Annunciation House will present its 2008 VOICE OF THE VOICELESS AWARD to Roy Bourgeois on May 17TH
Awarded the Purple Heart as an officer in the U.S. Navy, Roy Bourgeois was ordained a Maryknoll priest in 1972. Sent to Bolivia to work with the poor, he was arrested by security forces and forced to leave Bolivia. [...]
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Voice of the Voiceless 2008 - Father Roy Bourgeois, MM
April 21st, 2008 Comments Off
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DECLARATION OF IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
May 29th, 2007 No Comments
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We are a nation of immigrants.
We come from Mexico and the Philippines, from Central America, Ireland, Ethiopia and Iraq. We come to escape poverty and violence, fear, war, discrimination, political suppression and economic hardship. We leave behind parents and children and the skies of our homelands. We bring with us [...]
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Voice of the Voicless Award 2007
April 14th, 2007 No Comments
On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Sensenbrenner-King bill, otherwise known as HR 4437, one of the most anti-immigrant pieces of legislation ever passed by the US House of Representatives, Annunciation House is announcing its 2007 Voice of the Voiceless Award recipient.
For long-time advocacy and solidarity with immigrants and the [...]
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