Defend Immigrant Rights at the Convention: Sign One More Resolution

 
Alexander Hernandez and I ( Duane Campbell) urge you to sign the resolution to establish Immigrants Rights as a priority in DSA.
 
The resolution on the Defense of Immigrants and Refugees was written by members of the national Immigrants' Rights Working Group. This resolution reaffirms our commitment to building with working-class communities of color currently outside of DSA. The proposal is intended to prioritize this crucial work with action and calls for a modest budgetary allocation. 
 
Delegates to DSA’s 2017, 2019, 2021 conventions voted to make the defense of immigrants and refugees a priority, but since the Immigrants’ Rights Working Group peak in March 2022 with 1,003 members, at least 31 chapters having a formal immigrants rights group and 50 others interested in forming one, the work has been neglected by a lack of attention from the NPC and a lack of resources. 
 
The North Star Caucus endorsed and supported the Immigrants Rights Resolutions in 2019 and 2021. While the conventions supported these efforts, there has not been significant national support.  In 2021 the IMWG was subject to significant disruption, explained here.
 
https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/defending-immigrants-and-opposing-the-authoritarian-enemy-with-or-without-dsa
 
Now, a restructured IMWG is working to renew this work.  This proposal calls for support of this pro immigrant agenda and we again ask for North Star’s support. 
 
The proposal also calls for “immigrants and their communities to lead this struggle and determine its tactics.” A key component for this work is the sensitivity of organizing in immigrant and undocumented people’s communities. And that sometimes means our role is not in the spotlight and that sensitivity migrants in the United States under the current legal framework are disenfranchised from basic legal protections. This is reflected across the immigrants rights movement in legislative battles and nonviolent action. 
 
This work, centering the communities impacted means DSA is not always the visible partner; and until the makeup of our base changes, we should not be expected to be leading, but continue to prioritize relationship building and learning to listen to members of  these communities. The relationship and trust building between movement bases takes time, showing up and listening is just the start.
 
Please sign the resolution here.  And, share it with your DSA friends.
 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jxNfyUny_IY2NeE5YyQ2k-SwyMl2Tfq1aQT8TWOkgE/edit
 
 
 
We also support the following resolutions.
 

• Unite Against the Ultra Right: https://tinyurl.com/dsa23UR
• On the Defense of Immigrants and Refugees: https://forms.gle/mjT8X8SEAtt4VUkd8  
• Big Tent amendment: https://tinyurl.com/dsa23BT

 
 
Thank you for your consideration.
 
Alexander Hernandez,  
Duane Campbell 
 
Also, in Celebration of Cesar Chavez Day in some elevent states, see this.from our blog.
 
https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/cesar-chavez-dolores-huerta-and-strategic-racism