Side-Quest: Recovering the Struggles of Immigrants

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

We were asked if we want to co-sponsor this event and attend. It is taking place in Stockton.

Recovering the Struggles of Immigrants

Public Forum
11:00 AM | Stockton, California | July 12, 2026

Immigrant communities have led important struggles for rights and dignity. In the face of deportations, detention centers, and attacks against our communities, we want to recover these experiences and discuss the challenges we face today.

• The history of immigrant struggles from “A Day Without Immigrants” in 2006 to the present.
• The organizing of detained immigrants in detention centers and solidarity campaigns.
• The current state of immigration laws and immigrants’ rights.
• The challenges facing working-class communities in Stockton.
• The organizing of immigrant students in schools.

Confirmed Panelists

Luis Magaña
Filipino community and immigrant movement

José Sandoval
A Day Without Immigrants (2006)

Luz Guzmán
Workers and immigrants of Stockton

Luis Ángel
Immigration attorney

Representative of Papeles Para Todos
Papers for All

Representative of the Comité de Solidaridad
Solidarity Committee

May 1, 2006.

Participate

July 12, 2026 | 11:00 AM | Stockton, California

The exact location will be sent after registration. Scan the QR code to register.

Slogans

No Human Being Is Illegal!
Close the Detention Centers!
Papers for All!
Solidarity with Immigrants!

Convening Organizations

• Workers’ Voice / La Voz de los Trabajadores
• Papeles Para Todos / Papers for All
• Comité de Solidaridad / Solidarity Committee
• Organización de Trabajadores Agrícolas California (OTAC) / California Agricultural Workers Organization

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We’d need quorum +1 so we need 4 votes, with only 1 coming from steering.

[ckposadas (Christian)]

I vote YES

[Tanner]

I vote YES.

[Robert_H (Robert Hemphill)]

Yes

[Joanna (Joanna Nguyen)]

Yes

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

Thanks everyone, side quest passed!

I offered to take our translation device to the event and they said they’re going to have one more meeting to plan logistics, and they will let us know if we can help out in some other way.

We talked about this at the recent Steering Committee meeting:

@ckposadas

Worker’s Voice: “Recovering the Struggles of Immigrants”

The bulk of the steering committee discussion centered around potentially endorsing a public forum being hosted by Worker’s Voice. The topic, as the name above suggests, is about the history and the current state of immigrant rights and struggles.

The public forum can only be endorsed via a Side Quest, which requires a majority of non steering committee members to get on board. @chima created a forum post (linked here) to hold the vote remotely due to lack of general membership during this steering committee meeting.

Date: July 12th
Time: 11:00am

One thing @Adri_Martinez and @ckposadas brought up was that if we vote to endorse, we should try to incorporate some of our work into it somehow and the Know Your Rights materials that everyone worked on was brought up as something we could share.

I spoke with the folks now running the CCIB and they said it’s okay that we remove the check in pages - we don’t have any WCU Members working on the booth anymore so they can’t access the information of people who sign up anyway.