Campaign Finance And Political Corruption In Louisiana

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Featuring:

Dr. Edward E. Chervenak, University of New Orleans

Dr. Chervenak earned his PhD at Tulane University and has taught political science at the University of New Orleans for 15 years, where he also is the Director of the UNO Poll/Survey Research Center.  Specializing in state and local politics, as well as U.S. political parties and political participation, Dr. Chervenak is a well-known commentator in broadcast and print media.  His discussion at the Community Breakfast on October 11 will focus on campaign finance and political ethics in Louisiana—a recent topic of investigative reporting by WDSU-TV and nola.com/The Times-Picayune, on which Dr. Chervenak was frequently consulted for his expertise.

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- Featured Presentation

*$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.

Kids and Families in Crisis: The Influx of Central American Children and Families to the Border

Reminder:
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Featuring:

Ramona Fernandez, Hiroko Kusuda,

Sue Weishar, 

and recent Central American refugees (TBA)

A humanitarian crisis of epic proportions unfolded at the U.S. Mexico border this summer as tens of thousands of children and families fled Central America for safe haven in the U.S. and other countries in the region. Ramona Fernandez, Associate Director of the Loyola Law Clinic, Hiroko Kusuda, Associate Clinical Professor of Immigration Law, Loyola Law Clinic, and Sue Weishar, Migration Specialist for the Jesuit Social Research Institute, will discuss why the children are leaving Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in unprecedented numbers, the challenges they face to gain legal status in the U.S., and what is being done locally to help child migrants who have come to the New Orleans area. We also hope to have as guest speakers a refugee family from Central America to discuss the reasons they fled their home country and how they are adjusting to life in New Orleans. Approximately 65% of the 1275 unaccompanied child immigrants who have rejoined family members in Louisiana this year are now living in the New Orleans area.

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- Featured Presentation

*$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.

Kids and Families in Crisis: The Influx of Central American Children and Families to the Border

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Featuring:

Ramona Fernandez, Hiroko Kusuda,

Sue Weishar, 

and recent Central American refugees (TBA)

A humanitarian crisis of epic proportions unfolded at the U.S. Mexico border this summer as tens of thousands of children and families fled Central America for safe haven in the U.S. and other countries in the region. Ramona Fernandez, Associate Director of the Loyola Law Clinic, Hiroko Kusuda, Associate Clinical Professor of Immigration Law, Loyola Law Clinic, and Sue Weishar, Migration Specialist for the Jesuit Social Research Institute, will discuss why the children are leaving Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in unprecedented numbers, the challenges they face to gain legal status in the U.S., and what is being done locally to help child migrants who have come to the New Orleans area. We also hope to have as guest speakers a refugee family from Central America to discuss the reasons they fled their home country and how they are adjusting to life in New Orleans. Approximately 65% of the 1275 unaccompanied child immigrants who have rejoined family members in Louisiana this year are now living in the New Orleans area.

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- Featured Presentation

*$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.