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... this long-term vision early on. First through my mother, who always says: “you do your part and get others to do ... After finding our way through Boston’s subway system, we arrived at the steps of the church where the rally was ... for the first time, in front of 300 people. I told them about coming to the United States, growing up undocumented, ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of unfounded claims of election ... and a healthy democracy. As the descendant of farmworkers who worked in Selma and Delano in the 1930s and 1940s ... speech, President Biden recognized the challenges we are facing, the “cascading crises of our era.” He asked, ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
Below are all program-related materials for GCIR's 2022 National ...
May, 2022
Program Materials
... of State and Local Programs CMM_250.jpg Earlier this year, we shared with you GCIR’s new state and local framework , ... nonprofit, and immigrant justice movement organizations who shared with me their thoughts, their concerns, and their ... organizer. I’m grateful that I learned early on about frameworks like those from Marshall Ganz, Young ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... to the table. Undocumented people deserve much more than we’ve given them. As an intern at GCIR this summer, I ... justice movement leaders across the nation. Hearing about the organizing work being done in places like Louisiana ... for immigrant justice is taxing, especially for those who are directly impacted, something I learned personally ...
September 21, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
Below are all program-related materials for GCIR's 2022 National ...
May, 2022
Program Materials
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar, "Queer & Trans Leadership and the Fight for LGBTQ Migrant Rights" here, including the program recording and powerpoint.
October, 2022
Program Materials
... would it take to imagine a radical society where people are able to exercise their freedom to move and their freedom ... making that a reality for artists and beyond? Join GCIR as we co-host alongside Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) a webinar ... work; Common misconceptions and narratives within, and about, newcomer communities and beyond; and Ways arts funders ...
June 6, 2023
Webinar
Below are all program-related materials for GCIR's 2022 National ...
May, 2022
Program Materials
Find all program-related materials for GCIR Webinar, "Building Immigrant & Worker Power in Rural America."
October, 2022
Program Materials
... Project (MICOP) . Read on as Arcenio shares his thoughts about building power for Indigenous immigrants, the ... farmworkers in California are from Indigenous communities. We speak our native languages that are different from Spanish ... when we are on our own continent? We are migrants, people who move. Because of colonization our lands were taken away ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
AEW_cropped.png What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will ... descendants of immigrants from Germany and Poland who landed at Ellis Island. My border-traversing DNA was ... the organization’s and our key partners’ best thinking about how to address the problem at hand; namely, that racial ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
Below are all program-related materials for GCIR's 2022 National ...
May, 2022
Program Materials
Welcome to GCIR's Amplify blog series, where we feature interviews with immigrant justice field leaders to ... power and leadership in rural areas. Let’s start with who you are. Please tell us about yourself, your organization, and the communities you ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... color, women, and girls can truly thrive. Please tell us about yourself and yo ur organization. Lian Cheun ... the resettlement experience were traumatizing and shaped who I am today. After we arrived in the U.S., we settled in a low-income, diverse ...
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... in the country. Read on as Kris shares his thoughts about building power for trans communities of color, ... gave me an understanding as a young person of color that we could do it for ourselves, that we could have vision and ... Power is also about being able to define for ourselves who we are, to fight for our communities, to fight for ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... college, I was schooled by activists from the west coast who were fighting against Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot ... justice and power within low-income communities. At Hyams, we know that we cannot shift the structural factors that ... means having the courage to invite a bigger conversation about our nation’s history and the present-day ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating ... than demanding a fairer and more just process for people who are not U.S. citizens . . . You’re preying on ... interventions and organizing affect perceptions and how we relate to one another. In our December 2023 webinar , ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar, "Building Welcoming Communities for Tomorrow " here, including recording and powerpoint presentation.
July, 2021
Program Materials
... Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from Albania to pursue her dreams of a better ... that cause and perpetuate that injustice. In the class we were told to imagine standing by the bank of a river when ... work that continues to this day at GCIR. At GCIR, we are deliberately providing a platform for those most affected ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature