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Support GIS Filipino Workers!

by on January 8, 2013

No to modern day slavery!

Support the Filipino migrant workers’ class action against Grand Isle Shipyard

Statement of Support and Solidarity to the Former Migrant Workers against the Grand Isle Shipyard
January 3, 2012

The International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA), a global alliance of more than 100 grassroots migrant organizations and their support groups, stands in strong solidarity with the Filipino migrant workers who are now filing a class suit against the companies Grand Isle Shipyard, Black Elk Energy and DNR Offshore Crewing Services.

IMA Support Statement for GIS Filipino WorkersView the IMA Statement of Solidarity

There will be a unity meeting on Wed,Jan 9th 7:00pm at Bayanihan Center (40-21 69th St. Woodside NY) to discuss this huge campaign. Please send your organization’s representatives.

IMA Statement for International Migrants Day 2012

by on December 19, 2012

December 18, 2012

As we commemorate the 12th year of the International Migrants Day, the International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA) salutes all migrant workers, refugees, displaced peoples and their families as we all contribute to building a movement for the recognition, upholding and protection of our rights and dignity.

In many countries, migrant organizations and unions engage governments of both migrant-­‐ sending and receiving countries to challenge and call for the repeal of anti-­‐migrant policies, to address immediate concerns and campaigns about imperiled migrants, devise alternatives and propositions to resolve forced labor migration.

The world witnessed how our refugee brothers and sisters campaigned against the racist and anti-­‐ refugee laws that the German government recently legislated; how our migrant organizations and their networks and friends successfully pressured the Taiwan government in releasing a migrant victimized by flawed State processes and policies; how we in the IMA and all our allies and friends campaigned for the securing of migrant workers affected by the strife in the Arab world, particularly those in Syria.

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18 de Diciembre 2012

Al conmemorar el 12 º año del Día Internacional del Migrante, la Alianza Internacional de Migrantes (IMA) saluda a todos los trabajadores migrantes, los refugiados, los desplazados y sus familia, asi como todo los que contribuimos a construir un movimiento por el reconocimiento, el respeto y la protección de nuestros derechos y dignidad.

En muchos países, las organizaciones de migrantes y sindicatos comprometidos cuestionamos a los gobiernos, tanto de los países emisores y receptores de migrantes para pedir la derogación de las políticas anti-­‐migrantes, para abordar los problemas inmediatos y las campañas sobre los migrantes en peligro, elaborar alternativas y propuestas para resolver la migración forzada trabajo.

El mundo fue testigo de la lucha de nuestros hermanos refugiados y hermanas en la campaña contra las leyes racistas y anti-­‐refugiados que el gobierno alemán ha legislado recientemente, cómo nuestras organizaciones de migrantes y sus redes de amigos presionaron con éxito al gobierno de Taiwán en la liberación de un migrante víctima de los procesos y politicas estatales deficientes , en la forma en que el IMA y todos nuestros aliados y amigos hicieron campaña para la obtención de los trabajadores migrantes afectados por el conflicto en el mundo árabe, en particular los de Siria.

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IMA Statement for International Migrants Day 2011

by on November 22, 2011

November 21, 2011

Dear friends in the IMA,

Warm solidarity greetings from HK!

As the weather in most of our destination countries grows colder, the issues that confront us especially with the

Here in Hong Kong, the issue of the Right of Abode (permanent residence) for foreign domestic workers remains the hottest item. Most government officials and political parties have used scare tactics and anti-migrant hysteria to create animosity among local people against us. Nonetheless, we respond to such with our continuous efforts and campaigns together with IMA members here and fellow local supporters.

December 18, International Migrants Day. With that, I hope that all of you are now preparing for the upcoming International Migrants Day on December 18. We have less than a month to prepare for this and it will be crucial then for us to coordinate with one another about our respective initiatives and plans for the upcoming occasion.

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Letter From Oaxaca

by on October 26, 2011

David Bacon

The Investigative Fund, a project of The Nation Institute, 10/24/11

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1569/letter_from_oaxaca/

If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. In Oaxaca, 18% of its 3.7 million people have left for other parts of Mexico, and especially for the U.S. Almost half its towns have shrunk, and migration has become part of the daily experience for almost every family.

I just spent three days listening to indigenous people here talk about it, in a unique organization that brings together people from both sides of the border, the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB).

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Occupy Queens Oct 23, 2011

by on October 25, 2011

Occupy Queens

IMA to Declare OCCUPY QUEENS

by on October 22, 2011

PRESS RELEASE

WHAT: IMA LAUNCH TO DECLARE OCCUPY QUEENS IN SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT

WHERE: BAYANIHAN COMMUNITY CENTER
                    40-21 69TH St. Jackson Heights, Queens (#7 to 69th St.)
                    MARCH TO PARK ON 82ND & ROOSEVELT

WHEN: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23rd 5:00PM

THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS ALLIANCE AND OTHER IMMIGRANT & WORKERS RIGHTS GROUPS TO MARCH SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 IN QUEENS IN SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPY WALL STREET

March to proceed the U.S. launching of IMA (International Migrant Alliance)

IMA Event in NYC

by on October 19, 2011

On October 16, the International Migrant Alliance held its first New York City meeting to discuss a campaign to make New York a Deportation Free Zone.

Several immigrant rights organizations including the May 1st Coalition participated in this event. On October 23 the national launching of IMA will take place also in NYC.

Teresa
Julia Fallou