Events

Dowell Myers' Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America looks to California as a bellwether state--where whites are no longer a majority of the population and represent just a third of residents under age twenty--to afford us a glimpse into the future impact of immigration on the rest of the nation. Myers opens with an examination of the roots of voter resistance to providing social services for immigrants. Drawing on detailed census data, Myers demonstrates that long-established immigrants have been far more successful than the public believes.

The Waco Friends of Peace will present a lecture by Les Roberts, PhD, Epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Columbia University.  Dr. Roberts was the lead author of the groundbreaking Lancet medical journal article of 2006 that determined 655,000 Iraqis died due to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Free pizza and lecture. For more information, visit www.friendsofpeace.org.