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<span style="font-size:small"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Wednesday, </span></font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">12/30/09, 5:30 p.m. encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th flr, Boston, MA 02111</font></span></h1>

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HR-4321: Comprehensive Immigration Reform in Age of Obama</h1><div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;clear:both">


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A Discussion with Aarti Shahani, Mizue Aizeki & Joe Nevins</h3><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">


<img align="right" alt="" src="http://encuentro5.org/home/sites/default/files/dying-to-live.jpg" style="padding-top:4px;padding-right:4px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:4px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-style:initial;border-color:initial"><strong style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 5:30 p.m.</strong>Immigration reform will soon be on the national legislative agenda. All options on the table punish immigrants for global economic and policy failures. To consider the different bills, in particular the one that many progressives may offer critical support--HR 4321 aka the Guiterrez Bill--three important thinkers, Aarti Shahani (founder of Families for Freedom), Mizue Aizeki and Joseph Nevins (most recently authors of <em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100601600" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid</a></em>) will join us for an early evening conversation and light dinner.</p>


<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">See here for summaries: </p>
<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">1. <a href="http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/CIR_ASAP_2009_Summary.pdf" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">from the Immigration Policy Institute</a> <span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:smaller">(this is an Adobe Acrobat [PDF] file)</span></p>


<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">2. from <a href="http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1222-hr4321.pdf" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ILW.com (American Immigration, LLC)</a> (this is an Adobe Acrobat [PDF] file)</p>


<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">For the full bill:</p>
<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em">3. <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4321" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">HR 4321 (2009) at GovTrack.us</a></p>


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