[Peace] this Sunday: a seminar on global/local immigration, leading to activism in C_u

[Susan Parenti]

*School for Designing a Society* invites you to a weekly community
“drop-in” seminar on global/local immigration:
*"How can investigating issues about immigration lead to activist
interventions in Champaign-Urbana?"*


Sundays (beginning Feb. 4. Come when you can)
4-6pm
School for Designing a Society
122 Franklin St., Urbana, IL
(tea and coffee provided)


*Seminar Sessions will include: *
- films and documentaries
- research the book *Global Heartlands *by Faranak Miraftab
- presentations by guests
- testimonials by emigrant neighbors
- collecting news reports about detentions/deportations/travel bans
- collecting  info about working conditions in places where immigrants work
- analyzing right wing exploitation of anti-immigrant sentiment around the
world
- researching pro-immigrant organizations in Illinois
- looking at labor organizing as it relates to immigration
- looking at other artistic responses to the issues - theater, songs,
films, poetry, visual art
- creating guerrilla theater interventions


This seminar is being organized at no cost to participants.
For info or to RSVP, please contact susan at designingasociety.net


-- 
*Susan Parenti*
*Educational Coordinator *

*The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net

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