Temple Beth Israel

Resource Page

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Support for Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, Latinx Community

Support for immigrants & refugees; get the newsletter, support, donate, volunteer for Catholic Community Services/ Refugee and Immigrant Services Program (RISP), www.rrclc.org.

Support for asylum seekers: Oregon Community Asylum Network (OCAN) assists and advocates for people seeking safe haven in the United States through grassroots organizing, education, and sponsorship. https://grassrootsconnect.org/ocan

Comprehensive community resource support; donate to and receive news from Eugene-based Plaza de Nuestra Comunidad (Plaza) (formerly three separate entities, Huerto de la Familia, Downtown Languages, and Centro Latino Americano): https://plazacomunidad.org

Community resource support in Spanish: Springfield-based Escudo Latino. To offer help for her amazing work contact Program Coordinator Mariela through Escudo Latino on Facebook and escudo.mariela@gmail.com.

Long time hub for political action for social justice, the Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC) continues the struggle for racial justice, immigrant rights, economic justice and educational equity and opposing heterosexism, and anti-Semitism, calclane.org/.

Legal info for immigrants and allies, including a know-your-rights video: Eugene based Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC), cldc.org.

Legislative awareness and support of farmworkers and working Latinx families: join Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) mailing list, https://pcun.org. Their legislative work is effective and visionary.

Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) for a community toolkit, information about how the Sanctuary Promise Act is applied, as well as know your rights information: https://www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-department-of-justice/civil-rights/sanctuary-promise/community-toolkit/

Action: Support passage of Oregon Senate Bill 611: Food for All Oregonians. Bill would expand food assistance programs to include youth, seniors, and immigrants currently excluded from federal SNAP “food stamps” program.  1) Submit individual Testimony in support of SB 611: https://secure.oregonfoodbank.org/a/submit-public-testimony-help-pass-food-all-oregonians

Action: (Tuesdays, 9am): Call for Lane County to affirm Oregon’s sanctuary laws at the Lane Board of County Commissioners meetings, Tuesdays at 9am at 125 E 8th Avenue, Eugene. Sign up or get more information about in-person or zoom testimony: https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4082662

Action: (Ongoing): Support the campaign for universal healthcare with Healthcare for All Oregon (HCAO) Learn, donate and get involved at https://www.hcao.org/.

Support for Transgender People

Trans Alliance of Lane County (TALC), Eugene based personal support and political action group for transgender people and allies. Email transalliancelane@pm.me, ask for information from Jacob or Anna.

Support, education, resources: TransPonder is a transgender-founded and led nonprofit based in Eugene, Oregon providing support, resources, and education for the transgender and gender-diverse community and allies. https://transponder.community/

Health care, disease prevention, navigation and support: The Lavender Network is a place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other LGBTQ+ people to access specialized services. Includes shared space with community partners TransPonder, Queer Eugene, Pride Day Equality Project (Eugene PRIDE is 6/28/25), Authentic Movement Project, and HIV Alliance.

Advocacy and education across Oregon: Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) will ensure that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, intersex, and asexual Oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion, and achieving policy victories. https://www.basicrights.org/

Action: (Tuesdays, 9am) – Submit public testimony in support of specific county action to protect and support immigrant and transgender people in Lane County to the Board of County Commissioners. Lift up the need to continue providing and funding gender affirming medical care in County medical clinics, and to stockpile hormone replacement therapy and other medically necessary supplies in anticipation of a federal shortage or ban. To submit testimony in writing, attend in person, or attend via zoom, go to: https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4082662

Action: (now through Nov 2026) – support the Constitutional Amendment, Equal Rights for All, an Oregon ballot measure campaign that affirms the right to abortion, contraception and IVF, transgender health care, and same-gender marriage in the Oregon Constitution. https://www.equalrightsoregon.com/

Support for Racial Justice

NAACP, Support and political action for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.  The oldest and still wonderfully effective. Donate, volunteer, join at https://naacplanecounty.org.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) mobilizes white people for racial justice. Through campaigns, education, and action opportunities, we move people to reject racism and complicity–and to join movements for change. Get involved with the Springfield/Eugene chapter at https://surj.org/chapter/surj-eugene/.