Events

Wednesday, April 21
9:00 to 11:00 AM

League Office
1620 18th Ave, Suite 101, Seattle

We have several proposals for study and action to bring the Immigration Committee out of hibernation. There is a strong push from pro-immigrant advocacy groups to get Congress to tackle Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) this year. The League has strong positions at both the national and local levels that support the most progressive of reform proposals. We are in a good position to join other groups in advocacy.

Our committee has played an important role over the last three years in educating League members and the public on immigration issues. There is still much educating to be done. We need energetic and committed members to make a difference. Please join us!

Discussion of the book "Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town" by Warren St. John

Wednesday, April 21
7:00 PM

Contact the League office for location: (206) 329-4848 or info@seattlelwv.org

The Immigration Committee has been presenting a series of book discussions, films and field trips related to the immigration experience. This month’s event is a discussion of Outcasts United, an account of a small southern town, mostly white, that over the course of a few years becomes home to a very large refugee population from numerous troubled countries in the world. A young, no-nonsense Lebanese woman helps create community for the teenaged refugee population by starting three soccer teams. The native population is alarmed and hostile to the changes in their once quiet, orderly town. The refugee population, scarred by war, famine, or poverty, is merely trying to make adaptations to meet its basic needs.

Warren St. John, in focusing on the failures and triumphs of the soccer teams, weaves in the life stories of the refugees and the political workings of the town to give insight into quite understandable friction among the many ethnicities in Clarkston, Georgia.

Please join us!