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Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 2003c. One person will make an announcement about Centro Bilingue’s upcomingnaturalization campaign,including the dates, times, location and contactinformation. (2 Minutes)d. One person will act as master of ceremonies, introducing the agency that ishosting the press conference, the reason for the press conference and theagenda of the press conference, and the next speaker.Sample introduction:“We're from Centro Bilingue in East Palo Alto. We’re here today to talkabout naturalization, which is the way immigrants become U.S. citizens. We’lldiscuss the importance of naturalization, the basic legal requirements fornaturalization and the considerations one takes into account before decidingto naturalize. We’re also going to announce special workshops hosted byCentro Bilingue to help people prepare their application packets fornaturalization at a low cost.”(2 Minutes)5:20-5:50 Building Community Support in a Negotiation:Conduct a discussion in the context of a follow-up to the exercise on INS raids completedearlier in the dayA. Introduction– (5 minutes)1. To be good negotiators you often need to build community support for an issue.2. There are many ways to build community support.3. Before deciding if you want or need community support, you must analyzewhether or not it could help the cause. In some cases, it might not help, and mighteven hurt. Sometimes approaching an institution or a person in a position ofpower with the entire community behind you can cause the institution orindividual to become nervous, angry or upset. Such a situation could backfire onyou and produce less favorable results in your negotiation strategy.4. Of course before determining what issues to work on, you must evaluate the needsof the community in which you are working. To do this, you must spend aconsiderable amount of time and energy to discern the community’s most importissues and needs. After all, it is the community that must decide what it needs andmust provide much of the work to meet those needs.12-29
Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 2003B. Example: 245(i)– (5 minutes)1. Introductiona. Some of you may be familiar with a campaign to extend something called245(i), a section of the U.S. immigration law that allows people to have theirgreen card interview here in United States rather than having to go back totheir home countries. It was very important because it meant many morepeople would have success in becoming green card holders than before.b. The law was set to expire in 1997. It would be bad news if did expire. Therewas lots of advocacy around the issue by policy experts and attorneys to get itcontinued, but no input from immigrants themselves.c. ILRC held community meetings in rural California to tell immigrants aboutthis law and other immigration issues. The immigrants expressed concern andwanted to do something about it.2. A grassroots immigrant campaign started, complementing the work of the policyexperts and the attorneys and accomplishing the following:a. Sent 35,000 petitions to congressional representatives in Washington, D.C.b. Conducted a community education campaign using meetings and media topublicize the issue and have immigrants themselves explain the hardships,such as family separation, that the lack of an extension would cause.c. Held meetings between immigrants and congressional representatives.d. Set up grassroots immigrant organizations and networked with immigrantorganizations and other organizations to address the topic.C. Example of community support in response to a van accident where the communityrallied together to raise money for the funeral expenses for several Mexican farmworkers who died in a van accident on their way to work in the fields. These effortsnot only raised money but also brought attention to the public safety issue of farmlabor contractors placing farm workers in unsafe situations.D. Discussion: In the example of the INS raid in San Jose, how would you buildcommunity support? –(10 minutes)1. Could community support be helpful? Why? Why not?12-30
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