Coloradans for Immigrant Rights (Mini-Vision)

I'm an immigrant
I am an immigrant rights activist
I am a teacher who works with immigrants
I am teacher that eachers a class on immigration
My great grandparents were immigrants and I am married to an immigrant
People treat me like an immigrant
I benefit from immigrant labor
My food is produced by exploitive immigrant labor

Education on both sides
Peope would be more educated
Starts at home and school
No intimidation
People feel safe to speak out
Respect
People take responsibility to educate themselves
All of us are immigrants
Recognition of this idea
Founders of the US were from Europe
End to predatory economic relationship
Restructuring economics
End of neoliberal capitalism
Create mutualistic economies
Sustainability
I would like to know where my food comes from
Neighborliness
Civility

Health Insurance for everyone
Education Rights
Basic Human Rights
Looking at how US policy impactspeople outside of the United States
End NAFTA
Having poicies that don't require people to leave their countries in order to survive
End Borders
De-criminilize the act of immigrating
Currently, laws make it difficult to be here so people have to go home. 
Local policies would be inclusive

Everyone
Those affected ----> everyone
Policy Makers in the United States and where immigrants come from
Police
Immigrants and Undocumented immigrants
Religious Community
Elected officials
Voters and non voters
Neighborhood organizations
Minutemen
Paramilitary organizations

Get people involved and organized
Make people aware of issues
where peole can see the humanity in people
Expose Injustice
My role is an ally to immigrant communities towards self determination

To lead this movement
To tell their story
To support each other
Organizing
Who is participating
Not losing hope
Not being content and moving forward
Immigrants set priorities of the movement
Deciding what the solutions should be

Mutual respect
Understanding that the immigration struggle is our struggle
Recognizing and using power that you have
Rejection of charity ---> the notion that people can't do things for themselves
As a white working class person, my role is to build an anti-racist anti-capitalist working movement
Public and political participation
"I have a vote"
Language access

We need to change immigration law
Politicians need to hear our priorities
Politicians need to be pressured
Educating people
Even if laws change, there will be anti-immigrant sentiment
Get out of your comfort zone
Taking risks
Neighborhood based responses to ICE raids and state repression
Making sure ICE isn't welcome in our neighborhoods
We need to make it hard to dehuminize
Speak out

What is solidarity?: Using your power

Educate: Educate across regions.  Peo9ple from Iowa for example don't hear much about this and therefore don't act.

My role: Educate myself to form an opinion that I can articulate clearly.  And then don't sway from that opinion unless new knowledge make it invalid.

Recognized the fact that we are all immigrants in some way.

People may be more open to immigrants if they realize the value they provide.

Educating our youth and parents to end the ignorance that drowns our country.

We are connected.  Genesis 1:1

Immigration rights are human rights.  Freedom and equality are for all people not just for the priveleged few.

My vision requires me to step out of my comfort zone and speak out.  Speak withy clarity and conviction, telling my story without fear and recognizing the impact it can make.

Biggest impact on changing the immigration law, will be by educating everybody, open their eyes, and take away the ignorance.  That is the only way to make people see that this country is made by immigrants whether they are undocumented or not.

What resonated with me...that the visioning covered a spectrum from telling stories to totally re-structuring economic and political systems that cause immigration.