A People’s History of US Immigration with Jeff Smith

Name: A People’s History of US Immigration with Jeff Smith
Start: 2025-09-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-08T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Grand Haven Loutit Library

Schedule

Mon Sep 08 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Grand Haven Loutit Library | Grand Haven, MI

Join Author, Activist & Community Organizer Jeff Smith for a powerful presentation on the history of immigration — offering historical context to better understand today’s immigration policies and practices.

📅 Monday, September 8
🕕 6–7:45 PM
📍 Loutit District Library

Space is limited, registration is required.
RSVP here: https://www.ontracadvocates.com/history_of_us_immigration
Come ready to learn, reflect, and engage in meaningful conversation.
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About Jeff
Jeff Smith has been part of social movement work for more than 4 decades in Grand Rapids. He co-founded the Koinonia House, which practiced radical hospitality for the unhoused and was a sanctuary for Central American refugees fleeing US sponsored terrorism in the 1980s.
Jeff spent a significant amount of time doing accompaniment work in Central America and Mexico, working with and learning from movement organizers in those countries.
Jeff started the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy in 1998, which has been a media watchdog and an Indymedia site. Jeff also started The Grand Rapids People’s History Project in 2010.
He has written A People’s History of Grand Rapids and the book Radical Grand Rapids. His forthcoming book is entitled Reversing the Missionary Position: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time.
Jeff is also a volunteer organizer with GR Rapid Response to ICE. Jeff lives with his partner Colette and their 3 rescue dogs in the NE part of Grand Rapids.