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Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A., Reports on Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement, No UCLA LABOR CENTER TODAY WE MARCH, TOMORROW WE VOTE: T 5 R Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA REPO Series on LATINO IMMIGRANT CIVIC ENGAGMENT Authors: Gaspar Rivera-Salgado and Veronica Wilson Series Editors: Xóchitl Bada, Jonathan Fox and Andrew Selee Coordinators: Kate Brick and Robert Donnelly www.wilsoncenter.org/migrantparticipation Preferred citation: Rivera-Salgado, Gaspar and Veronica Wilson. Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A., Reports on Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement, No. 5. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, June 2009. © 2009, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Cover image: A man waves a U.S. flag while other marchers look on at a “Day without Immigrants” rally in Los Angeles on May 1, 2006 (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters/Corbis) 1 TODAY WE MARCH, TO TODAY M ORRO W TODAY WE MARCH, WE VO TOMORROW WE VOTE: T E: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A. in L.A. Engagement Civic Latino Migrant Gaspar Rivera-Salgado Project Director Center for Labor Research and Education University of California, Los Angeles Veronica Wilson Project Coordinator Center for Labor Research and Education University of California, Los Angeles TODAY WE MARCH, TOMORROW WE VOTE: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A. 3 TODAY WE MARCH, TO TODAY CONTENTS PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTs 5 INTRODUCTIOn 6 M ORRO CITIZEnsHIP CAMPAIGns: 9 Back-stories and Behind the Scenes of Ya Es Hora ¡Ciudadanía! W WE VO Now’s the Time, Citizenship! T E: GETTING OUT THE VOTE: 22 in L.A. Engagement Civic Latino Migrant Making the Right to Vote an Empowerment Tool for Latino Migrants BINATIONAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: 37 Balancing Acts of Diaspora Politics FINAL REMARKS AND FUTURE DIRECTIOns 47 CONCLUSIOn 57 AppENDIX A 59 Biographical Summaries: Panelists and Moderators AppENDIX B 65 Pre- and Post-Meeting Interview Participants AppENDIX C 66 Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in LA Panel Presentations and Presenters, May 27, 2008 AppENDIX D 67 Ya Es Hora Coalition NOTEs 70 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 71 5 TODAY WE MARCH, TO TODAY PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M ORRO W This report is part of a series on Latin American cities around the United States. This collection WE VO immigrant civic and political participation explores recent trends in Latino immigrant T that looks at nine cities around the United integration in the aftermath of the 2006 im- E: States: Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Fresno, migrant civic mobilizations, highlighting both in L.A. Engagement Civic Latino Migrant CA; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; similarities and differences across diverse cities Omaha, NE; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA; and and sectors. Washington, DC. This report about Latino immigrant par- This series, funded by a grant from the John ticipation in Los Angeles and the meeting that D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, preceded it were made possible by the generous is part of an initiative, based at the Woodrow support of the Institute for Research on Labor Wilson Center, on Latin American immigrant and Employment (IRLE) and the Center for civic and political participation, led by Xóchitl Labor Research and Education, both based Bada of the University of Illinois at Chicago, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jonathan Fox of the University of California, The co-authors of this report, Gaspar Rivera- Santa Cruz, and Andrew Selee at the Woodrow Salgado and Verónica Wilson, would like to Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. Robert thank the support of the participants of the Donnelly is the coordinator of the project, and May 27, 2008, meeting, which brought to- Kate Brick served as coordinator previously. gether a select group of civic leaders and advi- The reports on each city describe the opportu- sors to share their experiences and to discuss nities and barriers that Latino immigrants face main trends in the process of Latin American in participating as civic and political actors in immigrant integration into U.S. society. 6 INTRODUCTION Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in L.A. Engagement Civic Latino Migrant E: Migrants in Los Angeles have long been at the landscape of migrant organizing, underscored T forefront of immigrant civic and political en- elements that pave the way or present obstacles gagement in the U.S. Mass mobilizations in to the naturalization process, and cast a spot- WE VO W 2006 further redefined the role of immigrants light on binational civic engagement. This as audible political actors in broader U.S. so- two-step approach of interviews and a meeting ORRO M ciety. Still, some ask if the shouts and slogans was designed to address the challenge of dis- like “Today we march, tomorrow we vote!” entangling which factors weigh most heavily that rang out from the Wilshire Corridor and in the decision-making process and how that echoed on Capitol Hill have since become a reflection can guide targeted action and educa- murmur in our memories. tional strategies. The UCLA Labor Center hosted a one-day Moreover, the convening was an opportu- TODAY WE MARCH, TO TODAY convening Today We March, Tomorrow We nity to take stock of lessons learned from the Vote: Latino Migrant Civic Engagement in challenges of working to translate the extraor- LA in late May of 2008. This meeting brought dinary civic energy experienced in the marches together a select group of civic leaders and ad- into the nitty-gritty of building representative visors to share experiences and discuss main organizations with staying power, and exercis- trends in the process of Latin American im- ing the right to vote. migrant integration to U.S. society. An over- The convening in Los Angeles is part of a arching objective was to identify trends that larger and broader study of immigrant civic encourage and factors that slow or block im- participation based at the Woodrow Wilson migrants’ direct political participation and en- Center’s Mexico Institute. This larger research gagement in civic life. project entitled “Latin American Migrants: Prior to the meeting, in-depth interviews Civic and Political Participation in a Binational with leaders and advisors of migrant-led or- Context” aims to shed some light on the gen- ganizations, labor organizations and neigh- eral trend of Latino immigrant integration into borhood groups shaped main issue areas for U.S. society. Researchers analyzed civic and po- discussion. Interviews considered the current litical experience of Latino immigrants in cities such as Charlotte, NC; Omaha, NE; Fresno, not to say the least for advocating comprehen- CA; Las Vegas, NV; Chicago, IL; Washington, sive immigration reform. DC; and Los Angeles, CA. The following pages are summaries and ex- Rather than a strict comparative national cerpts from the Los Angeles meeting and from study, this project has focused on a detailed pre- and post-meeting interviews with civic 7 view of places that can serve as base-line ref- leaders (see appendix A for biographical sum- erences such as Chicago, DC and LA, where maries of panelists and moderators and appen- WE MARCH, TO TODAY the experience of Latino immigrants has been dix B for a list of interviews). Scholars from the consistently documented for some time now. University of California, Los Angeles, Loyola Other cities selected for the study provide par- Marymount University, and the University adigmatic cases where regions of the country of California, Santa Cruz moderated meet- have experienced deep transformation due to ing proceedings and structured discussions M the unprecedented influx of Latino immigrants around four main panel presentations: citi- ORRO during the last decade. These are areas where zenship campaigns, getting out the vote, bi- W no new immigration had been experienced for national civic engagement, and a final session WE VO many decades—such as the cases of Charlotte that underscored takeaway messages from the and Omaha. In contrast, cities like Las Vegas day’s discussions (see appendix C for complete T E: and Fresno are cities where there has been de- agenda). After listening to participants’ pre- in L.A. Engagement Civic Latino Migrant mographic shift to a large immigrant popula- sentations, comments and questions, the most tion but with no accompanying political ad- logical way to understand recent political his- justment of more Latino representation exists tory of Los Angeles involving the rising aspi- yet in the local political power structure. rations of Latino immigrants was to dedicate In this context, the civic and political ex- extended space in this report to descriptions perience of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles and explanations by organizers, activists, and cannot be easily generalized. Even for the most migrants themselves. seasoned organizers of local political contests, Instead of abstract analysis, here the idea Los Angeles political inner-workings remain a is to spotlight core activists’ inside views, wis- mystery. Some see an ever-changing political dom, and wish-lists regarding immigrant civic environment where others draw on fixed po- engagement in LA. Contributions from pan- litical references (the political weight of the Los elists and participants illustrate the depth and Angeles County Federation of Labor on local breadth of experience in LA’s community of and state races, for example). Leading into the immigrant civic leaders in Los Angeles. For presidential elections of 2008, civic leaders ad- example, principal players from Univision and vocating for Latino immigrants have had their the National Association of Latino Elected and plates full—opposing factory raids and mass Appointed Officials (NALEO) share behind- deportations, creating new partnerships to the-scenes strategies of an award-winning urge immigrants to become citizens, setting up media campaign of Ya Es Hora ¡Ciudadanía! voter registration booths at naturalization cer- (Now’s the Time for Citizenship!).
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