FUSsa-talk Mailing List: It's still October...

[Polly Peterson (peter089]

...so here is one more immigration event TONIGHT that was listed on the 
Progressive Calendar.

Polly

From: Stephanie Bates <Stephanie.Bates [at] americas.org>
Subject: Immigration 10.28 6PM 
The Deportees Wife

Wednesday, October 28, 8pm
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Foss Center
Facilitated Q & A after the show
Free

Augsburg will hear from Giselle Stern Hernez, a Mexican-North American
writer and performer who is an important voice in the U.S. immigration
debate.

Stern Hernandez was born and raised in New York and has lived in
Cuernavaca, Mexico since 2001. In her solo show The Deportee's Wife, her
marriage is laid out on the front lines of the North American immigration
debate.

In April, 2001, her husband Roberto was deported from Chicago, Illinois,
and she moved to Mexico to live with him in August of that same year.
While Stern Hernez she was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico and was
legally married, her husband was deported with the order to stay out of
the U.S. for twenty years. And in 2007, he also was prohibited from
entering Canada.

In The Deportee's Wife, Stern Hernez takes the audience through her
journey to face hard truths about how race, class, white U.S. privilege
and gender intersect within the structures of a badly broken immigration
system. Through her words and images, she reveals a complicated love
story.

Giselle Stern Hernez received her BA in English from Hunter College CUNY,
and her MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics. In 2005, she was awarded a Zora Neale
Hurston Award from Naropa. She is also the recipient of a Ford Foundation
Multicultural Playwriting Grant. Giselle has performed her solo shows in
Mexico and the United States since 2007.

The Deportee's Wife will be presented on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. in
Foss Center. It is free and open to the public. A question and answer
session will follow the show. Sponsored by ALAS, Hispanic/Latino Student
Services, A'viands, CSA, and ASAC at Augsburg College, and La Raza
Cultural Center at the University of Minnesota.

Here is the link to the Augsburg website listing of this event:
http://augnet.augsburg.edu/news-archives/2009/10_19_09/deportees_wife.html
I think the text on the webpage is exactly the same as this email.