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From their web site:
Human Rights Conference: Without Borders?
Saturday, October 5th 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Carrboro Century Center
On Saturday October 5th, the HRC is organizing a conference titled Without Borders? We want to challenge the day- to- day boundaries and tackle questions such as, "Are there some borders we may want to abolish? Some we may wish to preserve? Transgress? Are there some borders we wish to finesse? Is solidarity possible across our diversities?
MC - Victor Acosta
TIME | PANEL/TOPIC | PANELISTS |
8:15-8:30 am | Introduction Bonners & Afterschool Video | |
8:30-9:30 am | Migrantes sin Fronteras (Translation: Migrants without Borders) | UNC Students United for Immigration Equality (SUIE): Boriana Mravoka, Emilio Vincente, Maria Pia Rodriguez and Giovanny and "Beto" Rodriguez and Misclassified Persons: |
9:35-9:45 am | Harakat el Heels - Student Palestinian dance group | UNC undergradutes: Amar Arafat, Abood Dahnoun, Hussein Ahmad, Joel Hage, Rosaleen Zitawi, Dalia Kaakour, Sarah Zamamiri, Jenna Sawafta |
9:50-10:20 am | Where are the Refugees? | Local refugees: Susu and Abdullah |
10:25-11:05 am | Empowerment, Independence and Culture | Community Empowerment Fund: Chiraayu Gosrani, Myrna, Victoria Castillo |
11:10-11:50 | Keynote Speech: Heroes, Dreamers, and the Promise of America | Gene R. Nichol Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity |
11:50-12:30 pm | LUNCH: Olga's delicious tamales recommended! | |
12:30-1:00 pm | Raging Grannies | |
1:05-1:45 pm | New Doors to Housing: The Challenges of Affordability | Sally Greene, Town of Chapel Hill Council Member Damon Seils, Jamie Rohe, and Tish Galu |
1:50-2:30 pm | The activist as Elected Official | Mayor Chilton and Maria Palmer (running for CH town council) |
2:35-3:15 pm | Leading for Justice in an Unjust World | Women's International League of Peace & Freedom |
3:20-4:00 pm | The Other Side | Communiversity: Charles Hands, Jeanette Stackhouse, Holly Stephens, and Dylane Davis
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RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/356202871179634/ Date:
Saturday, October 5, 2013 - 8:15am to 4:30pm
Location:
Carrboro Century Center, 100 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro
On Friday August 16th Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill
will host a debate/discussion at 6 p.m. regarding the new zine “The
Issues Are Not The Issue” with the author (a former environmental
activist) and current organizers from Katuah
Earth First! and Panagioti from the Earth First! Journal Collective.
Panagioti Tsolkas New father and current editor on the EF! Journal
collective and EF! activist organizer since 1997. From 2000-2004 he was
a trainer for the Ruckus Society. In 2004 he ran for the Mayor of Lake
Worth, Florida. Since 2005, Tsolkas has been co-chair of the grassroots
Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition, a group which files
litigation regarding development issues in the Everglades and has been
on the planning committee for 3 national Earth First! Organizers
Conferences (2000, 2006 and 2008). In 2009, Panagioti spent 5 months
traveling with the Earth First! Roadshow group. In 2010 Panagioti
co-founded Uncivil Landscapes, a work collective which creates part-time
income opportunities through native landscaping for local activists in
South Florida. He is presently on the steering committee for the Night
Heron Grassroots Activist Center in Lake Worth. Tsolkas was named
‘Troublemaker of the Year’ in 2009 and ‘Activist of the Year’ for 2010
by New Times magazine (Broward/Palm Beach edition). He has no formal
education past 10th grade; he is diploma-free and proud.
Date:
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 6:00pm
Location:
Internationalist Bookstore 405 W. Franklin St.
The FBI labels animal rights and environmental activists the
“number one domestic terrorism threat,” and new laws turn activism into
“terrorism” if it hurts corporate profits. How did this happen? Why are
undercover investigators and those who use non-violent civil disobedience being
treated so disproportionately? And what are the real life consequences for the
activists who are investigated, and even sent to prison, as domestic
terrorists? Journalist Will Potter and activist Jake Conroy will explore these
questions from first hand perspectives.
Date:
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 7:00pm
Location:
104 Howell Hall, UNC Campus
The Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity would
like to announce its 16th Annual Conference, “Waking Up from the
American Dream: The Sober Reality of Class in America.” On Saturday, February
25th, 2012, academics, community activists, practitioners, and students will
come together at the UNC School of Law Rotunda to contribute to the
rejuvenation of a discussion of class and inequality. We hope to encourage a
heterodox approach grounded in the intersection of an honest exploration of
class and the realities of racial, feminist, ethnic, and queer identities and
the law. For more information and to register please visit our website, http://studentorgs.law.unc.edu/crcge/conferences/2012/default.aspx.
Date:
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location:
UNC School of Law, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
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Location:
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