National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference

National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference



Together, We Build A New National, Broad-Based, Immigrant Rights / Civil Rights Movement!



Friday - Sunday July 28-30, 2006



Ward Circle Building, American University, Washington DC



National Immigrant Solidarity Network http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/2006Conference/





About the Conference The success of May 1st's "A Day Without Immigrants" has been an historical turning point for the immigrant rights movement. The National Immigrant Solidarity Network was one of the main groups who helped to organize the historical Los Angeles March 25th "Gran Marcha" and the national May 1st "A Day Without Immigrants" boycott/strike (Please visit http://www.NoHR4437.org ). At this point it's vitally important for the immigrant rights movement to keep the momentum going, and there's an urgent need for national meeting in which community/grassroots immigrant activists can meet face-to-face to discuss how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights movement, and to set a 6-9 month national strategy for actions.



We envision this is a broad-based, multiethnic conference of organizers, and we are inviting organizers from African American, African immigrant, Asian American, Latino/Latina, Arab-Muslim-North African, progressive labor, interfaith, LGBT, student, anti-war/peace and global justice groups from across the country. Our “Ten Points of Unity” are:



- No to the anti-immigrant HR4437/SB 2611 legislations from Congress
- No to militarization of the border
- No to criminalization of immigrant communities
- No to the planned immigrant crackdown across the country
- No to the guest worker program
- No to the Employer Sanction

- Yes to amnesty for undocumented immigrants
- Yes to immigrant family reunification
- Yes to a humane path to citizenship
- Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers





Latest lists of participants includes:

A World Beyond Capitalism * ACLU of Texas * AFSC (Baltimore, MD)* AFSC (New Jersey, NJ) * AFSC (Portland, OR) * AFSC (Washington, DC) * AFSC Project Voice (Cambridge, MA) * AfterDowningStreet.org * Andy Shallal (Iraqi American activist) * AOL Latino * Boston May Day Coalition * CAIR Coalition * Camp Democracy * Campaign For Labor Rights * Carpenters' District Council of Greater Kansas City and Vicinity * Casa Freehold * Catedral Basilica de Newark * Chelsea Uni‚ndose en Contra de la Guerra * Coalicion por una amnistia general para todos * Code Pink * Comite de Salvadorenos * Detention Project/Asylum Project of Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition * Detention Watch Network * El Centro Hispanoamericano * Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting * Families for Freedom * Forest Hills Community House * Frente Unido Western Mass * Global Exchange * Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition * Guyanese-American Workers United * Hispanic Organizations Leadership Alliance * Industrial Workers of the World * Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc. * Laborer's International Union of North America * League of United Latin American Citizens * Los Angeles March 25th Coalition * Massachusetts Global Action * MDI-Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes * Migration Policy Institute * Mission: Middle East * Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation * National Asian American Student Conference * National Council of La Raza * National Immigrant Solidarity Network * National Immigration Project * National Interfaith Committee For Worker Justice * National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health * National Organization of Women * Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala * New York May 1st Coalition * North American Alliance for Fair Employment * Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition * Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants * Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign * Queers for Economic Justice * Rescue Community * Rights Working Group * SmartMeme Media Collective * Solidarity Committee of Capital District, NY * Student Immigrant Movement * Tecschange* Tenderloin Neighborhood * Development * UCC Latina Organizing Group * United for a Fair Economy * United For Peace & Justice * United Students Against Sweatshops * University Leadership Initiative * Washington Peace Center * Washtenaw County Workers Center * Western Mass Coalition of Immigrant Rights * Western Mass Global Action Coalition * Woodbridge Workers Committee





Goals of the Conference



1. Keep the momentum gained throughout the country this spring going,



2. National meeting in which community/grassroots immigrant activists can meet face-to-face to discuss how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights movement.



3. Set a 6-9 month national strategy plan that unites in a national action campaign that respects our diversity of political positions and strategies.





Lists of Workshops



Organizing Day Labor Center (Casa Freehold)

Developing Immigrant Community Programs (National Organization for Women)

LGBT Caucus (Queers For Economic Justice)



Immigrant Media Strategy, Talking Points Formulation SmartMeMe Media Collective)

Reading Between the Headlines: Learn to analyze news coverage(Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting)



Counter-Minutemen Organizing (Los Angeles March 25th Coalition)

A Multi-Ethnic "Role-Playing" Activist Approach towards Immigrant Education and Understanding (Mission: Middle East)

Detention and Deportation: Overview and Organizing (National Immigration Project/Detention Watch Network)

Women's Caucus (National Organization for Women)

Rights on the Line (American Friends Service Committee)

Low-wage immigrant worker strategies (American Friends Service Committee)

March 25th, May 1st organizing (Los Angeles March 25th Coalition)


How To Do Your Congressional Lobbying (United for Peace and Justice)


Away from Militarization and Towards Human Mobility: Civil Disobedience and Direct Action-Militarization/Diverse Tactics to Achieve Goals (American Civil Liberties Union of Texas)



Planning Camp Democracy (Camp Democracy)

Overview of Latino Immigrant Politics (League of United Latin American Citizens)


Film Showing: Divide We Fall


Latest Updates on the Immigrant Legislation - An Introduction (National Immigrant Solidarity Network)

Panel: Immigrant Student Organizing (National Council of La Raza, National Asian American Student Conference)



Panel: Labor Union and Immigrant Organizing (Carpenters' District Council of Greater Kansas City and Vicinity)

Multi-Ethnic Organizing (Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign)



Acknowledging the Role of Faith in Addressing Social Justice and Defending Immigrant Rights

Trade and Immigration: Organizing around the failed "Free Trade Model" (Campaign for Labor Rights)



Panel Dialogue: Our May 1 Experience



Panel: Faith & Action: Our Spiritual Responsibility for Protecting Immigrant Rights (Imam Mahdi Bray, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation)





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National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference

Together, We Build A New National, Broad-Based, Immigrant Rights/Civil
Rights Movement!
Friday - Sunday July 28-30
American University, Washington DC.
Called by National Immigrant Solidarity Network

For Registration and More Information
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/2006Conference/