<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">CCI Lunch Time Conversations about Race & Racism: <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Issues That Matter to Boston (and beyond)<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:276.0pt"><b> IMMIGRATION REFORM POLICY --</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:276.0pt"><b>JUST & HUMANE? -- OR MASSIVE DEPORTATION PIPELINE?<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:276.0pt"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>MAY 19 (Wed)<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Noon-1:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 604</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">By 2009, over half the people detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were scooped up through new programs that were supposed to focus on catching dangerous criminals. <b>Yet, the majority had no criminal records at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b><span style="font-weight:normal">There’s no indication that the bipartisan reform bill Sens. Schumer and Graham have been drafting will alter this course. BUT two existing bills are examples of true change: Rep. Luiz Gutierrez’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform ASAP bill in the House and the Refugee Protection Act in the Senate.*<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">On May 19, our guests, PATRICIA MONTES, Executive Director of Centro Presente, and GABRIEL CAMACHO, Board President, Centro Presente, will share with us their political position on the immigration legislation currently before the U.S. Congress. They will also describe the collective actions we can take to support a real, just and humane immigration reform.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Established in 1981, <b>Centro Presente</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> is a member-driven, state-wide Latin American immigrant organization dedicated to the self-determination and self-sufficiency of the Latin American immigrant community of Massachusetts. Operated and led primarily by Central American immigrants, Centro Presente struggles for immigrant rights and for economic and social justice. Through the integration of community organizing, leadership development and basic services, Centro Presente strives to give our members voice and build community power.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Please join Community Change Staff and friends for this lunch time conversation around race & racism:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>issues that matter to Boston…and Beyond. Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: RSVP 617-523-0555, <a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Community Change, Inc.</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the Kerner Commission which named racism as "a white problem." Since 1968, CCI has done what few organizations are willing to do: shine a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its source, as well as with its impact on communities of color.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">*http:..<a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/article/5734/">www.inthesetimes.com/main/article/5734/</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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