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LEFT FORUM 2012: MARCH 16-18, 2012 NEW YORK CITY

 

The Immigrant Manifesto and the Struggle for Social Justice
Organizer and Chair: Saskia Sassen 

March 17, 2012, 12 pm
Room W402

PANEL DESCRIPTION

Immigration is at the forefront of the increasingly abusive control practices of the US government at diverse levels. The panel will examine what diverse organizations and initiatives are doing to a) contribute to a different type of analysis about immigration, and b) actively contest the abuses deployed by government agencies in the name of the law.

PANELISTS

Tania Bruguera, a highly acclaimed artist, is active in the struggle for immigrant rights; she researches how art can be applied to everyday political life. Her work is in the collections of Tate Modern, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Museum of Modern Art, and several other museums around the world. She has received many honors, including most recently a Guggenheim fellow, the Prince Claus Prize, and the first Neuberger Prize.

Ujju Aggarwal is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. Her focus is on the importance of the public sector within education as an actively contested arena in which neoliberal projects are generated and contested. This grows out of her work with the Center for Immigrant Families (CIF). She is a community organizer and popular educator on immigrants’
rights, the intersections of art and social justice, public education, and violence against women of color.

Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and educator, organizes for equity and justice in public education; for peace and justice in Palestine/Israel; and against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. She coordinates the Participatory Action
Research Center for Education Organizing (PARCEO) that operates in partnership with the Educational Leadership Program at NYU-Steinhardt, where she teaches PAR.

Sarahi Uribe coordinates the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) The aim is to advance and protect the civil, labor, and human rights of day laborer in the United States. NDLON has helped in the creation of dozens of worker centers, campaigns to overturn anti-day laborer solicitation ordinances, fought labor abuses including wage theft, and built strong alliances with labor unions. It is the national leader challenging the devastating impact of harsh immigration enforcement.

Chair: Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, A Sociology o Globalization, and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy. Among older books is The Global City. She is the recipient of multiple doctor honoris causa and was selected as one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine.

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