Posts Tagged ‘Reform Immigration for America’
Gutierrez, Napolitano, & Arpaio : Whose Immigration Strategy Will Win?
3:05 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Justice| Politics · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2009I have been trying to write this post for days and every time I get to it there has been some additional speech or statement made on comprehensive immigration reform, but statements, speeches and sound bites don’t policy or practice changes make. Where do the recent statements come from different parts of the U.S. Government intersect and where do they differ and most importantly where do they accurately deal with the reality of the millions of undocumented?
Last week, More than 60,000 people joined a call & held more than 1,000 house parties across 45 states, to listen to 3 members of Congress including the headliner, Congressman Luis Gutierrez. Under the Reform Immigration For America campaign umbrella, tens of thousands people mobilized directly via a new cell phone action network.
Random Images from the Reform Immigration for America Summit
4:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Immigration| Washington DC · Comments Off
4 Jun 2009Here are just a few random pics that I’ve snapped while wrangling a toddler at the Reform Immigration for America Summit.
I’m sorry pero the pronunciation guide of the chant on this flyer cracked me the hell up.
Poroto eating inside the Victory Tent.
The Victory Tent, where the lunches and dinners happen.
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Reform Immigration for America Town Hall : Choreography and Criticisms
3:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Politics| Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009This morning at the Reform Immigration for America Summit, the attention was focused on Capital Hill and pumping up the activists for legislative visits via a National Town Hall Meeting on Immigrant Reform, held at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation.
The word that popped into my head as the packed church was lead in the “Si Se Puede” multiple language chant practice was “choreography”. While the meeting featured a few grassroots, “real” people, the majority of the speakers were people we all have heard from already, including politicians. People in the audience did not participate, beyond chanting on cue. One of the included chants was “Workable Solutions” and there was something about this chant that didn’t sit well with me. Workable meaning we stop pushing for inclusion of so-called divisive issues like detention reform, inclusion of glbt familias, and the DREAM Act?
I honestly missed alot of the first half of the Town Hall since I was entertaining a toddler. Pero here is what I was able to catch.
Dia Dos of Reform Immigration For America Summit Jumps Off
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Politics| Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009
This is how we roll at the Reform Immigration for America Summit. These Summits are often exhausting, especially when there are so many people to speak to (some that you only see in person once a year) and so much work to be done and stories and angles to cover. Add to the mix that I’m running with a two year old and it makes it even more exhausting. Pero as amigo Kyle said to me yesterday, you run on adrenaline.
Today should be a really interesting day. There is a Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform that will feature some of the top legislative supporters of immigration reform. It will be interesting to see what the set up is at the Town Hall as sometimes these events aren’t very “towny” in that participation is limited. And as Kyle pointed out in a post yesterday from the Summit, there remain many questions that need to be asked.
For instance, why is it that traditional notions of comprehensive immigration reform include reuniting heterosexual married couples, while same-sex binational couples are left out in the cold. Another important issue is the way Reform Immigration For America will treat migrant youth. Will migrant youth be treated as leaders in the push for the DREAM Act? Or, will they be coopted or ostracized for pushing the DREAM Act independent of the migration reform?
Live from the Reform Immigration for America Conference
1:42 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Immigration| Los Angeles| Washington DC · 1 Comment
3 Jun 2009I am writing to you from Washington DC and am in the company of about 700 other people with one thing on their mind, Reform Immigration for America. What that means for each individual differs pero the energy is high and all the people here are here to work. So far I have met people from so many different states, from so many different backgrounds. Some are policy makers, some are activists, some are importantly, immigrants themselves.
I need to sit down with my notes from the Welcome Luncheon which included a keynote speech from Representative Luis Gutierrez and breakdown a little, the tone that was set for this summit.
Pero in the meantime, I think it speaks to the some of the strategic organizing when you think how this summit is part of a national effort across the country that includes local actions which jumped off yesterday. Here’s a video from the Los Angeles jump off.
VivirLatino’s Maegan la Mala On the Road to the Reform Immigration for America Summit
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| VivirLatino| Washington DC · Comments Off
3 Jun 2009
As you read this I’m on an Amtrak train with one child in tow, headed to D.C. for the Reform Immigration for America Summit. Mil gracias to the people at the Center for Community Change, I will attending the largest convening of pro-immigrant organizers and allies this year.
I’m really excited to meet some organizers, activists and advocacy peeps that I have thus far only known through the internet and hopefully have some real discussions as to what needs to happen with the current immigration system in the U.S.
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