Siembra NC | About Us

We are a grassroots organization focused on defending our communities from abusive employers and landlords, ICE, and bad políticos.

We operate primarily in Alamance, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Orange, Wake, Randolph and Rockingham counties, and have active members around the state. With & without papers we are making moves to create the North Carolina our gente deserves.

We couldn’t sit on the sidelines while the discrimination, criminalization and terror against our gente kept growing, so we drew inspiration from the resilience of our people and the power in our numbers. We are over 1.2M Latines in North Carolina and, in the past few years, we’ve made sure more of us have shown up and showed out, together.

Our values.

As a hub affiliate of Mijente, we are pro-Black, pro-indigena, pro-worker, pro-mujer, pro-lesbian gay, bi, trans and queer, pro-climate and pro-migrant because we hold all of those identities, and because our unity against shared oppressions is central to our vision for change. We believe that our work isn’t limited to resources and financial support, but rooted in a culture of continuous collective learning, empowerment and leadership.

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We work to achieve el buen vivir and dignity for our communities by recruiting thousands of Latines who are “on the sidelines” to become active members of our multiracial social justice movements.

We build power alongside Black-led organizations that are leading the transformation of our state away from a laboratory for right-wing policy ideas to a place where we all have access to decent housing, education, healthcare and dignified work.

We support workers experiencing wage theft to get their hard earned money from greedy bosses who won’t pay.

We run a community defense hotline & ICE Watch programs that train people with driver’s licenses to be “verifiers” to create “ICE Free Zones” in our neighborhoods, and train our people on how to defend their rights.

We work to limit sheriff-ICE collaboration and defeat anti-immigrant legislation.

We provide accompaniment to immigration, criminal and housing court.

We stand up to abusive employers.

We organize our gente to prevent displacement from their homes.

We support families impacted by ICE detention with one-to-one detention navigation.

We made sure pandemic relief (masks, emergency cash assistance, information) reach working class Latine neighborhoods.

We created new social enterprises with immigrant workers impacted by the pandemic.

We advocate for policies to protect Latines who are immigrants, Black, LGBTQ, workers, women, students.

We organize and turnout Latine eligible voters to exercise their right to vote, and elect candidates and win policies that are aligned with our values.

We host political education workshops for our members.

Our wins.

COMMUNITY DISPLACEMENT BOND

We won the first community displacement bond ever granted by the city of Greensboro awarding 200k to displaced Latine mobile home renters.

We spoke with hundreds of voters in Durham to inform them of the opportunity to invest $95 million in housing bonds.

STOLEN WAGES RETURNED TO LATINE WORKERS

Our Workers Rights comité is working to recuperate wages from dozens of workers across the state recovering over $30,000 so far this year.

One of our biggest victories! We hand delivered 5,000 signatures asking Governor Roy Cooper to veto “Show me Your Papers” Law (HB 370).

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We are the supermajority.

While the right has undemocratically organized to pass bills that negatively impact many North Carolinians, we know the truth: women, children, queer folks, brown and Black people are the REAL supermajority in our state.

We know that means we have a lot of work ahead of us, to register our gente to vote, make voting information available in the urban AND rural counties where our gente live, and to take care of each other regardless of what bills are passed. We're not going to let the right tell us who we are or who belongs: WE are North Carolinians and we believe in a state that welcomes all of us.

**We are a casita for Latines with or without papers who want to be informed of their rights, empowered, and build power.**

We organize committees in counties across North Carolina to fight for better working and living conditions for our gente. We fight issue campaigns in coalitions with other basebuilding groups. We work hard, but we also play hard, with comités such as our Queer comité putting on cultural events so we can learn about our rights while we celebrate who we are.

We also collaborate with the political grassroots and digital hub Mijente on nationwide campaigns to mobilize Latines in North Carolina to participate in broader movements for justice and human rights of our gente.

With or without papers, we keep building power.

We are a grassroots organization focused on defending our communities from abusive employers and landlords, ICE, and bad políticos.

“Estamos aquí porque sabemos que el pueblo salva al pueblo.”

Our values.

Our strategy.

How we fight back.

How we create our own solutions.

How we move governments to work for us and not against us.

We work to achieve el buen vivir and dignity for our communities by recruiting thousands of Latines who are “on the sidelines” to become active members of our multiracial social justice movements.

Our wins.

We won the first community displacement bond ever granted by the city of Greensboro awarding 200k to displaced Latine mobile home renters.

Our Workers Rights comité is working to recuperate wages from dozens of workers across the state recovering over $30,000 so far this year.

We are the supermajority.

**We are a casita for Latines with or without papers who want to be informed of their rights, empowered, and build power.**

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