From Down With Tyranny comes this report on the Pera campaign (donate here or here, or volunteer here ) in IL-03 and immigrant support. I'm used to the hard numbers out of NDFA rather than the "expects to" numbers listed below. Still it's a very impressive effort:
And immigrant activism has gone much further. The Mexican and Muslim communities have collaborated on fundraising for the Pera Campaign, bringing in thousands of dollars locally and using the money to open a second campaign office and to hire two experienced immigrant organizers to mobilize Mexican and Muslim voters.
In addition the immigrants in the campaign have recruited Immigrants List to make this campaign a national target. An e-mail fundraising request went to over 18,000 people nationally and raised an additional $14,000 for the immigrant organizing in the Pera campaign. Finally, the national Campaign for Community Change (the 501c4 sister organization to the Center for Community Change) decided to send a first in the nation series of bi-lingual educational mail pieces, informing Latino voters in the district of Lipinski's vote for the Sensenbrenner legislation.
Over the course of the campaign this volunteer driven immigrant field operation expects to have:
• lit dropped 2,300 Arab households and sent an additional 2,300 a "dear neighbor" letter
• lit dropped 7,300 latino households
• mailed 23,000 Latinos with an immigration specific piece
• mailed 23,000 Latino households 5 times with regular Pera literature
• called 3,000 immigrant voters through a phone bank
• doorknocked 5,000 immigrant voters through a canvas
• Involved over 300 Mexican and Muslim volunteers in the Pera campaign
