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... Tirona speaks with Arcenio Lopez , Executive Director of Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) . ... our identity and culture and when we learn about the history of Indigenous people. At MICOP, we are thinking ... do that: to make investments that put us in a position of strength to serve our communities for the long term. There ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... that has transpired in our country since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of ... Covid-19. We have also witnessed the election of the first black Senator from the American South since Reconstruction, ... willful ahistoricism, white supremacy, and virulent anti-immigrant sentiment, I remain hopeful for and inspired by a ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... Tirona speaks with Kris Hayashi , Executive Director of Transgender Law Center , the largest trans-led ... 1990s in California during the height of a slew of anti-immigrant and anti-youth propositions. Around that time, I ... Trans Queer Liberation Movement (“Familia”) and the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP), particularly in our ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... Amplify blog series, where we feature interviews with immigrant justice field leaders to showcase their work and ... Tirona speaks with Magaly Urdiales, Co-executive Director of the Western North Carolina Workers' Center . Read on as ... identities of each person. I have a background as a community organizer and in 2006 began working with nonprofits ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... up in the United States, I was raised with an awareness of our nation’s history of colonialism and at times violent intervention in ... of being undocumented, and the power and promise of the immigrant rights movement. Those early seeds of consciousness ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun , Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, ... a new normal for our multiracial democracy in which immigrant communities, communities of color, women, and girls ... KGA served as a consultant to the city to ensure that black and brown youth were included in the plan’s ...
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
By Cairo Mendes , GCIR's Director of State and Local Programs CMM_250.jpg Earlier this year, we ... opportunities for philanthropy to move money and power to immigrant and refugee communities. We are growing our work ... and insights of our funder members. During a seven-month nationwide listening tour, I met with nearly 60 leaders ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... in years past, growing bipartisan support for many aspects of that agenda. As American Immigration Council ’s Jorge ... and include newcomers in the future. Escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment have created the conditions ... national levels - are borne of long-term investment in community organizing, multi-racial coalitions, and movement ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... Undocumented people have the right to be in positions of power, to be compensated fairly for their labor, and to be ... some of which allowed me to connect with and learn from immigrant justice movement leaders across the nation. Hearing ... this summer allowed me to un-learn and re-learn the history of immigration. As I helped GCIR staff develop a ...
September 21, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... As a native-born U.S. citizen working in the movement for immigrant justice, I often reflect on what brought me to this work out of the many social justice causes that demand our attention. ... myself, the fact that our nation has a deep and persistent history of othering and discrimination was not new to me. But ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... look like? What will it take to get there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning ... in learning processes. Like so many others, my history has been profoundly impacted by migration, a fact ... to that effort. My firm belief is that in justice work, immigrant justice included, there’s a place for everyone. ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... begins to set in. Lately this has come in the form of news headlines of another school shooting and continued ... alone. From then on, I made a personal commitment to the immigrant rights movement and the struggle for social and ... the foundation for me to be the leader I am today. Through community organizing, I learned the value of relationships ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature