Alder Commons

Are you seeking a place for artmaking, coworking, woodworking, and/or self-directed education? Do you need access to a commissary kitchen for your business, or a place to host events for your nonprofit or organizing collective? Do you want to build community with others invested in collective liberation, community support, and self-determination? Are you looking for COVID cautious community space? Alder Commons membership may be right for you!

Tour the space, learn about the benefits, and ask us any questions you may have at the next Alder Commons Open House! Upcoming tour dates are March 6th at 5:30 pm, March 10th at 2 pm, and March 12th at 1 pm. You can register at aldercommons.org/membership.

ADA accessible; masks required inside.

✨What can you expect to learn in our upcoming The Truth: Immigration and US Policy in Latin America Series? (Weeks 6-10)✨

Week 6 - Caribbean/S. America - Colombia, Venezuela, Southern Cone
Drug trade, Coups and attempted ones, Destabilization
Preferential status for Rightwing Venezuelans post-Chavez
Cumbia
Southern Cone, Pinochet and Condor
Terrorists in Miami - Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, etc
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** Week 7 - Vietnam, Japan, China, India and Asia**
Chinese Exclusion and railroads, WWII and Japanese internment
Vietnam War and Vietnamese immigration
"Indian doctor" stereotype, Model Minority myth
Gandhi influence on Bayard Rustin, MLK and US Civil Rights Movement
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8 - Africa and the Middle East
Immigrant vs captive/trafficked human, Global slave trade
“African American” vs African-born immigrant
Black identity vs White identity and US History
Uniqueness of US chattel slavery vs historical “slavery” in Africa and Greece
Irish not enslaved in the same way
S. Africa Apartheid and the US, Elon Musk
CIA and coups post-WWII
African migration trends over time and discrimination face
Portland murder of Mulugeta Seraw in 80s by skinheads
Middle East incursions, oil, migration (largely to Europe, but as a result of US policies)
US war spending at expense of social services, immigrants scapegoated
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Week 9 - European Migration
Trends throughout time, Changing definitions of “whiteness”
Whiteness used as tool of exclusion and oppression
European wars and immigration
US policy and racial quotas, Immigration and anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence in Europe, rising Far Right
Colonialism, decolonization
MAGA, Trump, Musk and modern racialized immigration views
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Week 10 - Where we are today?
Who benefits and who suffers as a result of this system?
Did anyone “take your job”?
How difficult is it to immigrate LEGALLY?
Caste, Slavery, Quotas as racism
3/5ths vs “illegal”
Prison industrial complex
Private prisons and mass deportations
Abolish ICE movement
DREAM Act
Trumpism and MAGA, Bipartisan scapegoating of immigrants
Birthright citizenship
Immigrants & working class
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Join us for 10 weeks beginning Tue, Mar 4, 2025 from 5:30pm-6:50pm PT!
https://app.aldercommons.org/program/immigrationpolicy/