FLAGSTAFF – Week two of Immigration Awareness Month at Northern Arizona University will open with “Humanitarian Activism on the Border,” featuring a discussion by John Fife on “Getting in the Way: Resistance Movements to Death on the Border,” presented by Latin American Studies and No More Deaths — NAU at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 in Liberal Arts 120.
“I see him as a contemporary of César Chávez and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Robert Neustadt, professor of Spanish and director of Latin American Studies at NAU. Fife founded the Sanctuary Movement in the early 1980s to provide safe-haven in more than 600 churches in the United States to Central American refugees fleeing civil war in their countries. “He was facing nine years of prison and still refused to back down.”
Week two will continue with:
• The screening of “The Undocumented” will be presented by Latin American Studies and No More Deaths — NAU at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9 in Liberal Arts 120.
• The screening of “Need to Know: Crossing the Line” will be presented by Latin American Studies and No More Deaths — NAU at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10 in Liberal Arts 120.
• “The Humanitarian Crisis on the Border” will be presented by Latin American Studies and No More Deaths — NAU at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 12 in the Cline Auditorium.
Please see http://www.amigosnaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Immigration-Awareness-Month-Calendar.pdf for more details on upcoming Immigration Awareness Month events.