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The
Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal is
Proud
to Invite You to its
6th
Annual Symposium:
Confronting
Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color
Thursday,
April 17, 2008
3:00
p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
University of California,
Hastings College of the Law
200
McAllister Street
Alumni
Resource Center
San
Francisco, California
Keynote speakers include:
EVA
PATERSON
President
and Founder of the Equal Justice Society,
and
former Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil
Rights
LUCAS
GUTTENTAG
National
Director and Founder of the Immigrants’ Rights Project of the
ACLU,
and
lecturer at Stanford Law School and U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall
School of Law
BILL
HING
Founder
of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center,
and
Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at the University of
California, Davis
JENNIFER
CHACÓN
Specialist
in immigration law,
and
Acting Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis
School of Law
This event will also feature the following panels:
In
Solidarity: Deconstructing Myths, Fears, & Assumptions about
Immigration
Quality
Education for All: Reform Through Collaboration
Color
Lines and Turf Wars: Responding to Divisions in Minority
Communities
Immigration
Reform from a Labor Perspective
Stop,
Collaborate and Organize: Combating Racial Profiling in I.C.E.
Raids and Policies
A schedule of events and details will follow.
TO
RSVP PLEASE EMAIL: hrpljsymposium@gmail.com
Proposition
Communities
of color are too often divided by the issue of immigration.
Though these communities share a strong common interest in
fairness and equal opportunity, many individuals, and particularly
those who struggle the most to make ends meet, are concerned about
the way their economic lives are affected by increased
immigration. There is a fear among many that generous immigration
policies result in unfair competition for jobs, as well as for
other assets such as education.
For example, a recent poll found that nearly twice as many
black Americans as white Americans said that they or a family
member had lost a job or not gotten a job because an employer
hired an immigrant worker. By
contrast however, public opinion data also shows that a majority
of African-American voters support immigration reform that
includes enforcement and a path to citizenship.
Furthermore, a closer look shows that on average, those who
advocate for restricted immigration have not proven trusted allies
of African-Americans and other people of color. What causes and
perpetuates this divide over immigration and what can we do about
it? This symposium will focus on solutions for uniting immigrants
and communities of color. Recognizing
that creating "us versus them" paradigms does not help
anyone in the long run, this will be an opportunity to discuss
proactive strategies and to build coalitions.
Mission
The
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal is an organization at U.C.
Hastings College of the Law that is committed to promoting and
inspiring discourse in the legal community regarding issues of
race, poverty, and social justice.
Our journal was formed in 2002 by a small group of
committed students to address the vacuum in legal scholarship
pertaining to issues of race and poverty.
Against many obstacles, it has grown into a coalition of
more than 100 law students dedicated to progressive lawyering in
the interests of the poor and marginalized.
It is also known as one of the most politically-active
forces on our law school campus.
Past
Symposia
For
the past five years, the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal has
organized an annual afternoon-long symposium dedicated to subjects
related to the study of race, poverty, social justice, and the
law. Every year a
specific topic is chosen and panels of practitioners, scholars,
and community activists address specific issues related to that
topic. Past topics
have included: "So Goes The Nation: How California Reflects
National Trends In Issues of Race and Poverty,"
"Reviving the Dream: Confronting Racism in the 21st
Century," "Economic Justice: Growing Inequality in
America," "Human Rights and Liberties 50 Years after
Brown," and "Reclaiming Civil Rights: Access to
Justice." In
addition to the panels, we have an opening presentation and at
least one keynote speaker to close the event.
Past Keynote Speakers have included: Dolores Huerta,
Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers; Mark Rosenbaum, Legal
Director of the ACLU of Southern California; Honorable Cruz
Reynoso, former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court;
Patricia Williams, acclaimed Author and Columnist for The Nation
Magazine; and the Honorable Willie Brown, former Mayor of San
Francisco.
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