Anti-Racism Update 11.5.25

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AR QUIZ

  • The current administration is attempting to limit the number of refugees admitted to the US . People from which country will be given preferential placement?

EDUCATION

  • Learn about Voluntary Land Taxes as part of Land Reparations for Indigenous Communities. In this second article in the Beyond Land Acknowledgement series, a number of resources are shared regarding Land Reparations for Indigenous communities, including a self-assessment and tools on “Real Rent.” How are you/we recognizing and respecting the sovereignty of Native Nations? What can you do to return wealth? https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/

ACTION

  • Monday, Nov 17th, 7 p.m. Central; Presentation by Kat Griffith (Winnebago Worship Group), “Immigration: How We Got Here, A Better Path Forward.” Sponsored by the Anti-Racist Working Group of Northern Yearly Meeting. The presentation covers:
    • What the data tell us about migration across the southern border and the resources devoted to border security since 1990 — data from Customs and Border Protection that challenge much of the current public narrative.
    • The human face of immigration.
    • An overview of immigration since 2023, including executive orders under both Presidents Biden and Trump and their impacts.
    • The incentives and realities that drive migrant decision-making and how we might foster a better national conversation about immigration.

Kat Griffith has been active on immigration policy since the 1980s. She has served as an interpreter for Spanish-speaking immigrants and asylum seekers, visited a migrant camp and tent court at the U.S.–Mexico border, and currently accompanies and advocates for those under threat from ICE. She has a background in public policy, economics, and communications and is currently a Fond du Lac County Board Supervisor. Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89695059082?pwd=cunHRlbcptIwmoh1YcPnBcn5ihmzoL.1 Meeting ID: 896 9505 9082 | Passcode: 444129

    AR QUIZ ANSWER

        • White South Africans. The Trump administration is reducing the total number of refugees per year to 7500 and reserving the bulk for reserving the bulk of the slots for white Afrikaners from South Africa and other victims of what it says is “illegal or unjust discrimination.” This reduction is down from 125,000 in past years and does not allow space for applicants attempting to escape war, famine and violence. “We’re hearing from Afghan women’s rights activists, Venezuelan political dissidents, Congolese families, persecuted Christians, and other religious minorities, all of whom now fear there is no room left for them in a system they trusted,” Vignarajah added. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-cuts-refugee-admissions-record-low-priority/story?id=127035342  

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