Events
PAIR events:
Trainings for Pro Bono Attorneys
Annual Gala Dinner & Auction
Other events:
Frozen River is the story of Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo), an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit. Playing in only three Boston-area theaters; for more information and showtimes, visit the website.
"Detained" by documentary filmmaker Jenny Alexander (Physicians for Human Rights event).
Last year, immigration agents raided a New Bedford factory and arrested nearly 400 undocumented Central American immigrant workers. Immigration agents separated children from their parents. The parents were held for weeks in immigration detention centers as far away as Texas and Louisiana. Most of the workers captured in the raid were deported. Many of those who remain fear that they could be persecuted if they are returned to their home countries, and are seeking asylum in the U.S. Their stories are told in the poignant documentary "Detained."
This is an excellent opportunity to meet other PHR members engaged in the movement to safeguard the health and human rights of asylum seekers in the US.
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
A.R.T.'s Zero Arrow Theatre
Zero Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Event includes film screening, panel discussion, refreshments, and networking.
RSVP to Jennie Baldé by Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Physicians for Human Rights' Health and Human Rights Council is a group of health professionals, lawyers, teachers, artists, business people, graduate students, human rights activists, journalists, NGO workers-anyone in their 20s and 30s who cares about health and human rights and wants to promote PHR among the next generation of health rights leaders. Council members carry the PHR message to new and diverse audiences and contribute their talents in promoting and ensuring justice and the right to health for all people. Special benefits for Council members include invitations to exclusive member events throughout the year, a special luncheon with PHR CEO, Frank Donaghue, and your name listed in PHR's Annual Report.
There Are No Illegal People with photojournalist David Bacon (event by Jamaica Plain Forum). David Bacon is an award-winning photojournalist, organizer and author. He will detail how our national economic and trade policy produces displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and therefore a more divided and polarized society.
David's new book, "Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminializes Immigrants" will be on sale.
More information.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008, at 7:00 pm
First Church, Unitarian Universalist Sanctuary
6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
FREE
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) has organized the following Voter Registration events. For more information and details on how to volunteer, please contact Ellen Gallagher or visit the MIRA website.
Wednesday, August 13, at JFK Library
Thursday, August 21, at Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Thursday, August 28, at Faneuil Hall
Thursday, September 4, at Faneuil Hall
Wednesday, September 10, at Moakley Court House in Boston
Thursday, September 11, at Moakley Court House in Boston
Wednesday, September 17, at Fenway Park
Thomas Albrecht, Deputy Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, met with local legal advocates on July 21, 2008, at Mintz Levin in Boston to discuss issues pertaining to immigrants- including ICE raids and policies, asylum office decision-making for Iraqis, pro se appeals from detainees, and more.
