1996

Building on the electoral experience gained during the Prop 187 campaign, MUA initiated a campaign to promote activism amongst voting and nonvoting immigrants.  MUA worked with a coalition to register new citizens and to inform new voters about the ballot issues.   

MUA worked to defend affirmative action by taking a position against Proposition 209 and educating Latino voters about the Proposition through community forums, door knocking, and other voter registration and mobilization efforts. 

MUA organized a bilingual and bicultural leadership training with female members of the Chinese Progressive Association.   Overcoming huge linguistic and cultural barriers, MUA and CPA staff and members joined together to learn about welfare reform and immigration law and launched a joint campaign through which Latino and Chinese delegations hosted dialogues with elected officials.  As a result of this collaboration, MUA reaffirmed its commitment to build multi-racial and multi-ethnic alliances and work for social justice for all grassroots communities.   

During Congressional debates about immigration law and welfare reform, MUA organized marches and protests, co-sponsored by the San Francisco Hunger Strike for Immigrant Rights and sent Clare Luz Navarro to Washington, D.C. as part of a delegation.