(NAME-MCE) National Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Rights January 18-20 Houston TX

[Anselmo Villanueva]

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

National Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Claiming our Rights, Envisioning our Future:
Communities Organizing for Justice

http://www.nnirr.org/events/conference/2008/english.html

Believing that 2008 - and beyond -- holds great promise and great
peril for those who organize and advocate for an immigration policy
based on human rights, dignity and justice, the National Network on
Immigrant and Refugee Rights is convening a national conference in
Houston Texas on January 18-20, 2008.  Join us in Houston to:

    * Share stories, strategies and tactics for grassroots initiatives
    * Learn new practices and skills in community organizing, media &
communications, popular education and more
    * Hear about exciting work at the intersection of immigrant and
refugee rights, gender, sexual orientation, and across different
racial and ethnic communities
    * Expose harmful trade policies causing forced migration worldwide

Help build a shared immigrant rights platform for this critical
election year and together, lift our voices for justice and human
rights.
Tentative Workshops & Topics Include:

    * Lifting Immigrant Voices in the 2008 Elections
    * Racism and Immigration: Bridging Communities in the Post-Katrina Era
    * Organizing and Communications Skills Development
    * Border and Interior Immigration Law Enforcement
    * Globalization and Migration: Addressing "Root Causes"
    *  Promoting the Human Rights of Im/Migrants
    * Immigration, Labor and Workers Rights
    * Immigration Policy and Legislation
    * Popular Education for Transformative Community Organizing

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a
national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant,
refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations
and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis,
to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and
coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.
We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United
States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and
refugees, regardless of immigration status.

The National Network bases its efforts in the principles of equality
and justice, and seeks the enfranchisement of all immigrant and
refugee communities in the United States through organizing and
advocating for their full labor, environmental, civil and human
rights. We further recognize the unparalleled change in global
political and economic structures which has exacerbated regional,
national and international patterns of migration and emphasize the
need to build international support and cooperation to strengthen the
rights, welfare and safety of migrants and refugees.

Arnoldo García
Director of the Immigrant Justice and Rights Program
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
310 8th Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94607
510.465.1984 x305
agarcia at nnirr.org