Free Screening of "The Visitor"
Chicago, IL
Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center and The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
In partnership with the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations - Advisory Council on Immigrant & Refugee Affairs.
present
Free Public Screening of "The Visitor"
Minneapolis, MN
Join us for a free public screening held at:
The Oak Street Cinema
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Film Screening: "Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath"
St. Paul, MN
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath
A public screening to be held at:
Kagin Commons
Alexander G. Hill Ballroom
1600 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104
Tuesday, September 16th
7:00 pm
This screening is free and open to the public.
Presented by The Department of Multicultural Life at Macalester College
Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Liberia U.S. Public Hearings
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF LIBERIA U.S. PUBLIC HEARINGS: Confronting a Difficult Past for a Better Future: The Diaspora Experience
For the first time in history, a nation's Truth & Reconciliation Commission will hold official public hearings in the United States. More than 30 individual witnesses from across the United States will present testimony before the full Commission. Hearings are open to the public each day.
UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis, MN
The Center for Victims of Torture invites you to join a celebration in honor of UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Thursday, June 26 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 p.m. at the Center for Victims of Torture, 717 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN.
Keynote speaker will be Birhan Abede. Music by Hospitality House African Drum & Dance. A short play written by Kira Obolensky of the Playwrights' Center.
ABOUT JUNE 26
"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture."
Article 2, United Nations Convention Against Torture
Fargo-Moorhead Parade with NDHRC
March in the Fargo-Moorhead Pride Parade with North Dakota Human Rights Center!
Sunday at 2:00pm
Fargo-Moorhead Pride Week as invited NDHRC Executive Director Mitch Marr to serve as a judge for this year’s Pride Parade. Unfortunately, that means he can’t march in the parade.
NDHRC proudly invites you all to attend the Pride Parade and march with the NDHRC Board and your fellow members. The parade begins at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 8. Accompanying activities are listed below:
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Chicago, IL
The Chicago Labor Education Program at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies, and Interfaith Worker Justice cordially invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the new book
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
by New York Times labor and workplace reporter
Steven Greenhouse
May Day Commemoration Ceremony
Chicago, IL
CHICAGO LABOR RECLAIMS MAY DAY
On Thursday, May 1, 2008, Chicago’s labor community will celebrate May Day as International Workers Day with a ceremony at the Haymarket Monument. Organized labor will call for fairness and justice in the workplace, including the right to organize and the Employee Free Choice Act, access to health care, fair trade agreements, and the right to earn a living wage.
U.S. Human Rights Network National Conference
Chicago Marriot O'Hare; Chicago, IL
National Human Rights Conference 2008
April 17th - 20th
Chicago, IL
April 17th-20th, 2008, USHRN will be hosting their HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE 2008 at the Chicago Marriott O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
Come and take full advantage of all that the Human Rights Conference 2007 has to offer, including: