Breakthrough aims to foster an understanding and celebration of our racial and ethnic differences and to end discrimination and violence.
In order to have a broader public dialogue around immigration and racial justice, we must look towards policies that uphold due process and human rights.
We produce media, toolkits and events that emphasize the need to build connections across our many concerns and identities. These include:
• The Restore Fairness campaign is calling on the U.S. government to support fair immigration and racial justice by providing tools for action. Watch our documentary films: Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America and Restore Fairness. Please click HERE for our other documentaries on immigration and racial justice.
• Our I AM THIS LAND video contest is Breakthrough’s call for a more positive and open-minded future for our country.
• Video games like, ICED – I Can End Deportation, that puts players inside the shoes of an immigrant to see what its like to have no due process or human rights.
• Interactive sites like Homeland Guantanamo, where you’re the undercover investigative reporter exposing inhumane detention conditions and learn about DHS accountability.
• The Restore the Right to Due Process campaign, which uses animations, video interviews, a music video, the ICED video game, stand -up comedy, interactive toolkits and education to illustrate how current U.S immigration policies are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and demean all of us who are proud to live in America.
• Forums, such as "Why Can't America Have Human Rights?" which brought community leaders, activists, students and organizations together to talk about building a human rights culture in the United States
• Collaboration with Sarah Jones on her one-woman performance piece, Waking the American Dream, which portrays the experiences of immigrants in the aftermath of 9/11
• Bringing Durban Home: Combating Racism Together -- a video, narrated by Pulitzer laureate Alice Walker, which highlights the important issues addressed at the historic World Conference Against Racism
• The Speak Up! Act Up! initiative to involve young people in promoting equality for and the rights of minority communities in the United States