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QEJ goes to Kansas City
Board and staff members of Queers for Economic
Justice will be leading
numerous workshops and events at this year's CREATING
CHANGE
conference, being held next week in Kansas City,
Missouri. Please join us at the
Westin Crown Center from November 8-12, 2006 for 19th
Annual Creating
Change Conference.


Below is a list of events that QEJ board members and
staff members will
be leading. Please join us.


In particular, please note two events in particular:

Thursday, November 9 -- we will be running an all-day
Institute called
FIRST, CLASS: Economic Justice Issues in the LGBT
Community

and on
Friday, November 10 -- we will be having a PARTY!
Please join us at 8:30pm for a reception,
honoring three outstanding women whose long-term work
for LGBT
liberation
has always integrated economic justice work.
TERRY BOGGIS, MANDY CARTER and SURINA KHAN are being
celebrated,
and we want you to join us for drinks, toasts, snacks
and partying.

See below for the full listing of QEJ-related events
at the conference.

- Joseph



Joseph N. DeFilippis
Executive Director
Queers for Economic Justice
16 W. 32nd Street #10H
New York, NY 10001
(212) 564-3608
www.QueersforEconomicJustice.org

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PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTES: WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY,
Nov. 8 & 9:

POC Organizing Institute
Wednesday Nov 8th, 9:00am – 6:30pm
Panelists include:
        - Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 



FIRST, CLASS: Economic Justice Institute
Thursday, November 9, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Panelists include: 
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst
-       Joseph N. DeFilippis, QEJ Executive Director
-       Kenyon Farrow, QEJ Board of Directors
-       Doyin Ola, QEJ Welfare Organizer
-       Lorraine Ramirez, QEJ Board of Directors
-       Jessica Stern, QEJ Board of Directors
-       Jay Toole, QEJ Shelter Organizer
as well as allies Mel Bramyn, Susan Raffo and Kay
Whitlock


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FRIDAY, November 10


Class and the Queer Agenda
 Friday, Session 1, 9:00am - 10:30am, in the Shawnee
room
Panelists include:
-       Joseph N. DeFilippis, QEJ Executive Director
-       Kenyon Farrow, QEJ Board of Directors
-       Amber Hollibaugh, QEJ Board of Directors
(and Joo Hyun Kang, Susan Raffo, and Kay Whitlock)



Reproductive Technology & Social Justice: Bringing Big
Concept Together
Friday, Session 1, 9:00-10:30am, in Pershing West
Panelists include:
-       Terry Boggis, QEJ Board of Directors 



Building A Movement: Rethinking Reproductive Justice
for Queer 
Communities
Friday, Session 1, 9:00-10:30am, in Pershing North
Panelists include:
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 



Basic Black: Black LGBT Organizing Strategies
Friday, Session 2, 2:15-3:45pm, in Pershing North
Panelists include:
- Kenyon Farrow, QEJ Board of Directors


We Are Not All Americans: What the LGBT Movement and
the Immigration 
Movements Share, and What They Can Learn from One
Another 
Friday, Session 2, 2:15-3:45pm, in Pershing West
Panelists include:
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 
-       Jessica Stern, QEJ Board of Directors



QEJ PARTY
Friday night -- 8:30pm-10:00pm in Pershing South
Join us for a free reception, celebrating three
veteran activists whose
work for LGBT liberation has always integrated
economic and racial
justice:
Terry Boggis, Mandy Carter and Surina Khan.

Drinks, toasts, snacks and mingling!


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SATURDAY, November 11


When Sex Kills: How U.S. Federal and Global AIDS
Policies Harm LGBTQ 
Persons in the U.S. and around the World 
Saturday, Session 5, 9:00am-10:30am, in Washington
Park Plaza
Panelists include:
-       Jessica Stern, QEJ Board of Directors



Queer Organizing in Working Class Communities
Saturday, Session 6, 10:45am-12:15pm, in Liberty 
Panelists include:
-       Doyin Ola, QEJ Welfare Organizer 
-       Jay Toole, QEJ Shelter Organizer



Identifying Allies in Family Advocacy
Saturday, 11/11, 1:30-2:30 p.m., in Mission room
Panelists include:
– Terry Boggis, QEJ Board of Directors


What's Money Got To Do With It? (sexual freedom
caucus) 
Saturday Nov 11th, 1:00-2:00pm, in Pershing South
Panelists include:
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 



Complicating the Knot: Documenting LGBTQ Kinship
‘Beyond Same-Sex
Marriage’
Saturday, Session 7, Liberty Room
Panelists include:
- Greg Bordowitz, Kendall Thomas, Kay Whitlock


Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate
of Binational 
Same-sex Couples under U.S. Immigration Law 
Saturday, session 7  Pershing East
Panelists include:
-       Jessica Stern, QEJ Board of Directors



Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws on LGBTQ
Communities
Saturday, Session 7 , 4:00-5:30pm, in Pershing West
Panelists include:
- Kenyon Farrow, QEJ Board of Directors


Standing Outside/Looking Inside: Immigration Rights
Skills Building 
Academy
Saturday Nov11th, 4-7pm, in Union Hill
Panelists include:
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 
-       Jessica Stern, QEJ Board of Directors



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SUNDAY, November 12


Understanding the Links Between the Anti-LGBT Movement
and the 
Anti-Immigrant Movement 
Sunday November 12th, 9-10:30am, in Pershing South
Panelists include:
-       Debanuj DasGupta, QEJ Immigration Policy
Analyst 



Sex,Race, Class and Gender: Establishing
All-Inclusive, Sex-Positive
Public Policy
Sunday, November 12, 9-10:30am, in Shawnee Room
Panelists include:
- Amber Hollibaugh, QEJ Board member




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