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Migrant Justice, 2007-2009

 File — Box: 2, folders: 4-6
Identifier: Series 2

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The campaigns and projects series contains material produced from 2007 through 2012 for or about various campaigns and projects central to SFPAW's mission. The campaigns and projects are as follows: Bad Hotel (a song and dance flash mob protest held in the lobby of the Westin St. Francis in support of hotel workers); CitiStop, Forced Out, and No on 98 (tenants’ rights campaigns with focuses on rent control, evictions, and gentrification); Migrant Justice, (contains various efforts by the Migrant Justice Working Group regarding the immigrant detention system, an alliance with San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee, No Borders Camp [a resistance gathering at the California/Mexico border to reject borders of all kinds], “Some Thoughts” [a zine created as a companion to the report on meeting with No More Deaths, the Arizona advocacy group that seeks to end the deaths of undocumented immigrants crossing the California/Mexico border]); Undoing Borders Presentation/Tour (a touring presentation on the intersection of queer and immigrant experience; Labor (concerning sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace, a campaign highlighting Alcatraz/Hornblower Cruises and Coors boycotts, and queer and labor activist Howard Wallace); No on Sit/Lie (a resistance to Proposition L, an ordinance that would make it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks in San Francisco); Know Your Rights (guidelines to negotiating LGBT-inclusive contract language and presentation material on gender diversity and transgender inclusion); Occupy (the international movement in opposition to social and economic inequality: SFPAW’s involvement centers on demonstrations against Wells Fargo Company); Trans Healthcare and Prisoner Pen Pal Project (promoting equal healthcare for transgender people, and solidarity with trans prisoners). Materials within the campaigns and projects folders consist of action plans, press releases, notes, flyers, agendas, campaign training scripts, questionnaires, presentation typescripts and supporting materials, original graphics, stencils, poetry and prose for zine, song lyrics, newspaper articles, and ephemera. In addition, there are campaign and projects notes and other documentation within the Meetings folders in Series 2: Admininstrative Materials. There are also posters and signs from individual campaigns within the Posters and Signs folders in Series 3: Artifacts.

Dates

  • 2007-2009

Conditions Governing Access

Folder 4 includes two documents that are restricted and sealed until 2062 to protect personal identifiable information.

Extent

From the Series: 17 folders (Box 2, folders 1-11; Box 3, folders 1-5; Box 4, folder 1)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571