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THREAD: Amazing orgs like @RAICESTEXAS @UNITEDWEDREAM @ACLU have become household names & common (excellent!) fundraiser targets.
This is a thread to lift up lesser-known orgs doing amazing immigration rights work. Please follow them, donate, fundraise! Add to list in comments!
This is a thread to lift up lesser-known orgs doing amazing immigration rights work. Please follow them, donate, fundraise! Add to list in comments!
1) .@NeverAgainActn is a newly established coalition of Jews and allies who are actively shutting ICE and their camps down. When they say #neveragain, they f'ing mean it. Take action with them: neveragainaction.com
2) @LasAmericasIAC is in the courts at the border every day getting ppl out of concentration camps, getting families reunited. They are tireless. They need money. Please follow and donate. las-americas.org/how-to-help
3) @CASAforall @CASAinAction is the largest immigrant advocacy group in the Mid-Atlantic. They're central to the immigrant rights fight in DC - which impacts policy nationally. They led the organizing of DC's @Lights4Liberty vigil. Please follow & donate. wearecasa.org
4) @freedomtothrive fights to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. Their work highlights the link between our racist prison system & our racist immigration policy. Please follow and donate. freedomtothrive.org
5) @LaRed_FIA is an arm of @FIAnational (Faith in Action, a national network of faith-based community organizations) that specifically focuses on immigration work. I had the pleasure of working with @CongActionNet, the DC/MD/VA arm of LA RED, for the DC @Lights4Liberty vigil.
6) @CasaRubyDC is a bilingual LGBTQ+ housing & services org run & led by trans women of color, founded by trans Latina immigrant Ruby Corado, who in March personally brought 15 LGBTI migrants detained by ICE to Casa Ruby. I ❤️ this org. Follow & donate. casaruby.org
7) @LIRSorg (Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service) has been active since WWII & now works on refugee resettlement, family reunification & more- legislatively & on the ground. The pres. is @KrishVignarajah, Michelle O's former policy dir! Follow, donate lirs.org
8) @CPDAction is one of my favorite organizing groups. They're the action arm of @popdemoc & helped lead the fight against Kavanaugh that helped fuel the blue wave. CPD is home to @AdyBarkan & @AnaMariaArchil2. They go hard & get results. Follow, donate. cpdaction.org
9) @FIRM_Action is a nationwide network of amazing grassroots immigration rights orgs. It helps bring them together to maximize their collective power. They're amazing. Please follow & donate. fairimmigration.org
10) @UndocuBlack is a network of and for current & formerly undocumented Black folx. They create safe spaces, provide resources & social services, & organize to create policy change. Please follow & donate. undocublack.org
11) @ConMijente is a national network of Latinx/Chicanx badass organizers and activists who are pro Black, pro queer, pro migrant, pro worker. Follow, donate. mijente.net
12) @MPower_Change is a huge Muslim-led grassroots org fighting for social & racial justice. @lsarsour is one of the founders so you know it’s amazing. Follow, donate. mpowerchange.org
13) @HaitianBridge is a coalition of organizations and activists working on the ground to help build a solid infrastructure for the Haitian immigrant community in CA. Follow, donate. m.facebook.com/haitianbridge/
15) @SAALTweets (South Asian Americans Leading Together) is a national org fighting for racial justice & civil rights for South Asians in the US. Ex. An Indian restaurant in DC was just raided & they’re all over it w/ legal help etc. Please follow, donate. saalt.org
16) @CAIRNational (Council on American-Islamic Relations) does a ton of anti-defamation & civil rights work, and clearly in these times are important figures in fighting Trump’s immigration policies & Islamophobia campaign. Please follow & donate. cair.com/donate
17) @BAJItweet (Black Alliance for Just Immigration) organizes Black immigrant communities to fight structural racism, mass criminalization, systemic discrimination. Also follow @blackimmnetwork, a BAJI-created alliance of Black-led orgs. baji.org
18) This isn’t an org to follow; this is a thing to do: CLOSE THE CAMPS. Actually shut them down. Here’s the template, & if you can make it to OK on Saturday, do it. #CloseTheCamps #AbolishICEandCBP #LetOurPeopleGo @UNITEDWEDREAM closethecamps.us
19) @CosechaMovement is a grassroots movement led by undocumented and other immigrants that fights back with direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience and economic pressure, boycotts etc. They get shit done. Follow, donate. lahuelga.com
20) @lawyers4goodgov is a squad of 125k lawyers openly doing resistance work, fighting for civil rights and social justice, including immigrant rights, thru our courts. Also follow their most active voice, Adam Cohen @axidentaliberal. Donate: lawyersforgoodgovernment.org
