Join us for a conversation with workers directly affected by the TPS repeal:
• Martha Bonilla, UNITE HERE Local 26 • Doris Reina-Landaverde, 32BJ SEIU • Julio Perez, Comité TPS Massachusetts
Moderated by Genevieve Butler, HUCTW Opening remarks by Professor Kirsten Weld
Excerpt from a letter delieved to President Drew Faust on February 1, 2018. The letter was signed by a coalition workers, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students across the university:
OBERON, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard
Featuring the workshop premiere of Arturo O’Farrill’s new piece Little Tiny Walls, and a panel discussion including Mr. O’Farrill, Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Roberto G. Gonzales, and student musicians from Harvard, Berklee College of Music, and New England Conservatory
Six-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, educator, and founder and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill will be visiting the Harvard campus in late February. A musician of deep social conscience, all of...
Belfer Building 400 (LAND Lecture Hall), Harvard Kennedy School
Jacqueline Bhabha is FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.
From 1997 to 2001 Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the...
Bring a packed lunch along, and join us for a panel discussion featuring Harvard Graduate and Undergraduate Stuents from across the university!
Moderated by Professor María Agui Carter (Harvard College '86) Assistant Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson University Founder, Iguana Films
All DACA Seminar Events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No registration is required
Speaker: Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; founder and CEO, Define American Moderator: Joy-Ann Reid, political analyst and host of “AM Joy,” MSNBC Introduction: Roberto G. Gonzales, professor of education, HGSE
On September 5, 2017, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Obama policy that shielded nearly 800,000 young people from deportation. In light of DACA’s termination and new concerns over immigration...
Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Beacon Press, 2014; Mexican edition, 2014), A History of the Cuban Revolution (2011, 2nd ed. 2015), Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008), They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration (2007; U.S. Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and West...
Harvard workers with Temporary Protected Status (TPS, a program that has recently been terminated by Trump for Haiti, El Salvador and Nicaragua) have written a letter requesting that President Faust support a path for permanent residency for them and their families. Workers are looking for solidarity from the University community. Please take a few minutes to join them in delivering their letter. This event is a quick commitment and your participation would mean a lot!
This letter also features the stories of 5 workers and their families who are directly effected by the...