Thread: ALIPAC on the AIR across FL Wed evening!

William Gheen,

Thank you for agreeing to participate on Florida on the Line for Wednesday, August 9th from 7-8pm.

Florida on the Line is a live call-in talk show which airs monthly statewide.

Listeners from around the state can call in and participate on the discussion. The topic for this month is on Immigration in the state of Florida and immigration reform. On the show we will have immigration attorney Neil Rambana who is in Tallahassee and Evelia Menjivor with United Farm Workers of America .

For the station in Tallahassee our frequency number is 88.9 FM .

People who aren't able to listen over the air can also listen in live online at http://www.fsu.edu/~wfsu_fm/listen/index.htm

Programs are also available on Podcast and archive material after the show at www.floridaontheline.org.

COOL! and its a decent hour for a change!

bttt

Neil Rambana

http://www.rambana.com/

http://www.rambana.com/biography.htm

Our Firm
On May 9 2006, the Leon County Board of County Commissioners recognized Rambana & Ricci, P.A. for its contributions to World Heratige. The firm was similarly recognized in January, 2003 with a Tallahassee City Commission Mayoral Proclamation of Thanks for their outstanding work in the Tallahassee immigrant community.

We are proud to be referred clients by the U.S. Department of Justice for providing service to indigent individuals in immigration removal proceedings pursuant to 8 CFR §1003.61.

Both Neil Rambana and Elizabeth Ricci serve the legal community and community at large in a variety of volunteer positions. Mr. Rambana and Ms. Ricci are both members of the membership by invitation Stafford Inn of Court Legal Ethics Society. Both attorneys were nominated for the NSU Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. The team was featured at the 2004 Florida Bar's Voluntary Bar Leaders Conference.

Neil St. John Rambana

Attorney Rambana concentrates on criminal immigration issues and regularly represents clients before U.S. Immigration Courts around the country. He is admitted to practice in the federal courts of the Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Atlanta, Georgia.

A member in good standing of the Florida Bar, Tallahassee Bar Association, American Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association, Mr. Rambana is immediate past President of the Federal Bar Association Tallahassee Chapter.

Mr. Rambana recently served as a Congressional liaison for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Locally, he sits on the Board of Directors of the Tallahassee Community College Alumni Association, has been President and Treasurer of the Tallahassee International Affairs Council and Secretary for the Brokaw-McDougal House. He co-chairs the Tallahassee Bar Association's Membership Committee, serves on the 21st Century Council and Cultural Resources Commission. He recently served on the Girl Scout Council of the Apalachee Bend. Mr. Rambana is a 32nd Degree Mason and a member in good standing of the York Rite, Scottish Rite and J. Edwin Larson Lodge, Tallahassee, Florida.

Attorney Rambana received awards from Legal Services of North Florida for two consecutive years for his generous pro bono work. He has been nominated for the Florida Bar Young Lawyer's Division Diversity Award, personally named "Outstanding Legal Professional" by the Association of Black Public Administrators, named 2004 Black Achiever by the Tallahassee Branch of the NAACP, honored by the Caribbean Carnival of Tallahassee, and has spoken at the Model United Nations, among other engagements. Attorney Rambana is featured in the 2006 TCC Black Achievers Calendar.

Mr. Rambana received his Masters in International Affairs and Bachelors in English and Political Science with a minor in Public Administration from Florida State University. Past activities include being President of the International Affairs Graduate Student Association and Vice President of the Capital City Jaycees.

Attorney Rambana graduated from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center. While in law school, he served as President of the International Law Students Association, President of American Bar Association/Law School Division, Vice-President of the Student Bar Association, was editor of Nova’s Travel Law Journal and was a member of Phi Alpha Delta, Law Fraternity International.

Mr. Rambana is originally from Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.

This is interesting: "*NEW* Guest / Temporary Worker Pre-Registration Form *NEW*"

http://guestworker.rambana.com/

United Farm Workers

http://www.ufw.org/

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/immig806

New Bush administration immigration regulations hurts workers
Last December the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill making it a felony to be an undocumented worker. Right now the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing new rules that could have disastrous effects for all workers and our economy.

Under the new rules, employers could be held liable for violating immigration law if they continue to employ workers who are notified the Social Security numbers they provide employers does not match what the Social Security Administration has on record. This may prompt panicked employers to fire thousands of workers before they have a chance to resolve discrepancies.

If this rule is imposed, workers who are in this country legally can be fired and barred from further employment.

Enforcing our immigration laws using such a notoriously error-prone system will only worsen conditions for all workers and stand in the way of true comprehensive reform in Congress. That reform includes the historic bipartisan AgJobs bill negotiated by the United Farm Workers and the nation’s agricultural industry. AgJobs would let immigrant farm workers earn the right to stay in this country by continuing to work in the fields.

We have time to fight back. Tell President Bush’s Department of Homeland Security to reject these new proposed regulations that hurt everyone and let Congress reach a comprehensive immigration solution.

Thank you John.

I will dig in more on this the hour before the show to be prepared.

W

From Lou Dobbs to William Gheen. Not bad for an American Wednesday night !!

Going on the air here in about 30 minutes. I will watch this topic if anyone has any comments or suggestions for me while im on the air.

W