The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, is pleased to present Crossing Boundaries, Connecting Communities: Alliance Building for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice. Produced with support from Hill Snowdon Foundation, Open Society Institute and Public Interest Projects, this new report includes detailed case studies of 16 organizations from across the country that are forging effective cross racial alliances between immigrant and native-born communities in order to build power and win just policies and practices in their communities. A tool for both funders and practitioners, this report documents the range of creative strategies being employed to create authentic relationships between diverse constituents. It concludes with recommendations aimed attracting more resources for this innovative, yet under-funded, community strengthening strategy.  For copies of the report, please contact Gerald Lenoir at gerald@blackalliance.org or download the PDF version of the report below.

VIDEO: African American Ministers in Oakland speak out on immigration reform, part 1, March 2010.  http://www.youtube.com/user/BAJIPage#p/u/5/SA7uSCyaBbc 

VIDEO: African American Ministers in Oakland speak out on immigration reform, part 2, March 2010. 
http://www.youtube.com/user/BAJIPage#p/u/4/ixmMwAYfz1I 

VIDEO: African Immigrants in Greece, An Interview with Moawia Ahmed, Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BAJIPage#p/u/2/L_d2gGnMa3Q 

VIDEO: African Immigrants in Greece, An Interview with Moawia Ahmed, Part 2.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BAJIPage#p/u/3/HvZnMaMAgb4

VIDEO: Gerald Lenoir discusses his work with The Black Alliance for Just Immigration. This interview was conducted by a participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008. http://hub.witness.org/en/USHRN/08/GeraldLenoir

VIDEO: "Race and Immigration: Behind the Debate" produced by Backstory Narrative, written and directed by Gary Delgado.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8PnbLptwo

VIDEO: Rev. Kelvin Sauls, BAJI cofounder, talks at the National Network for Immigrant Refugee Rights conference in Houston, Texas, Jaunary 18, 2008.  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=26914831

VIDEO: BAJI Director Gerald Lenoir speaks at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA on a plenary panel on immigration, June 2007. (Coming soon)

VIDEO: BAJI steering committee members Alona Clifton, Rev, Kelvin Sauls and Rev. Phillip Lawson speak at a vigil at the El Tiradito Shrine in Tucson, Ariz., a remembrance of those who have died in the desert crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. April 26, 2007. Produced by Pan Left. BAJI brought a 15-member delegation to the U.S. Mexico Border to investigate human rights violations. http://panleft.net/cms/node/35

VIDEO: "Race, Politics and Immigration" produced by the Applied Research Center www.arc.org/content/view/435/125/

ATTACHMENTS (See below)

1. Crossing Boundaries, Connecting Communities: Alliance Building for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice, 2010

2.  BAJI Bulletin, March/April 2010.  The first issue features articles on Haiti.

3. "The Race Question and Building Labor Power in the Context of the Immigrant Upsurge" explores how to address the incomplete revolution which took place during the modern civil rights movement in the context of the rise in immigration. Authored by Steven Pitts, BAJI Steering Committee Member and Senior Researcher, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.

4. "And Injustice for All: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans" is a report that documents the structural racism faced by African American and immigrant workers in New Orleans. Published by the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, the Advancement Project and National Immigration Law Center.

5. "The Practice of Working in Coalition", An Interview with Pascale Charhon, Gerald Lenoir, Sandeep Pandey, Race / Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Apr 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2: 221-226, published by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, Columbus.