Allen University’s Institute for Civility, along with Project South, will be hosting two workshops on February 12. The two events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the Chapelle Auditorium on the Allen University Campus.
The two February 12 events are as follows:
Movement Lawyering Workshop by Project South
February 12, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Allen University
The Gallery in Chapelle Auditorium
Co-presenters for this workshop will be Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director, Azadeh Shahshahani, and Manzoor Cheema, a Project South Regional Organizer. Shahshahani is an internationally-recognized human rights lawyer. She is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a director at the ACLU of Georgia. Cheema has worked in anti-racism and workers’ rights movements since 2005. For more background information on these leaders, please see Project South’s leadership page.
Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Georgia
February 12, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Allen University
The Gallery in Chapelle Auditorium
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director for Project South, will lead this event. Shahshahani will talk about immigration detention in the United States and will present the findings of the May 2017 report “Imprisoned Justice Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers”. Project South and the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic published this report based on interviews with more than 70 detained immigrants, immigration attorneys, and tours of the Stewart Detention Center and the Irwin County Detention Center.
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For more information on these two events at Allen University, please contact Deborah Billings (dbillings08@gmail.com) or Dr. Charlene Spearen (cspearen@allenuniversity.edu).