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CASE STUDY: 48 Hours to Keep Chicago a Welcoming City
Target: Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel’s previous statements meant he was already on record and we knew that the Governor wasn’t going to change his mind, so we needed to find someone who would stand up to him instead. Demand: Do not allow Governor Rauner's fearmongering to impact Chicago. Pledge to maintain a welcoming city and [...]
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How Hillary Clinton Responds to People Who Bring Up the Coup in Honduras
“I’ll just keep talking,” she said, as activists raised the issue of murdered human rights defenders in Honduras.
ReadJacinta Gonzalez on Democracy Now: Arrested for Protesting The Trump Effect
On Saturday, March 19th, Mijente’s field director, Jacinta Gonzalez, was arrested during the #StopTrump protest that blocked roads leading to his rally in the neighborhood that is home to Sheriff Arpaio and other anti-immigrant officials.
Watch her interview on Democracy Now where she discusses the Trump effect on state policy, her arrest, and the subsequent racial profiling that led to her transfer to immigration authorities despite being a US citizen.
ReadTrump Protester Transferred to Immigration Authorities in Arizona
“As I was trying to defend my rights inside, I saw the faces of two children in one of the holding cell. We’re going to continue to fight, to say #Not1More, and Dump Trump.”
ReadStatement from AZ Trump Protesters
The greatest act of love we can show is to shut down hate where it rears its head and demand that we do better than the cheap politics and false solutions that Trump is peddling.
Read5 Electoral and Legislative Fights for Woke Latinxs to Watch this Spring (and their Hashtags)
March 15th, 2016When it comes to legislative and electoral politics, the result has been a new round of policy changes and electoral campaigns in 2016 proposing to make our communities unwelcoming to refugees, erase local protections for immigrants from raids and deportation, increase criminalization of immigration, and hyper-target non-citizens who have any encounter with law enforcement and can be labeled as “felons not families,” as President Obama so eloquently put it.
For your information and general planning this Spring, here is a list of the top 5 electoral and legislative fights to watch:
ReadMarisa Franco Award Acceptance Speech at Creating Change 2016
Sanctuary is a spiritual stance. Sanctuary says, oppression is trying to fill our lives with fear and blood and daily numbing horror. But not in here. Not in my home. Not in my bed. Not in my movement. Sanctuary makes a ring of fire around our people. Sanctuary grants us a taste of reprieve and protection so they can gather strength to go out there again and fight.
ReadLánzate Thoughts: Con Toda La Fuerza de Mijente
December 15th, 2015For a country girl who never heard the word Chicano until her second decade of life, imagining something like Mijente, a new political home for Latinx and Chicanx people, never would have occurred to me as a possibility . I didn’t grow up down for La Raza, shouting Brown power, or reading about Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. What I did have was an unhealthy obsession with Selena and singing Blue Moon over and over again with my sisters. I had hoop earrings, soda-pop bangs, and ponytails slicked back with limón. I had chicarrones, tamales and Jarritos on the side of dusty fútbol fields. I had my father’s deep belting renditions of rancheras on Sunday mornings. I had a fear of the police taking away those I loved, of bosses withholding pay, of white children taunting us with their racist jeers.
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