Our obligation to immigrant families requires us to use our leadership positions to amplify the visibility of community members, workers and students most impacted by the separation of families, continuing deportations and lack of access to society because of their immigration status. The collective leadership of the immigrant rights movement needs to step back and allow undocumented community leaders to assert themselves as more than just storytellers, as people who can stand and act on their own behalf. We must enable this new wave of community leadership to emerge and lead as we begin to reflect, re-analyze, and shift to new strategies that not only support alternative models but also ensures accountability to a spirit of solidarity with one another. At this pivotal moment, we have to exercise a form of leadership where we co-create the struggle for immigration reform together. If we are to develop a movement that is strong and sustainable, new leadership must emerge, and we must allow it to flourish; we must trust and embrace it.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:45:35 +0000
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