Plenaries

A Monumental Stake: Reflections from Key Stakeholders in the Fight for Immigration Reform

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 12:30 - 2:00
Place: Ballroom, Second Floor

This plenary will lay out the landscape for immigration reform in 2009: its purpose is to have audience members understand the political, organizing, faith and labor angles on the national debate which could play out this autumn. The state of play for immigration will largely depend on how organized community groups and field stakeholders would weigh in with Congress and the White House. This dynamic panel of speakers will give some background on past debates, successful models for uniting communities of color, advice on engaging faith and labor constituents and primarily how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders can make their voice heard in this important national conversation.

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The Asian Pacific American Legal Center is a California State Bar certified provider of MCLE credits and this workshop has been approved for 1 hour of credit. To receive California MCLE credit, attorneys must pay an additional $10 per workshop that offers MCLE credit. Payment collected separately onsite.

Speakers:

	Marielena Hincapié Executive Director National Immigration Law Center		Bill Ong Hing Professor of Law University of California, Davis
	Eliseo Medina International Executive Vice President Service Employees International Union		Karen Narasaki President and Executive Director Asian American Justice Center (Workshop Moderator)
	Eva Paterson President Equal Justice Society

Holding Ourselves Accountable: What do Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Really Think?

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 9:30 - 10:30
Place: Ballroom, Second Floor

This plenary will present and discuss the latest research on the attitudes and political views and participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Do our communities see eye-to-eye with the civil rights organizations that represent them? This plenary raises, and is the first step in answering, the question of how to hold ourselves accountable to the communities we serve while staying true to our core values. The research presented will help inform conference discussions around the extent to which, and in what areas, advocates need to foster social justice values in our communities through education and outreach, in order to lay a groundwork that will allow advocates to more effectively mobilize and empower our communities to achieve social change.

Click here for a recording of this plenary: Holding Ourselves Accountable: What do Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Really Think?.

Speakers:

	Claire Jean Kim Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies University of California, Irvine		Stewart Kwoh President and Executive Director Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Workshop Moderator)
	Karthick Ramakrishnan Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Riverside