika White, student leader of the African American group SUITS, explained: “I support immigrant rights because I know it is hard to come here, to go to school, work hard and then be left without options. I’m going to DC to stand in solidarity, to give my point of view.”
Voces de la Frontera is a grassroots, non-profit
organization that seeks to end injustice against U.S. immigrants and promote increased civic participation. It was the driving force behind the massive “A Day Without Latinos” march held this past May, attended by 90,000 people - the largest march in Wisconsin’s history.
FIRM (www.fairimmigration.org) has been the meeting place and united voice of the dynamic grassroots movement advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and the civil rights of immigrants in America since 2000.
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Local Latino and African American groups unite behind immigration policy challenge at DC Summit
February 8, 2008Local Latino and African American activists are traveling together to Washington, D.C. this weekend for the launch of a major campaign to renew momentum on fixing America’s broken immigration system. A national pledge and petition drive will demonstrate the continued support for immigration reform while policy makers will be challenged to refrain from pushing policies that divide our communities.
Voces de la Frontera and its allies - Students United in the Struggle (SUITS), Students United for Immigrant Rights (SUFRIR) and the Campaign Against Violence – will join hundreds of leaders and advocates from immigrant rights organizations from 30 states at a summit held by FIRM (Fair Immigration Reform Movement) from February 10-12. Participants will co-ordinate a two-year campaign strategy that merges immigration reform with a national Campaign for Community Values, bringing together a wide array of groups around the country’s shared problems, including healthcare and the economy.
“We are not backing down. We need each other – our families, our neighbors, and our faith communities — in order to make change. Now is the time to come together,” said Melanie Benesh, Youth Organizer with Voces de la Frontera. “We need real solutions to the issues we face – immigration, health care, housing, wages. Vital members of our American community, including immigrants, are suffering right now because of Congress’ lack of action.”
Jessika White, student leader of the African American group SUITS, explained: “I support immigrant rights because I know it is hard to come here, to go to school, work hard and then be left without options. I’m going to DC to stand in solidarity, to give my point of view.”
Voces de la Frontera is a grassroots, non-profit
organization that seeks to end injustice against U.S. immigrants and promote increased civic participation. It was the driving force behind the massive “A Day Without Latinos” march held this past May, attended by 90,000 people - the largest march in Wisconsin’s history.
FIRM (www.fairimmigration.org) has been the meeting place and united voice of the dynamic grassroots movement advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and the civil rights of immigrants in America since 2000.
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