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Sarahi Uribe coordinates the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). The aim is to advance and protect the civil, labor, and human rights of day laborers in the United States. NDLON has helped in the creation of dozens of worker centers, campaigns to overturn anti-day laborer solicitation ordinances, fought labor abuses including wage theft, and built strong alliances with labor unions. It is the national leader challenging the devastating impact of harsh immigration enforcement. http://www.ndlon.org https://twitter.com/ndlon http://www.facebook.com/NDLON http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndlon/ http://www.youtube.com/user/NDLONvideos http://www.ccrjustice.org/secure-communities http://soundcloud.com/ndlon-habla http://soundcloud.com/ndlon http://www.altoarizona.com/ http://uncoverthetruth.org/ http://altopolimigra.com/ http://vimeo.com/ndlon ___________________________________________________________________ Saskia Sassen chaired a panel with Ujju Aggarwal, Donna Nevel, Sarahi Uribe, & Camilo Godoy on "The Immigrant Manifesto and the Struggle for Social Justice" at the Left Forum at Pace University on March 17, 2012. Immigration is at the forefront of the increasingly abusive control practices of the US government at diverse levels. The panel examined what diverse organizations and initiatives are doing to a) contribute to a different type of analysis about immigration, and b) actively contest the abuses deployed by government agencies in the name of the law. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, A Sociology of Globalization, and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy. Among older books is The Global City. She is the recipient of multiple doctor honoris causa and was selected as one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine. http://saskiasassen.com/ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sociology/ Ujju Aggarwal is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. Her focus is on the importance of the public sector within education as an actively contested arena in which neoliberal projects are generated and contested. This grows out of her work with the Center for Immigrant Families (CIF). She is a community organizer and popular educator on immigrants' rights, the intersections of art and social justice, public education, and violence against women of color. parentleadershipproject@gmail.com http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/people/current-fellows/ Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and educator, organizes for equity and justice in public education; for peace and justice in Palestine/Israel; and against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. She coordinates the Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing (PARCEO) that operates in partnership with the Educational Leadership Program at NYU-Steinhardt, where she teaches PAR. http://parceo.org/ http://www.advocatesforchildren.org/who_we_serve/immigrant_students_and_english_language_learners Tania Bruguera is the director of Immigrant Movement International (Queens, New York). A highly acclaimed artist, she is active in the struggle for immigrant rights; she researches how art can be applied to everyday political life. Her work is in the collections of Tate Modern, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Museum of Modern Art, and several other museums around the world. She has received many honors, including most recently a Guggenheim fellow, the Prince Claus Prize, and the first Neuberger Prize. http://www.taniabruguera.com/cms/ Camilo Godoy appeared on behalf of Tania, as she was coopted by a meeting with The Tate at the last minute. A fourth year student pursuing a BFA in Photography at Parsons The New School for Design and a BA in Education Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, Godoy's academic research and practice as an artist/activist is particularly focused in the opposition of detention and the heteronormative policies and practices that seduce us to participate in the logics of hegemonic nationalist projects. http://immigrant-movement.us/ ___________________________________________________________________ Encourage us to make more of these videos by subscribing to our channel & "Like"-ing us on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/casaesperanzanj ____________________________________________________________________