Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania
The Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania (MILPA) is a network of families who fight for the dignity and human rights of every person, regardless of immigration status.
We facilitate the education, organization and participation of communities for the defense and promotion of our constitutional rights so that our communities can work to create the political, social and economic changes in which every human being is treated with equality and rights.
Since 2012 MILPA has built communities of committees, all led by volunteer immigrant leaders, in Harrisburg, Chambersburg, Upper Darby, Philadelphia and Lancaster County.
Awarded Grants
2021
Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR)
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Overview
Sheila Quintana Aguilar in collaboration with the Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania (MILPA), will develop a short documentary on MILPA as it nears its ten year anniversary, supported and informed by a crew MILPA members. Footage filmed in the process will also be used to produce brief social media videos to support and amplify MILA's organizing campaigns and actions as needed throughout the year. With compounding crises around racism, the economy, climate change, health, and more, MILPA, led by undocumented and working class people organizing for human rights and economic justice for all, has a deep understanding of the root causes of the symptoms we experience as daily injustice - and this media work seeks to capture that leadership.