For learning, we recommend starting here:On Im/migration: Migration Without Borders: essays on the free movement of people. Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire, eds. (2007). Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. By Kelly Lytle Hernández, (2010). At America's Gates, Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era. By Erika Lee (2003). No One Is Illegal: Fighting Violence and State Repression on the US-Mexico Border. By Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis (2006). On Immigrant Experience: We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11. Tram Nguyen and Edwidge Danticat, eds. (2005). American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds. (2006). On California & Turtle Island: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. By Andrea Smith and Winona LaDuke (2005). Savage Dreams: a journey into the landscape wars of the American West. By Rebecca Solnit (1999). The Ohlone Way: Indian life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. By Malcolm Margolin (1978). Free Land Project: http://www.freelandproject.com/ Ariel Luckey’s hip hop theatre show about deeply facing and responding to white-Native history in the American West, including in the Bay. |
Join the movements for native, migrant, & multiracial justice:Support Indigenous Movements:
Sacred Land Film Project: http://www.sacredland.org/ Bay Area Sacred Sites: http://www.shellmoundthemovie.com/ Support Bay Area & National Orgs of Im/migrants: Though not all “immigrant rights” groups, most of these orgs are composed largely of immigrants, as working class access to housing, good working conditions, and safety from the law is largely the domain of recent immigrants and descendants of enslaved Africans—slavery being the great forced migration in this nation. Most paid domestic work in the U.S. is done by immigrants. National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights http://www.nnirr.org/drupal/ *for current campaigns & news archives National Day Laborer Organizing Network http://www.ndlon.org *unifies member organizations to develop and mobilize political leadership by day laborers for civil, labor and human rights. National Domestic Worker Alliance http://www.domesticworkers.org/ *leading the movement for the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and the broader Caring across Generations campaign. Hand In Hand, the Domestic Employers Association http://domesticemployers.org/ *building the movement for Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) http://www.mujeresunidas.net/ *Organization of Latina immigrants in SF, promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice. Black Alliance for a Just Immigration http://www.blackalliance.org/ *Engages African Americans and other communities to actions that challenge U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it. HAVOQ /SF Pride at Work http://www.sfprideatwork.org/ *local “LGBTQ arm of the labor movement,” active at the crossroads of worker, queer, tenant, and immigrant rights campaigns. Causa Justa :: Just Cause http://cjjc.org/ *Building Black-Brown unity in the Bay through grassroots leadership for housing rights, community development, and anti-gentrification. |