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Abolition and Immigrant Justice: An Activist Roundtable

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Date
Feb 6, 2020   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Arianna Salgado, Bárbara Suarez, Galeano Rey Wences
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Originating Calendar
Asian American Studies

In this roundtable discussion, activist organizers will discuss their work in immigrant justice movements in both national and local contexts, particularly in Chicago. The panelists will speak to their personal experiences in becoming grassroots organizers against detentions, deportations, and the criminalization of immigrant and other targeted communities. Providing examples from past and current campaigns, they will also speak to the range of strategies they use to build strong collaborative coalitions and resist racist, xenophobic oppression, including policy work, legal activism, strategic communications, and civil disobedience.

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