The Campaign for a United America (CUA) is now coming to a close. For the last year and a half, Center for New Community through the work of CUA has built substantial relationships with institutions, organizations and individuals around the country and has served as the impetus for national civil and human rights groups to begin educating the public on the racism within the anti-immigrant movement.
CUA promoted dialogue respectful to the contributions of all community members, including our immigrant friends and neighbors, and stood with the majority of Americans who find themselves alarmed by the increasingly scornful actions and hateful rhetoric of the anti-immigrant movement's intolerant agenda. We built relationships around the country with those willing to take a stand and educate others in their communities about the bigotry propagated by nativist groups. Together we changed public discourse around immigration and increased awareness by news media about anti-immigrant extremists like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Center for Immigration Studies, and NumbersUSA.
Now it is time to move forward in the course and scope of our work. Center for New Community has launched a new campaign to counter the anti-immigrant movement through direct action and micro-targeting. We continue our work on the Which Way Forward Initiative, bringing together black leaders to dialogue on immigration, and also the CUA Hip-Hop Project is going strong in Arizona. For more information please http://www.myspace.com/campaignforunitedamerica.
This website will now become static but we hope the public will continue to find the information useful. Thank you to all who have made the Campaign for a United America such a huge success! We appreciate your dedication, collaboration, and support and look forward to working with you in the future.
Melissa Ross
Director, Campaign for a United America
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 George NaylorChurdan, IAGeorge Naylor makes his living growing and harvesting corn and soybeans on his family farm in Churdan, Iowa. He doesn’t use migrant labor. He doesn’t need to. But he has a lot of empathy for migrant laborers. In his eyes, American family farmers and immigrants — many of whom were forced off their own farms in rural Mexico — have something in common: both are victims of poor governance. |
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