"On The Road to Citizenship!"
Resolution

WHEREAS (ORGANIZATION):

• Has officially embraced the cause of immigrant workers in the United States; and
• Actively campaigns for legislative reform to benefit immigrant workers and their families; and
• Expects that legislation to reform immigration law will be a matter of increasing congressional and executive activity; and
• Believes that such legislative reform must include, at a minimum: (1) legalization, including the right of immigrant workers in the United States to live and work in this country and become its citizens, and (2) the right of immigrant workers to unite their families in the United States if they wish; and
• Understands that a national mobilization of individuals and organizations from all sectors, including labor, business, political, religious, community, immigrant and civil rights and others, is necessary to demonstrate to Congress and the President that there is widespread support in the United States for meaningful legislative reform and for the recognition of the contribution of immigrant workers to the quality of social, cultural, political and economic life in the United States; and
• Believes that the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which will culminate in a mass demonstration in support of immigrant rights and legislative reform in Washington, D.C., and in New York City in Fall of 2003, will be a powerful vehicle for mobilizing that national constituency;

THEREFORE the (ORGANIZATION) resolves that it will:

• Adopt the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride (IWFR) as a campaign of the (ORGANIZATION); and
• Contribute funds to help organize and carry out the IWFR; and
• Call on its members to adopt this same resolution in support of the IWFR.

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