Immigration Resources

How to Get a Green Card for Your Parents

Henson Pachuta & Kammerman, PLLC has a great resource on their website to learn the steps to apply to get a green card for your parents.

Local Immigration/Resource Offices

SFILEN - San Francisco Immigration Legal and Education Network

Members:

Immigration/Citizenship

• NQAPIA website (mostly for Asian queers but broadly applicable)
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• Liberating Ourselves Locally
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center Community Resources
• It’s important for everyone to know their rights if approached by an immigration (ICE) agent as well as how families can best prepare for something happening. This resource provides practical tips for things immigrant families can do now to prepare as well as information on rights everyone has in the United States, regardless of immigration status.

Readings

• About white kinship at Thanksgiving time
• About normalization
• On White Feminism
• On living in an autocracy: Masha Gessen, “Autocracy: Rules for Survival.”
• On global possibilities
• On deescalation, a website of resources from Mimi Nguyen, U of Illinois
• On changing gender markers on IDs, passports, birth-certificates and other legal documents

Other Readings and Syllabi

(including a great syllabus on Standing Rock) from The New Inquiry:

• A Time for Treason
• The People’s Community Medics (PCM)
  You can reach us by phone at (510) 239-7720 or by email to PeoplesCommunityMedics@gmail.com.
• Instead of calling the cops (From Catalyst Project)

Please read and share these resources about what to do instead of calling the police:

• Recommendations and Love for Cop Watchers by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• What To Do Instead of Calling the Police
• Don't Call the Police by Mike Ludwig
• Calling Someone Other Than the Cops by Conor Friedersdorf
• Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody's Got To Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop Free World by José Martín
• Critical Resistance Oakland Power Project: The Oakland Power Projects (OPP) builds the capacity for Oakland residents to reject police and policing as the default response to harm and to highlight or create alternatives that actually work by identifying current harms, amplifying existing resources, and developing new practices that do not rely on policing solutions.
• Resources for Addressing Harm, Accountability, and Healing (From Critical Resistance)