Larry Kleinman's Writings

Roster of Larry Kleinman's Writings

The D.C. 211

A reflection on the October 8, 2013 civil disobedience action near the U.S. Capitol building, resulting in the arrests of 211 immigration reform supporters, including eight members of Congress.

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The ‘7 C’s’ Test for Legalization Wave Seathworthiness

A navigation tool and concise inventory of the preparatory steps (organized under the 7-C categories: “call, compress, convene, cast, cost, collect, credential”) to respond to the anticipated outpouring of immigrants anxious for information and assistance, when immigration reform legislation becomes law.

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Alabama and the Nation’s Conscience

An Op-ed on the 2012 re-enactment of the five-day Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 and how the 2012 march broke new ground in unifying the modern-day civil rights and immigrants’ rights struggles to repeal Alabama’s worst in-the-nation anti-immigrant law, HB 56.

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A Call From Tom Ruhl

How a pivotal educational leader set in motion a scholarship which opens a path to higher education for leaders of our movement who are undocumented immigrants.

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Dues Worth Paying

PCUN members have paid in $2,000,000 as dues and for services in a quarter century. This essay described PCUN’s dues system and analyzes how it manifests PCUN’s fundraising principles.

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Year One in Movement Leadership

Brief descriptions of four projects undertaken in 1969-70 by the Congregation Solel Youth Group Social Action Committee which I co-chaired as a sixteen-year old—my first leadership position in movement leadership.

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The Minimum No One Talks about in Oregon

Text of an Op-Ed, published in the Salem Statesman-Journal newspaper, written as increase in the federal minimum wage took effect, sets forth the forces behind and key outcomes of Oregon’s minimum wage having been higher than the federal minimum for two decades.

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Donde No Hay [Tantos] Votantes

How an immigrant-based movement has taken a “do-it-ourselves” approach to Latino voter organizing in an area where Latinos are numerous but Latino voters are not. The title, “Where There Aren’t [Very Many] Voters,” invokes the popular community manual “Donde No Hay Médico”

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