Immigration Reform: What's at Stake - How You Can Help

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Featuring: 

Sue Weishar

Migration Specialist, Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University

Sue Weishar will be speaking about the upcoming legislation for reforming U.S. immigration policies. There are many ways we can help move this legislation forward, and she will be discussing these and other topics related to the issue. Please come out and learn more about this monumental legislative movement and its ramifications for all of us.

Sue previously spent fourteen years as Director of Immigration and Refugee Services with Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans (1991-2005) and earlier worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Samoa and as a teacher in Guatemala. Most recently, in the years since Katrina, she served as project manager for the Louisiana Refugee Services Collaborative to implement a new state-wide refugee services collaborative, administrator for the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA), Gulf Coast Coordinator for the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits, and Director of Development for UNITY of Greater New Orleans.

Also, Sue and programs which she directed have been honored by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (for Alternatives to Detention), the National Crime Prevention Council (for the Asian Youth Services Program), and the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement (for the Immigrant Domestic Violence Services Program).

Location:

First Unitarian Universalist Church

5212 South Claiborne Av. New Orleans 

(Enter via posted signs at Soniat and South Claiborne)

10am – Progressive, Social Justice Community Networking

with Coffee, Juice and Light Breakfast Pastries*

11am to Noon- Roundtable Discussion

*$3.00 suggested donation

For more information, contact us:  info@thecommunitybreakfast.org

Held every second Saturday of each month, the Gillespie Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Committee since May 1983. 

Do Guns Kill People or Do People Use Guns to Kill People?

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Featuring:

Carlos Thomas 

Louisiana Organizing Field Director,

Mayors Against Illegal Guns

and 

Michael King
Louisiana Organizing Field Director,
Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a national, bipartisan coalition of mayors working to make America’s communities safer by keeping illegal guns out of dangerous hands. Co-founded in 2006 by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, the coalition has grown from a committed group of 15 members to more than 950 mayors from 45 states, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, from major cities and small towns around the country.  

"New Orleans has a higher rate of gun violence, more so than most places in the country, and we would love to support the effort to curb gun violence here,”  “What we’re doing would help in that effort.”

Includes Louisiana Coalition members:

		Mayor Berline B. Sonnier Basile, LA
		Mayor Melvin 'Kip' Holden Baton Rouge, LA
		Mayor Ron Roberts DeRidder, LA
		Mayor Robert Grafton Elizabeth, LA
		Mayor Provino Mosca Harahan, LA
		Mayor Katherine T. Freeman Logansport, LA
		Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu New Orleans, LA
		Mayor Rodney A. Grogan Patterson, LA
		Mayor Cedric B. Glover Shreveport, LA
		Mayor Oda Rockett Spearsville, LA
		Mayor Cecil LaVergne Sunset, LA

10am – Coffee, Juice and Light Breakfast Pastries* and

Progressive, Social Justice Community Networking 

11am to Noon– Speaker Presentation and Discussion

*$3.00 suggested donation

First Unitarian Universalist Church 

5212 South Claiborne Av. New Orleans, 

at the corner of Jefferson Ave. 

(Enter via posted signs at Soniat and South Claiborne)

For more information, contact us: admin@thecommunitybreakfast.org

Held every second Saturday of each month, the Gillespie Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Committee since May 1983.