AFIRE Frameworks
...build the capacity of Filipinx/a/os to organize on issues of social, racial, and economic justice that affect undocumented immigrants, domestic workers, seniors, and youth.
What is AFIRE's mission statement?
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Personal experience, family history, workplaces, previous roles, schooling
What are sources that inform your values?
This type of power recognizes our individual capacity, sense of self-worth, and belief in inherent ability to make change
What is power within?
A process for building power, particularly for and involving people and communities who have traditionally been excluded from decision-making
What is the definition of organizing / community organizing?
End policies that discriminate against the communities and issues we prioritize: immigrant, domestic worker, worker, and LGBTQIA+ rights.
What is an AFIRE organizational goal?
It is essential to do this when building relationships and people power.
What is outreach and engagement?
Naming your vision and values
What are ways to keep yourself and others accountable?
See the patterns and connections of power among these entities
What power mapping allows us to do?
Altering the relations of power to influence policy
What is an integral goal or objective of organizing?
Citizenship Program and Organizing Program
What are AFIRE's main programs?
An active base; actualized leadership; clear & consistent systems; embodied values; grounded framework; strong & unified front
What are key structures needed to get organized?
Self, Vision, & Roles
What are the three components of the Organizer Triangle?
This type of power directs power toward something creative, generative
What is power to?
A strategy to intentionally create the conditions to learn, grow, build, and move towards a shared vision of liberation for immigrants, workers, domestic workers, queer and trans people, and oppressed peoples everywhere.
What is AFIRE's definition of Organizing?
We honor one another’s time, as it is the most valuable thing we can offer one another.
What is AFIRE's value of Honoring Time?
This goal results in growing in numbers and building people power.
What is the goal of building a base?
The Organizer Triangle incorporates these approaches to visualize the self, vision, and roles of an organizer.
What are imagination, wisdom, and life experiences?
Vision and strategy, approaches, tactics
What are aspects of the process of altering power needed to make vision a reality?
Narrative shift, lobbying, campaigning, organizing, coalition building, legislation, non-violent direction action
What are different types of strategies in direct action organizing?
Immigrants, Domestic Workers, Queer and Transgender People, Youth, Seniors
What are the communities AFIRE serves?
Resource distribution through workshops, trainings, teach-ins, skill-shares, and other mutual aid efforts are examples of this feature of leadership development.
What is sharing resources with the community?
Working with others, a group, or organization.
What are conditions that influence your values?
Type of context; those with power; ways in which power is exemplified; mechanisms of bestowing power upon individuals or the group; scope of impact of decision-making
What are considerations of power within a specific context?
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