Worker Justice and Anti-Deportation Organizing

with Matahari Women Workers’ Center

Matahari Women Workers’ Center is broadening its grassroots organizing with domestic workers and immigrants to address the intersecting challenges of economic insecurity, unjust labor practices, and the recent surge in detention and deportation. This seed grant supports Matahari’s efforts to innovate and pilot new containers for base-building through a deportation defense hotline, door-to-door canvassing, house visits, and healing circles. These containers are spaces of mutual aid, care, healing, and popular education among immigrants with different racial, gender, class, labor, and immigration experiences. They are also sites for leadership development, as Matahari mentors immigrant women to build their capacities for organizing, claiming public space, and testifying to change narratives about immigration and immigrants.