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Building immigrant & refugee power in WA State. Estamos creando poder en nuestra comunidad inmigrante en el estado de Washington. ✊🏾 Reposts are not endorsements
Join us for a virtual community session on how the WA state legislative process works and how you can advocate for immigrant justice. Learn ways to uplift policy priorities and get ready for Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day 2026. #WALeg
🔗 RSVP now at bit.ly/monthlyadvocacy
2/2 Ahead of IRAD 2026, we’re raising $200,000 to fund transportation, prayer spaces, lactation rooms, interpretation, and care teams so every leader can show up and be heard.
Consider donating $26 for IRAD 2026 and help make advocacy possible for all.
🔗 bit.ly/iradsupport
Flyer that has a blue green gradient background and Washington immigrant solidarity network white logo with to hands and arms embracing. With a headline that says : Every Donation to IRAD is a step towards immigrant justice. Your donation makes Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day (IRAD) possible. Every dollar helps cover rides, prayer spaces, lactation rooms, interpretation, and care teams—so every leader can show up and be heard. Donate $26 for IRAD 2026 bit.ly/iradsupport Below a photo of people in a rally with signs.
1/2 Each year, hundreds of immigrants, refugees, and allies from Vancouver to Spokane travel to Olympia for Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day (IRAD) — meeting with legislators to demand healthcare access, fair benefits, and the right to live with dignity.
#IRAD2026 #ImmigrantJustice #WAISN
2/2 Hear from alumni on how care-driven giving supports immigrant communities and can redistribute wealth, sustain deportation defense, and build lasting change across Washington.
🔗 tinyurl.com/tcgpinfosession1
#WAISN #ThirivingCommunities #Fundraising
Flyer with peach color background and various fruit trees and plants and opaque butterflies in the background. The flyer reads: Thriving Communities Giving Program Info Session. Nov 13 & 18, 2025 7 PM PT | LinkedIn Live sign up tinyurl.com/tcgpinfosession1 Empower immigrant communities through giving rooted in care and solidarity. Learn how collective giving can redistribute wealth and build lasting change across Washington .
1/2 How can your giving fuel immigrant-led movements that center care, solidarity, & a just, interconnected future for all? Join WAISN’s Thriving Communities Giving Program Info Sessions on Nov 13 & 18 @ 7 PM (LinkedIn Live).
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Become an #Accompaniment Volunteer! Stand with immigrants as they navigate court appointments and learn how immigration systems impact our communities.
📅 Wed, Nov 12, 2025 | 6 PM PST
📍 Virtual (in English)
🔗 tinyurl.com/Accompaniment-Nov2025
No one should face the system alone.
#WAISN
Visit our Instagram and Facebook for Spanish, French, Vietnamese and Portuguese versions of this announcement!
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Mark your calendar for WAISN’s 9th Annual IRAD on Jan. 22, 2026! Join us in Olympia to advocate for policies that reflect the dignity and needs of immigrant and refugee communities.
🌟 Donate to make this IRAD the most significant and most impactful in WAISN’s history: bit.ly/iradsupport
Thanks to Charlie's Queer Books and everyone involved in the Pages Without Borders book drive. Storytelling builds care, courage, and collective power—each purchase promotes immigrant justice. Let's continue to create a world where every story thrives and every voice is heard.
#WAISN #BookDrive
An overlay collage of blue screened butterflies, a woman with a hijab holding a baby, a farmer with a face mask tending to grapes, two food vendors and an apple tree branched with the words National Immigrants Day, Moved by hope. Grounded in Dignity and courage. The world grows bright through the lives of immigrants reads in the foreground.
Today is #NationalImmigrantsDay
Immigrants from every continent have carried courage, language, and love across borders—shaping Washington and the world.
To migrate is to believe in life, dignity, and the right to safety.
#NationalImmigrantsDay #ImmigrantJustice #WAISN
WAISN unequivocally rejects any calls to action rooted in violence. Our work is about protecting our communities, not putting them at further risk. Please help us protect our community by sharing accurate information and standing firmly in collective care and justice. #WAISN
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A flyer outlining your rights in immigration court.
Our WAISN Rapid Response teams have confirmed numerous detainments by immigration enforcement at immigration court appointments in Seattle since 5/20/2025. Remember, we have rights.
For this printable flyer in Eng and Span, and more Know Your Rights Information, visit: waisn.org/public-resou...
3/3 All proceeds benefit WAISN’s Fair Fight Bond Fund, helping immigrants across Washington reclaim their freedom and reunite with their families.
💸 Suggested donation: $100+
🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/Oct-22-WAISN
#ImmigrantJustice #LaborSolidarity #WAISN
2/3 We’ll screen two short films — The Farm Worker Movement and Second Heaven — followed by a discussion with leaders from WAISN, Casa Latina, and UFW on building solidarity across immigrant and labor movements.
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Flyer with the title words Short Film Series For The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network. Below is a film clip of men of chanting and raising their hands up in the hair. The details of the event read "Wednesday Oct 22 7:00pm @ The Beacon Cinema 4405 Rainer Ave S, Tinyurl.com/OCT-22-WAISN. Join WA YELL and labor allies for a film screening fundraiser for the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN). This gathering will feature two short films and discussion from migrant justice leaders."
1/1 Join WAISN and WA YELL (Washington Young Emerging Labor Leaders) on 10/22 for a film screening and fundraiser that uplifts immigrant justice and worker power.
📅 Wed, Oct 22 | 7 PM
📍 The Beacon Cinema, Seattle
3/3 Add these books to your shelf and support a powerful cause.
From now until Oct. 15, 10% of sales from our curated list of queer, immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking authors go directly to WAISN—fueling immigrant justice across WA.
Browse & shop: 🔗 bit.ly/WAISNQueerBooks
2/3 Hafizah Augustus Geter’s Un-American — a debut collection of poems on family, citizenship, queerness, and migration.
Dan Taulapapa McMullin’s Coconut Milk — that explores love, identity, and the resilience of Pacific Islanders amid colonialism and cultural appropriation.
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1/3 This week’s Pages Without Borders spotlight shines on poets whose words carry migration, identity, and memory into verse.
#WAISN #PagesWithoutBorders #BookDrive
2/2 You are not alone. You are capable, resilient, and deeply worthy of love and care.
By taking care of yourself, you create space to rise even higher—and together, we rise as a community. 💚
1/2 Pause. Breathe. Remember that as immigrants and refugees, we deserve to exist beyond survival. We are here to laugh, cry, and, most importantly, thrive.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
WAISN unequivocally rejects any calls to action rooted in violence. Our work is about protecting our communities, not putting them at further risk. Please help us protect our community by sharing accurate information and standing firmly in collective care and justice. #WAISN
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4/4 From now until Oct. 15, 10% of sales from our curated booklist go directly to WAISN—fueling immigrant justice across WA. Support deportation defense in WA and stack your bookshelf.
Browse the full list & shop now: 🔗 bit.ly/WAISNQueerBooks
3/3 Saara El-Arifi’s Faebound and The Final Strife are epic fantasy tales where exiled sisters and defiant young women navigate fae courts and divided empires, sparking battles of loyalty, survival, resistance, and love.
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2/3 Malinda Lo’s Ash and Huntress are sapphic fantasy tales that reimagine Cinderella and follow young women on perilous journeys where love, magic, and choice shape their destinies.
1/3 This week’s featured genre in our partnered fundraiser with @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social is Speculative Fiction / Fantasy / Sci-Fi—genres that imagine new worlds while centering queer identities and struggles.
#WAISN #PagesWithoutBorders #BookDrive
3/3 Take action by creating an Emergency Preparedness Plan with the WAISN Resource Finder—a community-driven database of vetted resources for immigrant and refugee communities in Washington State.
🔗 resources.waisn.org
2/3 Across Washington, immigrant families live with the trauma of possibly being torn from their children during an emergency. But we are not powerless. Together, we can prepare and protect our loved ones.
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1/3 September is #NationalPreparednessMonth. For many immigrant and mixed-status families, preparedness goes beyond storms and wildfires. It also means confronting barriers like language access gaps, exclusion from aid, deportation, and the threat of family separation.
#WAISN #ResourceFinder
3/3 Support deportation defense in WA and stack your bookshelf.
Browse the full list & shop now: 🔗 bit.ly/WAISNQueerBooks
2/3 This week’s genre spotlight: Memoir & Nonfiction
Somewhere We Are Human, co-edited by Sonia Guiñansaca, an anthology that centers the voices of undocumented and formerly undocumented migrants, and Edafe Okporo’s Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto details fleeing Nigeria as a gay man.
