Tonight I headed with some co-workers to a World Affairs Council lecture called Right to Home: Confronting the Global Crisis on Migration and Displacement. I've been to some amazing lectures at the Council in the past and this one was equally as interesting and provocative. Last year, I saw Achak Deng, the person whose story was told in the book by Dave Eggers, What is the What. That was an amazing talk!
The panelists for the Right to Home conversation all represented organizations that take into account that the people everyone is talking about when they refer to migration and immigration and border crossings and displacement are just that: People. So much of the policy discourse that is taking place today forgets that, instead offering up solutions that treat those people like a commodity, like something to be traded. It was a thought provoking evening and was made more-so by the conversation I had with my colleagues afterward.
IDEX was a co-sponsor of the event and has been hosting happy hours on a monthly basis. After this event, a bunch of folks headed over to rouge & blanc, a wine bar on Grant Avenue, downtown. Since I'm not currently imbibing, I'm probably not the best to comment on this place but, I just wanted to highlight that it had nice ambiance and my friends and I were able to sit on a couch and have good conversation without yelling. All of the food on the bar menu had cheese on it, which I'm not currently eating either but, it was a nice bar menu. Lots of yummy small sandwiches including a croque monsieur, which my friends partook in and enjoyed very much.
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