{"id":70,"date":"2026-04-15T01:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siembranc.local\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:59:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Siembra NC<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Siembra NC is a grassroots basebuilding organization<\/strong> focused on defending our communities from abusive employers, landlords, ICE and bad <em>pol\u00edticos<\/em>. Our strategy is to achieve <em>el buen vivir<\/em> and dignity for our communities by recruiting thousands of Latinos who are \u201con the sidelines\u201d to fight to win a true multiracial democracy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We began in 2017 as a reaction to the Trump Administration\u2019s war on immigrants. Since then we have:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Organized dozens of workers to win back their stolen wages&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recruited thousands of North Carolinians to make it possible for immigrants to go to school and work safely<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helped dozens of people win release from detention<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Won the state\u2019s first mobile home park <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfdd.org\/2022-06-24\/jamison-mobile-home-park-residents-facing-eviction-prepare-to-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">municipal displacement fund<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elected candidates who pledged to fight for our agendas when in office&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Registered thousands of Latinos to vote&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Since early 2025 our victories include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Won back over $280,000<\/strong> in returned stolen wages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Engineered the \u201c4th Amendment Workplace\u201d: <\/strong>We launched a first-of-its-kind initiative that trains employers and workers to refuse consent to ICE without a judicial warrant. And we\u2019ve won municipal resolutions in <a href=\"https:\/\/townofcarrboro.org\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/3003\">Carrboro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/912730555\/4th-Amendment-Workplace-Resolution-Final-published-Attachment-18044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Durham<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wataugademocrat.com\/news\/local\/boone-passes-4th-amendment-resolution-in-response-to-federal-enforcement\/article_e5076cc5-15dc-42d0-a483-a292573c56a5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boone<\/a> to protect our people on the job.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Forced Border Patrol out of our state: <\/strong>Over 7,800 people took at least two actions with us when CBP began Operation Charlotte\u2019s Web on Nov. 15, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/ice-immigration-border-patrol-latino-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forcing them<\/a> to end a planned two-week operation after only six days.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Took the Fight National with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendandrecruit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defend and Recruit<\/a><\/em>:<\/strong> We turned our North Carolina lessons into a national playbook, training thousands across the country and helping form over new local defense networks to fight the detention machine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Defeated Avelo Airlines:<\/strong> We <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/heres-how-we-pressured-an-airline-to-end-its-contract-with-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped lead<\/a> a successful national campaign to stop Avelo Airlines from being complicit in ICE\u2019s deportation flights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Siembra NC Siembra NC is a grassroots basebuilding organization focused on defending our communities from abusive employers, landlords, ICE and bad pol\u00edticos. Our strategy is to achieve el buen vivir and dignity for our communities by recruiting thousands of Latinos who are \u201con the sidelines\u201d to fight to win a true multiracial democracy.&nbsp; We<a href=\"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">\u00abAbout\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siembranc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}