Help build a community of workplaces that defend immigrants and uphold the law.
How many businesses does it take to build a movement?
✔ 10+ businesses | key businesses supporting rights start to build awareness
✔ 20+ businesses | a clear sign the Constitution is being upheld
✔ 40+ businesses | leverage to change local policies
Become a volunteer (sign up below) and receive:
- Volunteer training
- Organizing guide (in English) (em Português)
- Materials to give to businesses
- Canvassing and email script (in English) (em Português) to approach businesses
6 Steps for Volunteers
Step 1: Know "Why now?"
Unconstitutional searches and seizures are taking place across the country, including in Massachusetts.
These arrests are disrupting local economies, forcing some businesses to shut their doors, and causing hundreds of workers’ families to suffer the sudden loss of a primary income earner and caregiver.
Thousands of workplaces depend on over 30 million foreign-born workers, and on the 48 million foreign-born consumers who spend $1.7 trillion and pay $652 billion annually in taxes.
Illegal searches and seizures undermine public safety and may lead federal agencies to expand their warrant-less incursions into our private lives and further erode our Constitutional rights.
Step 2: Know what it means to be an MV 4A Project Workplace
An MV 4A Workplace follows 5 steps and uses protocols to:
✔ Secure private employee areas
✔ Identify invalid ICE warrants
✔ Document unconstitutional actions
✔ Defend all workers, no matter their immigration status
Step 3: Read the organizing materials
Read the MV 4A Project Organizing Guide (in English)(em Português) and familiarize yourself with the canvassing and email script (in English) (em Português).
Step 4: Ask Island businesses
Send us an email at MV4AProject@Proton.me with the list of businesses you’re contacting, starting with those in your network. We’ll respond with any updates on status. Contact Island businesses and invite them to become an MV 4A Workplace.
Step 5: Document and follow up
After you contact a business, complete the online form at the bottom of this page. Make sure you get the name, email and phone number of the owner/manager during your conversation. Let us know if they put up a sign, if they’re going to put up a sign, if they’re going to educate themselves and their employees about their rights, or if they declined to participate. Remember to follow up with businesses to ensure signage is posted and to answer questions.
Step 6: Invite others to join us
This movement is dependent on our community coming together to turn fear into knowledge.