WE’RE OFFICIAL!
AFSC Iowa and Iowa JFON have joined forces and are now the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice (Iowa MMJ). We are a statewide membership-based advocacy and legal service organization driven and led by immigrants and refugee voices and united with allies.
We need all hands on deck! If you value the work we do and the services we provide you’re already part of our community. Will you join as a member and donate to invest in the work we do together?
Office: 515-255-9809 | Facebook: @iajfon
What you need to know about DACA!
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice (Iowa MMJ) is a statewide membership-based, legal service and advocacy organization. Driven and led by immigrant and refugee voices, and united with allies.
Ann Nafler | Managing Attorney | 2024 Forest Ave, Suite 101, Des Moines, IA 50311 | 515-255-9809
The Americans is the trailer to Hyunsoo Moon's documentary. It tracks the journeys of a number of Storm Lake residents.
Moon and his wife have traveled from LA to Storm Lake a number of occasions and will be returning to Storm Lake in the summer of 2021 to continue work on this documentary.
SALUD! is proud to host Moon, director and editor of Anchor Pictures and his wife, Haejung, producer, while working on these beautiful stories of our community members.
Heartland strong: Road trip through Middle America reveals resilience, pragmatism, and diversity.
"More and more, white Middle America is being repeopled with newcomers of color, bringing a workforce to agricultural jobs, a vibrancy to decaying towns, and a mix of welcome – and suspicion – from older residents." - Doug Struck, Christian Science Monitor
The first of a three series podcast titled "The Politics of Fear: What are we so afraid of?"
This episode enlightens us to the rhetoric of fear in immigration; talking with police officers, lawyers, DACA recipients, and DREAMers to flesh out this issue, and face our fears head on.
"Spirited but amicable was the mood as a crowd of more than 50 heard Storm Lake mayoral and city council candidates state their positions in the public forum hosted at Our Place Sunday afternoon." - The Storm Lake Times.
Check out Pilot Tribune's "SL candidates talk housing, community image" for more details!
"If I had to choose between making a great living in Paraguay, and working for no money here in America, I would pick the latter. I love America, and the opportunities, it has given me,” says Lisa Funk, owner of Storm Lake Bakery.
Take a moment and check out Pilot Tribune's "The Sweetest Thing behind one local business: Story behind Storm Lake Bakery."
TV journalist, Katie Couric, was in Storm Lake in September interviewing locals on immigration issues. Couric and a crew of eight are filming interviews as part of an as-yet-unnamed six-hour series on current issues to be broadcast next spring on the National Geographic Channel.
Our very own Storm Lake Police Chief, Mark Prosser, was in Washington, DC in September for Welcoming America’s Welcoming Week! He was a part of an expert panel, that included California State Senate President Tempore Kevin de León, to discuss state and local actions to promote public safety and increase inclusion for immigrant and refugee communities across the country!
In early July The Latino Commission on AIDS and the Hispanic Health Network released a national report Illuminating the Needs of the Forgotten 'Olvidados': A National Health Assessment of Hispanic/Latinos Growing Older with HIV.
In late May of this year Storm Lake was featured in the New York Times article titled Immigrants Keep an Iowa Meatpacking Town Alive and Growing.