The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Public Policy invites the community to the Spring 2015 Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. Dr. Alice Goffman, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.” Dr. Goffman is an urban ethnographer who grew up in Philadelphia, attended graduate school at Princeton, and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Philadelphia, her book On the Run describes…

The next meeting of the San Antonio Coalition Against Genocide will be Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 5:30pm at University Presbyterian Church, 300 Bushnell, at the corner of Shook and Bushnell (next to Trinity University, across from Landa Library) Parking entrance is on Shook. Hope to see you there!

Detention of children on the sole basis of their migration status of that or their parents is a violation of children's rights, is never in their best interests, and is not justifiable. - UN Committee on the Rights of the Child In Karnes Family Detention Center hundreds of women and children are detained and labeled as threats to national security. In Dilley, Texas, the family detention center will operate at a full capacity of 2,400 beds. At this interfaith dinner…