Underground Undergrads: Immigrant Students and the DREAM Act Monday, October 5, 2009. 3:30 pm Communications 226 There are hundreds of thousands of students throughout the country who, through no fault of their own, have been relegated to a life in the underground economy. These students are the children of undocumented immigrants. Although they were protected until their 18th birthday – receiving an education, making friends, and in some cases living in the only land they ever knew – now are considered undocumented immigrants themselves. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (the DREAM Act) was introduced in the U.S. Congress March 26, 2009. If enacted, the new immigration bill will provide millions of immigrant children who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have been residing in the United States continuously for at least five years prior to the bill being enacted into law, and who graduate from U.S. high schools the opportunity to earn permanent U.S. residency. Come to learn about this important civil and human rights campaign that is being led by students throughout the country and how you can get involved. Kent Wong, Director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA, where he teaches Labor Studies and Asian American Studies, will present Underground Undergrads: Undocumented UCLA Immigrant Students Speak Out, a collaborative book project with Janna Shadduck-Hernandez. He served as the Founding President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, the first national organization of Asian union members and workers. He writes extensively on labor issues; co-edited Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement; and has published two other books: Voices for Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New American Labor Movement, which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese, and Voices from the Front Lines: Organizing Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles, a bilingual English-Spanish publication now in its second printing. Also on the program is UCLA student Matias Ramos, who is featured in Wong’s book, as well as the screening of two student-produced documentaries on the plight of undocumented students. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Labor Center, the Race/Knowledge Project with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the School of Social Work.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Cultural Workers Unite! Talking Race, Performing Resistance Thursday, February 26, 2009. 6 - 8 PM Communications 120 University of Washington, Seattle Campus Free and open to the Public Please join The Race/Knowledge Project for the second installment in
our series of events exploring the circulation of racial meanings
within the University and across multiple communities. We present a
night of performance, readings, and discussion about anti-racism,
activism, art and culture with poet and musician Amber
Flame, Emcee Geologic of Blue Scholars, and author Nisi Shawl,
moderated by Michelle Habell-Pallán, UW Professor in the Department of
Women Studies, and the School of Music. The conversation will focus on
how these cultural workers use their work to examine the
interconnections between race, history, power and representation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Labor & Philippine-US Relations: Challenges and Prospects Monday, November 24th, 2008. 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Communications Bldg. Room 202
Since 1898 the Philippines and the United States have been closely linked together in history. Thus, the development of the Philippine labor movement is intricately tied to Philippine-US relations. The US is the Philippines' largest trading partner, investor and source of military funding. Under increasing globalization, the role of the US in the Philippine economy has led to an economic crisis that has shaped labor in an era of sweatshop labor, technology outsourcing and call centers. This is also evident in the increasing migration to the US of Philippine nurses, engineers and other professionals. The rising Philippine labor movement has been met with police and military repression.
Elmer Labog is the current Chairman of Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement). KMU has been at the forefront of the trade union struggle for improved worker conditions, popular democracy, accountability and national industrialization. KMU is an umbrella organization for hundreds of labor organizations with thousands of members across the Philippines. Elmer's talk will focus on the current situation for Philippine labor as well as the challenges and prospects with the recent US election of Barack Obama. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Race Now? Race/Knowledge Project Kick-off Event Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:00 - 7:30 PM Electrical Engineering RM 303 University of Washington, Seattle
Join the Race Knowledge Project and others from our UW and Seattle community in a conversation about race and racism. This kick-off celebration and reception for our year-long project will be the first in a series of participatory events to examine the contemporary articulations and contradictions of race and racism within and beyond the university. Fall 2008 Reading Group Meetings Communications RM 226 University of Washington, Seattle
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