Thread: Interesting Message from Reform Immigration for America PAC

Message from Reform Immigration for America

The Center for Community Change is working and winning on real health care reform, comprehensive immigration reform and creating jobs in our communities. When citizens speak up fearlessly and work together collectively, we can create a more inclusive, productive and fair tomorrow.

Immigration Movement Building Training

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Do you think you’re a leader?

Are you interested in organizing?

Do you want to help fix our nation's broken immigration system?

Then join us at the MOVEMENT BUILDING

TRAINING FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM! (HELD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OF COURSE)

TRAINING DATES (LOCATION APPLICATION DEADLINE)

Dec. 5th & 6th
Phoenix, AZ
CLOSED

Dec. 5th & 6th Raleigh, NC
CLOSED

Dec. 12th & 13th
Las Vegas, NV
CLOSED

Jan. 9th & 10th
Los Angeles, CA**
Click here to apply!
Deadline: Jan. 1st

Jan. 9th & 10th
Ithaca, NY**
Click here to apply!
Deadline: Jan. 1st

Jan. 9th & 10th
Columbus, OH**
Click here to apply!
Deadline: Jan. 1st

Click here to check out our video from our training in Colorado!

Click here to apply to the CA, NY or OH Trainings!
• Cost: A one-time $25 registration fee will cover the following:

Accommodations—Lodging for Saturday night

Food—Saturday breakfast through Sunday lunch

• Travel: Participants must make their own travel arrangements to and from the trainings

• Training time: Begins at 10 AM on Saturday and concludes at 6 PM on Sunday


The trainings are designed to:

• Teach basic organizing skills.

• Help participants learn to tell their own stories and speak in public.

• Train participants in the use of social media tools for outreach and organizing.

• Provide an insider’s overview of the immigration debate.

• Build leadership teams of five to six people in a geographic area.

• Conduct a brief action (e.g. public event, media activity) to give participants a chance to practice newly learned skills.

The ultimate goal of the trainings is to prepare a trained, enthusiastic leadership force to help win comprehensive and humane immigration reform in 2010!

Click here to apply to the CA, NY or OH Trainings!

Sponsors: The trainings are a collaboration between the Campaign for Community Change; the Center for Community Change and the Fair Immigrant Rights Movement (FIRM); Reform Immigration for America; United We Dream; the New Organizing Institute; and other allied organizations in each of the six host states.

A Tested Approach to Training New Leaders.

The training approach we use was developed by Marshall Ganz, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

This model served as the basis for “Camp Obama,â€

Talk about AstroTurf!

Wouldn't it be funny if it were ICE doing it. I know NYPD did a sting where they got people who had outstanding warrants out to show up to pick up tickets to see the Yankees (if I recall correctly they were baseball tickets). They had alot of them show up and they were all arrested on the spot.