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Petitions On Immigrant Justice

The Dane Sanctuary Coalition is gathering signatures on two petitions on immigrant justice – one to President Biden focused on federal issues, and one to WI Legislature leaders Senator Vos and Rep. LeMahieu on statewide issues. 

Please share these petitions with your congregations. You can share the link electronically, or print out the petitions and have them out at worship or other public gatherings and ask people to sign, and then scan and email the completed petitions to danesanctuary@gmail.com.

Please sign on by June 30,  2022.

Read petition to Pres. Biden HERE

Read petition to Senator Vos & Rep. LeMahieu HERE 

Sign Petitions Here!
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May Day 2022 Mass March & Rally Day

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Action Alerts Announcement Events

The New Center for DREAMers

Erin Barbato, director of UW Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, and Erika Rosales, director of the Center for DREAMers, will join us to discuss the new Center for DREAMers in Madison, which will coordinate services for the nearly 7,000 DACA recipients in Wisconsin. They will also give us a brief update on recent immigration policy changes and challenges. Following the presentation, the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Action Team will brainstorm ideas for future educational and action steps. Anyone can join in—we value your ideas and input!

This event is co-sponsored by the Dane Sanctuary Coalition. 

Please register at https://www.tbemadison.org/event/newcenterfordreamers to receive the Zoom link.

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Action Alerts Updates Volunteer Opportunity

Volunteers Needed at Fort McCoy

If you are interested in helping to welcome our Afghan guests by volunteering at Ft. McCoy, you may apply through Catholic Charities of LaCrosse.  Your time, skills and compassionate nature in providing service to our new Afghan neighbors is urgently needed over the next few months.

Catholic Charities of LaCrosse operates:

+ Three Women and Children Centers

+ Two Sewing Centers

+ One Learning Center for children and young adults and supporting six local centers around the base

+ One Legal Center

+ Six indoor Recreational Centers for children and adults.

They are seeking Former Camp Counselors, Retired School Teachers, Physical Education Teachers or Coaches, Social Workers, Compassionate Community Members ….whatever your talent or skill.  You are needed.

https://cclse.org/afghanistan-refugee-assistance/

Reach out to info@cclse.org

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Volunteer Opportunity

Volunteer Drivers Needed

The Dane Sanctuary Coalition’s (DSC) ’s Volunteer Driver Program is looking for volunteers who are occasionally available to provide rides for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.  Rides could be to appointments in Milwaukee or Waukegan with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) or every now and then to Immigration Court in Chicago.  The Program also has provided rides for necessary appointments, such as medical appointments and transfers from the USCIS Detention Center in Juneau, WI to the immigrant’s new home.  Recent drives have included taking a mother from her child’s hospital bedside to her appointment in Milwaukee and driving an asylum seeker just released from detention to a job waiting for him a hundred miles away. On other occasions we have driven immigrants to their naturalization ceremonies.

Training is provided by the DSC, one-on-one either by phone or by Zoom. There is never a requirement to do a particular drive or to do a minimum number of drives. Requests received by the coordinators are sent out to our pool of drivers. Each driver is then free to volunteer for that drive or not.

The only requirements for this important volunteer work are that the driver have a valid driver’s license and up-to-date car insurance. Drivers are asked to provide photocopies of those items via email to the coordinators.

 

If you are interested or for more information, please send an email to Dan or Dorit at danesanctuary@gmail.com

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Action Alerts

Postcards for Citizenship for All

DSC is asking our member congregations, many of whom are not having in-person services due to the pandemic, and our nonprofits to plan an outdoor, socially distanced and masked postcard-signing event in their parking lot or a member’s home driveway, to send special postcards we’ve received from Voces de la Frontera asking our representatives to retain the language setting up a pathway to citizenship for 5 million undocumented immigrants (see categories above) in the Reconciliation Bill in Congress.  We will collect and deliver the signed postcards to the Madison offices of Congressman Mark Pocan and Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson before they vote on the bills at the end of September.


So far Orchard Ridge UCC, Midvale Lutheran, First Baptist Church, Madison Christian Community, and James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation are planning outdoor postcard signing events on Sept. 5, 12 and 19, the last date before we need to receive the signed postcards and hand-deliver them all together to the representatives’ offices in Madison.


To participate, contact Leila Pine from the DSC Steering Committee at sabinosanctuary@gmail.com and send her your name, which congregation or group you belong to, which date(s) you are planning your event on, and how many postcards you need for each representative (20 or more as needed).  She will send you an announcement to submit for your congregation’s weekly e-mail, event instructions, and arrange for you to pick up your postcards in time for your event.  

Phone-Dogging the House and Senate

As the deadlines for budget reconciliation get closer, it’s more important than ever for our communities to pressure our Congresspeople in the House of Representatives and the Senate to include a CLEAN pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants with no provisions that increase funding to the border!


Join us every Wednesday and Friday from 2-3 PM EST/1-2 PM CST/11-12 PM PST to drive calls to select targets. A Zoom link will be provided after you sign up!


Schedule:

8/25: Senate Judiciary Committee
8/27: Homeland Security Committee
9/1: Senate Judiciary Committee
9/3: Homeland Security Committee
9/8: Senate Judiciary Committee
9/10: Homeland Security Committee
9/15 onwards: TBD

 

If this is your first time calling, don’t worry! We will provide you with training and a script to use.

Register to Phone Dog HERE
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