Citizens for Immigrants
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“A Gift of Hands” from The Story on American Public Media
Julie Mullin says her business selling organic, fair trade fiber products is doing quite well in this economic climate. But she couldn’t do it without the unusual partnership she’s formed with a Montagnard woman named Jum.
Julie once had a successful quilting business. Then severe arthritis stole her ability to use her hands. Jum had just come to the United States from the remote central highlands of Vietnam. She didn’t speak English, she had never had running water or electricity, and she certainly didn’t know how to run a sewing machine. But Julie needed hands, and Jum needed a job.
Now, despite the language barrier and the faltering economy, the two women have learned to work together seamlessly, and Julie says her business is booming.
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@On_The_Media: A Personal Angle on the AZ Immigration Bill
Every so often, when a local story becomes a national story, we like to ask local reporters what they think of all the coverage. This week, Arizona Republic reporter talks about coverage of that state’s controversial immigration bill and about the challenges of being a Latino reporter on the immigration beat. Read transcript here.
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via @Making_Contact: Re-Humanizing Immigrants: Reflections by Maria Hinojosa
Despite President Obama’s promise to change America’s broken immigration system, the dehumanization and detention of immigrants continues to rise. On this edition, Mexican-American journalist Maria Hinojosa speaks about the United States’ loss of humanity’ in dealing with immigrants and immigration. -
via @LatinoUSA: @MariaHinojosa speaks to @NIJC.
Across the country, protests have been calling for the Obama Administration to end a controversial immigration deportation program known as Secure Communities. It’s aimed at targeting criminal undocumented immigrants . But activists say non-criminals are getting caught up in the program. Now, a lawsuit has been filed challenging the constitutionality of DHS’s use of immigration detainers, which instruct police to continue to detain individuals after the local police’s authority has expired until DHS officers arrive to take the individuals into custody.
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Radio Program on Immigrant Student Access to Education: Michael Olivas Speaks
Professor Michael Olivas (Houston; President, Association of American Law Schools) discuss undocumented students and access to education. Olivas is the author of the new book No Undocumented Child Left Behind (NYU Press 2012). The program airs Friday 10pm, Saturday 5am, 11am, 8pm and Sunday 12am, 7pm ET on Sirius XM 113 and via the web on Bloomberg Radio.
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via @WBAI_Radio: Kids In DeportationWHAT: Special Broadcast December 28, 2011 from the New Sanctuary Coalition on Pacifica Radio 99.5 WBAI Radio NY
Annually, approximately 6000 unaccompanied minors are arrested by federal immigration agents and placed into removal proceedings. These children are placed in the care of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and held in various facilities around the country ranging from foster care settings to shelters to juvenile detention centers. Many are eventually released to relatives or other adult caretakers. Their deportation cases, however, continue. Without appointed counsel, many have to navigate the immigration system alone.
This program will discuss the law, policies, and realities of these children
HOSTED BY Ravi Ragbir of The New Sanctuary Coalition
GUESTS:
Wendy T. Wylegala is Supervising Attorney for Pro Bono Programs in the New York office of Kids in Need of Defense, a national non-profit that seeks to expand pro bono representation for unaccompanied minors in immigration matters. She joined KIND in November 2008 as a Pro Bono Coordinator, serving first in Newark, NJ before joining the New York office in March 2011. With a full-time staff of three, KIND’s New York office trains and mentors pro bono attorneys, and conducts intake interviews and know-your-rights programs for children.
Elissa Steglich is the Managing Attorney at the American Friends Service Committee’s Immigrant Rights Program in Newark, New Jersey. In addition to supervising legal staff, she provides direct representation to asylum seekers, immigrant children, and immigrant victims of violence and human trafficking. She has provided training to pro bono attorneys, state court judges and child welfare workers and administrators on legal protections available to immigrant children.
Maria Woltjen is the Director and founder of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, based at the University of Chicago Law School. The Young Center’s primary is to serve as guardian ad litem (Child Advocate) for trafficking victims and unaccompanied immigrant children pursuant to the 2008 TVPRA. The Young Center trains bilingual law students, graduate social work students and lay volunteers to serve as Child Advocates for children in immigration detention, as well as children who have never been apprehended by immigration authorities. The Child Advocates help unravel the children’s life stories and ensure that while they are most vulnerable—separated from their families and subject to deportation—decision-makers consider the children’s best interests in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and applicable state and federal law. Informed by its work on behalf of individual children, the Young Center advocates for policy change at the national level and local level. Ms. Woltjen is appointed a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School where she directs the Immigrant Child Advocacy clinic.
Dr. Greg Lewis is a Clinical Psychologist in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he has been on staff since 1987. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and has a part-time private practice in Wheaton, IL doing individual, couples, and family therapy. He received his doctorate from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Lewis works with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings and specializes in treating those who suffer from chronic illnesses or have been traumatized or abused. He is Co-Director of the Adolescent & Young Adult Clinic at Stroger Hospital, and regularly consults to the Child Protective Services team, the pediatric and trauma units, and the emergency room.
Father Fabian Arias: Minister of the Sion Church in Harlem and Co-Chair of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC. He is ministers to a large group of undocumented immigrants and understands the fear that they face. He asks that all people be treated with respect and dignity.
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via @howsoundtweets: Chorus of Refuge
Once you’ve finished producing a story, what are you supposed to do with all the tape? Just let it sit on a shelf?Some producers will re-purpose their interviews — turn them into a print piece or maybe fashion a new radio story. Producers Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann, along with Jason Cady, a composer, created something very different. They re-purposed tape and made sound art. I’m sure someone’s done that before, but, frankly, I can’t think of it.
The piece they produced is “Chorus of Refuge” and it’s a song comprised of interviews collected for Ann and Kara’s series on Weekend America called “One Thing.” Originally, “Chorus of Refuge” was intended for museum installations where six radios played six interviews broadcast from six transmitters all at once. HowSound doesn’t have six-channel surround sound so we’re featuring the stereo mix — just two channels, left and right.
During a recent interview, Ann and Jason cited a handful of creative influences that inspired “Chorus of Refuge” most notably the groundbreaking radio documentary from Glenn Gould, “The Idea of North.” Ann also named sound artist Janet Cardiff while Jason says he had Renaissance music like Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Gloria in mind as well as the poetry of Jackson Mac Low and Emmett Williams, both of whom wrote poems to be read by two or more people simultaneously.
So, be prepared. This HowSound will stretch your ears. That’s a good thing!
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via @SplendidTable: Claudia Kolker explains what Americans can learn from newcomers to the country.
Book: The Immigrant Advantage
Website: ClaudiaKolker.com
