Prayer/Meditation Wall Project
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Crash Course for Immigrant Justice
When it comes to immigration, understanding the issues and promoting awareness is half the battle. Lead your congregation, community, civic groups, or friends in some of the educational activities below:
Essay Contest
Respond to an essay prompt on immigration, community, and faith in 800 words or less by May 31st.
Immigration Quiz Night (PDF, 8 pages)
Quiz Night is a great way to build community and learn new things. In this document, you’ll find how-to suggestions and six rounds of questions for an immigration-themed Quiz Night to raise awareness about immigrant justice and immigration reform advocacy.
Let the Walls Speak
Poems from Angel Island; Stories from Detainees; Border Crossing Stories; A Wall About the Wall; Migration Maps; Immigration in the News; Immigration and Race Timeline; Create a Prayer/Meditation Wall; Voices that Shape the Debate; Take Your Wall on a Trip
Engage Your Congregation
Visit a Jail/Detention Center; Form a Partnership; Stand with Postville on May 12; Share the Plate; The Corridos Project
Legislation
Improve healthcare standards in detention centers; authorize judges to consider the best interests of citizen children when at risk of having a parent deported; allow United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor same-sex partners for citizenship; protect cultures and wildlife on the border.
Support No More Deaths
No More Deaths was organized in 2004 as a faith-based response to the sky-rocketing deaths of border crossers. Now an official ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, No More Deaths prevents hundreds of deaths in the Arizona desert each year through providing humanitarian aid. Volunteer this summer, support better custody standards, or hold a supply/donation drive.
Plug In
Twitter; del.icio.us; Facebook; Border Stories: A Mosaic Documentary; This American Life; Dial "Our Stories, Our Dreams"; Shop 'Til you Drop on a Mexican Wage; Immigration Impact; Border Film Project; Immigration Stories of Yesterday and Today
Immigration and the Economy
The Buffalo News; New America Media, NPR; Reuters, Migration Policy Institute; ACLU; Beacon Press; Border Battles
Films
Made in L.A.; The Least of These; Sentenced Home; abUSed: The Postville Raid; The Visitor
Read & Discuss
They Take Our Jobs; Illegal People; Kids Like Me; An Immigration Resource for UUs; Congregational Stories; For You Were Once a Stranger; The Bible as the Ultimate Immigration Handbook; Sojourners Magazine; Restoring the Right to Due Process; Coming to America
Read & Hear Sermons
"The Deportees," Rev. Erika Hewitt; "Foreigners in Our Midst," Rev. Marlin Lavanhar; "Immigrant Nation," Rev. Matt Tittle; "Immigration, Assimilation, and Amnesty," Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael; "Immigration: The American Dream and Nightmare," Rev. Kate Lore; "Ivan's Story," Rev. Thom Belote; "Institutionalized Xenophobia in our Melting Pot," Ellen Taylor; "A Liberal Religious Perspective on Immigration," Rev. Roger Fritts; "Santuario: Sanctuary for All," Rev. Kim Crawford Harvie; "Who is My Neighbor?" Fred Hammond
Last updated on Monday, May 4, 2009.
