12:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Careers|Immigration · 1 Comment
17 Jan 2007
Ever thought of working to help protect the human rights of immigrants right where immigration begins — at the U.S. – Mexico border? Our friends at Amnesty
International U.S.A. have the job for you:
Human Rights at The Border Fellowship
We are seeking Human Rights at the Border Fellow for the Domestic USA Program located in Washington, DC. The Fellow’s responsibilities will include:
Monitoring human rights developments in the area of immigrant rights in the United States; developing a focused human rights advocacy campaign around a specific immigrant rights issue; working with Amnesty activists to engage in advocacy focused at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations; working with coalition partners in the field; conducting media work; developing campaign and educational materials.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Requirements include: a Bachelor’s degree; knowledge and experience working on human rights issues, particularly economic, social and cultural rights; strong analytic and research skills; the ability to work effectively with grassroots volunteers; ability to work in a highly collaborative and consultative team environment and to establish and maintain strong and effective working relationships; experience organizing in communities of color; experience organizing through online/ electronic methods; excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and problem-solving skills. Bilingual Spanish is also strongly preferred.
For more information, visit the Amnesty International U.S.A. site.
Tip: Amnesty International USA / Image via youarethemusic_to_my_ea rs’ Flickr page
4:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|Immigration · Comments Off
5 Apr 2006
Ever wonder what it’s really like to be an immigrant on the border? What about what it’s like to be a Minuteman? The creators of The Border Film Project, a photography project like none other I’ve seen, goes beyond the images we see in mainstream media to let the two groups tell their stories in photos. I wish I would have thought of this:
We are three friends – a Rhodes Scholar, filmmaker, and a Wall Street analyst – who spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.
The project looks to portray the reality of the border and it does a great job at that. The immigrant photos are a mixed bag of strikingly “normal” everyday photos — some even showing happiness — to shocking and disturbing. They tend to photograph things around them; snakes, plants, their homes, while the Minutemen take more pictures of themselves and their activities, such as target practice and manning a radio.
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