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A National Conference for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

Authors: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights [4]

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New York City, August 2004. Photo © 2007 Ellen Shub

January 18-20, 2008 in Houston, Texas

As federal immigration reform has reached an impasse, government, police and many other forces have been stepping up attacks on immigrants and refugees at the local, regional, and state levels. ICE raids continue sweeping up thousands, and the new Social Security no-match rules were barely - and only temporarily - stopped from going into effect.

At the same time, community organizations led by immigrants and refugees have been pushing forward creative initiatives to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities and link with other communities and movements demanding justice & dignity.

Come to Houston in January 2008 to:

  • Share stories, strategies and tactics for innovative initiatives built from the grassroots!
  • Share and learn new techniques in community organizing, media & communications, popular education and more
  • Learn about exciting work happening at the intersection of immigrant and refugee rights, gender, sexual orientation, and across many different racial and ethnic communities
  • Learn about and share with the many communities and nationalities that make up the immigrant and refugee rights movement
  • Work with the international migrants rights movements, exposing "free" trade policies' harmful impacts causing forced migration worldwide
  • Help build a shared immigrant rights platform for this critical election year and together lift our voices to reframe the national debate towards justice, dignity and human rights!

For more information, contact the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights at 510/465-1984;conference08@nnirr.org [5]; www.nnirr.org [6].

From Issue 380 - November 2007 [7]

Regions: United States [8]

Categories: 3.05.05 social empowerment [9] 3.05.06 social transformation [10] 4.01.01 speeches and declarations [11] 4.01.06 teach-ins [12] 5.01.01 strategies for nonviolent social change - how to [13] 5.01.07 allying for justice - how tos [14] 5.02 countering political repression, promoting human rights [15] 5.02.13 economic human rights [16] 5.02.14 social and cultural rights [17] 5.03.05 social movement organizations and coalitions [18] 5.05.02 countering exploitive world trade [19] 5.06 promoting economic justice [20] 5.06.03 job rights, minimum wages, right to a constructive job [21]


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