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Coming to California
This year, SOL is expanding the "Coming to California" workshop that has proven effective navigating public opinion and building support for immigration reform among a diverse racial and ethnic membership.
Facing Challenges
Increased undocumented immigration is a worrisome issue for low and moderate-income people, regardless of race and ethnicity. Yet these same people hold immigrants in high regard because they are seen as hard working, family oriented, and people of faith.
Seizing Opportunities
We believe we can build support for immigration reform if non-immigrants can see their own lives through the lives of their immigrant neighbors and co-workers. The workshop will develop articulate spokespeople who then can become the face and voice for immigration reform and other reforms to make life better for everyone.
The Power of Personal Stories
The workshop is built around each participant telling the stories of their family coming to the Golden State, whether they came 3 months or three generations ago, whether they came from Michoacan, Mexico or Detroit, Michigan. The participant's personal stories, and the commonly held values behind them, will be the building blocks for participants' conversations with the media, neighbors, and co-workers on immigration and other issues.
In the workshop, participants will review the public's concerns about increased undocumented immigration. Participants will then determine how to best address these concerns, through tighter border security alone, or through wider progressive economic reforms. The workshop is intended to compliment trainings that organizations are already doing on current reform proposals.
Learn why SOL activists and supporters first came to California.
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