<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Szoke, Claire O" <cszoke@illinois.edu> <br>Date: 2014/09/02 14:45 (GMT-06:00) <br>To: "Charlotte Green (charlotteg588@gmail.com)" <charlotteg588@gmail.com>,"Stuart Levy (stuartnlevy@gmail.com)" <stuartnlevy@gmail.com>,megan@universityymca.org,barkes@gmail.com,lcooper@parkland.edu,"Carolyn Vance (cjvance2010@gmail.com)" <cjvance2010@gmail.com>,carolinskeep@yahoo.com,"Mierek, Jason Bradley Ploof" <mierek@illinois.edu>,"Melissa Schoeplein (mschoepl@yahoo.com)" <mschoepl@yahoo.com>,kmedina67@gmail.com <br>Subject: Forum on Central American Children at the Border <br> <br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is a flyer about an upcoming forum on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Central American Children at the Border: What Can We in Champaign-Urbana Do?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please distribute to those individuals/groups you think might be interested.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Claire Szoke<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Central American Children at the Border: What Can We<span style="color:red">
</span>in Champaign-Urbana<span style="color:red"> </span>Do?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Community Awareness and Dialogue Forum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, 309 W. Green, U<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We've all been hearing quite a bit lately about the humanitarian crisis precipitated by the arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors coming here
from Central America. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So what's really going on here? It's time we gave the children a voice. Join us for this important community dialogue.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Guest Speaker<b>: Rebecca Cabezas</b>, Paralegal at the National Immigrant Justice Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Objectives include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Understand the humanitarian crisis of Central American children on the border<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Learn what ordinary citizens can do to help:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">***Raise funds for legal representation</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">***Mentor individual students and provide support for host families or host groups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Co-sponsors include: CU-Immigration Forum, Immigration Task Force of the UUCUC, the University YMCA, and Channing Murray</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<b>Foundation<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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