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Community to Community Development is a place based, women-led grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities. We are committed to systemic change and to creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global movements towards social, economic and environmental justice. |
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News and Events
- For the DREAMers - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival
Community Alert!
Community to Community (C2C), Skagit Immigrant Rights Council (SIRC), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project , Catholic Community Services and local immigration attorneys have come together to support immigrant youth gain access to the new process of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
President Obama announced that as of June 15, 2012 certain young people brought to the U.S. as children are eligible to request deferred action and may begin applying as of August 15, 2012. The deferred action includes protection from deportation and a work permit for a period of two years with an option to renew.
Please do not file before August 15. If you file early, your request will be rejected.
The process is new and many questions were answered on Friday August 3rd during a call with USCIS – Homeland Security. For more details on qualifications for deferred action check out NWIRP’s website: http://www.nwirp.org/
We have already begun seeing fraudulent claims of instant legalization. In an effort to better serve our community we have organized our resources to provide ongoing informational sessions and legal clinics to families that have youth who they think may qualify. These ongoing sessions will be in Whatcom and Skagit Counties at various locations.
More information on our DREAM page >>
- Citizenship Classes offered by Community to Community
Community to Community leaders and members celebrated the final class of the first session of Citizenship Classes being offered to the Latino community in Whatcom County. The Objective of the classes is to ensure students are confident in their knowledge about U.S. Government and history and the English language so that they can successfully pass their Naturalization interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) center in Seattle. Part of the class includes practice at responding clearly to the questions about personal information on the N-400. Eight students successfully completed their 10 week session that began on May 14 they are: Maria Ayala, Yaneli Merlus, Audelia Marquez, Judith Marianna Martinez, Luz Maria Gutierrez, Dora Salcido, Rosa Machado and Karla Deras. After receiving their certificates of achievement from Executive Director Rosalinda Guillen and C2C Board Member Hannah Stone, they all celebrated by joining in the potluck and practicing answering questions they might be asked at the interview.
“We are excited to be able to offer this support to emerging new immigrant citizens in Whatcom County” said instructors Colleen Hansen, Caroline Correa and Annette Holcomb. “We are preparing for the next Citizenship Class session which is scheduled to begin in early October.”
For more information on the Citizenship Classes being offered by Community to Community people should call Angelica Villa at 360-756-2330.
- "Green Economy" What is it? What was at stake at Rio+20?
What is the meaning of “Green Economy”? What was at stake at Rio+20?
The shortest response to this very complex matter is from a document that the The International Coordination Group (CG) of the People’s Summit for social and environmental justice put out before the actual events of the United Nations and the People’s Summit of global social movements happened last week. Here are a few bullet points. The full story is below and can be found at http://cupuladospovos.org.br/
en/2012/05/what-is-at-stake- at-rio20/ - The discussions [of the United Nations] focus on a set of fake proposals called “Green economy” and on the implementation of a new international environmental governance, that would facilitate their setting-up.
- The current production and consummation system – represented and imposed by corporations, financial markets and governments – produces and accelerates global warming, hunger and malnutrition, extinction of forests and biological, social and cultural diversity, chemical contamination, drinking water depletion, oceans acidification, land grabbing and commodification of all areas of life in towns and countries.
- The “Green economy”, contrary to what its name suggests, is one more stage of capitalistic accumulation. Nothing in the “Green economy” questions or substitutes the economy based on extraction of fossil fuels, or the models of consumption and industrial production. On the contrary, this economy opens new territories to the economy that exploits people and environment, increasing the myth that unlimited economic growth is possible.
- The failed economic model that has been dressed in green, aims at submitting all the vital cycles of nature to the market’s rules and to the domination of technology, privatization and commodification of nature and of its vital functions, as well as traditional knowledge, strengthening speculative financial markets through carbon markets, environmental services, compensations for biodiversity and REDD+ mechanism (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation)
- Spanish Language Radio! 102.3 FM KMRE
Finally! Spanish Language Radio!
Debuting Sunday July 8, 2012
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Join us every Sunday for the radio show
“de Domingo a Domingo”Listen to Latin Music host Ramiro Baldovinos
call in your musical requests to 360-738-1023
In Collaboration with Community to Community (C2C)
- Rio +20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Brazil
It is with great excitement that Community to Community is currently being represented at Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Erin Thompson, C2C’s Director of Food Sovereignty Programs is a member of the Grassroots Global Justice’s U.S Delegation to the People’s Summit to “Reject the Greed Economy” and false solutions being presented at the United Nations’ Conference on Sustainable Development. From the Northwest corner of the U.S., we will bring our struggle for food sovereignty and environmental justice, racial justice, and farmworker and immigrant rights to the international stage in collaboration with thousands of social justice activists from around the globe.
Erin Thompson presented on Tuesday, June 19: Sustainable and Solidarity Development in Territories: the Strategies of Another Economy Location
As Community to Community continues to campaign to end racial profiling in our community here at home, we invite you to engage in the global people’s struggle for climate justice and energy sovereignty.
To follow the action check out our delegation blog at ggjalliance.wordpress.com!
