Fwd: {Disarmed} Re: [tupocc] Fwd: immigrant outreach strategizing committee

Sin Yen Ling

Asian Law Caucus

4158961701 x 110

sinyenl@asianlawcaucus.org

 

Victor Hwang or Ivy Lee

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

 

Christopher Puonngyaban (sp?)

Filipinos for Affirmative Action

 

Luna Yasui

Chinese for Affirmative Action

 

Narika, Berkeley, CA

 

Mercedes Castillo <chair@nllsa.org> wrote:

The National Alliance on Immigrant Rights has made it
top priority to outreach to Asian Pacific Islander,
South Asian, Arab groups. This immigrant rights
movement includes ALL immigrants and we need to make
sure that we are addressing all of these issues.

Please let me know if you know of any
groups/individuals that can help in this effort. The
key word: INCLUSION. We are reaching out to ALL
groups concerned with immigrant rights.

Please send me or Berna the information.

Gracias,
Mercedes Castillo
Chair, NLLSA

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: NY CHRP <nychrp@yahoo.com>
> Date: Aug 27, 2006 1:39 PM
> Subject: [NAIR_CC:147] immigrant outreach
> strategizing committee
> To: NAIR_CC@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Hello NAIR NCC:
>
> Below is the proposal I presented that was passed
> during our
> conference call re: outreach strategy.
>
> In light of this, I and my colleagues in NAFCON
> have volunteered to
> help form this committee for affected-community
> outreach.
>
> As a fir st step, we'd like to advise all NAIR
> regions to identify
> other Asian Pacific Islander, South Asian, Arab, and
> other community
> groups who they would recommend or would also like
> to help with this
> and do their best to field their contact info. to
> me.
>
> My email is ateberns @ gmail.com
>
> Maraming salamat po (thank you very much)
>
> Onward in struggle,
>
> Berna Ellorin
> Nat'l Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) &
> NY May 1st Coalition
>
> ---------
> Proposal for NAIR affected immigrants outreach
> strategy--
> Building unity with other communities affected by
> immigration law &
> strengthening NAIR
>
> Background:
> There are a vast number of communities of color
> gravely affected by
> the state of the US immigration system. These
> communities need NAIR.
> Hence, we need to build a leadership body that
> speaks to all these
> affected communities and empowers them to take
> leadership in national
> movement for their rights. We believe NAIR can be
> this vehicle.
>
> ie- detainee and deportee cases in API and SA
> communities can more
> visibly support Elvira's case, pass resos, etc. and
> powerfully relate
> it to their direct experiences-- even on a nat'l
> level.
>
> NAIR leadership, as it stands, still is
> characterized by a stark
> imbalance in ethnic representation that may lead
> other communities to
> believe that NAIR (or any nat'l level) is not the
> place for them or
> relevant to them. We need to build a more
> diversified body so that all
> communities see the relevance of NAIR, join NAIR
> calls and activities,
> and recognize NAIR leadership.
>
> ie- Huge absence of Asian Pacific Islander and
> South Asian/Arab which
> constitute large percentages of new immigrants and
> those most
> disenfranchised by immigration legislation.
>
> Goal:
> To garner advanced participation on the CC level of
> representatives
> and organizations representing currently
> underrepresented immigrant
> communities in NAIR, specifically Asian-Pacific
> Islander, South Asian,
> Arab.
>
> While these groups may exist on the local, regional
> coalition level,
> we must also make them more visible on the nat'l
> level so that
> communities see they are part of the nat'l movement.
>
> How:
> Create a temporary outreach team committee within,
> not separate from
> the NCC tasked to conduct specific, concentrated
> outreach to API and
> South Asian groups about NAIR; One that will
> communicate through the
> NCC with all regions by:
> Identifying regional API and SA groups

> in member coalitions
> Identifying major regional / national
> formations of API
> and SA groups not in NAIR/major events,
> meetings,
> conventions
> Meeting with representatives with these
> groups to present NAIR
> Customizing any relevant prop for these
> communities
>
> After such time representation is fielded from
> these communities,

> this committee can dissolve immediately.
>

>