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Day After DACA Repeal, Immigrants Take Down Statue of Jeff Sessions Outside the DOJ
After yesterday's announcement that the White House is terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, groups rallied in front of the Department of Justice to condemn Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his role in ending DACA and promoting hyper discriminatory, anti-immigrant, and pro-prison practices. Groups Mijente, Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Juntos, United [...]
ReadMijente Reacts to Trump’s Cancellation of DACA
September 5th, 2017We Will Organize Against this White Supremacist President’s Agenda September 5, 2017 In response to the announcement that the White House is terminating the deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) program, Marisa Franco, director of Mijente, issued the following statement: “Jeff Sessions is a living monument to the Confederacy. He and Donald Trump’s white [...]
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Demanding that Congress Defend DACA, TPS and Initiate an Investigation on ICE
August 14th, 2017Undocumented and immigrant leaders were joined by community organizations and labor unions on Monday to demand Members of Congress to defend DACA and TPS, to investigate ICE’s rogue actions and to hold the line on all hate legislation that further criminalize immigrants.
ReadAfter Health Care Loss, Trump Goes to Long Island to Beat Up on Immigrants
“At a time when the administration is trying to defund health care, PBS, or almost all other government agencies over their supposed costs, it’s ridiculous to see it also trying to inflate ICE’s payroll.”
ReadJeff Sessions Should Stop Perpetuating the Lie that ICE is a Public Safety Agency, Cities Should Draw Line in the Sand After Latest Ultimatum.
July 26th, 2017Raids and separating families will not make us safer.
ReadWith DACA & TPS Threatened & a Dream Act Introduced, How We Chart Our Way Forward Matters
July 21st, 2017Let us seize clean opportunities and quickly condemn anything that turns a Dream into a nightmare, anything that would increase the criminalization of any of us.
ReadLatinx Anti-Blackness Killed Philando Castile
As news broke that a court acquitted Officer Yanez, the 29 year old Latino police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile while he wore his seatbelt and his girlfriend livestreamed from the passenger side of his car last summer, reactions of outrage and disbelief poured throughout the country. Castile's mother took to facebook telling [...]
ReadA Guide on Organizing as Defense Against Federal Investigations and Prosecutions
Mijente and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild release a guide that outlines how community-based organizations can develop a security and defense plan in the event that federal law enforcement targets leaders or staff for federal investigation and prosecution.
ReadIndigenous Self-Care Practices for Organizers
There’s no denying that we are in the midst of a historical time where social, political, and economic trends are changing. Folks are organizing their communities, jumping full force into defending freedoms and fighting for liberation. It’s important in these times to not drift from ourselves; our bodily and spiritual needs. As an Afro-Peruana, I [...]
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