24th Latin America Encuentro ~ Saturday, October 18th -10 AM to 4 PM - Throop Church in Pasadena ~ Immigration & U.S. Policy in Latin America - With Wayne Cornelius, Blase Bonpane, Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda
24th Latin America Encuentro
Immigration and U.S. Policy in Latin America
Saturday, October 18th
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Throop Church
300 S Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena 91101
Registration starts at 9:30 AM
Suggested donation: $20 Pre-registration. $25 at the door.
Vegetarian lunch for the first 100 registrants.
Students with ID free. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For more information call Ruth Shapin at 714.567.0188
Please bring your old eyeglasses for Nicaragua.
Keynote Speakers:
Wayne Cornelius - Center for Comparative Immigrant Studies, University of San Diego
Paula Kruz Takash - Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, L.A.
Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda - Latino Studies, UCLA
Blase Bonpane - Office of the Americas,"The New Wave in Latin America"
Dr. Wayne Cornelius, considered the foremost expert on Immigration from Mexico will make rare Los Angeles appearances as the featured speaker at two events in Pasadena this weekend: The 24th Annual Encuentro Event, Saturday October 18th , 10AM at Throop Church, Del Mar and Los Robles and Sunday October 19th, 10:15 AM at All Saint’s Church, Longworth Room, Euclid across from City Hall.
The Saturday Encuentro Conference on the theme Immigration and Foreign Policy will also feature the renowned co-founder of the L.A. Office of the Americas, Blase Bonpane, whp will speak on the new revolutionary developments in the Americas, as well as Professor Raul Hinojosa of UCLA’s Ethnic Studies Program and his wife Dr. Paule Cruz Takash who have pioneered in Transnational organizing and development programs of benefit to immigrant communities
Dr. Cornelius is Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego where he founded and is Director of the Institute for Comparative Immigration Studies. His research projects over the past decades have resulted in many books including Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (2007); Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States (2007), Four Generations: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration (2008), and Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California (forthcoming, 2009). He has also appeared on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and PBS’ “Frontline,” and his research has been reported in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and many other national and international media.
Contact: Rev. Paul Sawyer: 626-794-8345 – Email: revpaulsawyer@yahoo.com
