[nyfoil-l] Chicago NISN National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conf: Successful Conference!

[SIUHIN at aol.com]

4/10-12, 2009 Chicago, IL National Immigrant  Solidarity Network 
4th National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy  Conference

http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org

Successful Ending!  Together We Build A New Immigrant Workers Rights and 
Justice Movements of  2009!


National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN) is a  grassroots, broad-based, 
multiethnic coalition of community, immigrant, labor,  human rights and 
student activist groups, founded in 2002 in response to the  urgent needs for 
the national coalition to fight immigrant bashing, support  immigrant rights, 
no to the sweatshops exploitation and end to the racism on the  community! 
We also actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in  
Africa, the Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with  sweatshops 
exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York;  international 
arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger,  child labors and 
child solider; as well as multinational corporations and  economic 
exploitation with racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the  struggle together.

Between April 10-12, 2009 on Chicago, IL; over 110  organizers, activists 
and community members from African American, Native  American, African 
immigrant, European Immigrant, Asian American, Latino/Latina,  Arab-Muslim-North 
African, progressive labor, interfaith, LGBT, student,  anti-war/peace and 
global justice groups from across the country. To meet  face-to-face at to 
discuss how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant  rights/civil 
rights movement, and to set our 2009-2010 national grassroots  immigrant campaign 
strategy.

We agrees together we’ll focus on building  all multi-ethnic, 
multi-constituent, broad-based grassroots immigrant rights  movements run by 
de-centralized volunteer-based community-rooted immigrant  rights activists from youth, 
workers and community members who can play more  active role on campaign 
formulation and decision making for local coalition  building to organize 
popular education campaigns, such as: campaign to against  immigrant dentition, 
deportation & raids; immigrant labor rights movement;  campaign against local 
anti-immigrant ordinance; comprehensive immigration  reform (CIR) and 
linking the immigrant rights movement with other struggles,  such as: anti-war 
and anti-globalization movements.

We welcomes our new  steering committee member Alex Franco from Movement 
for Unconditional Amnesty,  Philadelphia, PA.

We'll also discuss the lessons from the 2008 election  and what we should 
expect from the new President and the Congress affecting  immigrant 
legislation for the next two years.

We acknowledges that  different people from different organizations, 
backgrounds have different  believes on how to achieve the justice and better 
future for the tens of  millions of immigrants across the country, and how 
immigrant rights movements  can link to the broader peace and justice movements.

We had agreements,  we have difference and even heated debates; after three 
days conference, at  Sunday April 12th based on the feedbacks and proposals 
submitted to the  conference, we had draft our new points of unity and 
strategic immigrant  campaign proposals.

For those didn’t able to come, we welcome your  feedback and any 
suggestions of additions/modifications to siuhin at aol.com or  
info at immigrantsolidarity.org no later then Friday April 24,  2009.

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*Draft*
*National  Immigrant Solidarity Network: Principle and Strategic Campaign 
proposals for  2009-2010*

http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/2009Conference/confreport.html

(Drafted  on 4/10-12, 2009 Chicago,IL: NISN National Grassroots Immigrant 
Strategy  Conference)

National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN) is a grassroots,  broad-based, 
multiethnic coalition of community, immigrant, labor, human rights  and 
student activist groups, founded in 2002 in response to the urgent needs for  
the national coalition to fight immigrant bashing, support immigrant rights, 
no  to the sweatshops exploitation and end to the racism on the community! 
We also  actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in 
Africa, the  Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops  
exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm 
 sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and 
child  solider; as well as multinational corporations and economic exploitation 
with  racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the struggle  together.

Between April 10-12, 2009 on Chicago, IL; over 110 organizers,  activists 
and community members from African American, Native American, African  
immigrant, European Immigrant, Asian American, Latino/Latina, Arab-Muslim-North  
African, progressive labor, interfaith, LGBT, student, anti-war/peace and 
global  justice groups from across the country. To meet face-to-face at to 
discuss how  to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights 
movement,  and to set our 2009-2010 national grassroots immigrant campaign  
strategy.

We agrees together we’ll focus on building all multi-ethnic,  
multi-constituent, broad-based grassroots immigrant rights movements run by  
de-centralized volunteer-based community-rooted immigrant rights activists from  youth, 
workers and community members who can play more active role on campaign  
formulation and decision making for local coalition building to organize 
popular  education campaigns, such as: campaign to against immigrant dentition,  
deportation & raids; immigrant labor rights movement; campaign against local  
anti-immigrant ordinance; comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) and 
linking the  immigrant rights movement with other struggles, such as: anti-war and 
 anti-globalization movements.

We'll also discuss the lessons from the  2008 election and what we should 
expect from the new President and the Congress  affecting immigrant 
legislation for the next two years.

During the  conference, we passed our new points of unity and strategic 
campaign areas for  the NISN for 2009-2010.

The new NISN points of unity are:
1) No to  anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the 
immigrant  communities.
2) No to militarization of the border.
3) No to the immigrant  detention and deportation.
4) No to the guest worker program.
5) No to  employer sanction and "no match" letters.
6) Yes to a path to legalization  without condition for undocumented 
immigrants NOW.
7) Yes to speedy family  reunification.
8) Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law.
9) Yes  to labor rights and living wages for all workers.
10) Yes to the education  and LGBTQ immigrant legislation.

The NISN strategic campaign areas for  the 2009-2010:
- Support building grassroots networks and actions to demand  unconditional 
legalization 
- Linking Immigrant Rights Movements with Other  Struggles 
- Immigrant Raids, Detention & Deportation 
- Immigrant  Labor Campaigns and Day Labor Centers 
- Housing, Education and Healthcare  Rights for the Immigrants 
- No to the Border Wall and Militization of the  Border 
- Strategic Resources for the Immigrant Activists 
- Support Local  Grassroots Immigrant Campaigns 
- Building a Multi-ethnic,  Multi-Constituents-Based Immigrant Rights 
Movement 
- Congressional Immigrant  Legislation 
- International Immigrant Rights Campaigns 
- Campaign to end  exploitation of immigrants by the military establishment
- Use Chicago and  San Francisco as base legislative proposal to promote 
comprehensive immigration  reform that comes from the immigrant community in 
order to form 1 proposal to  promote by September 1, 2009. We will also 
encourage other cities to form their  own proposals and coordinate a united 
proposal. 

In addition, we also  passed the following proposal for the actions:

Proposals One
Alex  Franco
Movement for Unconditional Amnesty 
International Workers Day  March, San Francisco 

Background: In San Francisco, there were federal  raids on May 2nd in El 
Balazo Taquerias detaining over 40 people. In Chicago,  there were no raids 
the day after the may day march but suburbs do have raids  

Proposal: Coordinate to file temporary restraining order (federal  
injunction) against federal raids on May 2nd in cities that have had retaliatory  
raids on May 2nd in the past. This will discourage local police against 
turning  over undocumented immigrants to the feds. 
(This proposal could also link  with NISN’s propose September 2009 
Congressional lobbying day)

Proposal  Two
National Immigrant Solidarity Network

NISN will call for May Day  2009 National Immigrant Rights Mobilization; we’
ll offer tactical supports such  as: May Day information clearinghouse and 
phone legal training for the May Day  2009 organizers. 

Non-Binding Administrative Proposal
- Establishing  NISN’s Chicago chapter (could be call: Chicago NISN 
Network), will have regular  working meetings, action plan and fund raising events.

- Calling for  our  next 5th NISN National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy 
Conference will  be around May 1-3, 2010, location will be decided no later 
then August,  2009.


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