Dear Community,

The Caravan for the Children campaign continues to shine light on forced family separation in the U.S.

In February 2021, President Biden ordered the establishment of the President's Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, which includes the heads of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Justice, and the State Department. One year later, according to the Task Force's own reports, more than 1,700 children remain separated from their loved ones. 

This is unacceptable. We cannot let this stand. 

Join the Caravan for the Children/La Caravana por los Niños (CARECEN SF, Chicana/Latina Foundation, Galeria de la Raza, Instituto Familiar de la Raza, and Latinx Racial Equity Project), and Presente.org/Alianza Americas as we launch the second phase of the campaign. 

We call on President Biden and the Task Force to keep their promise and immediately uncage, reunify and heal migrant children taken from their families by the U.S. government. 

We call on our community partners and allies to add your voice! We demand transparency from the Task Force about the administration's child reunification process. We call for the allocation of necessary resources to support families who are healing from this trauma. We call for the Biden administration to take urgent steps to end family separation and forced detention of immigrants as he promised during his campaign. 

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO TAKE ACTION:

1. Sign and share the online petition. Add your voice!

2. Follow the Caravana live stream and weekly posts, which you can access through our social media channels at our websites: 
CARECEN SF
Chicana/Latina Foundation
Galeria de la Raza
Instituto Familiar de la Raza
Latinx Racial Equity Project

3. Join us in spreading the word about the community opening of: Pedagogy of Hope: Uncage, Reunify, Heal curated by Galeria de la Raza at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday, March 25, 2022. Doors open at 5:30pm. 

4. Send the Task Force a message on a postcard that we will deliver on May 1, 2022 in person in Washington, DC as we join thousands of immigrants and allies marching for justice, racial equity and systemic reform. 

Postcards are available at the following Bay Area sites:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in partnership with Galeria de la Raza
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
Thursdays-Sundays, 12pm-6pm

Kali Kiin (CARECEN SF & IFR programs)
3143 Mission Street
San Francisco
Mondays-Fridays, 9am-1:30pm

Instituto Familiar de la Raza
2919 Mission Street
San Francisco
Mondays-Fridays, 9am-5pm

Brava Theater in partnership with Chicana/Latina Foundation
2781 - 24th Street
San Francisco
Mondays-Fridays, 11am-5pm

La Clínica-Cultura y Bienestar in partnership with Latinx Racial Equity Project
1415 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland
Mondays-Fridays, 9am-5:30pm