TEDxRideauCanal - Hamdi Mohamed - Immigrant Contributions: The Untold Story
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Hamdi Mohamed is currently Executive Director of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) - a non-profit, multi-service agency with award-winning community programs and services; serving more than 25,000 clients a year. Services include language instruction, settlement workers in schools (MLO), community integration, clinical... Read more
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- -: TEDxRideauCanal - Hamdi Mohamed - Immigrant Contributions: The Untold Story
February 2, 2012 (over 1 year ago)Hamdi Mohamed is currently Executive Director of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) - a non-profit, multi-service agency with award-winning community programs and services; serving more than 25,000 clients a year. Services include language instruction, settlement workers...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Ethan Nguyen - On taking chances
January 23, 2012 (over 1 year ago)Mentor one young person this year and you set them on a journey that will ultimately lead them to an opportunity to change other lives. Dissuaded by a high school guidance counselor from applying to top schools, Ethan Nguyen found encouragement from a supportive local librarian and landed at Vass...
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- -: TEDxSanAntonio - Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House
December 29, 2011 (over 1 year ago)A Former Ambassador to the United Nations, Sichan tells the compelling story of fleeing Cambodia and his journey to a high-profile career in foreign policy in his talk"From the Killing Fields to the White House." In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized ...
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- -: TEDxSanAntonio - Gurvinder P. "G.P." Singh - Life Lessons for Realizing Your Potential
December 28, 2011 (over 1 year ago)A successful entrepreneur who sold his homegrown defense contracting firm for millions, G.P. shares the trials, tribulations and truths of showing up in the U.S. with $8 in his pocket and building a life of purpose. The talk - "Life Lessons for Realizing Your Potential" In the spirit of ideas w...
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- -: TEDxUSC - Ange-Marie Hancock - The Tyranny Of Tolerance
December 21, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Ange-Marie Hancock, the associate director at the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII), studies how Generation Y uses technology for political action. Hancock found through her personal study, the Millennium Puzzle, along with the PEW Research and CSII that young people are fa...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Megan Prydun - 80 Degrees of Separation: Giving New Immigrants a Fighting Chance
October 26, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Megan Prydun, Masters student in Development Practice at the University of Winnipeg As Winnipeg continues to develop and evolve, our relationships with our city continue to grow stronger. But the connection to this city for new immigrants is weak if we don't give them the opportunity to thrive....
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- -: Tom Tancredo - Immigration and "Cultural Assimilation"
December 11, 2006 (over 6 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=484 Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) discusses his views on immigration, contrasting the experience of his Italian grandparents with that of modern illegal immigrants. ----- Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo discusses and signs his timely ...
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- -: Learning English as a Second Language - Linda Furiya
March 16, 2007 (about 6 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=743 Author Linda Furiya reads an excerpt from her book, "Bento Box in the Heartland," in which she discusses her Japanese immigrant mother's difficulties with learning English as a second language. ----- Linda Furiya introduces her memoir...
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- -: Open for Questions: The DREAM Act with Cecilia Munoz
November 29, 2010 (over 2 years ago)Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz takes questions about the DREAM Act, legislation that provides a path to legal status for youth who pursue higher education or serve in the Armed Forces. November 29, 2010.
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Barack Obama: Comprehensive Immigration Reform
May 10, 2011 (about 2 years ago)President Barack Obama talks about illegal immigration and the the broken immigration system in the US that needs to be fixed.
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