Friday, October 24, 2008

Special Screening of The Visitor


Did you know?

Over the past decade US policies have been stealthily and systematically enmeshing immigrants in the criminal justice system and the War on Terror, and they are using detention and deportation as critical tools.

Please join

Pax Christi NJ and The American Friends Service Committee Immigrants Rights Program

At a special screening of The Visitor

Wednesday November 12, 2008 6:00 pm


followed by: A Panel Discussion on the Issue of Immigration Detention
6pm reception followed by 6:30pm film screening and panel discussion)

St. Peter’s College
Pope Lecture Hall
Jersey City Campus)
2641 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ

This critically acclaimed feature film examines the issues of due process, detention and deportation of refugees and immigrants through the eyes of a college professor whose life is changed after a chance meeting with an immigrant couple. Click here to view the trailer.

To RSVP, call American Friends Service Committee at 973-643-1924.

Co-Sponsored by:
American Civil Liberties Union-NJ
Casa de Esperanza
First Friends
Human Rights First
Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in NJ
New Jersey Civil Rights Committee
New Jersey Immigration Policy Network
New Sanctuary Movement
Pax Christi-NJ
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Wind of the Spirit
Migration and Refugee Services, Diocese of Trenton

For more information visit:

http://www.thevisitorfilm.com

www.activevoice.net

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