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Source: Make the Road New York
Subject: Profiles of MRNY
Type: Event

MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK'S ANNUAL EVENT


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Join us in celebrating
the one-year anniversary of the successful merger of the Latin American
Integration Center and Make the Road By Walking. The new organization has made
great strides to combat injustice, foster democratic participation and build
power for New York’s
low-income and immigrant communities.

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Wednesday, October 1,
2008
Cocktail Party: 6 – 9 pm
New York City Fire
Museum
278 Spring Street, New York

between
Varick and Hudson
Streets

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HONORING:

TERENCE M.
O’SULLIVAN

General President, Laborers International Union of North America

JANET
MURGUÍA

President and CEO, National Council of
La Raza

VINCENT
McGEE

LAWRENCE
PARK
Executive Director, New York State Trial Lawyers Association

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SPONSORS:

Champion
MARTIN DUNN
ANONYMOUS

Pacesetter
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
LOCAL 32BJ

Activist
THE HARMON FOUNDATION

Patron
JENNIFER and IAN McALLISTER-NEVINS

PERQ FUND of the TIDES FOUNDATION
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM

Friend
PATTY ABRAMSON and LES SILVERMAN
THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES
ALAN and BARBARA WASHKOWITZ

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EVENT
CHAIRS:


STUART
APPELBAUM
, President, Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store Union

ROSSANA
ROSADO
, Publisher and CEO, El Diario La
Prensa

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HOST
COMMITTEE:

JESSICA
BAUMAN and BEN POSEL 

DEEPAK
BHARGAVA

Center for Community
Change

BRUCE
BOTH

United Food and
Commercial Workers Union, Local 1500 & United
Food and Commercial, Workers Union International 

GUILLERMO
CHACON

Latino Commission on
AIDS

CONGRESSMAN
JOSEPH CROWLEY 

MARTIN
DUNN

JEFF
EICHLER

Retail Wholesale and
Department Store Union (RWDSU)

JUAN
FERNANDEZ, GE Capital 

HÉCTOR
J. FIGUEROA

Local 32BJ Service
Employees International Union

MIKE
FISHMAN

Local 32BJ Service
Employees International Union

MICHAEL
and SUSAN FRIEDMAN

NORM
FRUCHTER

Annenberg Institute
for School Reform

NADINE
B. HACK

beCause Global Consulting

TRACY
HEWAT 

HUGH
HOGAN and PATRICK MOFFITT 

CHUNG-WHA
HONG

New
York
Immigration Coalition

ROBERT
HUGHES

New Visions for Public
Schools

GARA
LaMARCHE

The Atlantic
Philanthropies

WILFREDO
LARANCUENT

Unite Here

JACK
LAWSON

Brooklyn Cooperative FCU

NG’ETHE
MAINA and ADRIANNE SHROPSHIRE

COUNCIL
MEMBER HIRAM MONSERRATE

JENNIFER
and IAN McALLISTER-NEVINS

ELIZABETH
NEVINS and JAY SAUNDERS

GERI
PALAST

Campaign For Fiscal
Equity

MICHAEL
PROHASKA

Laborers International
Union, Local 79

COUNCIL
SPEAKER CHRISTINE C. QUINN

LIZABETH
SCHALET

ALTA
STARR

Ford Foundation

NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, JR. 

DAVID
UDELL

Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice

CONGRESSMAN
ANTHONY WEINER 

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HONOREES
EMERITUS:


JOSEPH
T. HANSEN
,
President, United Food and Commercial Workers International

ROBERTA A.
KAPLAN
, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP
ANDREA
BATISTA SCHLESINGER
, Executive Director,
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy