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2009
June 5 - 6, 2009, Chicago, IL
NESRI is co-organizing the upcoming national Dignity in Schools Campaign conference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL to bring organizers, advocates, youth, parents, teachers and policy-makers together to strategize regional and national action to promote human rights-based approaches to school climate and discipline. Contact Liz Sullivan to become involved in planning or to attend the conference.
June 25, 2009, Boston, MA
NESRI Education Program Director Liz Sullivan will co-facilitate a workshop entitled “Code Of Discipline and Human Right Framework Workshop” for the Boston Parent Organizing Network’s (BPON) Parent Task Force. Liz will discuss how a human rights framework can be used to best emphasize the need for COD revisions within the Boston Public Schools. For more information on the workshop >>>
June 27, 2009, Washington D.C.
NESRI’s Human Right to Health Care Program Director Anja Rudiger will be presenting at a workshop entitled “The Human Rights Framework: Bridging the Gap between Housing and Health” at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council Conference & Symposium.
July 25 - 30, 2009, New Orleans, LA
NESRI Human Right to Housing Program Director Tiffany M. Gardner will be a member of the official fact-finding mission of the United Nations Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (UNAGFE) to New Orleans, Louisiana. The UNAGFE mission will be investigating the city’s decision to demolish a majority of its public housing stock and the consequent impact on residents’ right to housing.
July 30, 2009, Washington, DC
NESRI is Cosponsoring “MEDICARE: MADE IN AMERICA” a Rally and Lobby Day in honor of Medicare’s 44th Birthday. Sponsored by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, the rally aims to show Congress and President Obama that unions, doctors, nurses, seniors, faith groups, and Americans of every stripe support national, single-payer healthcare and healthcare as a right for all. For the rally flyer >>> For More Information, visit >>>
August 9 – 15, 2009, Charleston, WV
NESRI staff along with partners CADRE, May Day New Orleans, CIW and FFLIC will be attending the Poverty Initiative’s Poverty Scholars Leadership School. The Leadership School aims to set the basis for reigniting Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign.
September 9, 2009, New York City
NESRI Human Right to Education Director, Liz Sullivan, will be speaking on the panel “School and the Criminalization of Youth” at the National H.I.R.E. Network 4th Annual NYS Policy Conference at the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture in Bronx, NY. >>>
September 16, 2009, Portland, ME
NESRI Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, will present a lecture at the community opening of the Center for Community and Public Health at the University of New England. The lecture is entitled "The Role of Human Rights in Health Reform in the U.S." For the event flyer >>>
October, 2009, U.S.A.
NESRI’s Human Right to Housing Program Director Tiffany Gardner will be a lead coordinator of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing's official visit to the United States.
October 15, 2009, New York City
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa and NESRI Board Chair Martha Davis will be speaking on a panel entitled “Poverty and Welfare in the United States - A Human Rights Violation?” The panel will address the application of human rights principles to issues of poverty and social welfare in the United States. The panel takes place from 6 – 8 pm in the Stimson Room of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Building, 42 West 44th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues >>>
October 22 - 24, 2009, Storrs, CT
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa and NESRI Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger will be presenting at the “Human Rights in the USA” conference to be held at the University of Connecticut. Albisa will present on a panel entitled “Economic Rights and Poverty.” Rudiger will present on a panel entitled “Health Care Coverage in the USA through a Human Rights Lense.” For more information, visit >>>
October 23, 2009, Chicago, IL
The Dignity in Schools Campaign, co-founded by NESRI, is co-sponsoring the upcoming ABA Section of Litigation Children’s Rights Litigation Committee Conference, “Raising our Hands: Creating a National Strategy for Children's Right to Education and Counsel.” >>>
December, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
An abridged edition of
Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States, will be released by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Like the earlier three set volume, the paperback edition is edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis. For more information, visit >>>
January 11, 2010, New York, NY
Coming Home, a new documentary co-produced by NESRI, Mayday New Orleans, and The Rada Film Group, will be screened at the Doc Watchers Inc. film screening. The film features Sam Jackson and other New Orleans resident leaders, including Sharon Jasper, Kawana Jasper and Stephanie Mingo, in their fight to save the city's public housing communities. The film also considers the dire impacts federal housing policy has had on public housing and low income communities across the country and what residents are doing to fight back. NESRI’s Tiffany Gardner will be joined by the film’s director Michele Stephenson. The screening will take place at 7 pm in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema at 343 Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th). To read the flyer >>>
January 15, 2010, New York, NY
NESRI’s Tiffany Gardner will be presenting on a housing is a human right panel at the Poverty Inititiave. The panel is part of the Poverty Initiative’s Winter 2010 Immersion Course. She will be joined by Jean Rice, Rob Robinson, Owen Rogers and Frank Morales from Picture the Homeless. The panel will be held at Union Theological Seminary, 120th Street and Broadway.
January 17, 2:00 pm, 2010, Wilkes-Barre, PA
NESRI, along with the Poverty Initiative and the Media Mobilizing Project, will be participating in the Northeast Pennsylvania Organizing Center’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Community residents of Northeast Pennsylvania will be gathering to learn about the last years of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and discuss the NEPA Organizing Center’s upcoming Housing Rights Campaign. The event will take place at the NEPA Organizing Center at 198 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.
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