Project Voice
Project Voice - NY: Project Voice NY effort is undergoing a transition. Please check back at a later time to learn about our new initiative in NY. Click here to review highlights of AFSC's NY immigrants' rights effort from 2001 - 2006.
Project Voice is an initiative sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Its purpose is to strengthen the voices of immigrant-led organizations in setting the national agenda for immigration policy and immigrants' rights, in order to foster a fuller integration of immigrants and refugees in their new communities. Project Voice combines local and national organizing, education, and outreach campaigns to achieve a strategic impact on key immigration and refugee issues, including legalization, abuse of authority, community relations, workers' rights, and other human rights issues.
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In the New York Metropolitan Region, AFSC has implemented three Project Voice components: Project Voice - NY, Project Voice - NJ, and Project Voice - Asylees.
Project Voice - NY focuses on New York City and Long Island, with emphasis on building a chapter of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance on the East End and on bringing together various community organizing projects in New York City to offer training, education, and to strengthen the work by creating a more coordinated movement.
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Project Voice - Detention Project focuses on the particular needs of asylees, and of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender asylees, and providing leadership training and advocacy skills to those groups. NYMRO's unique combination of legal representation and organizing, invites lawyers to be present at many of the organizing meetings, providing information and a safe space for participants.