Advocacy Email: Have you bought your tamales yet? Support our efforts to protect the #GALatinoVote! Then, join us for the Holiday Social on 12/15!
December 2, 2014
Advocacy Alert
We hope that you and your family had a restful and happy Thanksgiving holiday! Traditionally, after Thanksgiving, marks the start of the Holiday Season. In the Mexican traditions for the holidays, TAMALES are a big part of family gatherings. We do hope you will take the time to purchase some tamales this season for your family or to give as gifts in order to support our efforts to defend the #GALatinoVote against electoral processes that dilute our strength in selecting candidates of choice. Your contribution goes a long way and contributing to a good cause never has tasted so GOOD! Tamale orders need to be done by Monday, December 8th. Then, we also hope that you will join us for the Holiday Social on Monday, Dec. 15th!
After President Obama #ImmigrationAction, we need to make sure people have the information they need to make informed decisions and to be ready. Below, we have compiled some resources and information to be shared to those impacted.
Also, there is a reaction from the GA Senate on the President’s immigration action. Please see below. Let’s get ready for engagement at the GA Legislature to defeat any anti-immigrant initiatives.
Have you visited our new website re-design? Please check it out and let us know your thoughts! Visit www.GALEO.org! You can also share any of our posting directly from our website to social media.
Stay more engaged and connected at www.facebook.com/GALEO.org. Updates are posted daily on what is happening regarding immigration.
Orale! Our work together builds towards greater respect for our community & better inclusion of Latinos in Georgia!
Thank you!
Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO
www.facebook.com/JerryGonzalezGALEO
Join us at the GALEO Holiday Social on Monday, December 15th!
Donating to a good cause never tasted so good! Please join us for the 2014 GALEO Holiday Social and our “Tamales for Justice” fundrai ser. Your donation helps us get ready for the protection of Latino voting rights in our state. Currently, we are looking at the at-large voting systems in both Gainesville and Dalton. We believe that these voting systems dilute the Latino community’s ability to elect candidates of choice and may likely be in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Your donation will help support our efforts in these matters.
We do hope you will join us on Monday, December 15th for our GALEO Holiday Social. Donation to attend is $50 per person or $25 for students. Tamales are $35 per dozen.
To RSVP and register your donation to attend the social, please click here.
To purchase tamales, please follow this link.
Date/Time: Monday, December 15, 2014, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: DelCampo Weber & Grayson, LLC, Dunwoody Farm House, 5455 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30338.
If you cannot attend or would like to purchase tamales, you can still donate to the Latino Voter Defense Fund here.
Resources on President Obama’s immigration action. Please share.
Two new websites where you can find more resources are www.adminrelief.org and www.iAmerica.org.
The Immigration Policy Center also has this resource page on #ImmigrationAction. Please share with others:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/executive-action-immigration-resource-page
Federal government information in Spanish:
http://www.uscis.gov/es/accionmigratoria
Resource from United We DREAM on 5 tips to get ready:
http://unitedwedream.org/4-things-can-now-prepare-presidents-announcement-immigration/
Recruitment has started for the GALEO Institute for Leadership Class of 2015
Applications are now available! For more information, please visit this link:
http://2014old.galeo.org/leadership/gil/
To see the full advocacy email, please click here.