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Dear Friends of SJS (please delete the previous message from SJS immediately),
Please join us at two upcoming SJS events (posters attached):
Social Justice Studies Annual Lecture presents
Movements Undoing Border Imperialism
With Harsha Walia
October 27th, 2014 from 7 to 9 p.m.
BWC/SCI B150
Harsha Walia is a social justice activist, writer, and popular educator. She is a co-founder of the Vancouver chapter of No One Is Illegal and author of the book Undoing Border Imperialism. Her writings have appeared in over fifty journals, anthologies, and magazines. She has contributed essays to academic journals as well as chapters in the anthologies Power of Youth: Youth and community-led activism in Canada; Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution; and Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice.
Naomi Klein says that “Walia has played a central role in building... some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all." Indigenous rights activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border has called Walia’s book, "the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible." Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, says that the book: “demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended, nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities….This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer’s heart." Ashanti Alston, Black Panther elder and former political prisoner, writes: “This book is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based praxis. Undoing Border Imperialism is too hot to be sitting on bookshelves; it will help make the revolution." (http://www.akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html)
Social Justice Studies and the Department of Geography present:
Anarchism, Women, and Public Space
a talk by Kathy Ferguson
Kathy Ferguson is a Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies and is currently Director of the Women's Studies Program.
Her research interests center on contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and militarism. She recently published a book entitled Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011). She writes that her "work on Goldman reflects a longstanding fascination with her anarchist and feminist ideas and actions at the turn of the last century." Her next book, Anarchist Women in the First Wave, will investigate many other "women's neglected contributions to radical politics". For a preview of these women, with brief biographies and photos, see "Emma Goldman's Women" on her website at http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/emmagoldman/index.html. She has also co-edited with Monique Mironesco Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008), written Oh, Say, Can You See? The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai`i, with Phyllis Turnbull (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999) and Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race and Militarism in Israel (Pasadena, CA: Trilogy Books, 1995).
regards.
Marrgo Matwychuk
Director
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