2006 United States Immigration Reform Protests - Organizations

Organizations

The following organizations mobilized from hundreds (FAIR) to millions of people (Great American Boycott) around immigration reform in the United States during 2006.

  • May 1, 2006 'A Day Without Immigrant' National Mobilization Endorsers' – national coalition of 215 organizations that mobilized one million protesters across the U.S. on May 1, 2006 for the Great American Boycott.
  • We Are America Alliance – national network of hundreds of regional coalitions that mobilized 2 million protesters across the U.S. on April 10, 2006 and coordinated protests in the May 1 national protests
  • El Paro and the Day Without and Immigrant Coalition (Philadelphia Region) Philadelphia regional coalition of dozens of organizations invited and mobilized thousands of protesters in 7 marches from February 14 to April 10, 2006.
  • Kentucky Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Kentucky coalition that mobilized an estimated 10,000 people in downtown Lexington, KY on April 10, 2006 with other mobilizations around the state.
  • March 25 Coalition – Southern California based coalition that mobilized 750,000 protesters in Los Angeles on March 25, 2006
  • Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) – mobilized dozens of people in various counter-protests
  • Minuteman Project – held sporadic counter-protests in some major US cities

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