Immigrants are the 99%! Occupy Wall Street Teach-In

Corporate Greed <--> Immigrant Workers

What's the connection?

Learn from directly affected people about detention/deportations and wage theft.

Co-Sponsored by:

Brandworkers
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center (CDP)
Families for Freedom (FFF)
Make the Road NY (MRNY)
New Immigrant Community... [read more]

Corporate Greed <--> Immigrant Workers

What's the connection?

Learn from directly affected people about detention/deportations and wage theft.

Co-Sponsored by:

Brandworkers
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center (CDP)
Families for Freedom (FFF)
Make the Road NY (MRNY)
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR)
Restaurant Opportunities Center-NY (ROC-NY)
Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center (SVP)

<Lunch is provided>

<Spanish translation will be provided>

SCHEDULE:

12:00 – 12:15 pm - Check-in and Lunch

12:15 – 12:25 pm - Introduction to IWJWG and Overview
Facilitators: Juan Carlos Romero and Thanu Yakupitiyage

12:25 – 12:40 pm - Topic: DREAMers and the education system
Presenter: Jessica Taube, Make the Road NY (MRNY)

12:45 – 1:00 pm - Topic: US economic and military policy – free trade, neoliberalism, military intervention and the drug war – as causes of migration
Presenters: Eleazar Castillo and Hilary Goodfriend, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)

1:05 – 1:20 pm - Topic: Wage Theft
Presenters: Andrés Garcia with Stephanie Luce of CUNY Murphy, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)

1:25 – 1:40 pm - Topic: Topic: Worker exploitation in the restaurant industry and current campaigns relating to paid sick days and the tipped minimum wage
Presenters: Eric Brown, Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY (ROC-NY)

1:40 – 1:55 pm 15 MINUTE BREAK

2:00 – 2:15 pm - Topic: Campaigns at Wild Edibles and Flaum Appetizing against sweatshop conditions in NY’s food processing and distribution industry *This presentation will be in Spanish*
Presenters- Presenters: Raymundo Lara and Jose Juan Romero with Marty Kirchner, Brandworkers

2:20 – 2:35 pm Topic: Campaign to lower the $1,000.00 fines for minor administrative violations
Presenters: Sasha Ahuja, Osama Khatlan, and Matt Shapiro, Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center (SVP)

2:40 – 2:55 pm Topic: The historical and political context for recent mass deportation and targeting “criminal alien” policies, with a focus on collaboration between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the criminal justice system
Presenters: Michelle Fei, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and Lili Salmeron, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR)

3:00 – 3:15 pm - Topic: Private prison divestment and anti-detention and deportation campaigns
Presenters: Donald Anthonyson and Carla Rice-Mata, Families for Freedom

3:20 – 3:50 pm - Discussion and Conclusion
Facilitators: Danny Katch and E. Tammy Kim

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