WAISN

WAISN General Meeting / Reunión General
2025-12-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-08-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-19 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-15 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 16 more dates
Join our General Meeting at 3 pm! We are dedicated to educating and mobilizing statewide to uphold and defend the rights and dignity of all immigrants and refugees, centering the voices of impacted communities. Our monthly General Meeting allows community members from across Washington to share their experiences, discuss strategies for empowering local communities, and involve those directly affected by these issues in the decision-making processes. /
¡Únase a nuestra Reunión General a las 3:00 pm! Estamos dedicados a educar y movilizar en todo el estado para apoyar y defender los derechos y la dignidad de todos los inmigrantes y refugiados, centrando las voces de las comunidades impactadas. Nuestras conversaciones mensuales permiten a los miembros de la comunidad de todo Washington compartir sus experiencias, discutir estrategias para empoderar a comunidades locales e involucrar a los directamente afectados en los procesos decisorios.
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2024 WAISN Membership Convening: August 7-9!
2024-08-07 - 2024-08-09
Please mark your calendars for a very special event: the 2024 WAISN Membership Convening to be held at Legends Casino in Topenish, WA, located on the Yakama Reservation. Legends Casino is owned and operated by the Yakama Nation.*
The event will run from 11 am on Wednesday, August 7th ending at 2 pm on Friday, August 9th.
Attendance is free and open only to organizations who have joined WAISN as part of our formalized membership process. As a benefit of WAISN membership, two members from your organization are invited to attend the event for no cost. Hotel stay for two nights and all meals are included with your WAISN membership! Registration opens May 15.
This is WAISN’s first in-person membership gathering since 2019 and we know nothing compares to relationship building and organizing with each other in person.
We need your participation as we identify organizing opportunities for the WAISN Network to collectively mobilize and fight for the next five years. In addition to strategic planning, we will nourish ourselves and build relationships with each other by holding space for healing, dancing, making art, and breaking bread together.
*Legends Casino Hotel is owned and operated by the Yakama Nation and is situated on the Yakima Reservation. The Yakama Reservation is located along the Yakima River and covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres. The reservation was established through the Treaty of 1855 and is made up of 14 Tribes and Bands, which include the following: Palouse, Pisquouse, Yakama, Wenatchapam, Klinquit, Ohce Chotes, Kow Was Say De, Sk’in-pah, Kah-miltpah, Klickatat, Wish Ham, See ap Cat, Li ay Was and the Shyiks. Learn more here.

Intro to Language Justice / INTRODUCCIÓN a la Justicia del Lenguaje
2024-05-30 16:00 - 17:00
Join WAISN’s Language Justice Coordinator to learn more about Language Justice. In this Introduction to Language Justice training, you will have the opportunity to differentiate Language Access and Language Justice, learn Language Justice terminology and languages in WA state, and explore ideas to implement Language Justice principles in your organization. With the goal of reflecting on your relationship to language and justice, personally and organizationally.
Join Gaby on Thursday May 30th from 4-5pm on Zoom. Follow this link to register.
If you have any questions or need interpretation for this meeting, please contact ga**@***sn.org /
Únase a la Coordinadora de Justicia del Lenguaje de WAISN para conocer más sobre Justicia del Lenguaje. En esta Introducción a la Justicia del Lenguaje, tendrá la oportunidad de diferenciar Acceso Lingüístico y Justicia del Lenguaje, aprender terminología de Justicia del Lenguaje y de los idiomas en el estado de Washington, como también explorar ideas para implementar los principios de Justicia del Lenguaje en su organización. Con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre su relación con el lenguaje y la justicia, a nivel personal y organizacional. Jueves 30 de mayo de 4 a 5 pm por Zoom. Siga este enlace para registrarse.
Si tiene alguna pregunta o necesita interpretación para participar de esta reunión, por favor comunicarse con ga**@***sn.org

Rapid Response Training
2024-02-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-01 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-01-25 17:00 - 19:00
Join the WAISN Deportation Defense Coordinator, Yahara Padilla (she/her/ella), for a Rapid Response refresher. Invite other members of your team if they would like a refreshers or to learn how to form a Rapid Response team to support our communities when targeted by ICE/CBP.
Location: Zoom
Register here!

Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day (IRAD)
2024-02-07 09:30 - 18:00 | Olympia Ballroom, 116 Legion Way SE, Olympia, WA, 98501, United States
On Wednesday Feb. 7, Sen. Rebecca Saldaña and Rep. My-Linh Thai will join the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) and hundreds of immigrants and allies for the 7th annual IRAD in support of WAISN’s 2024 immigrant justice campaigns: Health Equity for Immigrants to provide equal access to healthcare for all low-income Washingtonians, regardless of their immigration status, and Unemployment Insurance for Undocumented Workers to create a permanent, separate unemployment system that provides benefits to undocumented workers.
The Olympia City Council will also sign a proclamation designating February 7, 2024 as Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day. WAISN firmly believes the right to healthcare and the right to a living wage are non negotiable rights, yet thousands of Washington immigrants’ lives are on the line working and living without access to healthcare and unemployment benefits because of their immigration status.
Headlined by Sen. Rebecca Saldaña, and Rep. My-Linh Thai, the Rally will include prominent immigrant justice champions and leaders sharing their experiences living and working without access to healthcare and unemployment insurance:

Brenda Rodriguez Lopez, Executive Director, WAISN
Senator Rebecca Saldaña (LD37)
Representative My-Linh Thai (LD41)
Danielle Alvarado, Executive Director, Working Washington
Andrea Soroko Naar, Co-founder, Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice NW
Mohamed Shidane, Deputy Director, Somali Health Board
Adrianna Suluai, Policy Director, UTOPIA Washington
Ruqaiyah Damrah, Digital Organizer, WAISN
Members of Washington state immigrant and refugee communities
