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WALLS show topics?
After some performances, we-ll have half-hour discussions on the issues addressed in the play. Discussions will feature folks involved in organizing and advocacy around the Bay. Find our list of dates, locations, and speakers here. All performances begin at 2:00pm unless otherwise noted.
Sat., July 8th - Live Oak Park, Berkeley
- Antonio Medrano, Chair of the ACLU Berkeley/North East Bay Chapter
- Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Wed., July 26th - Mime Troupe Studios, San Francisco (at 7:00 pm)
- Nate Dunstan, Refugee/Asylee Student Specialist for the Oakland Unified School District
Sat., August 12th - Glen Park, San Francisco
- Anoop Prasad, Senior Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus
- Sharif Zakout, Organizer at the Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Sat., August 26th - Francis Willard Park, Berkeley
- Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology and Chair of Canadian Studies at UC-Berkeley
- Janice Slater, Mentor for the Sequoia High School Dream Club
Sun., September 3rd - Dolores Park, San Francisco
- Kitzia Esteva-Martinez, Community Rights Co-Director at Causa Justa/Just Cause
To continue the conversation started in Walls, check out the resources we've assembled around immigration and its intersections with other topics. Below you'll find articles, podcasts, movies, and books, including those by our speakers from the post-show discussions.
Receiving and Offering Support
In case of an ICE raid in San Francisco, call the Rapid Response Network hotline, 415-200-1548. They offer services in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin). In Alameda County, the hotline number is 510-241-4011.
"Know Your Rights in Case of Immigration/Police Raid," INCITE!
Changing Policy
- "What You Need to Know about California's 'Sanctuary State' Bill and How It Will Work," LA Times (Jazmine Ulloa)
- "Noncitizenship and the Case for Illegalized Persons," Undocumental (Joel Sati)
- "Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Dilemmas for Progressive Labor," New Labor Forum (David Stoll)
Activism and Organizing
- "Queer and Undocumented: A Powerful Force in the Dreamer Movement," KQED (Zaidee Stavely)
- "The Power of Transnational Organizing: Indigenous Migrant Politics in Oaxacacalifornia," NACLA (Marisol Raquel Gutiérrez)
- "Banned Together," parts 1-3, See Something Say Something Podcast (Ahmed Ali Akbar)
- "Marx on Immigration," Monthly Review (David Wilson)
- Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in the 21st Century (Irene Bloemraad)
Stories, Histories, and Herstories
Articles
- "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," The New York Times Magazine (Jose Antonio Vargas
- "We Are Not a Nation of Immigrants," Indian Country Media (Spotted Crow Mann)
- Borderlands/La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldúa)
- Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America (Moustafa Bayoumi)
- Undocumented: How Immigrant Rights Became Illegal (Aviva Chomsky)
- The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Changing American Life (Tomás Jimenez)
- The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Jason de Leon)
- Documented (Jose Antonio Vargas)
- Harvest of Empire (Juan González)
- Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga)
- La Misma Luna/Under the Same Moon (Patricia Riggen)
- Homage by Assassination (Elia Suleiman)
- ACLU of Northern California
- African Advocacy Network
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
- Asian Law Caucus
- California Immigrant Policy Center
- Center for Immigrant Protection SF
- Council on American-Islamic Relations Bay Area
- Define American
- The Dignity Campaign
- East Bay Community Law Center
- East Bay Refugee Forum
- Faith in Action Bay Area
- La Raza Centro Legal
- LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ Youth
- Movimento Cosecha
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- PODER SF
- Refugee Transitions
- SF Coalition of Asylee, Immigrant, and Refugee Services
- San Francisco Immigrants' Rights Commission
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