Ithaca College

WEDNESDAY, November 29, 2017 6:00-8:00pm, Ithaca College

BUS 301 (Business School building, 3rd Floor)

!!!! mark your calendars !!!!!

Members of the TCIRC (Tompkins Co. Immigrant Rights Coalition) will be reporting back from their participation in the 2nd Border Encuentro at the U.S./Mexico border in Ambos Nogales, AZ/Sonora. Beth Harris, Ute Ritz-Deutch, Patricia Rodriguez (Politics) and two IC Politics students (Abby Haley and Michael Mulvey, funded by the Politics Dept. Student Grant for Socially Engaged Research and Activism) are part of the Encuentro, and will be reporting on the work of communities and social movements in Latin America and the U.S. doing grassroots resistance to oppressive militarization policies at borders and beyond, and generating proposals for alternative policies surrounding immigration issues.

What can we learn and apply locally (in Tompkins Co.) from the organizing of immigrant and indigenous communities and groups in and near the southern border?

This year’s 2nd Border Encuentro at the U.S./Mexico border (Nov. 10-12) is a direct response to the call for solidarity with the border communities to resist militarization, support refugees and migrants, and to denounce the US military, political and economic policies in Latin America that creates the conditions for forced displacement and violence. There is no wall or border that can deter the solidarity of people!

SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement working to close the SOA / WHINSEC and similar centers that train state actors such as military, law enforcement and border patrol.

Sponsored by TCIRC, IC Politics Dept. (Student Grant for Socially-Engaged Research and Activism); H&S Dean's Office; and Latin American Studies minor.

Open to the public, refreshments and snacks will be served! Parking is free after 5pm at IC; nearest parking is in Visitor Parking lot immediately to the right of the main entrance to IC on route 96B. If you walk (left) from the parking lot and past the first set of buildings, the next building is the Business School on your left).

For disability accommodations, please contact prodriguez@ithaca.edu, or 607-2745714.