A new year and a new phone number! MIRA’s office line has changed. Our new number is 314-669-1288. Our mailing address at 2725 Clifton, St Louis, MO remains the same.
Archive for December, 2011
MIRA Has a New Number!
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Stop the Minutemen in Springfield!
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011| In just a few short weeks, the voters of Springfield, Missouri will be voting on Question 1, an unconstitutional, expensive, discriminatory initative being sponsored by the Minutemen. If passed, the ordinance would require the City of Springfield to go into the business of checking immigration status, and would force every employer in town to run every single employee through a federal work eligibility background check called “E-Verify.”
Not only is the ordinance being sponsored by an extreme anti-immigrant group interested in passing laws that will encourage discrimination in hiring and racial profiling of immigrants in the community, but it is certain to cost local businesses thousands in new administrive fees, and cost taxpayers thousands more inlegal fees and bureaucracy. What’s worse: a victory in Springfield may encourage anti-immigrant advocates to attempt the same thing in other parts of the state. Voters will head to the polls on February 7. Volunteers in St Louis will be phonebanking on Thursday and Friday evenings thoughout January and the first week of February to ask Springfieldians to VOTE NO on this terrible proposition. Where: SEIU Dialer Center 5585 Pershing Ave
St Louis, MO 63112
When: Thursdays and Fridays in January and February
5:30pm – 8:30pm
For questions, please call Vanessa at 314-644-0466 x15 |
Don’t Let it Happen Here!
Friday, December 16th, 2011It’s hard to believe. Missouri’s legislators won’t return to Jefferson City until January, but 2012′s first anti-immigrant bill has already been filed! If you’ve been following the news from states like Alabama, Georgia, and Arizona you know that anti-immigrant state laws are bad for business, bad for communities, and result in lengthy, taxpayer-funded law suits.
This year, nativist leaders in Missouri and around the country have pledged to make anti-immigrant policies a priority for 2012. But we’re not going to let that happen! Tell your legislator today, that Missourian’s won’t stand for the kind of short-sighted, mean-spirited policies other states have tried.
Click here to send a message to your legislator. Tell them Missouri that instead of passing xenophobic, anti-immigrant legislation like other states, we should work together to make Missouri a more welcoming
It’s Been a Big Year for MIRA – With More to Come!
Monday, December 5th, 2011It’s been a big year for Missouri’s immigration community. Together, we defeated more than a dozen anti-immigrant bills in Jefferson City, we’vebattled the Minutemen in Springfield, and fought anti-immigrant profiling in St Louis. We’ve helped local immigrants file for citizenship, and we have worked hard in everything we do to make Missouri a more welcoming and respectful place.
Our work is far from over. On December 1st, the first anti-immigrant bill of the 2012 legislative session was filed. You’ve been there for us all along, and we need your help again.
And to show how much we appreciate the support you give us, we have a special gift for you! The first 40 people to donate $100 or more, or to become monthly sustainers at $10 per month, will recieve a copy of A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy.
