About this Project:
Through this campaign we organize and empower our members to improve the lives of new immigrants. We believe that our communities can be more prosperous and harmonious if we work towards racial equity and better public policies that allow immigrants to succeed free of oppression and abuse.
We accomplish our goal through:
1) Education: We conduct workshops and one on-one with immigrant members of our communities to educate them about their rights and to identify common self-interests and issues.
2) Leadership Development: We train grassroots leaders on community organizing and leadership skills so they can be active leaders that promote community unity, education and participation in the civic life our communities.
3) Policy Reform: We advocate and organize in favor of fair and just immigration reform and policies that would improve conditions for immigrant communities.
4) Civic Engagement: We mobilize our base to be active participants in the political life of our communities though voter registration drives, get out the vote campaigns, and new citizens drives.
`New Citizen-New Voter" Initiative
Centro Campesino has successfully been certified by the Department of Homeland Security as a Board of Immigration Appeals approved cite. This means we can now help our members fill out Immigration applications. Our goal is to increase the number of Latino residents becoming U.S. citizens and consequently new voters. This certification will allow us to help our members with the application process. This year we will be implementing our “new citizen-new voter initiative” by identifying Latino residents ready to apply for their citizenship.
New Leaders~ 11/13/2010
As part of our efforts to sustain a community lead movement for social change, we have created our first community organizing training academy. We developed a curriculum that teaches our community leaders about community organizing and leadership skills. These leaders then become part of our members’ task forces and committees and they organize community members around local issues in their communities.
Immigration links and statistics
National Immigration Forum:
http://www.immigrationforum.or...
National Immigration Law Center
http://www.nilc.org/
Immigration Policy Center
http://www.immigrationpolicy.o...
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
http://icirr.org/
National Council of La Raza
http://www.nclr.org/
