Side Quest: July 6 Know Your Rights & Extended Rapid Response

Working Class Unity Side-Quests
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Community Forum Meeting Notes

Below are meeting notes from the 2025-10-18T07:00:00Z KYR Community Forum. For the members that were there (@Turcotte @Sandra_Loera @ckposadas @SeanHun @Adri_Martinez) please feel free to edit or add on to the summary:

United Front Letter (Read Here)

Purpose: This is a public statement meant to show a united front of organizations, acticists, and community groups in San Joaquin County who are committed to protecting the immigrant community and unite the working class. The letter lays out principles of class solidarity and independence from the two major political parties.

Discussion and Amendments: After a full reading of the letter, two changes were proposed and accepted by everyone at the meeting:

  1. Regarding Non-Profits: The original text mentioned the words including their well funded nonprofits. It was pointed out that this language might alienate smaller grassroots NGOs that do good work, even if we are critical of the counter-revolutionary role of non-profits.

    Decision: So the following sentence was modifying by removing the words including their well funded nonprofits. This was done to be more inclusive of smaller NGOs; there is enough language in the rest of the document establishing independence and working class leadership.

A united front brings together working-class organizations around shared goals. It is independent of the two major parties and institutions of the capitalist class , including their well funded nonprofits.

  1. Regarding Citizenship: The demand for real pathways to permanent status, and citizenship for all was seen as too vague and similar to weak Democratic Party proposals.

    Decision: The decision was made to change the language to be more specific about citizenship for all people that are already here, and then, real pathways to citizenship for all fugure immigrants.

    Thank you @ckposadas for working with me on drafting the new language:

  • Real pathways to permanent status and citizenship for all Citizenship for all who are already here and real pathways to citizenship for future immigrants

Canvassing Plans

Goal: We wanted to start canvassing work, modeled after the “Fight the Fear” campaign in San Jose.

Logistics & Scheduling:

  • We talked about we face a significant language barrier, so participation from our spanish speaking members and others is crucial.
  • We will begin canvassing on the next two upcoming Saturdays (sign up sheet here).

Location: We will start in the largely Spanish-speaking apartment complexes that we have gone to before for tenant union outreach.

Future Plans: Once we establish a process that works, we hope to start integrating this work without tenant union organzing and labor organizing.