Judy Harper, Managing Consultant for the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
Prior to joining Synergos, Judy worked as an educator, community researcher and in nonprofit management in Los Angeles, Boston, Tijuana, Oaxaca and San Diego. Her experience spans adult education, refugee support, theatre and media arts, youth programs, community economic development, affordable housing and public policy - most often in a cross-border context.
The Synergos Institute is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty.
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Juan Carlos Ruiz, general coordinator for the National Capital Immigration Coalition
LULAC is part of the National Capitol Immigration Coalition (NCIC)
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Mega March in Dallas Calling for Economic Boycott to Show Financial Impact of Hispanics on the U.S. Economy
Thousands of participants are to take part in the largest march in Dallas history ...click here to see the agenda or here to read more.
LULAC was formed in 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the merger of three Mexican American civic organizations: the Corpus Christi chapter of the Order Sons of America, the Order Knights of America of San Antonio, Texas, and the League of Latin American Citizens of South Texas. LULAC has worked consistently and effectively in advocating equal opportunity for Hispanics in government, law, education, and business.
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Coordinated by the National Capital Immigrant Coalition in the metro Washington, DC area and hundreds of grassroots organizations around the nation, immigrant communities and allies will come together for the largest mobilization for immigrant justice in our nation's history.
The www.April10.org website is hosted by FIRM - the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a project of the Center for Community Change.
Our History
The Center, founded in 1968, grew out of a powerful combination of ideas and events in the 1960s. Many important partners, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, the Ford Foundation, and leaders of the United Auto Workers, made the Center for Community Change a reality.
The Center for Community Change is a member of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition.
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The Center for Community Change is a non-profit organization that recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftwing political issue campaigns. For instance, the Center promotes amnesty, social welfare programs, and even unionization for all illegal immigrants in the United States. It also supports the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, which advocates amnesty, unionization, and "increased voter participation by immigrant communities as a way to create political power."
Drew Astolfi, the Center's campaign organizer, attended the Gameliel Foundation's National Leadership Assembly in December 2003. This foundation sponsors the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride's socialist, open borders agenda. It is also affiliated with ISAIAH, which favors open borders, sanctuary laws preventing the police from enforcing immigration laws, full amnesty and labor rights for illegal aliens, lax deportation laws, and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
The Center was a signatory - along with more than 120 other leftwing organizations - to a 2000 campaign to increase the minimum wage. The Center also endorsed the 2002 Market Workers Justice Campaign of the activist coalition Communities in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers. This campaign called for increased wages and benefits for Korean and Latino immigrant workers, including those living illegally in the United States.
The Center for Community Change is a member of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. The Center is funded by such foundations as the Ahmanson Foundation, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago.
http://tinyurl.com/zrv79
LOL! This reminds me of last week's student protest in Dallas...
Naive student: "Bush just wants to send all of us back to Mexico, he thinks we're all criminals!"
Radio reporter: "Actually, President Bush is on your side."
Naive student: "Nuh-uh! That's not what everyone is telling me!"
