From Faith Action Network: Many of you are already responding with compassion and care for your immigrant neighbors. We are always looking for additional resources to share with our statewide network to maximize the role faith communities can play in response to workplace raids, detentions, and … [Read more...]
Backbone Awards Dinner: Celebrating Heroes & Solutions, September 28th, Seattle
Get your ticket today to an incredible evening - Backbone Awards presented to US Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson for their courageous leadership, as well as awards to 3 relentless activists fighting for the orca, the immigrant children, and for a just future. … [Read more...]
Resource for Supporting Immigrants
As a response to increased raids on immigrant communities, MoveOn.org has developed a new action resource page to stand with immigrants and the Latino community and against the violence of white supremacy. … [Read more...]
New Rule Meant to Deter and Intimidate Non-Citizens
On August 14th, the Department of Homeland Security published a prospective rule which fundamentally changes the longstanding “public charge” policy and sends a message of who is desirable or welcome in the U.S. The final rule, scheduled to take effect on October 15th of this year, will change the … [Read more...]
U-Work Solidarity work party at Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad
Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 8 AM – 1 PM 1240 Central Rd, Everson, WA 98247-9632, United States Now that the first berry season is over, it's time to trellis the remaining plants and prepare the land for the winter. The cooperative is looking for volunteers who can lift and hold wires that will be … [Read more...]
King County Recruiting to Fill Three Immigrant and Refugee Commission Positions
The King County Immigrant and Refugee Commission (IRC), is currently recruiting to fill 3 vacant positions. The IRC was created in 2018 by Executive Dow Constantine and the King County Council and is committed to integrating, strengthening, and valuing immigrant and refugee communities, upholding … [Read more...]
Support UUA Initiatives to “Close the Camps”
Through our coalition efforts we have shut down the detention camps in Tornillo and Carrizo Springs, TX, prevented Ft. Sill in Oklahoma from becoming a detention camp, and seen 1,500 youth released from the Homestead Florida camp. The fact that the Department of Health and Human services is now … [Read more...]
Sign Reverend Barber’s Petition Calling for Presidential Candidate Anti-Racism, Pro-Voter Registration Rally
I'm Reverend William J. Barber, II, of Repairers of the Breach, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Moral Mondays movement. And I am asking you to join me in this call to all the presidential candidates: All presidential candidates should unite for a massive, pro-voter, anti-racism rally in … [Read more...]
AG FERGUSON ARGUES COURT SHOULD FORCE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO STOP MISTREATING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jul 10 2019 Coalition of attorneys general file brief supporting restraining order against the Trump Administration OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today joined 19 other attorneys general in support of a lawsuit seeking to force the Trump Administration to … [Read more...]
Trump Department of Labor Proposes Harmful Changes to H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program
Today (July 26) the Trump Department of Labor announced plans to make sweeping revisions to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program to the detriment of farmworkers. The proposed H-2A changes would weaken key protections for farmworkers, reducing the ability of the current farm labor force to … [Read more...]
Dignity Dialogue (to proceed March for Dignity event)
WHEN: Saturday, August 3, 2019 from 1-3 pm. WHERE: Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth St. Bellingham, WA 98225). There will be a Dignity Dialogue the day before the march where we will discuss the new WA State legislation, Keep Washington Working, and what our local government is … [Read more...]
ROUTE AND REMINDERS FOR FARMWORKER MARCH FOR DIGNITY
August 4th, Ferndale/Bellingham, WA Please note – all times are approximate; we will make every effort to stay on time Schedule for the day: 4:00 am - volunteers arrive at 1431 Sunset Ave in Ferndale 4:30 am - public is invited to arrive at 1431 Sunset Ave in Ferndale 4:30 am-5:00 am sign … [Read more...]
Support Syrian Refugees’ Temporary Protected Status
Next week, Syrians with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the U.S. will hear whether they're at risk of deportation to a warzone. There aren't many options left for Syrians fleeing humanitarian crises created by eight years of war — from Trump destroying U.S. refugee resettlement to the Muslim … [Read more...]
2019 March for Dignity
Sunday, August 4, 2019 at 4:30 AM – 5 AM until Starting at 1431 Sunset Ave, Ferndale, WA 98248-8914, United States Join farmworker leaders from Community to Community (C2C) and Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) in an historic march in rural Whatcom County. The march starts with a sunrise … [Read more...]
Police: 69-year-old man dies after attacking migrant jail – Tacoma, WA
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, TACOMA, Wash. — Jul 14, 2019, 6:39 AM ET A 69-year-old man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities … [Read more...]
Lights for Liberty Events
On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps, will bring thousands of people to locations worldwide as well as to concentration camps across country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by … [Read more...]
Organize, Attend June 12th Lights for Liberty Vigils to Support Immigrants and Refugees
Faith Action Network supports the ad hoc coalition for a Constellation of Lights for Liberty to organize vigils locally and nationally this week in solidarity with immigrants and refugees. We invite you to hold vigils across the state in your faith communities this coming Friday night, June 12, or … [Read more...]
ICE used Washington drivers licenses to hunt immigrants, researchers say
Alvaro Deboya with the center said Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI are employing facial recognition to search license databases as states across the nation are urging undocumented people to come out of the shadows and get a drivers license. “In at least three of them, in … [Read more...]
We are caging Indigenous people
Indian Country Today by Mark Trahant The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security reviewed five Border Patrol facilities and two ports of entry in Texas and “observed serious overcrowding and prolonged detention of unaccompanied alien children, families, and single adults that … [Read more...]
Side With Love Needs Your Activism to Protect Immigrants: Webinar and More
Immigration raids have been ongoing throughout the last decade. Communities have been organizing resistance in response. Racial policing and detainment have been happening in Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim and poor communities across the country. We have witnessed this in the continual rise of … [Read more...]
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