On May 1st, the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies faculty hosted “Rethinking Immigration,” an online conference featuring movement leaders, academics, and policy experts discussing the roots of the crisis we face, progressive immigration policy goals, and strategies to achieve those goals. The even featured Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and now, videos from the conference are up online for anyone who missed it. Check them out here.
Tue. May 19 * 9:00am-10:15am
Online Forum via ZOOM
Speakers include:
Angeles Solis * Make the Road New York
Director of Worker Organizing
@AngeMariaSolis @maketheroadny
Eric Loegel * TWU Local 100
Vice President, Rapid Transit Operations (RTO)
@EricEddy100 @TWULocall100
Mark Henry * ATU Local 1056
President / Business Agent
#ATULocal1056 #1u
Nikki Kateman * Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW
Political & Communications Director
@nmkateman @Local338
Joshua Freeman * School of Labor & Urban Studies
Distinguished Professor of History @cunyslu #CUNYSLU
Diana Robinson * School of Labor & Urban Studies
Union Semester Coordinator @Ddee1985 @cunyslu
Please register for the live webcast of the RETHINKING IMMIGRATION conference, brought to you by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. The event will be held exclusively ONLINE.
U.S. immigration policy is a longstanding political flashpoint, one that may be further inflamed by the coronavirus crisis. The RETHINKING IMMIGRATION web conference will feature movement leaders, academics, and policy experts who will discuss the roots of the crisis we face, progressive immigration policy goals, and strategies to achieve those goals.
The live-streamed conference includes four plenary sessions. The first three cover:
(a) Historical perspectives on U.S. immigration, the economic impact of immigration, and the current nativist backlash.
(b) Visions of a progressive immigration policy: remediating the damage incurred under the Trump administration and looking forward to a path to legalization for the undocumented, as well as longer-term policies for border enforcement, family reunification, worker rights and future flow.
(c) Strategies for change, including organizing, coalition-building, framing and communicating progressive policy ideas to policymakers and the public.
These daytime plenary sessions are followed by a live webcast of a Town Hall with immigrant rights movement leaders in the evening.
Participating in the Conference:
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
The live-streamed conference is free of charge and open to the public. Please register here.
PRESS
Please email all press inquiries at least 24 hours before the conference to events@slu.cuny.edu. Recordings of the webcast are prohibited without expressed consent.
*Featuring*
BASIL SMIKLE, PhD
Political Commentator at CNN and MSNBC; Faculty at Columbia University; Former Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party; Former Distinguished Lecturer in Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Date: Fri, February 21, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Location: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036
Featuring:
Moderator:
Doors open at 8:30am. A light breakfast will be served.
Given the especially high stakes of the 2020 election, the need for broad and unobstructed voter participation could not be greater. Yet the past decade has seen a plethora of legal curtailments on voting rights. Since 2010, 25 states have adopted strict photo ID requirements, curbs on early voting, and voter registration restrictions that have all served to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a major win of the Civil Rights movement. Finally, the perennial challenge of voter turnout still exists – over 25% of eligible voters are unregistered, and only 50% of registered voters are expected to vote, making the prospects for a truly democratic election in 2020 very concerning.
What lessons can be gleaned from a long history of heroic efforts to ensure equal voting opportunities and rights for all? What are advocates, unions, and other activists doing to combat voter suppression and promote voter registration and turnout in the upcoming election? What should be the top legislative priorities of a more progressive, post-2020 federal government to strengthen our democracy by expanding the vote?
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