All Events Free and Open to the General Public!
Tuesday, April 8th |
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Panels and Keynotes |
Atwood Student Center | |
9:30-10:45 | Somali Childcare Providers and Economic Justice in Minnesota Panelists: Garat Ibrahim, AFSCME Organizer Hawo Gurey, Minneapolis Child Care Provider |
Voyageurs North |
11-12:15 Panel 1
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Interactive Collaboration to Serve Young Immigrant Children and Their Parents |
Voyageurs North |
11-12:15 Panel 2 |
St. Cloud's Role in Making Comprehensive Immigration Reform for 11 Million Aspiring Citizens Possible |
Glacier |
.12:30-1:45 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE: |
Cascade |
2-3:15. Panel 1 |
Winds of Political Change: The Implications of MPLS Immigrant City Council Victories on St. Cloud’s Upcoming City Council Elections (PDF) |
Glacier |
2-3:15 Panel 2 |
Advancing Health Equity in Minnesota |
Voyageurs |
3:30-4:30 | Seeing Far, Working Near: The Making of a Global Goes Local Gallery Exhibition Keith Christensen, St. Cloud State Department of Art Students from ART 420 Systems Design |
Voyageurs |
4:30 |
Opening of Seeing Far, Working Near (PDF) SCSU Design Students and |
Atwood Gallery |
Wednesday, April 9th |
Atwood Student Center | |
9-9:50 | Thinking out of the Box: Organizing St. Cloud’s Immigrant Workers Members of the Greater Minnesota Worker Center Board discuss recent accomplishments and future plans around organizing St. Cloud's immigrant workers for fair wages, recovering stolen wages, campaigns to get companies to directly hire low income workers, and other related organizing work around low income immigrant workers' rights. |
Cascade |
10-10:50 | Immigrant Retail Cleaning Workers’ Campaign for Organizing Rights in Minneapolis Panelists: Lucila Dominguez, Organizer, Centro De Trabajdores Unidos en Lucha [CTUL], Retail Cleaning Worker Veronical Mendez-Moore, Organizer, Centro De Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha [CTUL] |
Cascade |
11-11:50 | Immigrant MSP Airport Workers Organizing for Livable Wages Panelists: Abraham Misgina, SEIU Organizer, Airport Workers for Livable Wages Dan Moore, SEIU Organizer, Airport Workers for Livable Wages |
Cascade |
12-12:50 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE: |
Ballroom |
1-1:50 | Immigrant Rights and the 2013 Campaign for Universal Drivers License Panelists: Francisco Segovia, Mesa Latina Jovita Morales, Mesa Latina |
Alumni Room |
2-2:50 | The Role of St. Cloud Immigrants in the St. Cloud International Market Panelists: Autumn Brown, Central MN Sustainability Project Elizabeth Valencia-Borgert, Center for Continuing Studies and Foreign Lanuage and Literature Department, St. Cloud State University |
Alumni Room |
3-3:50 |
Is Minnesota Failing Our Latino Immigrant Students? |
Alumni Room |
6 p.m. |
Evening event in St. Cloud with Greater Minnesota Worker Center hosting Jose Oliva (Organizer, Restaurant Opportunities Center) --By invitation. |