Hirono co-introduces immigration reform bill
U.S. Sens Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., introduced a multi-pronged bill on Wednesday aimed at keeping families together through the immigration process.
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Forum on Immigration Reform
Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Forum on Immigration Reform Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Time: 6:30PM to 8:30PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan PROGRAM Welcome: Dr. Gregory Mantsios, Director, Murphy Institute, School of Professional Studies, CUNY Moderator: Dr. Doug Muzzio, Professor, … Read more
Streetwise for Book Smarts: Community Organizing, and Education Reform
While these education organizing groups had similar goals and worked in the same political context, they frequently employed divergent political strategies in their campaigns. My talk will draw upon 18 months of ethnographic research I conducted with four education organizing groups in the South Bronx. It will focus on the ways in which the groups’ organizational toolkits made a difference, and how grassroots organizations can work more effectively towards substantive social change.