About PACT

PACT: People Acting in Community Together, is a multi-faith, grassroots organization that provides leadership training and experience to community members of many different ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. Through PACT, people work together to solve the most pervasive social problems of our day.              

PACT is Hiring!

Join the Rapid Response Netwok in Santa Clara County

Become a rapid responder to protect our community! We are training hundreds of volunteers to be rapid responders to calls from community members concerned about immediate ICE actions.  The hotline is now available in San Jose.  We need your help to engage and train many more community volunteers to expand across Santa Clara County!

 

 

COMMUNITY ALERT: VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY VULNERABLE FOR DEPORTATION                                    

For more information, contact: rapidresponse@pactsj.org

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Join PACT's Solidarity Network

Join our Solidarity Network to pledge your support for our brothers and sisters who are targeted – especially immigrants and Muslims - and to provide leadership to stop the hate and fear-mongering that hurts us all. Learn ways that you can act in solidarity and to sign on to be part of PACT's Solidarity Network.

Statement of Solidarity - Love over Hate

 

Acerca de PACT

Personas Actuando Juntas en Comunidad es una organización multi-fe que da capacitación en liderazgo y experiencia a los miembros de la comunidad de diferentes orígenes étnicos, religiosos y socio-económico. A través de PACT, las personas trabajan juntas para resolver los problemas sociales más profundos de nuestros tiempos.

PACT is Hiring!

Únase a la Red de Respuesta Rápida en el Condado de Santa Clara

¡Conviértete en un respondedor rápido para proteger a nuestra comunidad! Estamos entrenando a cientos de voluntarios para responder rápidamente a las llamadas de los miembros de la comunidad preocupados por las acciones inmediatas de ICE. La línea directa ya está disponible en San José. ¡Necesitamos su ayuda para involucrar y capacitar a muchos más voluntarios de la comunidad para expandir la red a través del Condado de Santa Clara!

ALERTA COMUNITARIA: COMUNIDAD VIETNAMITA  VULNERABLE A DEPORTACION

Para más información, contactar: rapidresponse@pactsj.org

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Únase a la Red de Solidaridad de PACT

Únase a nuestra Red de Solidaridad para comprometer su apoyo a nuestros hermanos y hermanas que están siendo atacados – especialmente los inmigrantes y los musulmanes - y para proporcionar el liderazgo a fin de frenar el odio y la siembra del odio que nos daña a todos. Añade su nombre a la Red de Solidaridad y averiguar como pueda dar su apoyo.

Declaración de Solidaridad – Amor por encima del Odio

Featured
California’s Cambodian immigrants fear more ICE raids on the horizon

It’s only been a few days since an Omni Air flight carrying 36 deportees, rounded up and detained by ICE earlier this year, landed in Cambodia. But already, immigrant communities in the Bay Area and across California are bracing themselves for more.

As the year comes to an end and the dozens of new deportees get acclimated to a country many of them had never set foot in, organizers are doubling down on their warnings to local Cambodian immigrants living in the country illegally, urging them to get documents in order, call family members and legal hotlines, and start setting money aside.

ICE Office In South Bay Draws Allegedly Blocked Attorneys From Seeing Immigrants

MORGAN HILL — Officials at an under-the-radar ICE facility in Morgan Hill have allegedly prevented attorneys from meeting with immigrants brought to the building. 

Detainees brought here three times in recent weeks have been held in vans for extended periods, which attorney Luis Angel Reyes Savalza said is inhumane. 

"They held immigrants here for prolonged periods of time," said Reyes Savalza. "They held them in vans from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and when attorneys showed up to represent these individuals — which is a constitutional right that every individual has in this country — they were denied access to attorneys."

Vietnamese refugees in South Bay fear potential deportation

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) --

The Vietnamese community in San Jose is one of the country's largest, which means thousands of Vietnamese immigrants across the South Bay could soon be at risk of deportation.

City leaders tell ABC7 News there is much to lose under the Trump Administration's re-interpretation of a decade-long agreement with Vietnam.
In 2008, President George W. Bush signed a repatriation agreement, protecting Vietnamese immigrants who arrived before 1995, from deportation.
South Bay Officials Condemn White House Plan to Deport Vietnamese Immigrants

Hai Tran fled Vietnam by sea, going from fishing boat to merchant ship to a refugee outpost in Hong Kong before a sibling sponsored his immigration to the U.S. in 1980. His wife, Kim Ho, joined him in California after her own treacherous journey, giving birth to their first American-born child, Huy Tran, two years after their arrival.

Over the ensuing decades, the family earned a keep through landscaping, mending clothes and, eventually, its own nail salon. The war-scarred refugees laid the foundation for the younger Tran to attend San Jose State and Santa Clara University’s School of Law to pursue a career as an employment rights attorney in Silicon Valley.

 
Upcoming events
Rapid Responder Training
Feb 19
Rapid Responder Training

Learn about the Rapid Response Network, how to conduct legal observation during enforcement activity, and other roles within the Network.

Register Here

Rapid Responder Training
Feb 20
Rapid Responder Training

Learn about the Rapid Response Network, how to conduct legal observation during enforcement activity, and other roles within the Network.

Register Here

Rapid Responder Training
Feb 23
Rapid Responder Training

Learn about the Rapid Response Network, how to conduct legal observation during enforcement activity, and other roles within the Network.

Register Here

Feb 26
Accompaniment Team Workshop

Learn about forming and leading an Accompaniment Team to support and partner with immigrant individuals/families

Mt. View City Council Meeting: Stop Apartment Demolitions!
Feb 28
Mt. View City Council Meeting: Stop Apartment Demolitions!

Join us and save the date for February 28, 2019, 6:30 PM at Mountain View City Hall. This will be the Council’s goal setting meeting where we will tell our elected officials to prioritize Mountain View residents and ‘Stop Apartment Demolitions!’

Apr 20
PACT Leader Training

Details to come! Stay tuned!

Past Events
PACT Empowerment Training: The Power of Sharing Your Story
Feb 16
PACT Empowerment Training: The Power of Sharing Your Story

Join us on Saturday, February 16, to learn how to use your voice and story to engage more people and organize for change in our communities!  Hear PACT UPDATES and share yours!  To Sign Up: http://bit.ly/LDRtraining02

¡Únase a nosotros el sábado 16 de febrero para aprender a usar su voz e historia para involucrar a más personas y organizar el cambio en nuestras comunidades!

¡Escuche de nuestros eventos y entrenamientos! Para saber más sobre nosotros: Visiten nuestra pagina de web! www.pactsj.org Para regístrese: http://bit.ly/LDRtraining02

Valentine's Day Action: ICE Has No Heart
Feb 14
Valentine's Day Action: ICE Has No Heart

Join community and the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County at a rally to expose ICE’s inhumane and unlawful use of its field office in Morgan hill to tear families apart.

Únase a la comunidad y a la Red de Respuesta Rápida en el Condado de Santa Clara en un mitin para exponer el uso inhumano e ilegal de ICE de su oficina de campo en Morgan Hill para destrozar a las familias.

Know Your Rights Workshop
Feb 11
Know Your Rights Workshop

Join us on Monday, February 11, at 8:45 AM OR 6:00 PM at Stipe Elementary School to learn about rights you have as immigrants, undocumented and documented, here in the U.S. Learn how to protect yourself if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes to your house, your work or stops you on the street.

Únase con nosotros para aprender como protegerse si inmigración: llega a su casa; llega a su trabajo; lo paran en la calle. También aprenda si le afecta recibir beneficios públicos. Para más información, envíe on correo de electrónico a jesus@pactsj.org.

Know Your Rights Workshop
Feb 11
Know Your Rights Workshop

Join us on Monday, February 11, at 8:45 AM OR 6:00 PM at Stipe Elementary School to learn about rights you have as immigrants, undocumented and documented, here in the U.S. Learn how to protect yourself if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes to your house, your work or stops you on the street.

Únase con nosotros para aprender como protegerse si inmigración: llega a su casa; llega a su trabajo; lo paran en la calle. También aprenda si le afecta recibir beneficios públicos. Para más información, envíe on correo de electrónico a jesus@pactsj.org.

Feb 6
Rapid Responder Training
Feb 4
PACT Leadership Training: Mountain View
Feb 3
Accompaniment Team Workshop
Jan 20
ACCOMPANIMENT TEAM TRAINING

Learn about forming and leading an accopaniment team to support and partner with immigrant individuals/families.

RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHYCXAeKh4X-ghzZ7jnhyS-bb-2YGA6Bq2P6jC4G8E1Gx3Og/viewform

Jan 13
2nd Bridge Building Workshop

Join us on our second Bridge Building workshop where we will:

  • Practice ways to engage with people from different religious and racial backgrounds

  • Gain understanding of different experiences and perspectives and share about your own

  • Deepen understanding of how systems of power impact diverse communities in different and similar ways

  • Learn how we can be strong, meaningful allies for each other to be a strong, more inclusive multi-faith and multi-racial community

Jan 12
2nd Bridge Building Workshop

Join us on our second Bridge Building workshop where we will:

  • Practice ways to engage with people from different religious and racial backgrounds

  • Gain understanding of different experiences and perspectives and share about your own

  • Deepen understanding of how systems of power impact diverse communities in different and similar ways

  • Learn how we can be strong, meaningful allies for each other to be a strong, more inclusive multi-faith and multi-racial community

Dec 20
OIR's Press Conference and Vigil regarding South East Asian Deportations

The County of Santa Clara Office of Immigrant Relations will hold a press conference followed by a candlelit vigil regarding the federal administration’s efforts to detain and deport Vietnam War refugee-immigrants. 

Dec 20
Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County Protests ICE’s Latest Attempt to Deny Immigrants Right to Due Process

The Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County, along with impacted families, immigration lawyers, religious leaders and other allies, will gather on Thursday, December 20th at 12 pm to denounce ICE’s latest tactics aimed at denying immigrants their right to due process and call for the closure of the Morgan Hill office.  The group will conduct a delegation to deliver a cease and desist letter to the Morgan Hill office.

Come tell Mt. View Council to Protect Rock St Residents
Dec 11
Come tell Mt. View Council to Protect Rock St Residents

Join us to tell Mountain View City Council to choose people over profits and say no to displacement and no to the proposed Rock Street development project, which threatens to displace dozens of families.

SJ Council Vote: Protect and Expand Renter Rights
Dec 11
SJ Council Vote: Protect and Expand Renter Rights

On 12/11, San Jose City Council will be voting on important tenant protections, including:
Stopping landlords from discriminating against
Tenants just because they have a Section 8
Voucher or some other subsidy. Right now, 
Landlords can discriminate against tenants just 
Because they have Section 8 voucher.

Community Action to #KeepDucHome
Dec 4
Community Action to #KeepDucHome

Join us and turn out to a community action regarding a beloved community member's risk for ICE detention and deportation.

Đức Nguyễn, a longtime San Jose resident, family man, and community advocate, is at risk for deportation. ICE recently requested an unexpected interview with Đức at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) offices in San Jose this coming Tuesday, December 4th. In the past, ICE’s unexpected requests is an indicator of their plan to detain and deport at the moment of arrival.

San Jose Google Vote
Dec 4
San Jose Google Vote

San Jose City Council will vote on the sale of public land to Google in the Diridon Station area in addition to a memorandum of understanding between Google and the City.

Tell our mayor and council to choose people over profits and to hold Google accountable by ensuring that our community will not be displaced! 

Communities First! County Vote to Close RHV Airport
Dec 4
Communities First! County Vote to Close RHV Airport

Join the community as we tell our Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to start prioritizing our Eastside San Jose community and consider the closure of Reid Hillview Airport to make way for better use of public land for public good! Why?

-Frequent crashes, nearly one per year, in the neighborhood, causing unease among the community

-Decades of planes using leaded gasoline causing health risks to Eastside community

-Noise pollution

-Underutilized, public land could provide more public benefit for affordable housing, parks, schools, libraries, and other community amenities

Dec 4
Stop the Detention and Deportation of a San Jose community member who was unexpectedly asked to check in with immigration authorities

ViệtUnity South-bay and PACT people acting in community together would like to invite you to a community action regarding a beloved community's member risk for ICE detention and deportation. Đức Nguyễn, a longtime San Jose resident, family man, and community advocate, is at risk for deportation. ICE recently requested an unexpected interview with Đức at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) offices in San Jose this coming Tuesday, December 4th. In the past, ICE’s unexpected requests is an indicator of their plan to detain and deport at the moment of arrival.

Uncover the TRUTH / Foro Comunitario
Dec 3
Uncover the TRUTH / Foro Comunitario

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will be hosting part two of the TRUTH Act forum. Join the community forum to learn about policies to increase transparency on ICE collaboration, get updates from the County’s officials regarding communication with ICE, and voice your opinion on how the County can further protect immigrants. Stand up for your community!

Nov 18
Accompaniment Training

Learn about forming and leading an Accompaniment Team to support and partner with immigrant individuals/families, including:

a) Pastoral care/support;

b) Practical + financial support;

c) Accompaniment to ICE meetings + court hearings so that no one stands alone;

and/or

d) Help them tell their story publicly for deportation defense

 
 
 
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