Indivisibles,

Join us for the next installment of our [ [link removed] ]Solidarity In Action speaker
series on Monday, August 18 with special guest Cristina Jiménez.

[ [link removed] ]Advancing Our Values Solidarity in Action: Building Partnerships and
Coalitions on Monday, August 18 at 7pm ET

We can’t do this work alone; it takes a village to move mountains, but how
do you create that village? Cristina Jiménez is an expert in building,
managing, and sustaining effective coalitions. Bringing her whole self to
the work, Cristina’s journey from undocumented newcomer to Co-Founder and
former Executive Director of United We Dream (the largest immigrant
youth-led organization in the country) is a testimony to what we can do
when we learn how to work together to effect change. This session will
focus on what it means to build and sustain the partnerships we need in
order to fight back against authoritarianism.

To get a head start on this event, you can read Cristina’s story in her
book [ [link removed] ]Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real
Change. 

Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding
her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who
inspired the world and changed the lives of millions.

Cristina Jiménez’s family fought to stay afloat as Ecuador fell into a
political and economic crisis. When she was thirteen, her family came to
the US seeking a better life, landing in an overcrowded one-bedroom
apartment in Queens, New York. She lived in fear of deportation and
ashamed of being undocumented, but eventually, Cristina discovered she was
not alone. She made it into college when students and advocates won a
change in the law, allowing undocumented students to access higher
education. She was proud to be the first one in her family to go to
college, but she felt out of place until she met professors and student
activists who opened a new world where she found her calling within a
community of social justice organizers.

With deep candor and humor, Cristina shows us what it’s like to grow up
undocumented and the reality that being a “good” immigrant doesn’t shield
you from systemic racism, danger -- or even the confusion of falling in
love. She invites us to acknowledge the America that never was and to
imagine the America that could be when everyday people come together,
build power, and fight for change, even when the world around us seems to
be crumbling.

[ [link removed] ]Register here >>

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Advancing Our Values -- Solidarity in Action Training Series

Monday will be the third installment in our speaker series bringing
together Indivisibles from across the country to learn from experts on
systemic change and allyship. Authoritarianism succeeds when it targets
vulnerable populations and everyone turns aside. We will not look away.
With this speaker series, we’re going to learn how to better support
impacted communities from experts in the field. 

Here’s a preview of some of what’s to come:

* [ [link removed] ]Creating Mutual Aid/Community Response Teams (Part 1), with
Stephanie Rearick -- September 15 at 7:00 pm ET/4pm PT
* [ [link removed] ]Creating Mutual Aid/Community Response Teams (Part 2), with
Stephanie Rearick -- September 29 at 7:00 pm ET/4pm PT
* [ [link removed] ]Understanding Systemic Oppression and Privilege, with Tim Wise --
October 21 at 7:00 pm ET/4pm PT

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Every day, it becomes more urgent for us to build the sort of wide-ranging
community and coalitions that keep people safe. Power is a numbers game.
If we can join together, there is nothing we can’t accomplish and no one
we can’t keep safe. [ [link removed] ]Join our Solidarity in Action speaker series for
Building Partnerships and Coalitions with Cristina Jiménez Monday, August
18 to learn how.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

P.S. Once we have learned about Cristina’s vision for building coalitions,
we have to process that vision and make a plan for how we can take that
knowledge and implement it in our daily work. [ [link removed] ]Join our Building
Coalitions Learning Lab on Monday, August 25 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for an
interactive training on how we’ll form and sustain community-rooted
partnerships in our own work.

[ [link removed] ]Register here >>

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