Strategy and tactics for immigrant's rights

Strategy and tactics for the immigrant’s rights movement.

http://www.mapa-ca.org/MiscPages/StrategyTactics.pdf
A detailed analysis of the efforts of the May 1 coalition last year, the current situation, and potentials for immigration reform. By Nativo Lopez of MAPA.
Historical note;
MAPA ( the Mexican American Political Association) was created to pressure the Democratic Party to pay attention to Mexican American issues. Currently MAPA and Nativo Lopez are working with the Green Party.

Topics include:
Topics
· How was the immigrant’s rights movement successful in defeating H.R.4437?
· How the Democratic Party struck a compromise, and how the auxiliary organizations divided the movement?
· THE GREAT AMERICAN BOYCOTT
· A divided immigrant’s rights movement
· TODAY WE MARCH, TOMORROW WE VOTE
· REPUBLICAN THUMPING
· THE STATE OF ARIZONA
· Current state of the immigrant’s rights movement
· The Catholic Church
· The labor movement
· The auxiliary organizations
· The home-town associations
· The U.S. business community
· The local immigrant’s rights coalitions
· The Spanish language media
· The right-wing Minutemen
· The national networks - Most of the local and regional coalitions have come together under the umbrella of two national networks - WE ARE AMERICA and the National Alliance for Immigrant’s Rights (NAIR)
· The basic ten points of unity of NAIR
· CURRENT POLITICAL CONDITIONS
· STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE – IMMEDIATE LEGALIZATION
· The balance between legalization and enforcement
· The “guest-worker” program
· “I want to be a bracero” or “Please sanction my employer”
· STRATEGIC ALLIES
· Other strategic considerations
· The feminist movement
· The environmental movement
· The peace movement
· The labor movement
· Other tactical alliances
· Progressive social movements
· The Special Case of Mexico
· The African American community
· South Asian immigrant communities