COMMUNITY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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**URGENT NEWS** IMMIGRANT MOTHER SCHEDULED TO TAKE ENGLISH TEST IN COURT OR LOSE HER CHILD Tennessee judge, Barry Tatum has ordered a young Mexican mother living in Lebanon, Tennessee to learn English on a 4th grade level by April 18th or risk losing her child. Click here to learn more about this issue and actions being taken to prevent this injustice. FEATURES April 26th Deadline to Reopen Deportation Cases Fast Approaching! Free legal advice is available regarding new federal regulations which may benefit former green card holders placed in deportation as a result of a criminal offense. Advice is not limited to east coast residents! For further assistance contact The East Coast Legal Immigration Clinic of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) at 800.966.5946 X213. www.aaldef.org . June 16-18th, 2005: 5th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference: Standing for Justice in Challenging Times, Washington, DC Join leading organizers, advocates and other experts from local, state and national immigration and refugee rights organizations, as well as members of the civil rights, health care, anti-poverty, religious, labor and low-wage worker communities at this annual event. The goal of this conference is to set a national agenda on issues affecting low-income immigrant communities. For more information, visit: www.nilc.org/. Immigrant Youth Dream of a College Education Too! With the growing number of undocumented children graduating from the U.S. education system, it should come of no surprise that they too have aspiration of attending college. Unfortunately, many of them cannot do so due to insurmountable economic barriers and their lack of a social security number. But, help looms on the horizon; to learn more, click here. Immigrants and Driver's Licenses: Immigrant Restrictions are Bad Public Policy Requiring a social security number as a prerequisite to obtaining a driver's license jeopardizes public safety because it ensures that thousands of drivers will hit the streets without training and insurance. To learn more about immigrants' struggle for driver's licenses, click here. |
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NEWSMAKERS Undocumented workers bolster the U.S. economy and the Social Security by the billions One of the most common anti-undocumented worker arguments is that they deplete the U.S. economy. Depletion of the U.S. economy by undocumented workers is a mere myth. Latest estimates indicate undocumented workers subsidize Social Security to the tune of seven billion dollars a year - money they put in but never take back out because they are not entitled to retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration due to their immigration status. For more information read: the New York Times article by Eduardo Porter that ran on April 5 th , page 1; Illegal Immigrants are Bolstering Social Security With Billions |
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POINTS OF INTEREST Collection of Resources for Immigrants and their Advocates Increasingly, immigrant communities are being targeted by both blatant and latent anti-immigrant sentiment. Advancement Project has created a sampling of community and law-based resources available to racial and social justice advocates seeking to protect the rights of immigrants.To access this list, click here. Financial Literacy is Fundamental First-Step Financial Education Brochures are a collection of brochures designed to help immigrants become part of the financial mainstream. The brochures cover topics such as: Avoiding Dangerous Loans; Home Ownership; Sending Money Back Home; Credit, Debit and ATM Cards. These brochures are available in Spanish and English. www.appleseeds.net/. |
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CASE STUDIES/SUCCESS STORIES Coalition of Immokalee Workers Wins 5 Year Struggle! In an effort to improve the working conditions of Florida farm workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) led a boycott of Taco Bell demanding a penny-per-pound surcharge on the tomatoes picked by Florida farm workers. In March 2005, CIW won their battle for the surcharge and Taco Bell has agreed to work with CIW toward ensuring improved working conditions. Though a penny-per-pound surcharge seems small, in 2004 alone Taco Bell purchased approximately 10 million pounds of Florida tomatoes - representing less than 1% of the state's tomato production. Improved working conditions in Florida's tomato picking industry will surely cast a wide net. For more information on this struggle and CIW, visit: www.ciw-online.org/. Latino/a Immigrants Lead Efforts for Health Care Justice Increasingly it has grown more difficult for immigrants and low-wage workers to access quality health care services and when they do receive healthcare, it is often times woefully inadequate. Immigrants across the country are demanding access to quality healthcare; click here for the story of one such community. |
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FUNDING RESOURCES AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Funding/Resource/Job Opportunities for Community Justice Practitioners This updated list provides information about a few of the funding resources and job opportunities are available to community justice practitioners. We plan to update this resource periodically as we learn of new opportunities. Please contact us with any opportunities of which you know and we will add them to this new resource. This list includes programs with upcoming deadlines as well as a few opportunities with rolling deadlines. |
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CJRC CALENDAR Please email us at cjrc@advancementproject.org with information on events of interest. |
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MAPPING THE LITERATURE We encourage you to visit our updated bibliography (partially annotated) of recent publications and articlesof interest to racial justice advocates. This bibliography features a dynamic array of publications spanning several exciting topics. The subject areas for this volume are as follows:
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This newsletter is supported in part by grants from the Program on Law & Society of the Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. |
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