You are cordially invited to attend a meeting of the
============================ > POTLUCK FOR PROGRESSIVES < ============================
Friday, July 10, 2009 6:30 - 9:30 P.M. (Film to start at 7:30 P.M)
Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim 511 South Harbor Blvd. Anaheim, California (Located on the Southwest corner of Harbor Blvd. and Santa Ana Street)
(714) 758-1050 www.uuchurchoc.org
The "Potluck for Progressives" is a group organized for the purpose of bringing together likeminded people on a weekly basis to break bread and talk about crucial issues affecting the community and the world.
At each meeting, people interested in peace, social justice, labor, and the environment gather to exchange ideas, talk about successes, plan actions, or just engage in a friendly discussion with one another.
Bring a dish to share! Enjoy the bounty that others bring as well! The potluck will start at 6:30 p.m. with a speaker or film to follow at 7:30 p.m. Please join us even if you can't bring any food!
On the Agenda:
Progressive Potluck
6:30 - 7:30 P.M.
Bring along your favorite dish of food, chips, dips, or soft drinks, and spend an hour mingling with progressive people from all over Orange County.
Featured Film:
7:30 - 9:00 P.M. We will be screening "Mississippi Chicken," a 2007 film by John Fiege, which explores the perilous, fragile, and yet amazingly hopeful world of a community of undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico, who are living in a rundown trailer park adjacent to a major poultry plant in Canton, Mississippi.
In the early 1990s, big poultry companies in Mississippi and throughout the American South began to heavily recruit immigrants from Mexico and Central America, most of them undocumented, to work in their plants. A decade later, there are now large immigrant communities in poultry towns all over the South.
Because most of these immigrants are not "legal" residents, they find themselves in an extremely vulnerable situation: they are frequent victims of abuse by unscrupulous employers, rent gouging by landlords, violence by police officers, and even criminal acts by neighbors and other immigrants.
This film puts real faces to the hardships that Mexican and Central American immigrants endure and the obstacles they encounter as they struggle to survive in a globalized, capitalist economy of the 21st century. It's a "must see" for those wanting a better understanding of what undocumented workers face in their daily lives.
Open Forum
9:00 - 9:30 P.M.
Open discussion, announcements, and other news of interest.
The "Potluck for Progressives" is endorsed by the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim and is free and open to the general public. Although a small donation might be requested to help pay for facility costs, nobody will be turned away due to a lack of funds.
|