Visa Justice Program 2023
Social Media Kit
This year, those of us who obtained a visa through the Visa Justice Program will travel to the US with an advocacy campaign to position our demand for fair mobility for our deported and forcibly returned community.
To move is to occupy spaces. When we occupy spaces, we gain visibility, we connect the microphone.
At Visa Justice 2023 we demand:
PEOPLE need mobility!
This year, Visa Justice’s focus is on community-led narratives, our artistic approaches and how through cultural power and the knowledge that comes from the community that lacks mobility, we are demanding for fair freedom of movement for the deported and returned population. Breaking away from the limitations of immobility can be a first step to liberating both physically and emotionally.
For this we have two complementary demands for the U.S. Department of State that we will send through a memorandum:
Carry out the necessary guidelines and reforms to establish that having lived in the US and having family networks there is NOT a reason in itself to deny a nonimmigrant visa.
Carry out the necessary guidelines and reforms to encourage consular officials to positively weigh an individual’s family network in the United States & any inability for family to otherwise reunite as a factor in deciding whether to recommend a waiver of any applicable ground of inadmissibility.
We ask you politicians, decision makers, academics, artists and community there in the United States:
Our stories cross.
Our bodies, when?
Visa justice now!
The deported/returned community must be part of the conversation about mobility justice both in Mexico and the US, this is a translocal struggle.
Here’s how you can help:
Social Media
Join our campaign launch!
We need your support to amplify our demands and reach the right audiences in the U.S. On Monday, November 27 at 3 pm, we will share our official Visa Justice video on all our social media platforms. And we want to ask you to support us in sharing it on your networks as well.
Here’s a caption that you can use and modify.
You can also use the campaign profile and cover photo.
Share, Share, Share!
Whenever you want and can, share content about the campaign and tag us! You can upload stories, reels, TikToks, tweets, posts, whatever you like.
What can you talk about? Here are some ideas:
What is Visa Justice?
Why is Visa Justice important?
Why do we have to make the demands of the deported and forced returned community visible?
Remember to tag us!
Share our demands!
Help us amplify our voice! Share in your networks our demands to advocate for a fair mobility for our community.
Here are some examples of phrases that you can modify
You can download and use these images.
And don't forget to tag us @OtrosDreams_ODA on Twitter
Public intervention
Our stories, experiences and our voices exist in the neighborhoods, on the streets both here and there! We will make our demands visible in the public space as well. This is a translocal action, here we leave you some stickers and postcards, you can download them, print them and support us in amplifying our narratives in your spaces.
Help us spread the word!
Are you in Washington DC or NYC? Join us! We will have forums, round tables, screenings of the documentary El Digno Retorno, the staging of Pocho Sonnet, an exhibition, among other activities where we will position our narratives for fair mobility. Whether or not you’re attending any of these events, be part of these conversations. Download and share the itinerary and flyers.
