[Antiracism] New Americans Agenda public hearing Wednesday Feb. 18

[Caroline Murray]

New Americans Agenda Public Hearing
Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009
5:30 ­ 7:30 

St. Mary¹s Roman Catholic Church
840 Page Boulevard
Springfield 
The New Americans Agenda NAA is a comprehensive statewide initiative to
better integrate refugees and immigrants into the economic and civic life of
the Commonwealth.  

We strongly encourage you to attend this public hearing for Western Mass.
Residents and leaders to share with us: what it would mean for MA to be a
welcoming state for immigrants and refugees; challenges to integration
currently faced by immigrants and refugees and their receiving communities;
strategies to overcome those challenges. The meeting will include roundtable
discussions where you will have the opportunity to discuss your ideas
directly with members of the Governors Advisory Council for Refugees and
Immigrants.

Over the next year, the MA Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI) and the
Governor¹s Advisory Council for Refugees and Immigrants (GACRI) will develop
a series of policy recommendations to Governor Patrick on integration
challenges and solutions.  Ideas arising from the Springfield Public Hearing
will provide the foundation for these recommendations.

The Springfield public hearing is being co-convened by the Alliance to
Develop Power and the Center for New Americans.

To register to attend or to co-sponsor contact William Cano, director of the
ADP Worker Center at 413-739-7233 (william at a-dp.org).

-- 
Caroline Murray, Director
Alliance to Develop Power (formerly the Anti-Displacement Project)
ADP Worker Center / Casa Obrera
130 Union Street
Springfield, MA  01105
(413) 739-7233 phone
(413) 746-3012 fax
(413) 219-1108 cell




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