28th Annual Symposium of the Des Moines Human Rights Commission with Greater Des Moines Friends of Human Rights, Inc. Celebrating Sixty (60) Years of Human & Civil Rights Education in Metropolitan Des Moines Presenting Sponsor Des Moines University 3206 Grand Ave. March 19, 2014 8 am to 4:30 pm Program in Student Education Center (follow this link for map) dmu.edu/about/campus/ 8 a.m. Free REGISTRATION (Includes “Free Box Lunch”) 9 a.m. Opening Session Welcome: Rudy Simms, Des Moines Human Rights; Dr. Angela Franklin, Des Moines University, Beth Townsend, Iowa Civil Rights Commission Keynote Speaker: Denise Gipson, Compliance Branch Chief, HUD Region VII, Kansas City, KS. Noon Speaker: Nancy Mwirotsi, Africans in Iowa Leadership Council Workshop topics include: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Law; Fair Housing Testing (Realtor & Landlord Responsibilities); Fair Employment/Know Your Rights/Bullying in the Work place; War on Poverty; Gun Violence; Personal Privacy and Spying; Updates on Immigration Law; Minority Incarceration & “The New Jim Crow” Laws; Responding to Bullying in LGBT Communities; Medicinal Marijuana Use; ”Eating Better for Life; You Can’t Do Better Until You Know Better”; Human Trafficking; The Assault on Voting Rights; Crisis in the Nursing Homes; Eating Better for Life; The Affordable Care Act Continuing Ed Credits Applied for: CISHRM, DMAAR To register send e-mail request to: [email protected] or call 237-1482 Community Sponsors: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, Amnesty International; Central Iowa Society for Human Resource Management (Diversity Committee); Des Moines Area Association of Realtors; Des Moines Human Rights Commission; Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Diversity and Inclusion Council; Iowa Department of Human Rights; Office on the Status of African Americans, Iowa Civil Rights Commission, Iowa Workforce Development, Urbandale Civil & Human Rights Commission; West Des Moines Human Rights Commission; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Greater Des Moines Friends of Human Rights, Inc. in process… TO REGISTER/Contact: Mikel Johnson @ (515)237-1482 or [email protected] TO SPONSOR/Contact: Jerry Tormey @360-1452 or jmtormey@msn
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