<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;float:none">Hello friends—Tomorrow is our second session of the seminar on global/local immigration, Sunday, 4-6pm, 122 Franklin Street.  Please come if you can! (see details down below). </span><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Tomorrow we’ll talk about what we’ve found out about immigration in other countries, and how people respond to the injustice of most of the policies around it. </div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Rick Esbenshade has offered links to 2 articles he’s written on this subject for the Public I: </div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8646805752555713541h5"><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail-"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-"><a href="http://publici.ucimc.org/refugee-crisis-a-crisis-of-europe/" target="_blank" class="gmail-">http://publici.ucimc.org/refug<wbr class="gmail-">ee-crisis-a-crisis-of-europe/</a></div><div class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-"><a href="http://publici.ucimc.org/anti-refugeeism-without-refugees-in-eastern-europe/" class="gmail-">http://publici.ucimc.org/anti-<wbr class="gmail-">refugeeism-without-refugees-in<wbr class="gmail-">-eastern-europe/</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;float:none">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><i class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">School for Designing a Society</span></i><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><font class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" color="#000000">invites you to </font></span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><font class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" color="#000000">a</font></span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> w</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">eekly community “drop-in” seminar on global/local immigration: </span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:10pt"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">"How can investigating issues about immigration lead to activist interventions in Champaign-Urbana?"</span></b></div><p class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></p><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Sundays  (Come when you can)</span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">4-6pm</span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">School for Designing a Society</span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=122+Franklin+St.,+Urbana,+IL&entry=gmail&source=g" class="gmail-">122 Franklin St., Urbana, IL</a> </span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">(tea and coffee provided)</span></div><p class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Seminar Sessions will include: </span></b><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- films and documentaries</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- research the book <i class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-">Global Heartlands </i>by Faranak Miraftab </span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- presentations by guests</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- testimonials by emigrant neighbors</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- collecting news reports about detentions/deportations/travel bans</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- collecting  info about working conditions in places where immigrants work</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- analyzing right wing exploitation of anti-immigrant sentiment around the world</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- researching pro-immigrant organizations in Illinois</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- looking at labor organizing as it relates to immigration</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- looking at other artistic responses to the issues - theater, songs, films, poetry, visual art</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">- creating guerrilla theater interventions</span><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></div><p class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This seminar is being organized at no cost to participants.</span></div><div class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For info or to RSVP, please contact <a href="mailto:susan@designingasociety.net" class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span class="gmail-m_3019894947268448488gmail-" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none">susan@<wbr class="gmail-">designingasociety.net</span></a></span></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Susan Parenti</b><br><i>Educational Coordinator </i><br><br></div><b>The School for Designing a Society </b><a href="http://www.designingasociety.net" target="_blank">www.designingasociety.net</a><br><br></div><i>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/designasociety" target="_blank">Facebook</a>!</i><br></div></div>
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