14410 Sylvan St.
Van Nuys, California 91401

The Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, in coordination with CHIRLA and The Church on the Way, is scheduling a series of three large scale events for the Los Angeles area on Saturday 1/23/10, in anticipation and in celebration of the fact that Comprehensive Immigration Reform will shortly be taken up for discussion by both house of Congress. At 11:00 am, we are holding an uplifting and motivational rally at the Van Nuys City Hall. We expect several thousand people to attend and participate in that rally. Scheduled Speakers include many community and national leaders, including possibly Mayor Villaraigosa, Congressman Howard Berman, Congresswoman Judy Chu, and several other prominent leaders.

We will then march together to publicly display our solidarity in our drive to see CIR passed in 2010. We will march from the Van Nuys Civic Center to The Church on the Way. It is about 1.2 miles. Then, at the church, which holds approximately 1,500 people, we will hold our panel discussion of experts. The event is going to be a media, as well as a public event, in which our experts will make a presentation about their perspective on the topic of CIR. We will then open up the discussion to the audience for a Q & A period. Here's a Google Map of the 2 locations (not sure of route): http://bit.ly/4EEMDF

On Saturday 1/23/10 at 1:30 pm pst, we will be having several nation experts participate in the panel. The discussion will be moderated by the nationally known Pastor Jim Tolle of the Church on the Way. Pastor Tolle testified before the Senate Immigration Sub-Committee hearing last October on Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Faith Based Perspectives. The experts include Bernie Wolfdorf, President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (A.I.L.A.), Dr. Juan Hernandez, author of the New American Pioneers, and former member of Mexican President Vicente Fox's Cabinet, who worked with the Bush Administration to try to pass CIR in 2006 and 2007, Angelica Salas, the nationally known Executive Director of CHIRLA, and Dr. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda of UCLA, author of the recent study that is all over the news, documenting how CIR would add 1.5 trillion dollars to our GDP over the next 10 years.

We invite the public and the media to attend these important events supporting Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Together, we will help to make history!

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Added by willcoley on January 21, 2010

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