Category: Hand In Hand

When Trump was elected, our families were worried about the impact that a possible anti-immigrant crackdown could have on our immigrant friends and neighbors, and in particular the Latina women who care for our children at a neighborhood daycare in Washington DC. A small group of parents started talking about how we could let the

Thousands of you brought the DREAM to your Thanksgiving tables last week, inspired by the #SanctuaryHomes toolkit. Thank you so much for spreading the word and for making hundreds of critical phone calls demanding Congress pass a clean DREAM Act by the end of the the year. Congress must be feeling the heat, and our

When our friends at United We Dream asked us to help get as many people as we could to act in solidarity with the DREAMers and their families, we created the Bringing the Dream Home toolkit for people to use over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Why at Thanksgiving? The next three weeks are our best chance to

Demand A Permanent Protection for Undocumented Youth! There is one simple action we all take today.  Call your Representative in Congress and find out where they stand on passing a clean DREAM Act this year.  Share your story and ask them to stand with young immigrants and do what’s right for our communities. Call:  1-844-641-3873

Ever since Trump announced his decision to end the DACA program, which gave legal status to previously undocumented young people who came to this country as children, hundreds of thousands have been living in fear and uncertainty. Young adults who’ve never known another home could be at risk of deportation as soon as spring. We’ve

This week, our senators and representatives have returned from Washington D.C. to their local offices. I bet that they would agree that there’s no place like home. Immigrants move here for freedom and opportunity and make America their home. We oppose any legislation that could tear homes and families apart. We all belong together—families and

We’ve seen a huge response to Eve Ensler’s message about bringing our work for justice from the streets to our homes. Few know more about those two things than Ai-Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Please join Ai-Jen Poo and Hand in Hand for a special webinar, focused on how we bring

Our Sanctuary Homes campaign is part of a broader movement for a new kind of sanctuary that protects people and communities who are under attack by the current administration — this includes communities of color and immigrants, DACA recipients and their parents. Thousands of you have downloaded resources, joined community calls, workshops, and marches, and

In less than 24 hours, thirty-nine of you joined us in fasting last week. And many more took their first steps in the Sanctuary Homes campaign. We skipped lunch and hopped on a community phone call, where we had the privilege of being joined by Jeanette Vizguerra, an NDWA member leader who took sanctuary for

To you, it might seem painfully obvious that you oppose the administration’s hateful attacks on immigrants and so many other groups … but if a nanny, house cleaner, or home attendant works in your home, are you sure that they know? A nanny told us this week, “Most of us will never bring up politics—we don’t