A recording of the press call can be found here
Leaders from labor, civil rights, and progressive organizations unite to expose Project 2025 and its policy proposals, which would have a catastrophic impact on education, healthcare, and economic well-being for Latinos in the United States.
WASHINGTON D.C.— Today, representatives from SEIU, America’s Voice, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), People’s Action, Poder Latinx, UnidosUS Action Fund, and Latino Victory Foundation launched the “Defendiendo Nuestro Futuro, Latinos Against Project 2025” campaign, first reported on Axios, to warn and mobilize Latino communities about the imminent dangers posed by Project 2025. Website can be found here.
On a press call today, representatives of the organizations highlighted the significance of the bilingual campaign to educate and inform Latino voters on the consequences of Project 2025 and the disturbing policy proposals it has precipitated across the country. Speakers emphasized the severe harm that Project 2025 and similar policies would inflict on the interests of the Latino community, from education, cost of living, healthcare, and the economy.
“The SEIU is the largest union of care and service workers nationwide and the largest union of immigrant workers. Most of our members are frontline workers, including caregivers, cleaners, food service workers, and airport workers, who play a crucial role in our society and economy,” said David Huerta, President of the SEIU CA State Council and SEIU-USWW. “The proposed policies in Project 2025 are dangerous, and extreme, and primarily benefit wealthy corporations. Project 2025 jeopardizes the gains workers and unions have made during the Biden-Harris Administration. We cannot build a thriving economy if we do not protect Latino workers from exploitation and marginalization.”
“Project 2025 lays out an extreme and cruel policy agenda harmful to immigrant communities,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice. “The ‘Latinos Against Project 2025’ bilingual campaign will be an invaluable tool to shine a light on policies that would separate American families, deport Dreamers, and wreck the economy for working people. No matter how much its supporters and the authors try to deny their own nearly 1,000-page playbook, we must remain vigilant against Project 2025’s inhumane objectives against the Latino community and make sure the white nationalist vision does not become a reality for Americans and Latino communities.
“LCLAA stands united with our partners and proudly supports this initiative because we recognize that Project 2025 is not just a threat– it’s a direct assault on the hard-won progress of Latino workers and our communities. This goes beyond the individual policies; this playbook aims to dismantle the very systems that uplift and empower nuestra comunidad,” said Evelyn DeJesus, National President of LCLAA and Executive Vice President of AFT. “We will not sit idly while our hard-earned rights are stripped away. We will fight with unwavering resolve to defend our future. Together, we are stronger, and together we will prevail. ”
“Project 2025 is a troubling blueprint for an administration that aims to strip away many of the vital benefits and protections that Latinos currently enjoy. It’s beyond conservative, it’s flat out radical and will stop at nothing to dismantle essential rights, liberties and policies, threatening our present and future, as well as our democratic institutions,” said Yadira Sánchez, Executive Director of Poder Latinx. “We are at a critical juncture where our collective action is needed more than ever. To counteract this potential threat and prevent the rise of authoritarianism, it’s crucial that we come together, vote decisively, and protect the progress we’ve made,”
“Project 2025, is a meticulous 922-page plan designed to terrorize communities, tear families apart, and trample on our rights. It threatens children, caregivers, and communities, deporting millions, and forcing American families to live without healthcare, housing, and food. Together, we are mobilizing to choose a different future,” said Sulma Arias, Executive Director of People’s Action. “Project 2025 circumvents Congress and the courts to impair citizens and injure immigrants. From Green Card seekers, to work visa and temporary status holders, from undocumented taxpayers to refugees and asylum seekers, he’ll menace children, caregivers, and communities. After it rips work permits and deportation protections away from DACA-holding DREAMers, and forces families, seniors, and kids living in poverty to go without healthcare, housing, and food, Project 2025 will deport millions. But it’s not just immigrants who will suffer under Project 2025. Citizenship won’t come with access to contraception, fertility treatments, or reproductive freedom. It won’t offer protection from unregulated toxins in the air, water, and soil, or stop emboldened polluters from accelerating climate change. The only antidote to any of this is organizing. We need to get out the vote to elect champions of a better vision for tomorrow. And then we need to organize to build a country that works for all of us.”
“Project 2025 embodies everything that stands in the way of progress for our communities. From destroying economic opportunity for hard-working Americans, including Latinos, to threatening our education system, access to healthcare, immigration reform, and decimating the social safety net that millions rely on – Project 2025 is wrong for Latinos and wrong for America,” said Katharine Pichardo-Erskine, Executive Director of Latino Victory Foundation. “At Latino Victory, we are proud to stand alongside our partners, “Defendiendo Nuestro Futuro,” as this campaign is not just a call to action; we are clearly defending our families, values, and future. Together, we will mobilize, educate, and empower Latino voters to protect our rights and ensure a brighter, more equitable government for future generations.”
“Project 2025 poses an unprecedented threat to our civil liberties, particularly aiming to strip away the fundamental rights that Latinos and other marginalized communities have fought so hard to secure,” said Rafael Collazo, UnidosUS Action Fund Executive Director. “Make no mistake – Project 2025 is not a plan for the future, but one already put into motion by the first four years of the Trump presidency. A second term would ensure the dismantling of our democracy and the elimination of the individual freedoms and civil rights that make this country the greatest nation on Earth. We intend to put forth every tool at our disposal to ensure that every Latino is aware, engaged, and mobilized this November in opposition to this plan.”
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Latinos Against Project 2025 is a national and state-level campaign comprised of several organizations across the country including, America’s Voice, PoderLatinx, SEIU, Latino Victory Foundation, UnidosUS Action Fund, People’s Action, LCLAA, and the HIP Foundation
