April 7, 2012
In March 2012, We Belong Together brought a delegation of twenty women from across the nation to bear witness and shed light on the impact of Alabama's HB56. The delegates wrote about their hopes and experiences in a Blog Carnival on Moms Rising, a national network of women dedicated to building a more family-friendly America. To read their blogs, click on the links below.
April 6, 2012
Our friends at New America Media produced this video about our recent delegation to Alabama.
March 23, 2012
On Friday, March 23, We Belong Together and New America Media sponsored a national telebriefing about We Belong Together's Women's Human Rights Delegation to Alabama. The telebriefing was recorded and can be downloaded (mp3 format, 24.7MB)
March 23, 2012
Thanks to MomsRising.org for hosting a blog carnival as a virtual part of We Belong Together's recent Women's Human Rights Delegation to Alabama.
March 22, 2012
Together, we are a diverse group of women leaders representing national advocacy communities. We represent faith-based, legal, human rights, worker rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, children advocate and reproductive justice organizations. We have traveled from throughout the country to come together with our sisters here in Birmingham, Alabama – the battleground of the civil rights movement – to bear witness to the impact of the harshest anti-immigrant law in the US – HB56.
In June 2011, a new immigration enforcement law went into effect in the state of Alabama. HB 56 is the harshest copycat version of Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 in the United States. In response to this law, seventeen women leaders from various women, children advocacy, worker rights, immigrant rights, and human rights organizations around the country formed the We Belong Together initiative to Birmingham to bear witness to the impact of these laws on women and children. The delegation heard powerful and moving testimonies from women who have been affected by this draconian law.
November 22, 2011
“Papers Please” Law Harms Women and their Families
On September 29th, while women leaders from around the country traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to draw attention to the harsh impact that HB87, Georgia’s “Paper’s Please” law, has on women and children, the Governor of Alabama signed its own copycat law, HB56. This draconian, anti-immigrant law is the strictest anti-immigrant law in the states and has had immediate, dangerous consequences for families living and working in Alabama.
October 11, 2011
By Maribel Hastings
Senior Advisor, America's Voice
The baby girl was born on October 3, weighing just 5 pounds 15 ounces. But just as she came into the world, her father, a dishwasher in a restaurant, was detained by immigration authorities, possibly to be deported.