UNDERGROUND AMERICA AT NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL

Posted on April 21, 2009

Below the Radar: Immigrants in America

Saturday, April 25th, 2:30 PM, Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusets: Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking at this event with social activist Drew Hendrickson as part of the Newburyport Literary Festival. For Underground America, Orner compiled and edited the stories of various men and women who came to the United States and confronted life-changing challenges that they never expected. This book is a collection of first-hand accounts, illuminating the human experiences that elude the headlines and are rarely considered in political discourse about immigration. The discussion will center on the power of the human story and the often harsh reality of immigration in the US.

Presenter: Peter Orner

Moderator: Drew Hendrickson

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Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.