Resources

Voter Education Resources

• Northern California Citizenship Project (NCCP) The Northern California Citizenship Project (NCCP) works to increase immigrant civic and political activism to expand democracy and advance social justice. Our core strategy is to build and sustain the capacity of community organizations and other groups to engage and empower their immigrant constituents. Since 1997, the NCCP has facilitated training, technical assistance, networking and funding opportunities for over 100 organizations in Northern California. See the New Citizens Vote! curriculum.
• National Voice Legal and organizing documents for voter education andregistration.
• FREEDOM RIDES Recollections by David Fankhauser

Education Materials about the Freedom Ride

• The Struggle for Immigrant Workers’ Rights Is Fight for Civil Rights
  The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride continues the Civil Rights movement’s struggle for equality and justice. Just as the Freedom Riders in the 1960s drew attention to the injustices experienced by African Americans and helped build a national constituency for change, participants in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride seek to mobilize Americans to end the injustices endured by millions of immigrants each day.
• Educational Connections: Culture, Identity and Youths. Educational Materials about the Freedom Ride from Northeastern Illinois University
  Northeastern Illinois University Chicago Teachers' Center, hACE Project, SEIU and the GEAR UP Alliance, will be working with the Chicago Public School teachers, students and their families to follow the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride with curriculum activities, on-line connection to Riders on the buses and culminating art projects that demonstrate youth's relationship to these issues and their understanding of these critical civic issues.
  

Civil Rights

• Enemy Aliens. In the war on terrorism, the federal government has detained over 4,000 foreign nationals, engaged in guilt by association and ethnic profiling, and conducted secret searches and wiretaps without probable cause of criminality. These measures have been sold to the public on the ground that they affect only foreign nationals, not American citizens. In Enemy Aliens, award-winning author, Georgetown law professor, and civil liberties lawyer David Cole argues that in balancing liberty and security we have consistently relied on a double standard, imposing measures on foreigners that we would not tolerate if they were applied more broadly to us all.
• Public's Truth: Stories of Racial Profiling and The Attack on Civil Liberties
  The Public’s Truth is a forum for communities to share real stories of how the “war on terrorism” and national security have adversely affected the lives of immigrants, refugees, and communities of color and to raise awareness of the scope and scale of attack upon civil liberties and human rights. (Published by the Applied Research Center, www.arc.org)
• Civil Rights History and the Original Freedom Rides. The 1961 Freedom Rides were incredibly courageous acts of resistance led by many women and men, who still to this day, are leaders in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. This link provides a short bibliography of excerpts and resources to educate yourself and others about the legacy of the Freedom Rides.
  

Immigration Materials

• Immigrants and the Economy. According to the most comprehensive study ever done on immigrants, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that in all their combined roles, immigrants make indispensable contributions to our economy.
• National Employment Law Project: Immigrant Worker Project Legal analysis, fact sheets and tools for legislative advocacy related to protecting and expanding the workplace rights of immigrant workers. Explanation of Social Security No-Match and employer work authorization verification issues.
• Labor in the Pulpits: Special Focus on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Publication from the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
• The Sixth Section. 'The Sixth Section' is a groundbreaking documentary that blends digital animation and documentary to depict the transnational organizing of a community of Mexican immigrants in New York. The men profiled in the film form an organization called ‘Grupo Unión,’ which is devoted to raising money in the United States to rebuild the Mexican town that they’ve left behind. Grupo Unión is one of at least a thousand “hometown associations” formed by Mexican immigrants in the United States. These groups are beginning to have a major impact in the politics and economics of both the U.S. and Mexico.
• Resources and Networks
• Immigrant Workers Want the Freedom to Form a Union Flyer
• Unions and Immigrant Workers
• Immigration in the United States
• Why People Move Between Countries
  

Immigration Resource Sites

• Immigrant Workers in America (AFL-CIO)
• ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project
• Welfare Information Network: Litigation About Immigration
• Asian American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• American Friends Service Committee
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
• National Employment Law Project
• The National Immigration Forum
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and Educational Fund
• Office of Migration and Refugee Services
• National Council of La Raza
• National Immigration Law Center
• National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Rainbow, Push Coalition
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Union Plus Immigration Legal Services

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