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Peoples' Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights

Save the Dates: 
New York City: September 30th - October 4th, 2013

Power, People, Communities: Building Bridges for Migrant, Labour and Human Rights 
Church Center for the United Nations
As governments of the world meet in New York for the UN High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development on October 3 & 4, join migrant organizations and allies from across the world for a week of activities.
Let's raise our collective voices and build power to lift up migration policies that respect and uphold the human rights of ALL migrants. We will challenge the criminalization of migration, the exploitation of migrant workers and global economic development policies that destroy environments and fuel profits over the safety, well-being and health of people and communities. Migration should be a choice, not a necessity!

WEEK OF ACTIVITIES:
* Labor-Community Rally & March across the Brooklyn Bridge  (Wednesday, October 2, 5 pm at Foley Square)
* Workshops, strategy sessions and forums to share analysis, organizing, and platforms for migrant rights in the US and globally (October 1 - 4)
* NYC site visits & exchanges with migrant community organizations
* Migrant arts & activism - films, art, photography

TO REGISTER & FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.PGA2013.org 
http://www.facebook.com/gcm2013hld 
Email: NYCPGA2013@gmail.com 
Phone: 718-205-3036

NYC HOST COMMITTEE: DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving; United Methodist Women; VAMOS Unidos; New Sanctuary Movement; American Friends Service Committee; Families for Freedom; Black Alliance for Just Immigration/Black Immigration Network; Latin American & Caribbean Community Center; National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC)

INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE: Building & Woodworkers International (BWI); Espacio Sin Fronteras (ESF); Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW); Global Coalition on Migration (GCM) - anchor; Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA); International Network for Migration and Development (INMD); International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) - represented by the AFL-CIO & Canadian Labour Congress (CLC); La Via Campesina (LVC); Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA); Migrant Rights International (MRI); NALACC; National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR); Pan-African Network in Defense of Migrant Rights (PANiDMR); Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM); Public Services International (PSI); Transnational Migrant Platform (TMP); Women & Global Migration Working Group (WGMWG)

SOURCE:
http://list.afsc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/immigrantrightsnynj