immigration

Friends With Benefits: A Fundraiser for Community Member's Immigration Legal Fees

Date: 
Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 7:00pm - Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 2:00am
Location: 
Witch Beach - 1414 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY 11213 (Safer Space Venue)
Contact: 

646-398-0679

Friends With Benefits: A Fundraiser for Community Member's Immigration Legal Fees
Date/Time: March 2nd, 7pm
Location: Witch Beach - 1414 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY 11213 (Safer Space Venue)
Directions: Take the 3/4 to Crown Heights/Utica Ave Stop
Bands: Tijuana Bibles, Music Was My First Gay Lover, Shady Hawkins, more TBA

Ash Wednesday March/Rally From Ellis Island to New Jersey's Immigrant Detention Centers

Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Location: 
Ellis Island, Freedom Way, Jersey City, NJ (& then some)
Contact: 

Caitlyn Sprague - firstfriends2@juno.com

Join us as we begin at the symbol to our nation's history of welcoming immigrants, Ellis Island and visit the institutions that represent the current reality for immigrants in NJ today, including the county jails, the immigration court and the Elizabeth Detention Center. This year we will be focusing on the 131 deaths in detention along with the economic and social conditions that contribute to the dehumanization and the suffering of immigrants in detention that leads society to not mourn these deaths.

Migrant Families Speak Out & Rally for Humane Immigration Policy on International Migrants Day

Date: 
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 
Rodino Federal Building, 970 Broad St., Newark, NJ
Contact: 

Pauline Ndzie: 973-563-0798; Chia-Chia Wang (AFSC): 646-509-3860

On International Migrants Day, Migrant Families Speak Out & Community Members Rally for Humane Immigration Policy

Newark, NJ (December 18th, 2012) – On December 18 International Migrants Day, advocates, immigrant families and community members will speak out and rally at the federal office building in Newark NJ to demand the Obama Administration shift away from deportation policies that separate families. During the first Obama administration, a record 1.4 million immigrants have been deported.

DREAMS Not Detention Bus Tour & Vigils for End to Immigration Detention (New Jersey)

Date: 
Monday, October 8, 2012 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 
Elizabeth Detention Center, 625 Evans St., Elizabeth, NJ
Contact: 

Kathy O'Leary: kolearypcnj@gmail.com / 973-610-1684

http://www.facebook.com/events/361779337233916/

GET ON THE BUS TO STOP IMMIGRANT DETENTION! Buses leaving from Elizabeth Detention Center at 10:00 am to tour and vigil at NJ facilities incarcerating immigrants for ICE, returning for the annual vigil at 4:00 PM. Early morning vigils at Monmouth County Jail & Sussex County Jail / Buses will stop at: Bergen County Jail (11:00 am); Hudson County Correctional Facility (12:30 pm); Essex County Jail & Delaney Hall (3:00 pm); Elizabeth Detention Center (4:00 pm) / Vans and carpools leaving from Freehold, Morristown, Newark and New Brunswick

Families For Freedom 5th Annual Fundraiser

Date: 
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square S.
Contact: 

Families for Freedom 5th Annual Fundraiser!

We would love for you to come and celebrate our defeat of the destructive Secure Communities program in NY state and the fight for Immigrant Rights as Human Rights. Join Families for Freedom members and allies in honoring the New York State Working Group against Deportations whose tireless organizing led to New York withdrawing from this fatally flawed program.

Food, Dancing and more!

Redefining Cruel & Unusual : A Rally & March to Oppose the Northeast Detention Center coming to Newark, NJ

Date: 
Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: 
Peter Francisco Park (across from Newark Penn Station)

Redefining Cruel & Unusual
Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County

Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION

Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ

Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition http://www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-detentio...

NJAID Press Conference on Mandatory Detention, Essex County, &c.

Date: 
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 11:00am
Location: 
Hall Of Records, 465 MLK Blvd., Newark, NJ

This is about where ICE plans to start warehousing New York's immigrants: the Northeast Detention Center complex!

Please come join the New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees (NJAID) for a Press Conference in front of the Hall of Records in Newark, NJ, on Tuesday, September 27th, to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of IIRIRA as well as to address the following issues:

Mandatory Detention and Implications

Increased Immigration Detention in NJ: Elizabeth Detention Center and beyond

Essex County’s Newly Approved Contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Italian Immigrant Radical Culture

Date: 
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
The Brecht Forum 451 West Street btw Bank & Bethune

Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a fascinating portrait of their political struggle as well as their milieu, beliefs, and artistic creativity in the United States.

Friday, June 3: Community Forum on the Criminalization of Immigrants

Date: 
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, 155 East 22nd St (3rd Ave / Lexington)

Join the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC on Friday, June 3rd for a community forum to learn how immigrants are being made into criminals and how ICE is destroying families and tearing communities apart. Come and learn how to fight back and protect yourself and your family from deportation.

We will be offering FREE one-to-one consultations of your case.

The Fire that Ignited a Movement of Women Workers

Date: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
Hunter College, Hunter West Building 1st floor Lobby, 68th St and Lexington Ave, New York, NY

In commemoration of the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Women’s eNews invites you to hear leading scholars and activists discuss the implications of the tragedy and worker rights then and now.

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