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PICO Background
• People Improving Communities through Organizing• 60+ faith-based community organizations across US• 17 states• A vehicle for faith-communities to do social justice
work • PICO New Jersey & Camden Churches Organized for
People
PICO’s Approach to Faith-Based Community Organizing
• Building Relationships
• Leadership Development
• Faith Integration & Grounding
JFI/PICO PARTNERSHIP
• Grant through Catholic Campaign for Human Development
• Helped support Justice for Immigrants organizing & advocacy work in 15 dioceses
• Immigrant & Non-immigrant engagement
USCCB Statement in April
• "It is vital that the framework includes a path to citizenship, so that undocumented immigrants can come out of the shadows and into the light and have a chance to become Americans. It gives hope to millions of our fellow human beings.”
Archbishop Gomez, Chair
Committee on Migration
POPE FRANCISUS CONF OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
STATE CATHOLIC CONFBISHOP / DIOCESE
P P P P P P P P P P PCATHOLIC VOTERS IN THE PEWS
FULL ENGAGEMENT OF CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
Across the Country
• 104 face-to-face meetings with Members of Congress & 352 more with their staff
• 87,107 Phone Calls, emails, postcards, letters into Congressional Offices
• 52,542 people attending public events, pilgrimages and prayer vigils
• 294 national and local earned media stories• Of the 26 House Districts where PICO ran local campaigns:
21 face-to-face meetings, 8 made public comments in support of citizenship, 3 voted against defunding DACA, and 2 signed on to HR 15