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Community Organizers Revving up on Immigration and Health Care
Week in Community Values for May 21, 2009
Born out of a mass rejection of the failed policies of
individualism and divisiveness, the Campaign for Community Values
is a return to the beliefs our country was founded on: shared responsibility,
shared sacrifice and shared success.
Take a look at the great work our partners across the
country have done since we last updated you:
Immigration Radar
What every immigration reporter should know
Hundreds of Grassroots Leaders to Gather
for Historic Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Passing Just and Humane Immigration
Reform This Year
WASHINGTON – The Reform Immigration For America Campaign
will convene a town hall meeting June 3, 2009, bringing together some of the key players
who will drive the legislation.
The town hall meeting is being organized by the Reform
Immigration For America Campaign, an effort that will launch June 2. The
campaign is endorsed by more than 200 leading civil rights, immigrant rights,
religious and labor organizations. The campaign will advocate for reform that
offers a path to earned citizenship, protects workers, enhances our nation’s
security, promotes immigrant integration and keeps families together.
“America
needs to reform immigration for America
– all of America,”
said Rich Stolz, campaign manager, Reform
Immigration for America Campaign. “For
businesses, for workers, for families, for the economy and for security, we
need workable solutions that solve our immigration problems and move us all
forward together.”
For more information on the Reform Immigration for America
Campaign Summit, please visit http://www.communitychange.org/our-projects/firm/summit,
or contact Mary Moreno at mmoreno@communitychange.org or 202-339-9316.
Other immigration news:
v
Massachusetts
Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition advocated on behalf of
undocumented students
received an E Pluribus Unum award for their work in helping immigrants integrate
o http://timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/21/tennessee-immigrant-council-honored/?local Sen. Patty Murray to Speak at Mothers
Leading the Way March in Seattle
SEATTLE – Sen.
Patty Murray will join a march and rally where mothers will lead the way in
calling for health care reform scheduled for May 30. The health care event, which
has been endorsed by more than 150 organizations, will call on Congress to make
national health care for all a reality this year.
“Access to quality, affordable health care for all is
critical to keeping families healthy and our economy strong,” Senator Murray
said. “I’m looking forward to joining
with Washingtonians from communities across our state to send the message back
to D.C. that health care reform is both needed and wanted this year.”
WHAT: March and Rally: Health Care for All in 2009 – Mothers
Leading the Way
WHERE: Planned to start at Edwin
Pratt Park
(20th Ave. S. & E.
Yesler Way) End at Westlake Center
(4th Ave. & Pine St.) Seattle, WA
WHEN: Saturday, May 30, 2009
Event will run from 12:30 –
3:30
For more information on the “Health Call for All, Mothers
Leading the Way” event please contact: Joshua Welter, joshua@washingtoncan.org.
See highlights from
the Campaign for Community Values:
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Woman Immigrants: Changing the Face of Immigration to the United States
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