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A look at Cosecha in the last decade...
2013: Comprehensive immigration fails in Congress, again. A group of immigrant rights & labor organizers come together to figure out why we *still* can't win reform for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
2013: Comprehensive immigration fails in Congress, again. A group of immigrant rights & labor organizers come together to figure out why we *still* can't win reform for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
2015: After over a yr of strategizing, Cosecha launches with its first training.
Our biggest insight: electing Dems and lobbying for CIR isn't working bc we just don't have the leverage. But there was a time when we did have it...the mega marches of 2006. npr.org/templates/stor…
Our biggest insight: electing Dems and lobbying for CIR isn't working bc we just don't have the leverage. But there was a time when we did have it...the mega marches of 2006. npr.org/templates/stor…
So Cosecha launches with a vision: What if undocumented immigrants recreated the mega marches, at the time were the largest protests in US history? What if millions of immigrant workers went on strike and took to the streets, not just for a day, but for an entire week? 
