.@CHIRLA was one of many #immigrant/#refugee activist groups that I invited to participate in the @Vote_CNP conference last year in Santa Monica. I was trying to organize a participate in a round-table about what an effective and humane #immigration system would look like.
No organization local to L.A. responded with as much as a polite regret.
It is possible that an immigrant/refugee rights activist could make the CIM in to any kind of nefarious organization if they don't learn about what we are from our own writing and mouths. Chief among those myths is that the CIM is #whitesupremacist.
To learn otherwise would take some investigation, imagination and motivation on their part.
I believe that our movement does need to pony-up to prove that we are committed to the fact that #Californians are #Latinos who live here but are not necessarily defined by the U.S's sadistic and decrepit system as citizens of Calfornia.
#FreeTheBear #IndependentCalifornia
#FreeTheBear #IndependentCalifornia
We're going to need (more) Latinos and Spanish speakers who are able to explain that, too. Still, it would be nice if immigrant/refugee activists would come and engage in a dialogue.
