29,684
of 30,000
Signatures

Tell Your Mayor to Defy Trump, Expand Sanctuary

With the new executive orders, our cities need a new take on sanctuary that protects everyone.
1,774
of 2,000
Signatures

Justice for Bernardo Palacios Carbajal

Bernardo Palacios Carbajal, 22, was shot in the back over 30 times while he was fleeing from police officers moments after yelling his last words “Officer, I don’t want to die!”  Seconds later officers proceeded to shoot him after he was dying on the ground. Instead of offering medical assistance after shooting him, officers yelled for him to “Show us your fucking hands!” Then his body was desecrated by having all his fingers shot causing some of them to become partially disconnected from his hands. We DEMAND justice for Bernardo.  The lack of meaningful action from the District Attorney's Office and Salt Lake City's Mayor, reveals an implicit backing of SLCPD's killer cops. Until all these demands are met, justice for Bernardo will not be served.  Until there is deliverance of Justice for Bernardo, and all peoples brutalized and killed by the police force, there can be no peace.
8,888
of 9,000
Signatures

Tell Amazon: Stop Powering ICE!

New research shows that Amazon is helping ICE track, detain, and deport immigrants -- in a big way. We've known that Amazon's servers host Palantir, the company that provides ICE with “mission-critical services,” such as its case management software, and we've been pressuring Amazon to drop Palantir. But it turns out Amazon's role in the deportation machine goes deeper than that. Through intense lobbying of policymakers and law enforcement officials, Amazon and Palantir have secured a role as the backbone for the federal government’s immigration and law enforcement dragnet, allowing them to pursue multi-billion dollar government contracts in various agencies at every single level of law enforcement. These systems are new, and dangerous in new ways. They are accumulating unprecedented amounts of data (everything from facial scans to social media content), and exchanging information among city, state, and regional law enforcement systems, as well as some foreign governments, for the purpose of finding, deporting, and detaining immigrants. DHS and many other law enforcement agencies are spending billions of taxpayer dollars on these tech systems -- and Amazon, Palantir and other tech companies are pushing them to go further. It's time to hold Amazon accountable for its outsized share in building the deportation machine, and demand that they stop. It won't be easy -- Amazon makes billions from these contracts. But the company also depends on consumers -- including millions of Latinx people -- and has to worry about protecting its brand. Recently, the company was forced to raise its minimum wage to $15/hour, which wouldn't have happened without a major campaign demanding it. We can force Amazon to stop helping DHS and ICE target immigrants, if enough of us call them out, stay engaged, and keep the pressure on.
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Welcome to Mijente!

Our communities are under attack, under surveillance, and as Latinx people we have a a long history of experiences and knowledge to draw from. We can build the world we want to live in by starting our own campaigns that impact our communities. We’re making digital tools in English and Spanish accessible to Latinx changemakers so they can be part of any campaign you want to start.

What do you want to change?

Change begins by identifying the issue or injustice you want to change. Here are a few examples: A local company is promoting anti-Latinx ads and you want to stop them; someone in the community is being detained and and threatened with deportation; your state is enforcing a bathroom bill which would discriminate against gender non-conforming people. These are just a few examples of the many issues you can take action on.

Build support from your community

Petitions are central tools to build onto any campaign but not stand-alone solutions. Change takes community and as Latinx people, we have deep connections and more power than we know. We need to tap into every single resource and connection we have to get support for our campaigns. Take a minute to ask yourself a few questions like: Who would share my petition? Who else is impacted by this issue?

After you launch your petition, share it with all your people over social media, email, and don’t forget to take it to the streets by telling your friends, your vecinos, your titi, your comadre, fulanito from the bodega.

Together, we can make real change.