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Start: Mar 2 2008 - 2:45pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 4:15pm
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In these challenging times, millions of immigrants face critical issues that are sidetracked by the obsessive focus on illegal immigration and national security. Without question, the complicated configuration of immigrant families, who often have citizens, green-card holders and undocumented members, hold immigration reform high on their list of priorities. Yet, there are other issues that have not been brought up in the election campaigns. Whether it is about language-access, quality healthcare and wider employment opportunities for people of color and low-income, the lack of discourse about these immigrant issues not only restricts public opinion process, but it leaves immigrants in limbo. Why is it significant to inform immigrant readers about the U.S. election process? How can ethnic media promote policy change?
Anthony Advincula is managing editor and communications director of New York Community Media Alliance (formerly the Independent Press Association-New York). He attended the University of
the Philippines, Harvard University, and Columbia University, where he was a recipient of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship in 2007.
Peter McDermott is associate editor of the Irish Echo,
a New York-based weekly with a national subscriber base. He is a graduate of University College Dublin in his native Ireland. He has lived in the United States since 1993 and is now a U.S. naturalized citizen.
Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska has reported for the Nowy Dziennik (Polish Daily News) since 2003. Born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, she moved to the US in 2001. In addition to winning numerous ethnic press awards, she produces radio pieces about the Polish community for WNYC.
Abu Taher is senior editor of Bangla Patrika, a
Bangladeshi weekly based in Long Island City. Taher
was a fellow of Independent Press Association Ethnic
Press Fellowship in 2004 and the New York Times
Foreign Press Fellowship in 2003.