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Underground America
Location: Painted Bride, 230 Vine St, Old City Philadelphia, 19106
Cost: 15$
Time: 8:30 PM- 10:30 PM
Date: November 12th

In the over heated debate about immigration voices of the immigrants
themselves are seldom heard. Underground America changes that with a
dramatic reading of oral histories by undocumented immigrants that reveals
the harrowing ordeals and heart-rending choices they must make everyday.

A discussion follows with a panel of experts who will address the legal,
economic, and humanitarian issues surrounding the immigration debate.

Panelist:
Peter Orner is the editor of the book Underground America: Narratives of
Undocumented Lives. As a fiction writer, he ahs been a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the
Rome Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is an associate professor at San
Francisco University.

Sarah Paoletti heads up UPenn Law's Transnational Clinic.

Jaykumar Menon is a human rights lawyer and a writer and a fellow at the
Center for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill
University.

Moderator:
Judith A. Bernstein-Baker is executive editor of HIAS and Council
Migration Service of Philadelphia.

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