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PICO Background

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.

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PICO Background

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  1. 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

  2. PICO’s Approach to Faith-Based Community Organizing • Building Relationships • Leadership Development • Faith Integration & Grounding

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. FULL ENGAGEMENT OF CATHOLIC COMMUNITY POPE FRANCIS US CONF OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS STATE CATHOLIC CONF BISHOP / DIOCESE P P P P P P P P P P P CATHOLIC VOTERS IN THE PEWS

  6. Statewide Training March 2-3, 2013

  7. St. Joseph’s Parish Organizing Team, Somers Point

  8. St. Damian Parish Organizing Team, Ocean City

  9. Philadelphia Inquirer Camden bishop: 'Moral urgency' for immigration reform

  10. 40 Vigils at Rep. LoBiondo’s office

  11. Vigils at Rep. Smith’s Office

  12. Al Puntocon Jorge Ramos

  13. 9-DAY PILGRIMAGE FOR CITIZENSHIP - 160 MILES - 4 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

  14. Holy Cross Parish Organizing Team, Bridgeton

  15. Christie Agrees to In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants 12/19/13

  16. 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

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