to see themselves in rooms of power. Fellows engaged directly with their legislators, discussed key bills, and gained a deeper understanding of the legislative process.
We look forward to making this an annual tradition! ✨️ (2/2)
Last month, 15 CLI & VCLI fellows and alumni from Snohomish, King, Pierce and Clark counties organized an Olympia Day of hands-on legislative advocacy and learning. A heartfelt thank you to Senator Rebecca Saldaña for hosting us, sharing her wisdom, and creating space for our emerging leaders (1/2)
上周二是大年初八，来自唐人街国际区的老少共聚在庆喜公园呼吁建立无移民执法局（ICE）社区，保障社区的宁静和安全。志愿者准备了超过一百封载有糖果和移民权益资讯的红卡为街坊和游客送上象徵甜蜜平安的祝福，同时，志愿者也在社区内张贴了不同语言的海报，并向商户、居民和工人派发及讲解他们万一遇到移民执法局执法时的权利和不合作约章。 (3/3)
carrying with good wishes of sweetness and safety. Posters were posted in the CID. Volunteers also reached out to businesses, workers and residents to explain the non-cooperation pledge against ICE. #老少平安 #Next100Years #intergenerationalsolidarity #ICEFreeZone #CIDSeattle (2/3)
Last Tuesday, we marked the 8th day of the year of the Fire Horse 大年初八with the elders and the youngsters from the CID, gathering at Hing Hay Park to call for an ICE Free Zone. To celebrate the festive moments with their neighbors, over 100 red packets with candies and red cards were given out (1/3)
Sign the petition today at bit.ly/protect-heal ➡️ Tell your legislator to defend the HEAL Act and not balance the budget off the backs of frontline communities that are already facing federal and state cuts to critical social services!
THIS SUNDAY Jan 25, 11AM at Byrd Barr Place : Attend a Canvassing 101 training and learn how you can canvas in your own neighborhood to say ICE is not welcome. Afterwards, we will go out and start canvassing in our own neighborhoods at 12PM.
For more information, contact: (206) 890-4422
a 12-week training fellowship program that equips emerging immigrant and BIPOC leaders in Snohomish County, WA with the skills and confidence to become effective policy advocates and transformative community leaders.
Applications are open until Jan 26. Go to immigrantguide.org for more information
This year we're partnering with Immigrant Guide for the Community Advocacy and Leadership Academy (CALA) 1/2
Friday Oct 31 at 4pm! 🎃 This Halloween, experience spine-chilling thrills with our guided Ghost Stories Tour in the historic CID. Get to know our neighbors, dead and alive! 👻 Learn about the stories that have shaped the past 100 years and imagine our #Next100Years! RSVP ➡️ bit.ly/CID-Ghosts
Please Join us for the Rooted in Place: King County Candidate Forum on Friday October 24th, 3-5pm
Invited Candidates: Claudia Balducci (Executive), Girmay Zahilay (Executive), Steven Kwon (5th District), Steffanie Fain (5th District)
Register here: bit.ly/seatac-forum
They will discuss how community leaders, local government and academia can use joy and storytelling to build relationships and actualize climate resilience strategies. Learn more about the upcoming One Seattle Climate Action Plan Update, including how you can get involved! RSVP townhallseattle.org
Join Town Hall Seattle, Juneau Street Resilience Pod, and the City of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment for an evening with climate justice leaders who are reimagining our climate future in Seattle and beyond. Sage's Climate Policy Manager Debolina Banerjee will also be on the panel
Thursday 9/25 at 4pm! Join the aunties of the Chinatown-International District as they take you through a tour of the neighborhood, hear their visions of growing the CID for the #Next100Years for families, workers and community, and why they chose North/South as the best option for the new station
This Saturday we're celebrating TEN YEARS with fellows from the past, present, and future! Our Community, Our Shine: A CLI 10th Anniversary Celebration will honor the leadership of those who have graduated from the CLI over the past decade.
RSVP at bit.ly/cli10th
(3/3) and to build the 60,000 units of NEW affordable housing we need over the next 20 years.
Talking Points for Public Comment on Friday areprovided by our friends at Interim CDA: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
address many of our communities needs, it does address some important aspects of Equitable Development and Environmental Justice that deserve our communities support. We demand that the city council do better to truly fight displacement in all of our communities (2/3)
If we aren't planning for our community, someone else is. This is the last public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan and our City Council needs to do better on anti-displacement. On Friday, the City Council will decide on over 100 amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. While this plan does not (1/3)
Please join Friends of Little Saigon Friday September 5th and Saturday September 6th for a community painting event to brighten up the Lane St Stairway in Little Saigon!
Sign-up here www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BAE...
and the advisory board has been appointed! We're ready to make sure the King County EDI has dedicated funding to support community development projects in years to come. Also big appreciations to Senator Saldaña and Councilmembers Dembowski, Mosqueda, and Baron for celebrating and supporting EDI!
Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us last week on the launch of the King County Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), a huge victory for our coalition!!
After three years of organizing, we won initial funding, got a bill in Olympia passed paving the way for future funding, (1/2)
We will likely see even more aggression by Trump and ICE against immigrant communities in the coming months. Who, how, and why we push back matters for our human rights and local democracy.
Read the full statement in our blog
We call on the city mayors, public prosecutors, county executives and the Governor to fulfill their promises to not aid and abet ICE or military troops enforcing ICE actions. Protecting our immigrant communities involves more than non-support of ICE – it requires proactive strategies.
in blatant defiance of an existing court order issued by a federal judge. Per the judges order, the plane was diverted and Tuan and others now currently being held in Djibouti in a shipping container, shackled by their feet under U.S. custody. This is cruel and inhumane.
As the Trump administration continues to wield unprecedented and egregious attacks on our immigrant communities, Governor Ferguson must take bold action and stop our cooperate with ICE. On May 20th, Tuan and seven others were put on a plane to South Sudan in an attempted "third country" deportation,
We are encouraging individuals to sign on to demand that Governor Ferguson stand up against the Trump Administrations attacks on immigrant communities by 1) Pardoning Tuan and 2) Stopping the collaboration between DOC and ICE.
Sign the letter at: tinyurl.com/BringTuanHome
Sage staff supporting Fred Meyer and QFC workers across the region for better wages, better staffing, and better stores, during last week's @ufcw3000.bsky.social action!
Join us at Uncle Bob's Place (417 8th Ave S) on Fri Mar 14 9:30 am OR Thurs Mar 27 6pm for an Immigrant Know Your Rights Session!
The session is free and open to the public, food and drinks will be served! If you need language interpretation, please register using the QR code or link
Supporting our partners at UFCW 3000 and the REI Union in rejecting REI's corporate slate of candidates in the upcoming board elections! If you are an REI member, you can support by voting NO at ourrei.com
