24th Latin America Encuentro Immigration and U.S. Policy in Latin America
Saturday, October 18th 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Throop Church 300 S Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena 91101 Registration starts at 9:30 AM Suggested donation: $20 Pre-registration. $25 at the door. Vegetarian lunch for the first 100 registrants. Students with ID free. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information call Ruth Shapin at 714.567.0188 Please bring your old eyeglasses for Nicaragua. Keynote Speakers: Wayne Cornelius - Center for Comparative Immigrant Studies, University of San Diego Paula Kruz Takash - Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, L.A. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda - Latino Studies, UCLA Blase Bonpane - Office of the Americas,"The New Wave in Latin America" Dr. Wayne Cornelius, considered the foremost expert on Immigration from Mexico will make rare Los Angeles appearances as the featured speaker at two events in Pasadena this weekend: The 24th Annual Encuentro Event, Saturday October 18th , 10AM at Throop Church, Del Mar and Los Robles and Sunday October 19th, 10:15 AM at All Saints Church, Longworth Room, Euclid across from City Hall. The Saturday Encuentro Conference on the theme Immigration and Foreign Policy will also feature the renowned co-founder of the L.A. Office of the Americas, Blase Bonpane, whp will speak on the new revolutionary developments in the Americas, as well as Professor Raul Hinojosa of UCLAs Ethnic Studies Program and his wife Dr. Paule Cruz Takash who have pioneered in Transnational organizing and development programs of benefit to immigrant communities Dr. Cornelius is Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego where he founded and is Director of the Institute for Comparative Immigration Studies. His research projects over the past decades have resulted in many books including Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (2007); Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States (2007), Four Generations: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration (2008), and Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California (forthcoming, 2009). He has also appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes and PBS Frontline, and his research has been reported in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and many other national and international media. Contact: Rev. Paul Sawyer: 626-794-8345 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
