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Causes: Civil Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights
Mission: To educate low-wage and immigrant workers about their employment rights, develop youth leadership, promote community organizing, legislative education, and advocacy and electoral activism in order to achieve policy changes that benefit the immigrant community and the workforce at large.
Programs: Voces action works to get out the vote, communicates support and/or opposition to candidates in the geographic areas where there is the most concentration of latinos, and researches and educates the latino and worker population about what are current electoral issues and concerns for the community.
research and lobbying efforts to support the legislative areas of concentration, in support of worker and immigrations rights and access to accountable public education.
education of the latino community about topics where legislative change is sought, including driver's licenses, local id cards, in-state tuition for undocumented students, policing and law enforcement issues.