Class
Schedule for Spring 2011
INDIGENOUS
WOMEN SPEAK OUT
Presentation and Discussion with Sally Ann Gonzales, Arizona State
Representative and Educator
Saturday,
February 5th
2:00pm
State Rep.
Gonzales, formerly a Yaqui Tribal Council member, will speak about
indigenous women's struggles, and the contribution of the Indigenous
Women's
Caucus during last year's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the
UN, with
examples from Yaqui womens struggle with the damaging effects of
pesticides in Sonora.
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DEFENDING
ETHNIC STUDIES
Presentation and Discussion with Leilani Clark, Tucson Activist and
Ethnic
Studies Alumnus
Saturday,
February 19th
2:00pm
Arizona's
ultra-right wing legislature, goaded by Attorney General Tom Horne,
has outlawed the teaching of Ethnic Studies in public education. Sister
Clark
will discuss this outrage and the movement by students, teachers, parents,
and
community to resist this racist law.
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CAN LABOR
CONFRONT RIGHT WING POPULISM?
Presentation and Discussion with Bill Fletcher, Jr., long-time racial
justice,
labor and international activist and writer
Saturday,
March 5th
2:00pm
Right
wing populism is on the rise across the country in the form of Tea
Parties, anti-immigrant militias, and outright terrorism. Can the labor
movement
overcome its internal crises to give the leadership needed to overcome
this
threat? How can we organize to fight back against this onslaught?
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TODAY'S
STRUGGLES AND THE SOCIALIST FUTURE
Presentation and Discussion with Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist
Party USA
Saturday,
March 12th
2:00pm
Progress
is always uneven. How do our struggles for reforms, which often appear
to yield too little, nonetheless help build a working class movement
that will
lead us to a Socialist USA. Sam Webb will analyze the current political
situation and the tasks ahead for working people and the broad progressive
movement.
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READING,
WRITING, AND REVOLUTION: LATIN AMERICA'S THREE R'S
Presentation and Discussion with Mike Svob, Retired University Educator
Saturday,
April 2nd
2:00pm
Latin
America has a rich history of popular, left and revolutionary literature
-
poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Revueltas, Garcia Marquez, Neruda,
Dalton,
Taibo, and Marti, to name just a few. This is your chance to learn a
bit about
this tradition, hear some selected writings and learn about the social
and
cultural movements of this hemisphere.
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WORKERS'
REPUBLIC: WHEN THE ECONOMY FELL, THEY STOOD UP
Film and Discussion
Saturday,
April 9th
2:00pm
The story
of laid off Chicago factory workers at Republic Windows who sat in and
took over their closing workplace in December 2008, refusing to leave
until
their employers and their creditors agreed to pay them the severance
pay they
were owed. Their action exposed the greed of the bosses and the bankers
who had
just received billions in federal bailout money. And they won, which
shows that
radical action may still be the best way forward.
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END
THE CULTURE OF MILITARISM
Presentation and Discussion with Chuck Kaufman, National Coordinator,
Alliance
for Global Justice
Saturday,
April 23rd
2:00pm
Brother
Kaufman will draw on his long experience in worldwide, and especially,
Latin American solidarity work, including a recent visit to the Honduras
to
advocate for a complete revamp of US militarist foreign policy. In his
own
words, "The foundation of the current military-industrial complex,
that
unholy alliance of the Pentagon and big corporations, which has turned
war
into a business, is only 60 years old. Slavery was 350 years old in
the
Americas, yet people just like you and me, managed over time to abolish
it."
