On Thursday night, hundreds of thousands gathered across the country in living rooms, over laptops, and in front of televisions waiting for and anticipating executive action on immigration from President Obama. Together we held our breath, we held hands, and…
MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release:
Clayton County Sheriff Rejects Unconstitutional Federal Deportation Quota Effort
as Immigrant Rights Groups Plan to Rally for Executive Action
The Georgia #Not1More Deportation Coalition and member groups are celebrating a new policy at the Clayton…
Check out SONG member Barbra Perez’s interview with Fusion about how transgender detainees are treated in immigration detention. You can check out the six-month investigative report Fusion did at http://interactive.fusion.net/trans/ where they found that 1 out of every 5 survivors…
http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/11105
September 15th 2014
After vowing in June that he would take executive action “before the end of the summer” to stop the senseless and inhumane rate of deportations under his administration, President Obama broke his promise this Saturday and…
The daily targeting of undocumented immigrants has not gone without resistance from our communities locally, regionally, and nationally. We have worked on individual deportation cases, shutdown Immigration and Custom Enforcements (ICE) detention centers, taken direct action on Congressional offices, and…
The criminalization of LGBTQ people comes in many forms. One form is the profiling, harassment, and arrests of undocumented immigrants. In places all around the South, if you go to the store for groceries and run a stop sign you…
Dear SONG members and supporters:
This work is hard. Even though we know our members and our people are the reason for the work and the solution to our problems, on a hard day the best of us can be…
For decades the LGBTQ community has been punished for the core “crime” of existing and surviving in our genders and sexualities. Despite harsh legislation and social stigma, we built a LGBTQ liberation movement to protect ourselves, to survive and claim…
President Announces Executive Action on Immigration. Our Continued Demand?
Act NOW to Implement Broadest Relief Possible!
After months of direct actions, town hall meetings, shutting down ICE offices, signing petitions, educating elected officials, and challenging ICE’s hold on local jurisdictions, the…
From Stonewall to 2014
Today marks the eve of the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rebellion and riots. Forty-five years ago, LGBTQ people in New York City, led by trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera,…
