JUSTICE NOW!: ORGANIZING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

Join us for an historic roundtable discussion
on the new era of immigrant justice
Organized by the NYU Immigrant Justice Collective*

• When: Saturday, March 31, 2007; 12 - 3 PM
• Where: Judson Memorial Church's Assembly Hall, 239 Thompson St.,
NY, NY
• Free and Open to the Public; Refreshments Provided.
• Wheelchair accessible; Please RSVP below to request ASL
interpreting services

Justice Now!: Organizing Immigrant Communities is an open roundtable forum that will bring together cultural workers and activists from diverse movements-- including immigrant rights, labor rights, youth activism, and queer rights-- who are actively working to build new models for immigrant justice organizing. This roundtable will examine questions of detention, deportation, profiling, borders, torture, and surveillance. We believe in using this space to highlight the intersectional, interstitial, and intervening issues within immigrant justice organizing that are often collapsed under the sometimes reductive banner of "immigrant rights." This roundtable discussion will be an opportunity to brainstorm collectively and share best practices and dynamic strategies that respond to the immigration crisis defining
our political times.

MODERATED BY:

Deepa Fernandes, author of "Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration" and host of WBAI's flagship morning program, Wakeup Call.

FEATURING COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS FROM:

Asociación Tepeyac de New York
Audre Lorde Project
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
DRUM: Desis Rising Up and Moving
Make the Road By Walking/Se Hace El Camino Al Andar
New York Taxi Workers' Alliance
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Queers for Economic Justice

SPONSORS:

Judson Memorial Church
Program in American Studies, Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis, NYU
Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU
Program in Latino Studies, NYU
Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute, NYU
Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, NYU

CONTACT US:

WEBSITE: http://immigrantjusticeroundtable.blogspot.com
EMAIL TO RSVP: immigrantjustice@gmail.com

* NYU Immigrant Justice Collective is composed of first year graduate
students in American Studies, Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis: Leticia Alvarado, Juan José Bermudez de Castro, Maxime
Berthemy, Sven Cvek, Joanna Dee, Lezlie Frye, Ronak Kapadia, Devin
Murphy, and Lena Sze