Sunday July 27th
7-9 PM | Plenary - Immigration: Myths & Realities | Faiman Lounge
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Jane Guskin, author, The Politics of Immigration
Phil Hutchings, Black Alliance for a Just Immigration, Oakland
Esther Lopez, US Food and Commercial Workers
Latenight| Reception for Summer Institute Community |
Monday July 28th
1:30-3 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - Immigration & Family Separation | Room 426- Amalia
Pallares, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Workshop 2 - “Ticket to Nowhere:” The HIV Ban in U.S. Immigration Law | Room 434- Ruth Edwards & Kate Miller, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Workshop 3 - Climate Change and Migration | Room 440 - Christina DeConcini, World Resources Institute
3:30-5 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - Eliminating Racism | Room 426- Jim Oleson, United to
End Racism
Workshop 2 - The Solidarity Economy | Room 434- Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics
Workshop 3 - Immigration Dialogue Part 1| Room 440 - Jane Guskin, author of The Politics of Immigration
7-9 PM | Plenary - What would a good immigration policy be? | Room 320
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Oscar Chacon, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbeean Communities
Maliha Safri, CPE staff economist-Immigration and Economic Integration: Europe vs. the U.S.
Anna Avendano, AFL-CIO-A Rational Framework for Immigration Reform
Tuesday July 29th
7-9 PM | Plenary - Black Brown Divisions and Unity | Room 320
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CIRCA (Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts) theater group, Jennifer Burton - a singer, poet, actress.
Neighborhood Writers Alliance - reading
Prexy Nesbitt, Making the Road
Jenny Arwade, Albany Park Neighborhood Council
Eric Ward, Center for New Community - Which Way Forward: African Americans, Immigration & Race
Wednesday July 30th
1:30-3 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - Globalization, Trade, & Outsourcing | Room 426 -
James Thindwa & Carlos Fernandez, Chicago Jobs with Justice
Workshop 2 - African Immigration: Inside the Business of African Migration: The Economics of Brain Drain and Refugee Movements | Room 434- Kelley Johnson, United African Organization & Dalitso Sulamoyo, Illinois Community Action Association
Workshop 3 - The Role of Prisons in U.S. Capitalism | Room 440 - Geert Dhondt, CPE staff economist
3:30-5 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - Hometown Association Interventions Back Home: Structural
Change vs. Remedial Measures | Room 426- Oscar Chacon, National Alliance
of Latin American and Caribbean Communities & Artemio Arreolo, Confederation
of Mexican Federations in Chicago.
Workshop 2 - Financial Meltdown | Room 434- Ozgur Orhangazi, author of Financialization and the U.S. Economy
Workshop 3 - Immigration Policy: Where We’ve Been, Where We Need to Go | Room 440 - Fred Tsao, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
7-9:00 PM | Summer Institute Coffee House & Open Mic | Faiman Lounge
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CIRCA: Caregiver - a short piece about an immigrant caregiver who receives bad news from home while taking care of an elderly man. Written by Lorely Trinidad.
Performers:
- Levi Aliposa (Caregiver) - an old time Pintig Artist-Activist who is a social worker by profesion.
- Frank Suda (elderly man) - a Chicago actor who's been doing theater for the past 10 years with different Chicago theater companies.
Open mic - be brave and share your talents!
9-10:30 PM | Movie night | Room 528
- Film - To Be Announced
Thursday July 31st
1:30-3 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - The Hidden Economic Agenda Behind the Crackdown on Undocumented
Workers | Room 426- Tim Bell, Chicago Workers Collaborative
Workshop 2 - Immigration Dialogue Part 2 | Room 434 Jane Guskin, author, "Politics of Immigration"
Workshop 3 - Building a Co-operative Movement Among Immigrants | Room 440 – Martin Unzueta and Dan Bianchi, Center for Labor and Community Research
3:30-5 PM | Workshops
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Workshop 1 - The Cost of War | Room 426- Mary Zerkel, Darlene
Gramigna, American Friends Service Committee
Workshop 2 - Friend or Foe?: Government Regulations and Immigrant Banking | Room 434- Alethia Jones, Univ. of Albany
7-9 PM | Plenary - Immigration enforcement | Room 320
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Florian Kaufman, CPE Staff economist-Attracting Undocumented Emigrants:
The Consequences of U.S. Border Enforcement
Tim Bell, Chicago Workers Center-ICE Raids & Profiling: Enforcement Through Fear & Its Impact on Immigrant Workers
Tim Dunn, author of Blockading the Border and Human Rights - Salisbury Univ, MD-Border Immigration Enforcement, Militarization, & Labor Implications
Moderator: Gilberto Rosas, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Friday August 1st
3:30-5:30 PM | Radical History Tour
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