TONIGHT: Real life ICED character speaks at Night of 1,000 Conversations
On June 19th, former War Veteran, Warren Joseph who's real life immigration story was adapted for the character "Marc" in the ICED video game will speak as part of a panel on the Night of the 1,000 Conversations. The panel will focus on the detention and deportation of immigrants in the United States.
Moderated by: Gouri Sadhwani - Deputy Executive Director for Campaigns and Activism at Amnesty International USA, other panelists include Julie Dinnerstein - Staff Attorney for Sanctuary for Families and Chung Wha Hong - Executive Director of New York Immigration Coalition.
When?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
Where?
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 108 Orchard Street (and Delancey), NYC
By Subway: B or D trains to Grand Street; F to Delancey Street; J,M, or Z to Essex Street
RSVP: events@tenement.org
The panel is co-sponsored by Breakthrough and New York Immigration Coalition.
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TONIGHT: Get ICED at Basement Bhangra
DJ Rekha is back with her much-talked about summer concert series - Basement Bhangra: This Isn't Desi Music.
Check out the first of the summer series this Thursday, June 19th.
What?
Music by: DJ Rekha,DJ Eddie Stats
Visuals by: Fictive
Featuring: Abstract Vision, Katalyst
Where?
SOB's, 200 Varick Street at West Houston, NYC
Subway: 1 to Houston
Doors: 7:00 p.m., Show: FREE Dance Lesson at 9 p.m.
Admission: $5 before 8 p.m., $13 with print out of this flyer(www.sobs.com/south_asian/2008/0619.html), $16 without flyer
The event is presented by S.O.B.'s South Asian Concerts & Sangament
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WATCH: Breakthrough's New Video: Death by Detention
The New York Times and the Washington Post have recently reported on the "System of Neglect," namely, the state of immigration detention center conditions. As told by her sister June Everett, watch the story of Sandra Kenley, a 52- year-old grandmother, who after living in the U.S. legally for 33 years, was subjected to these very conditions and died in immigration detention.