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COMMUNITY FORUM
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 Know Your Rights:
Raids and Arrests
On March 19th, Latinos Progresando brings back one of its most popular forum topics in partnership with Erie House. For more information, e-mail hallie@latinospro.org
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COLLEGE-BOUND YOUTH GROUP
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The College-Bound Youth
Group Wants to Meet with Your Student Organization!
This month, C-BYG will be visiting high schools to provide information about upcoming college readiness workshops, this spring's Role Model Breakfast and Recruitment Party, summer program opportunities with Radio Arte and Teatro Americano, and other opportunities to get invoved in LP's youth programs.
C-BYG would like to visit your student organization at your regular meetings between March 24th and April 2nd!
To schedule a visit, contact Melissa Gonzalez at melissa@latinospro.org or (312)850-9376. |
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 Teatro Americano Acting Workshops Begin!
On Saturday March 8th, Teatro Americano launched its 10- week theater workshop series! This exciting 2-hour session included improv games, the basics of artistic expression, and discussions of identity.
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| ADVOCACY ALERT! |
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 Tell Your U.S. Representative to Oppose the SAVE Act!
From Interfaith Worker Justice:
Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC) introduced the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE Act), H.R. 4088, in November 2007. This bill would seek to use workplaces as immigration-enforcement mechanisms but would not offer protections to workers, either U.S. citizens or immigrants, from unscrupulous employers.
Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your representative, or send them an e-mail here. Tell them the SAVE Act would hurt our workforce and would not fix our broken immigration system.
Click here to learn more about the SAVE Act and read the letter the Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition sent to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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 News and Events from Partner Organizations
To submit your event or announcement for posting in this section, please send an e-mail to eblast@latinospro.org with "e-blast" in the subject line.
Teatro Vista Presents Dreamlandia
_________________________________________ Job Announcement
Development Director, Pilsen Alliance
Pilsen Alliance seeks to hire a
full-time Development Director. The Development Directors will manage and
support most aspects of the organization's Fundraising systems and
activities.Principal duties include: developing
and maintaining an Annual Fundraising Plan and Calendar, researching and cultivating funding sources, working with staff to prepare grant proposals and reports, working with staff & board to kick-off Individual Giving Campaign in 2008, andworking
with staff to develop and send newsletters. Must have a bachelor's degree, at least 2 years non-profit/fundraising experience, proficiency Microsoft Word applications, and experience writing at least 5 grant proposals. Submit a cover letter, resume and appropriate writing
sample by Friday, March 14 to Alejandra
L. Ibaņez, Executive Director at ibanez.alej@gmail.com.
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Hecho en Paracho in the Latino Film Festival Hecho en Paracho has been accepted for the 24th Chicago
Latino Film Festival!
Friday April 4 at 7.30 pm
Sunday April 6 at 3.30 pm Instituto Cervantes
31 W. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60610 _________________________________________
Latinos United Releases Bajo el Mismo
Techo
What: Housing
Roundtable
Date: Tuesday,
March 25th, 2008
Time: 9:00-11:30
AM.
Place: Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal LLP
78th Floor
of the Sears Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
60606
Latinos
United is proud to announce the completion of our housing overcrowding study Bajo el Mismo Techo
(Under the Same Roof), The Latino Community in Suburban Chicago: An Analysis of
Overcrowded Housing, to be released at a Housing
Roundtable event. The Bajo el Mismo Techo Roundtable is the culmination of
Latinos United's efforts towards forwarding an empowering and thoughtful
housing policy agenda for Latinos throughout the Greater Chicago area. This
report provides a summary of available knowledge on housing overcrowding and
some of the issues involved in policy development.
_________________________________________ Scholarships Available
for the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform
The fourth National
Conference for Media Reform is set for June 6-8, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN.
The event will be an exciting, inspiring three-day gathering for people who are
concerned about the state of our media and committed to working for change. The
conference will convene thousands of activists, educators, media makers,
journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens to discuss how to create a
better media system.
In order to maximize the
range of voices represented at the conference, Free Press has raised funds to
offer travel scholarships and registration fee waivers to offset attendance
costs for a number of individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Please go to http://www.freepress.net/conference/=scholarship08
for more information and to apply. The scholarship application deadline is
March 31, 2008. | |
Want to Get Involved?
Latinos Progresando benefits hugely from the work of our dedicated volunteers. To find out about volunteering, contact the appropriate program coordinator below:
Legal Sevices: marcy@latinospro.org
College-Bound Youth Group: melissa@latinospro.org
Teatro Americano: melissa@latinospro.org
Community Forums/Advocacy: hallie@latinospro.org
Development/Administrative: laseago@latinospro.org
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About Latinos Progresando
Latinos Progresando, a nonprofit organization based in Pilsen and Little Village, serves immigrants through the highest-quality, low-cost legal immigration services, community education and engagement, and advocacy/organizing around just immigration policy.
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