Home / Act / How To:

Immigrant/Civil Rights Initiative

How To:

  • How to Make a Bible Study Video by Rashida Craddock
    01/10/2012 You can make your own Bible study video! It’s easier than you might think. Anyone with a video camera, digital camera, flip camera or smartphone, some basic editing equipment and a little creativity can make a video.
  • Challenge State Anti-immigration Laws
    04/19/2011 Arizona's introduction of anti-immigrant law State Bill 1070 in April 2010 has caused a great stir. The law has come to symbolize both the anger toward new immigrants and states' frustration that Congress has not acted to fix the nation's broken immigration policy.
  • Challenge U.S. Immigrant Detention and Deportation Policies
    04/19/2011 The U.S. government detained nearly 400,000 people in immigration custody in some 350 facilities at an annual cost of more than $1.7 billion in 2009. The number of detention beds has grown to more than 33,000, with construction of more facilities underway.
  • Visit Migrants in Detention in Your Community
    04/19/2011 United Methodist Women partners with the Detention Watch Network (DWN) to resource local involvement in detention visitation. DWN has created a network of groups visiting detention centers and a manual for starting an ecumenical program. They are ready to assist you.
  • Organize a Public Witness for Immigrant Rights
    04/19/2011 United Methodist Women members have a long history of public witness for social justice. Recently, United Methodist Women members have been mobilizing to speak out publicly for immigrant rights across the country.
  • Create a Conference United Methodist Women Immigration Team
    04/19/2011 United Methodist Women in the Desert Southwest Conference has created a team to work on immigrant rights. They work on the United Methodist Women Immigrant/Civil Rights Initiative, which is one of United Methodist Women's four key social justice priorities nationally.

Previous 15 · 1-7 of 7 · Next 15

 
 
© 2012 United Methodist Women/Women's Division. The Women's Division is part of the General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church