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.
Growing up in downtown Los Angeles in the 1960s & 70s, Alycin remembers having classmates from Japan, Mexico and other countries across the world. At a time when many families were abandoning the city for the outlying suburbs, Alycin’s family stayed put. According to Alycin, her mother wanted to work, live and raise her children in a multicultural community where they would be exposed to neighbors who spoke more than a dozen different languages.
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Campaign for a United America is made up of Americans from all walks of life who are standing up to defend our nation’s historic commitment to the values of unity, equality and opportunity.
Meet the people in your community who are standing up for a united America. From Portland, Oregon to Atlanta, Georgia these united Americans are getting involved and making their voices heard.
Meet the people who are actively working to divide America by inciting fear and intolerance. In towns throughout America, and on the airwaves, these voices present a threat to our national unity.
