FIND OUT WHAT SDIRC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ARE UP TO AND GET INVOLVED!

The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium is comprised of almost 30 organizations that are dedicated to defending immigrant rights.

In this post you can find news and updates from four of our member organizations, the California Immigrant Policy Center, the ACLU, the San Diego LGBT Community Center and the San Diego Foundation for Change. Find out what’s going on in San Diego and get involved!

California Immigrant Policy Center Upate

2011 LEGISLATIVE REVIEW:

Immigrant Day Platform Priority Bills Signed by Governor Brown (Click to download an informational PDF)

Governor Brown has signed a significant number of bills that were listed on this year’s Immigrant Day Platform. These new laws will have significant impact on immigrant communities in California. They represent huge steps forward in providing critical support and civil rights protection for immigrants and their families. It has taken many years of advocacy to get us to this important, even historic, moment.

Due to our collective advocacy, strides have been made towards legislative solutions that will protect assistance to families, give top students a chance to improve their lives, protect civil liberties, and prevent job-killing mandates.

We believe that Governor Brown’s actions on these bills signal an unprecedented opening for us all to work in the coming years with his office at addressing many problems that face immigrants as well as to develop policies that take into account the critical role immigrants play in our state’s economy and future.

Governor Brown’s leadership signals his understanding how important immigrants are to California and his willingness to hear ideas from the community of immigrants, advocates and others interested in moving our state forward. We look eagerly toward working with the Governor on vital issues still left on the table following this legislative session, including the TRUST Act and Domestic Workers Bill of Rights that will continue to move forward through the legislative process in January.

ACLU San Diego & Imperial Counties

October

• Friday October 28, 2011 –In collaboration with SEIU San Diego, ACLU will bring Lucero Chavez, ACLU of Southern California Immigrant Rights Attorney, for a checkpoint monitoring and impound training, in San Diego –4265 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 260, San Diego CA 92105, from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm.  Designed from a train-the-trainer approach and aimed at advocacy staff, protestors and other community activists working with residents on the issue, the training will provide substantive information on the issue of checkpoint monitoring and the recently signed impound Bill, known as AB 353.  We have space for 25 participants, RSVP required by Monday October 24.  For more information contact Ale Ricardez, Field Organizer, San Diego ACLU, at 619-339-9005 and or, aricardez@aclusandiego.org.

November

• Tuesday November 1, 2011 –ACLU will hold a Dia de los Muertos Candlelight Vigil –California Center for the Arts, Escondido, located at 340 North Escondido Boulevard, Escondido, CA 92025. Arrive at 6:00 pm –create altars for loved ones / lost civil rights in Escondido; 7:00 pm –Candlelight vigil/Walk for Justice begins @ Grape Day Park (at East Pennsylvania and Broadway).  Candles will be provided.  Questions, contact Ale Ricardez, Field Organizer, San Diego ACLU, 619-339-9005 and or aricardez@aclusandiego.org.

The San Diego LGBT Community Center Update

• Freedom to Serve: On Tuesday, September 20, 2011, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell officially expired and LGB Servicemembers are no longer subject to discharge from the military on the basis of their sexual orientation. For this historic occasion we celebrated their long overdue Freedom to Serve at The Center. We heard from Eric Alva, a gay Marine who was the first American to be wounded in war in Iraq. We also heard from servicemembers, political representatives, and Michael Magee with Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, retired Col. Stewart Bornhoft and more.

• AIDS Walk & Run: This year our annual AIDS Wal & Run saw the participation of over 8,000 people. By walking, running, donating or volunteering this year, our supporters are helping to provide much-needed resources to some of San Diego’s most invaluable HIV/AIDS service organizations. A special thank you to our elected and appointed officials who walked with us, including California Assemblymember Toni Atkins, San Diego City Council President Tony Young, Councilmember Todd Gloria, Councilmember Sherri Lightner, Councilmember Carl DeMaio, Councilmember Marti Emerald and Chair of the Board of Port Commissioners Scott Peters, and to our emcee, Matt Johnson of Fox 5.

San Diego Foundation for Change

Recent News

Ford Foundation Grant

• Foundation for Change is pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Ford Foundation to facilitate our work in the San Diego/Tijuana region.  Thanks Ford Foundation!  Learn more email:  andrea@foundation4change.org

Binational Health week

• The 11th annual Binational healthweek happened Oct 2 – 16, and for the second year in a row Foundation for Change was a local co-sponsor for the event. Learn more: http://foundation4change.org/profiles/blogs/f4c-cosponsorsevents

Upcoming

No Ball at All

• (Don’t) Join us in spirit and support at F4C’s No Ball at All – Virtual Gala, now through the end of the month: no jacket and tie, no cocktail dress, no pomp and circumstance, no cash bar.
• Just think what you would have spent on a gala, and instead make this amount your donation to support grassroots efforts for social change. Through our grantmaking and leadership development programs, we empower emerging leaders in San Diego’s most under-served communities.

Learn more:  http://foundation4change.org/page/noballatall

CPEHN & F4C

• Join F4C as we once again serve as the local co-host for this CA  Pan Ethnic Health Network training event: Seizing the Opportunity: Achieving Equity in Health Reform.

Learn more: http://foundation4change.org/events/cpehn

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