CAUSA to hold legislative briefing on 2011 Latino Agenda at Oregon State Capitol

MEDIA ADVISORY
February 5, 2011

Contact:
Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694
Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263

CAUSA to hold legislative briefing on 2011 Latino Agenda at Oregon State Capitol

Salem, Ore.--On Tuesday, February 15th, members of CAUSA, Oregon's Latino Immigrant Rights Coalition, will present their 2011 Latino Legislative Agenda in a briefing at the Oregon State Capitol. Those attending the briefing will include members of the Oregon State Legislature, coalition partners and leaders from the community.

Legislative Briefing: Presentation of CAUSA Oregon Latino Agenda 2011
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Time: 11:30 a.m
Location:
Oregon State Capitol
900 Court Street NE, Room 50
Salem, Oregon

Issues to be discussed at the February 15th legislative briefing include affordable housing, education, public safety, health, and jobs and the economy.

Members of the media are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Erik Sorensen at 503-488-0263 503-488-0263 or at erik@causaoregon.org

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CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition is the largest Latino and Latina civil and human rights and advocacy organization in the Pacific Northwest. We work to defend and advance immigrant rights through coordination with local, state, and national coalitions and allies. For more information, visit www.causaoregon.org

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Healthcare Advocates Commit to Helping Oregon's Uninsured Latino Families

Healthcare Advocates Commit to Helping Oregon's Uninsured Latino Families

Portland, Ore.-- Last night, CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition, and the Oregon Latino Health Coalition (OLHC) hosted a Latino Health Policy Assembly at the First Unitarian Church in Downtown Portland. The purpose of the assembly was to bring together policy makers, healthcare advocates and legislators to discuss strategies to deal with uninsured Latino Families in Oregon. Over 100 people attended.
Included in the issues discussed was potential legislation and administrative remedies that would:

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Latino Health Policy Assembly to be held in Portland Tonight

MEDIA ADVISORY
September 23, 2010

Contact:
Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694
Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263

Latino Health Policy Assembly to be held in Portland Tonight

Portland, Ore.--Tonight, CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition, and the Oregon Latino Health Coalition (OLHC) will host a Latino Health Policy Assembly in Downtown Portland.

The purpose of this assembly is to bring together policy makers, healthcare advocates and legislators to discuss and raise awareness for legislation and/or administrative remedies that would:

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Rev. David Ostendorf: White Hot -- The Health Care and Immigration Debacle

Rev. David L. Ostendorf is the managing editor for Imagine 2050. Contributors to the Imagine 2050 include activists, immigrants, artists and students who are invested in a future nation that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance.

White Hot: The Health Care and Immigration Debacle
August 12, 2009

By Rev. David L. Ostendorf
www.imagine2050.net

While not as crude as the raucous Rushian rabble with their swastika placards at town hall actions, serious white nationalists are unfolding their three-for-one strategy to derail health care and immigration reform, and the Obama Administration itself. In light of the tepid response of Administration and Congressional reformists to the health care debacle, the possibility of more setbacks on all fronts grows by the day: to wit, the President’s announcement this week that immigration reform will see action “when we come back next year.”

When Members of the U.S. House of Representatives lamely cut and run in the face of “angry crowds” screaming about the alleged repeal of Medicare, forced euthanasia of the elderly, and free health care for “illegal immigrants,” it’s clear that Congressional backbone replacement should be the health reform order of the day. One can scarcely imagine what the Members will do when the anti-immigrant crowds are cranked up and come out in force.

Continue article at http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/08/12/white-hot-the-health-care-and-immigration-debacle/

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