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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Caroline Murray caroline@a-dp.org
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#FD0000'>New Americans Agenda Public
Hearing<br>
Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009<br>
5:30 – 7:30 <br>
<br>
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church<br>
840 Page Boulevard<br>
Springfield </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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 <b>roundtable
discussions</b> where you will have the opportunity to discuss your ideas
directly with members of the Governors Advisory Council for Refugees and
Immigrants.<br>
<br>
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. <b>Ideas arising from the Springfield Public
Hearing will provide the foundation for these recommendations</b>.<span
style='color:#0000FD'><br>
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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.<br>
<br>
To register to attend or to co-sponsor contact William Cano, director of the
ADP Worker Center at 413-739-7233 (<u><span style='color:#0000FE'><a
href="mailto:william@a-dp.org">william@a-dp.org</a>)</span></u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Caroline
Murray, Director<br>
Alliance to Develop Power (formerly the Anti-Displacement Project)<br>
ADP Worker Center / Casa Obrera<br>
130 Union Street<br>
Springfield, MA 01105<br>
(413) 739-7233 phone<br>
(413) 746-3012 fax<br>
(413) 219-1108 cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TO
UNSUBSCRIBE, send an email to wmjwj@wmjwj.org with a Subject of "Unsub Workers'
Rights".<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[Workers'
Rights] posts opportunities for you to learn about and show solidarity with
workplace and working class struggles. And these events are opportunities for
JwJ members to fulfill their pledge: <a href="http://www.jwj.org/pledge.html"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>"</span>I'll be there for workers' rights at
least five times a year!<span style='text-decoration:none'>"</span></a>
This is the core mission of Jobs with Justice (<a href="http://www.jwj.org/">www.jwj.org</a>),
affirming that workers' rights are human rights. To subscribe, send an email to
wmjwj@wmjwj.org with a Subject of "Subscribe Workers' Rights".<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Western
Mass Jobs with Justice<br>
640 Page Blvd #101<br>
Springfield MA 01104<br>
(413) 827-0301 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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