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Promoting Justice for Immigrants

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New York City and State continue to address the challenges involved with welcoming over 170,000 new asylum seekers and migrants over the last 18 months. The Action Lab is contributing to long-term organizing and capacity building around this issue by developing strong public and political education materials and opportunities for base-building organizations working to promote justice and opportunity for migrants.

Promoting Justice for Immigrants

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A woman in a library with a poster for "Bad Mexicans" by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Popular Education on Immigration

The Action Lab has developed multiple training modules designed for organizations to put the current influx of migrants in context, understand and challenge the politicized narratives at play, and spark generative conversations with community members on this issue. Through these popular education sessions, we aim to subvert the dominant, conservative narratives about immigration and recent migrants and to build the political consensus necessary for long term solutions. We are working closely with our New York-based allies on these trainings, and are supporting their work to win humane and welcoming policies for migrants.

National Immigration Justice Convening

In 2024, The Action Lab is co-organizing a national convening of organizers, academics and elected officials to create short and long-term strategies and resources that will win justice for immigrant families. We are working with Local Progress, the Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo School of Law, the Initiative for Community Power and Make the Road New York to anchor this convening.

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Immigration & Representation

We are co-organizing a national gathering, provisionally titled: Border Storytellers: Amplifying Marginalized Voices and Building Connections across Disciplines with our Advisory Board Members  Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and Alex Rivera, as well as Cristina Ibarra from the Latino Filmmakers Lab of the ASU Sidney Poitier School.

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