Monday, April 27th, 12pm
UCSF Parnassus campus
513 Parnassus, HSW 303
Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer will be speaking at UCSF for a fund and awareness-raising event hosted by Health Alliance for Sudan. The event is centered around healthcare in Sudan and health issues faced by IDPs (internally displaced persons) and refugees. Proceeds from this event will benefit Juba Teaching Hospital.
Below the Radar: Immigrants in America
Saturday, April 25th, 2:30 PM, Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusets: Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking at this event with social activist Drew Hendrickson as part of the Newburyport Literary Festival. For Underground America, Orner compiled and edited the stories of various men and women who came to the United States and confronted life-changing challenges that they never expected. This book is a collection of first-hand accounts, illuminating the human experiences that elude the headlines and are rarely considered in political discourse about immigration. The discussion will center on the power of the human story and the often harsh reality of immigration in the US.
Presenter: Peter Orner
Moderator: Drew Hendrickson
Saturday, April 25th 2009, 2:30pm – 4:30pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities Building
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco 94132
HUM 133
Suggested donation: $10-20 sliding scale
Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng will be joining Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer in a reading and panel discussion this month. Co-hosted by Genocide Prevention Network, the Bay Area Darfur Coalition and San Francisco State University, the event will focus on the efforts of a variety of groups to help recognize and realize hope for Sudan, and for a world without genocide.
Featured Speakers:
Craig Walzer, editor, Out of Exile
Dave Eggers, Voice of Witness co-founder and author of What is the What
Valentino Achak Deng, founder of the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation and hero of What is the What
Martina Knee, Executive Committee, The San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition and 2009 Carl Wilkens Fellow, Genocide Intervention Network
With Special Guests:
Abuk
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Tuesday April 14, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Carr Auditorium
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue
Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking at this presentation on the growing health crisis for undocumented workers in the United States, highlighting issues like health and human rights in prison, occupational injuries, and social vulnerabilities leading to health inequities for this at-risk group. Orner will discuss some of these inequities raised by Underground America. He will be joined by journalist Sandra Hernandez and, via satellite, by one of the undocumented immigrants depicted in the book.
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/
