[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] public hearing: Governors Advisory Council for Refugees & Immigrants 2/18

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

From: Caroline Murray caroline at a-dp.org 



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

St. Mary's 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 Massachusetts
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 Mass. Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI) and
the Governor's 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.   Catholic Charities of
Springfield is co-sponsor - if your organization is interested in joining as
a co-sponsor please contact ADP.

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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