Hear Aviva Chomsky/Gabe Camacho: The Immigration "Crisis" / Tuesday, Nov 11,
at 7:00 pm / UJP & MA Trust Act Coalition
When: Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7:00 pm to 9:00
pm
Where: encuentro 5 • 9 Hamilton Place • Park St T •
Boston
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A
forum cosponsored by United for Justice with Peace and Massachusetts Trust Act
Coalition
- What is the "border crisis" and how does it affect
Massachusetts?
- What are political and social consequences of terms such
as "illegal aliens"
- How has US foreign policy contributed to the
problem?
- How are local communities confronting the criminalization
of immigration polices, and helping recently arrived refugees?
Prof. Aviva Chomsky will provide historical context on the creation of
the so-called “illegal immigrant” in the US. She will discuss the effects
of military aid that the US poured into Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in
the 1980s that helped create a violently enforced inequality leading to the
problems today. Prof. Chomsky is coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem
State University and author of
Undocumented: How Immigration Become
Illegal (2014).
Gabriel Camacho is the Immigration Programs
Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. Locally the AFSC is on
the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Trust Act Coalition. With the
protracted death of "immigration reform" at the federal level, and President
Obama's repeated delays on executive action, Gabe will speak on conditions
facing newly arrived refugee families and how local communities are confronting
these issues.
United for Justice with Peace
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