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CLILA is the abbreviation for Coalition for Latino Leaders and we are a non-profit organization in Dalton that has served the Latino community in various counties in Northeast Georgia (Whitfield, Murray, Catoosa among others and part of Chattanooga). Our motto is “leadership to serve not to be served” and we firmly believe that each person is a leader that can serve the community.
This organization began to work formally in Mayo 2006, and all of our members are volunteers that donate our time and effort. Little by little and with limited resources we have succeeded in opening doors for the Latinos and establishing local program to fight for equality of opportunities and Latino representation in all sectors. We especially focus on persons of low means and on immigrants. As well as the local work, we have established relationships of collaboration with state and national organizations to accomplish social justice. We regularly visit the local, state and federal legislators to discuss the matters that preoccupy the Latino community.
Some of the activities that we realized during the 2011 year: weekly community information meetings to organize the community with respect to the matters that affect everyone; meetings with the mayor of Dalton and the chief of police of Dalton with respect to the devastating effects of traffic stops; workshop about the necessity of transportation; Campaign route of liberty to avoid being detained, information meetings about anti immigrant laws in Georgia HB87; we participated as one of the suing organizations against HB87; visited immigrant men and women at the detention centers; weekly community fast for immigration reform; collection of 6800 signatures against HB87 and another 3000 on a second occasion; supported the Dream Act; 9 full busses to different marches for dignity for the immigrants to Atlanta, 3 vigils for immigrants; registration of 150 new voters; information meetings about candidates, how to protect the voting rights, citizenship classes, monthly meetings from immigration lawyers, English classes, filling out of citizenship forms and residency renewals; forums about discrimination at work; collaboration with different agencies, immigrant posada with vigil for the detained and deported; collaboration with Occupy Dalton.
Some of the services that will be offered in 2012 are:
Citizenship classes – will be offered help with the citizenship exam, practice questions and filling out of application.
English classes – learn English little by little in a friendly atmosphere and at your own pace. We have
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