Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

Western Regional Office
243 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco CA 94102
Tel. 415-553-3282
http://www.unitehere.org/

UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) merged on July 8, 2004 forming UNITE HERE. The union represents more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retirees throughout North America. UNITE HERE boasts a diverse membership, comprised largely of immigrants and including high percentages of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American workers. The majority of UNITE HERE members are women. Organizing the unorganized in our industries is the top priority for UNITE HERE. Over 50% of the new Union’s national budget will go toward organizing. Current major organizing campaigns are underway at Cintas, Hilton, H&M, and the gaming industry. In the past five years, the two unions have organized more than 100,000 new members.

Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center
http://rarccor
1845 Chicago Ave., Suite A
Riverside, CA 92507
951 686-7273

Volunteering
Why Volunteer? Sexual assault is a crime that often leaves its victims feeling confused, embarrassed, angry, guilty, helpless and frightened. The emotional impact of sexual assault does not disappear. Talking about feelings with someone who cares and understands the impact of rape can help. No one should to face it alone.
Our Philosophy
The Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center (RARCC) is based on the belief that each individual has a right to control her or his own body and life and to live free from violence and fear. Each individual has right to feel safe, strong and free. The organization supports the survivor's autonomy in decisions and assists in exploring choices while working through the trauma. The organization believes that through education, the community can become more sensitive, aware, supportive and accepting of the individual's right to be safe and in control of her or his life.The organization is committed to eliminating exploitations in human relationships, reducing the stigma of victims, and emphasizing the value of each human life.

Lideres Campesinas

Our Objective
The mission of Líderes Campesinas is to develop leadership among campesinas so that they serve as agents of political, social and economic change in the farmworker community. This leadership has created an organization by and for campesinas. The approach emphasizes capacity building, democratic decision-making, advocacy, peer training and leadership development as well as a mixture of traditional and innovative education, outreach and mobilizing methods such as house meetings, arts, and theatrical presentations at community venues.

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
United Students Against Sweatshops National Office:
1150 17th St. NW, Ste. 300
Washington, DC 20036
ph. 202.NO.SWEAT (202.667.9328)
fax: 202.293.5308
The strength of USAS lies in our ability to grow and strengthen our network as one of the largest student-led grassroots organizations. We are currently investigating moving towards a membership-based organization with dues, so that we can be more accountable to the students and youth that make up our base. For now, there are still plenty of opportunities to get involved-- for starters, you can affiliate with USAS! Don't have a campus or high school group yet? Want to start one? Contact your regional organizer or national staff today! Come to a national conference with hundreds of other students and youth! Sign up for online alerts! We believe our universities must respect all workers in their supply chains-- from those who serve us food in the dining halls, to housekeepers and janitors who clean our dormitories, to farmworkers who pick the food we eat in those dining halls, to the garment workers who make apparel with our universities' name. We support the right of all workers to organize unions and other democratic worker organizations, to earn living wages that meet the basic needs of their families, and to be treated with respect. We believe workers are the best monitors of their own condition in North America and around the globe and deserve a voice on the job. We define "sweatshop" broadly and use it as a representation of the horrific abuses of the global economy. However, human rights abuses and the repression of working people's struggles is not limited to garment factories in the Global South or in immigrant communities in North America. Sweatshop conditions exist in the fields, in the prisons, on our campuses, in the power relations of a flawed global system. Thus, we consider all struggles for a better world and an alternative to the current structure of the global economy to be directly or by analogy a struggle against sweatshops.

INCITE
http://www.incite-national.org
E-mail: incite_national-at-yahoo.com
Phone: 484-932-3166
Street Address:
INCITE!
PO Box 226
Redmond, WA 98073
MISSION:
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing. VISION: INCITE! Is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color that mobilizes to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. By supporting grassroots organizing, we intend to advance a national movement to nurture the health and well-being of communities of color. Through the efforts of INCITE!, women of color and our communities will move closer towards global peace, justice, and liberation. Clinica Romero (two locations) Clínica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Community Health Center
123 South Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057 [map]
Hours and Departments
Main Line: (213) 989-7700
After-Hours Emergency: (323) 277-2257
Fax: (213) 989-7701
Clínica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Community Health Center
2032 Marengo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Main Line: (323) 987-1030
After-Hours Emergency: (323) 227-2257
Fax: (323) 221-4528
http://www.clinicaromero.com/
Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero’s mission is to provide affordable, quality healthcare, health education, and advocacy to the uninsured and underserved communities of Greater Los Angeles. As a private, nonprofit, federally qualified community health center, Clinica Romero operates in the Pico-Union/Westlake and Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles neighborhoods. Patients are attracted to Clinica Romero’s culturally sensitive care and come from over 140 Southern California zip codes. They are men and women, teenagers and children, primarily the working poor housed within crowded ethnic neighborhoods or else homeless.

LGBTRC
Center Address:
LGBT Resource Center
245 Costo Hall, UCR
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951.827.2267
Email: out@ucr.edu
Web: www.out.ucr.edu
Mission statement:
Cultivate a meaningful student experience. Vision statement:
To practice excellence in supporting, educating, and serving all students. Guiding principle:
Build on strengths and promote change, growth, and new ideas that will empower us to provide a superior experience for our students.
Core Values:
1. Engage in partnerships and collaborations
2. Promote and uphold diversity
3. Practice mutual respect
4. Foster innovation and openness to change
5. Listen, assist, and respond with courtesy
6. Practice an ethic of service and care
7. Conduct our work with integrity, openness, and accountability
8. Have fun!
The LGBT Resource Center provides support, education, and advocacy regarding sexual orientation and gender identity for the UC Riverside campus community.