Ithaca College

Organized by TC Immigrant Rights Coalition

Location: Workers’ Center (above Autumn Leaves Bookstore, Commons)

 Free and open to those who want to participate in Rapid Response Network in the Ithaca Area

 Hi everyone,

The TC Immigrant Rights Coalition is having another training for Rapid Response, based on the model presented in the first training done by CNY Workers’ Center, but now with our own additions. We’d like to invite you to participate.

Below is a description of the Rapid Response Network for Immigrants, which was set up as a way for community members to show up to document as best as possible in the event of ICE presence, arrests, and detentions in town.  We also hope to build relationships, and strengthen or work on trust.

Since our last RR training, we have

• set up a RR network,
• established a hotline,
• developed working groups for the roles required for the network, and
• set up a workshop for Legal Observers
• had a practice run of RR network

We hope to do an unannounced test/run-through of rapid response in late august/early september; so we would like to have more people join, and particularly for key roles such as:

• Multi-lingual or bi-lingual operators of RR hotline (Chinese/Mandarin and others, Burmese, Thai, RUSSIAN, and other Asian languages ; French; African languages. We have several folks covering Spanish, Portuguese, German, some French, but welcome more).
• Documenters (Photo and Videographers, Scribes)
• Legal Observers who can go through trainings in August (more info. at training),
• Media team (including social media),
• Outreach team to inform immigrants and other community members about the network.

The training will include a discussion of goals and reasons for RR network as well as its process and what the roles entail.  There will be opportunity for discussion of the roles, and a short role-play to a specific scenario, to familiarize folks with the RR process. Resource packets will be distributed to participants.

There will be opportunity for people to sign up for the RR team and download the app we are using, if so desired. We have the outreach cards/fliers ready with information about the RR network so people can be familiar with it and the other work done by the TCIRC (tcirc.wordpress.com), and will begin to distribute asap.

We know some of you are especially in contact with community members or students who can help or would like to be engaged, so please spread the word about the TRAINING.

 If you KNOW that you'd like to be in the RR team, please come a few  minutes early to fill the sign up form for RR.

 Sincerely,

Patricia Rodriguez (prodriguez@ithac.edu), Beth Harris (beth55harris@gmail.com), and Carlos Gutierrez (guty712@gmail.com), on behalf of TCIRC

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patricia Rodriguez at prodriguez@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-5714. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.