Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project MISSION IJSP is an NYC based, all-volunteer collective that works in solidarity with directly-affected communities fighting local manifestations of imperialism. It is our belief that communities directly impacted by conditions of imperialism must be at the forefront of this social justice movement. IJSP’s structure reflects this by primarily supporting the leadership of low-income, people of color/immigrant grassroots anti-imperialist CBO’s. In particular, we provide strategic organizational and movement support to 2 groups, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) & Domestic Workers United (DWU), as well as two city wide coalition, Immigrant Communities in Action and the People's Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability, where our focus is around legalization, just labor law and halting the criminalization of immigrant populations. IJSP is an ally organization made up of less-affected members whose efforts form a model for sustainable, anti-oppression, anti-imperialist activism. As less-affected individuals, we see our role as shaped by the needs of the directly-affected communities with whom we work. We maintain a vision around ally involvement, prioritizing accountability & community building among ourselves in hopes to strengthen and grow this movement for collective liberation. IJSP HISTORY IJSP formally began in Fall 2001 – then known as the Detention Working Group of the Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI-Dets) - through our involvement with the “Stop the Disappearance Campaign” (STDC). STDC fought for an end to the violent policing of borders through our support of NYC area immigrant detainees in the post-9/11 era. We have continued this work by acting as an ally of Desis Resis Up and Moving (DRUM), an organization that was also part of STDC. In 2006, our work has moved away from supporting anti-detention / deportation work, and has broadened to focus on campaigns promoting radical immigration reform (legalization), and fair labor standards for domestic workers (the majority of whom are immigrants in NYC). Regeneración Childcare NYC MISSION Regeneración Childcare NYC is a network of awesome childcare volunteers who participate in child-raising as a form of resistance that builds radical communities and relationships. We provide childcare at organizational meetings, events, and in collaboration with community-based childcare collectives and cooperatives in order to facilitate the participation of low-income families of color in building movements for collective liberation. Our partner organizations are those whose visions inspire us. (Full Vision: http://www.childcarenyc.org/node/1) HISTORY Officially formed at the end of 2005, Regeneración was inspired by radical women of color organizing happening throughout New York City. It was at this time that organizers volunteering to provide childcare at Pachamama: The Bushwick Childcare Cooperative and as part of the La Casita Project of Critical Resistance NYC convened folks to form a network that would partner with radical low-income women of color organizations throughout the city. Some of our initial goals were to provide much needed solidarity, build horizontal relationships of trust and respect between organizers of different backgrounds, and to facilitate intergenerational movement building. Our work has since grown to include organizing projects that are not directly women of color focused and we seek to work with queer parents of color as well. Some of the groups we consistently partner with are Pachamama, Sisterfire, Center for Immigrant Families, Families for Freedom, and Domestic Workers United. (Full History: http://www.childcarenyc.org/node/4)