Text Box: About the Immigrant And Workers Union Text Box: The Immigrant Workers & Union is a grassroots organization focused in Immigrant and Worker Rights Advocacy in the area of Dane County area. We founded our organization on the wave of the massive movement of Spring’06, when millions of immigrants workers rallied in the streets to stop successfully one of the worse anti-immigration legislation in history. Today, IWU is way more than a pro immigrant organization, it is a consolidated advocate and grassroots organization that aims in collaboration with other organizations to advance the social agenda in Dane County, specially for improving the living, education, housing and working conditions of low income working families. How we do it? We base our strategy on the very principle that real change can only come from the massive participation of people from below. And we do it through Informing-Organizing-Acting About It method: Informing: Spreading information within the community about our rights, pressing issues and denouncing injustices. We collaborate with local newspapers, TV stations, Radios, and creating our own tools of information: newsletters, mailing, website and so on. Organizing: Creating and supporting committees and organizations of the people affected by issues and their allies . Acting about it, organizing all kind of actions and events like education panels, vigils, rallies, lobbing, press statements, etc. Some of our current work areas: Black Latino Project Immigration Reform Stop Deportations from Dane Jail Workers Rights Information. UTI Youth Program Parent Leadership Program Community Advocacy Text Box: About Black Latino Unity Project Text Box: We work to build multiracial spaces with a level of respect that values our individual historical and cultural journeys and responds authentically to the history and barriers that have kept us apart.   We work for more sustained collaboration between our diverse communities to promote more equitable policies in the areas of criminal justice, education, job creation, health, transportation, environmental justice, housing, and immigration reform.   We encourage people to participate at any level where change is needed, from the belief that grassroots efforts is not only needed but fundamental to hold accountable our local, state and national representatives and to voice our demands and achieve them. roots efforts.  What we are doing :   Since September 2009 we have had round table discussions about some of the struggles between both the Black and Latino communities in Madison  Collectively organizing a newsletter to express our roots and the importance of Blacks and Latinos recognizing that our struggles are similar Organizing our second annual Black Latino Unity Cookout! Bringing together both Black and Latino faith leaders for a breakfast to help aid in our vision of uniting our communities  Contact the Black Latino Project Clarissa Pearson clarissa@immigrantworkers.org