IMMIGRATION REFORM AND MINNESOTA IMMIGRANT POLICY

You are invited to be a part of our live, participatory studio audience when CivicMedia-Minnesota will hold its fourth TruthToTell: Community Connections forum – this time on the issues facing Minnesota’s new immigrant communities and pending policy reform – starting at 6:00PM Wednesday evening, May 8 in the Grand Hall of the Center for Business and Technology at  North Hennepin Community College (MAP) at 7411 85th Avenue North in Brooklyn Park. (The State Senate passed the MN Dream Act May 1st!)

This forum is brought to you by CivicMedia-Minnesota in partnership with St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) through generous support from the Bush Foundation. Production partners for this episode were the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, ACER (African Career Education Resource, Inc.) North Hennepin Community CollegeHennepin Technical College and SEIU Local 26 (Service Employees International Union).

* Watch this show Monday, May 12, from 8:00-9:00PM on St. Paul Cable Channel 19 and/or Minneapolis cable Channel 16 and/or hear us on TruthToTell Monday morning at 9:00AM. *

Light refreshments will be served.

TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI welcome our panelists and a live audience to talk Immigration issues.

Guests:

JOHN KELLER – Executive Director of the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

JOVITA FRANCISCO MORALES – of Mesa Latina

SIA HER – Executive Director of MN Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans

HASHI SHAFI – Executive Director of Somali Action Alliance

INVITED: Liberian representatives

Other prominent figures will be with us as well:

  • KFAI’s Josefina Catalan
  • Waite House Executive Francisco Segovia
  • SEIU Local President Javier Morillo-Alicea
  • ACER President and Brooklyn Park activist Wynfred Russell
  • Others in the policy-making arena and students from local campuses.