ORALE (Organizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation, and Empowerment)
ORALE's mission is to build and sustain a thriving immigrant-led movement, to end the criminalization of immigrants, and secure bold protections and opportunities that allow immigrant communities and their families to thrive.
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CONNECT ·2022 Grants Challenge·🎉 2022 Goldhirsh Foundation WinnerBold, Empowered, and Thriving Immigrants in South Bay

LBIRC will build power amongst our immigrant community to advance bold protections, dismantle systemic racism and enervate root causes of oppression on a national, and local level, while also securing critical resources and education that serve as a catalyst for communities to thrive. LBIRC's organizing and leadership academies will strengthen and build immigrant community members' inherent leadership skills; ignite advocacy on a local level led by communities’ voices; secure bold protections and disrupt oppressive systems of oppression.
CONNECT ·2025 Grants ChallengeHealing Together/Sanemos Juntos
ÓRALE’s Healing Together/Sanemos Juntos initiative brings healing to immigrant communities through five trauma-informed, culturally grounded workshops. Each session offers a safe space for nervous system regulation, connection, and resilience led by practitioners with lived experience. This work responds directly to the political climate and rising attacks, offering healing, leadership, and collective care in the face of fear and uncertainty.
CONNECT ·2023 Grants ChallengeBold and Thriving Immigrants in the South Bay
oRALE's project will build power among immigrant and undocumented communities in California to advance bold protections, dismantle systemic racism, and eliminate root causes of inequities, simultaneously securing critical resources that serve as a catalyst for communities to thrive. oRALE will strengthen and build immigrant community members' inherent leadership skills, center intergenerational healing, ignite advocacy led by communities' voices, and secure bold protections that disrupt oppressive systems of power.