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National Immigrant Solidarity Network April 10-12, 2009 UIC Student Center West http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org Conference Hotline: (773)942-2268 About the Conference Conference Booklet English | Spanish The conference will be our strategy planning meeting for grassroots immigrant activists looking 2009 and beyond. We want to send a clear message to the Congress and our new President: Stop Immigrant Raids! Support Immigrant Workers Rights! We envision this as a grassroots activist conference of broad-based, multiethnic organizers from African American, Native 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. To meet face-to-face and discuss how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights movement, and to set our 2009-2010 national grassroots immigrant campaign strategy. We'll focus on building multi-ethnic, multi-constituent, broad-based grassroots immigrant rights movements run by de-centralized volunteer-based community-rooted immigrant rights activists from youth, workers and community members who can play more active role on campaign formulation and decision making for local coalition building to organize popular education campaigns, such as: campaign to against immigrant dentition, deportation & raids; immigrant labor rights movement; campaign against local anti-immigrant ordinance; comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) and linking the immigrant rights movement with other struggles, such as: anti-war and anti-globalization movements. We'll also discuss the lessons from the 2008 election and what we should expect from the new President and the Congress affecting immigrant legislation for the next two years. Based on these discussions: feedback from workshops, pre-submitted campaigns/strategies, and ideas from strategy sections, we want to draft: What we want to accomplish from the conference? - Networking, Building Allies
Workshops and Strategic Campaign Proposal:
Past Conferences July 27-29, 2007 National Grassroots
Immigrant Strategy Conference
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