FMC Immigrant & Workers Rights InternAt — Filipino Migrant Center
The Filipino Migrant Center (FMC) organizes Filipino low-wage workers in Long Beach & Carson to provide them with educational resources, tools, and trainings to strengthen their collective voice and leadership capacity to fight for respect, dignity, basic rights, and living wages in their workplaces. These workers participate in building solidarity and partnerships with other low-wage workers in our communities to change abusive and unjust practices.
FMC is looking for interns to assist in community education and outreach in Long Beach & Carson around workers & immigrant rights, sanctuary city campaign, wage theft, and labor trafficking.
• Commit to at least (20+) internship hours which may include nights and weekends. Hours are flexible.
• Take an FMC orientation, community organizing training, and receive mentorship throughout the program.
• Support FMC’s Workers Rights program and campaigns by working with FMC staff to implement a grassroots organizing strategy and participate in outreach team meetings to provide input and planning.
• Conduct weekly workers and immigrant rights education and outreach activities (i.e. door-to-door outreach, tabling, emails, fliers, and workshops in churches and schools).
• Assist in maintaining a database of contacts and follow-up with contacts as necessary.
• Communicate weekly with FMC Supervisor to review goals, progress, and planning.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.
Sanctuary City Education
FMC has been organizing alongside our community partners to defend the rights of immigrant communities. In Long Beach, FMC helped to form the May Day Long Beach Coalition which is developing rapid response networks and organizing Know Your Rights trainings. FMC and the Coalition won a local Sanctuary Policy in the city of Long Beach and is continuing to demand that the City protects all of its immigrant residents and become a Sanctuary City for all. The FMC plans to expand it's community education in West Long Beach among the Filipino immigrant population with Know Your Rights for immigrants presentations in community centers, libraries, schools, and churches.
Workers Rights & Wage Theft Education
FMC helped push for the Long Beach City Council to dedicate at least $700,000 for education and outreach to wage theft victims. Filipino youth, undocumented migrants, and women continue to face wage theft issues, and FMC plans to expand their outreach and organizing efforts to unite the community and empower workers to stand up for their rights. FMC plans to hold one-on-one workshops with individual Filipino workers and group education workshops on minimum wage and workplace rights.
Additional Instructions/Information
Required Skills and Experience:
Interest in or commitment to immigrants and workers rights issues.
Passion for social change and enthusiasm in building relationships with your community.
Must be open to working with diverse people from all backgrounds and different points of view.
Professional attitude and ability to work well in teams.
Ability to take initiative, be self-motivated, and flexible.
Knowledge of Filipino communities. Bilingual in Tagalog/Filipino languages is a plus!
Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills. Strong interpersonal communication skills.
Must have access to reliable transportation.
For more information contact:
Alex Montances
alex@filipinomigrantcenter.org | (562) 607-7282
Location/Site Information
Site Address
2125 Santa Fe Ave. Long Beach, CA 90810.
Site Staff Contact
Name
Alex Montances
E-mail Address
alex@filipinomigrantcenter.org
Phone Number
562-607-7282
Very low risk. The immigrant and workers rights interns will be helping to conduct communit education workshops around wage theft and sanctuary city, and know your rights training for workers and immigrant families. The majority of the activities may be doing outreach presentations at community centers, classrooms, parks, and apartment complex activity rooms. The most risk that an intern may face is feeling uncomfortable if they are conducting outreach/conversation one-on-one with a community resident and the person disagrees with the FMC's stance on immigrant and workers rights.