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Saturday Evening Feature Event: Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis and David Harvey ___________________________________   Imagining a World with Transformative Justice: Reform and/or Revolution Today

Harry Belafonte exposed America to world music and spent his life challenging and overturning racial barriers across the globe. Belafonte met a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on King’s historic visit to New York in the early 1950s. Belafonte and King developed a deep and abiding friendship, and Belafonte played a key role in the civil rights movement, including the 1963 March on Washington. In 1985, disturbed by war, drought, and famine in Africa, Belafonte helped organize the Grammy-winning song “We Are the World,” a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa. Belafonte was active in efforts to end apartheid in South Africa and to release Nelson Mandela. Belafonte served as the cultural advisor for the Peace Corps, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and was honored as an Ambassador of Conscience by Amnesty International. Recently, Belafonte founded the Sankofa Justice & Equity Fund, a non-profit social justice organization that utilizes the power of culture and celebrity in partnership with activism. It is a space for artists to contribute their talents to build awareness and confront the issues that negatively impact marginalized communities.

Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era. Today she remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the world's most cited academic geographer and the author of many books and essays influential in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His work has contributed to broad social and political debate, and he is credited with helping to resurrect social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly its neoliberal form

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One Nation—Under Surveillance

A One-Day Conference about Building Networks of Solidarity

In Defiance of NSA Spying & the Erosion of Democratic Rights

 

Keynote: Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges

 

Registration and Literature Tables in Torp Theater, Davidson Hall, beginning at 9 am.

Program Begins at Torp Theater, Davidson Hall at 10 am.

  

Tickets and Registration: Solidarity Price: $25; Non-CCSU Students & Unemployed: $10.

CCSU Students Free; Scholarships are available. Pay via credit card online at ctstopindefinitedetention.com or Send checks made out to the “CT Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention,” c/o Nancy Bowden, at 7 Scotland Rd., Bloomfield CT 06002, 860-212-9596. For more information, contact Isa Mujahid at imujahid@acluct.org 860-471-8473, Daniel Adam at 860-985-4576, or Mongi Dahoudi at mdhaouadi@cair.com or 860-514-8038.

Initiated by the CT Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention, the ACLU of CT, the Council on American Islamic Relations-CT, United Action-CT. Sponsored (Gold) by the Tree of Life Foundation of CT and CCSU Center for Public Policy & Social Research, CCSU Student Affairs.  Sponsored by Boston United for Justice with Peace, Middle East Crisis Committee, Promoting Enduring Peace, Greater New Haven Peace Council, Rosenberg Fund for Children, Project SALAM, Socialist Action CT, United National Antiwar Coalition, Occupy Hartford Trust. Endorsed by Greater Hartford Central Labor Council, National Lawyers Guild of CT, KnowDrones, Norwich NAACP, New London NAACP, ANSWER CT, Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba, Boston Stop the War, CT United for Peace, Norwich Area Green Party, RI Coalition to Defend Human & Civil Rights, Activate CT, Justice Party of CT.  Hosted by CCSU Youth for Socialist Action.

 

Program

Keynote: 

Chris Hedges, former New York Times reporter, Pulitizer-Prize wining journalist, columnist for Truthdig, author of 12 books, and was a plaintiff in the historic lawsuit “Hedges vs. Obama,” a court challenge to the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Panelists:

--Dawud Walid, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan

--Professor Khalilah Brown-Dean, Author, Once Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Crime, and Civil Death.

--Tania Unzueta, National Day Laborer’s Organizing Committee

--Ana Maria Cardenas, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization / Pastors for Peace Project

--Bruce Miller, Executive Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children

--Robert King, former Black Panther who served 23 years as one of the Angola Three.

--Saru Jayaraman, Author, Behind the Kitchen Door and founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United.

--Lynne Jackson, Project SALAM and the leader of the Journey for Justice in defense of Yassin Aref

--Brett Kaufmann, National Security Fellow in the ACLU's National Security Project.

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Workshops and Facilitators:

Criminalizing Communities of Color and The System of Mass Incarceration:  What You Can Do: Barbara Fair, People Against Injustice; Beatrice Codianni, Reentry Central; Sandra Enos, Author,Mothering from the Inside: Parenting in a Women’s Prison.

Don’t Deport My Mother: The Fight to Stop Deportations Today: Tania Unzueta, National Day Laborer’s Organizing Committee; John Jairo Lugo, Unidad Latina en Accion; Patricia Rosas Blanco, Los Manos Unidos.

Islamphobia, Entrapment, Surveillance, and the So-Called War on Terror: Defending Muslim Americans Today:  Mongi Dhaouadi, CAIR CT; Dawud Walid, Michigan CAIR; Steve Downs, Project SALAM and the National Coaliiton to Protect Civil Freedoms.

The Right to Do Palestine Solidarity Work—in the Community and on the Campus:  Rev. David Good, Tree of Life Foundation; Maxwell Geller, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Northeastern University Law School.

The Fight Against Domestic Surveillance Drones Takes Off!: Nick Mottern of KnowDronesand organizer of the 2014 national Spring Days of Action; Isa Mujahid, Field Organizer, ACLU of CT.  

Individual Defense Cases—True Stories and Lessons:  Lynne Jackson of Project SALAM and the Yasin Aref case; Robert King, one of the Angola Three; Jorge Limeres, Comite Pro Independencia de Puerto Rico en Connecticut and supporter of Oscar Lopez Ramirez

Report Back from Lobby Day; The Civil Liberties Legislative Agenda in CT and the Nation:  ACLU of CT; Council on American Islamic Relations CT; CT Green Party.

Labor, War, and Free Speech—World War I: Lessons for Today: Steve Thornton, author of A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies: Stories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Connecticut

The Democratic Right to Organize: Low Wage Workers:  Saru Jayaraman, author, Behind the Kitchen Door with be joined by activists with the campaign for a domestic workers Bill of Rights, the Fight for Fifteen minimum wage campaign, and the new effort to recover wages from McDonalds.

Do Women Have the Right to Study Unmolested? Title 9 Case Plaintiffs from the Yale and University of Connecticut campuses.

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Schedule

9:00 am Literature Tables Open and Onsite Registration Begins

10:00 am Welcome; Overview of Goal and the Flow of the Day

10:15 am Panel

Finding Strength by Defending Our Democratic Rights--Together:  Voices from the Movements to for Muslim American Civil Liberties, Low Wage Workers, Political Prisoners, Immigrants, and International Solidarity.

11:45 am:  Bag Lunches Provided ($8 for non-CCSU students), Book signings

Keynote Address: 1:00 pm:  Chris Hedges  

2:15 pm Workshops

3:45 pm Panel

What Will Effective Solidarity Look Like Today? What Divides Us and What Can Bring Us Together to Achieve Democratic Rights for All?

Discussion:  A plan for organization, education, & mobilization in 2014.

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Tribeca Film Festival makes “Food Chains” an official selection with screening set for April 26th in NYC! Film also premiered in Mexico this past Sunday at Guadalajara Film Festival to packed house, huge press conference (pictured below), and wildly positive audience reaction! Jorge Camara (left, with mic) — the renowned Mexican American journalist and past president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — moderates a Q&A session with the press following the Sunday screening of “Food Chains” at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (see below). From left to right, “Food Chains” director Sanjay Rawal, Executive Producer Eva Longoria, Executive Producer David Damien Figueroa of MALDEF, and Raul Padilla, President of the University of Guadalajara where the festival took place. It has been a busy week for the farm labor documentary “Food Chains.” Fresh off its successful world premier at the Berlin Film Festival, “Food Chains” was named an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival last Monday and then turned around and took the Guadalajara International Film Festival by storm this past weekend!   Press gathered for the Q&A with Eva Longoria, Sanjay Rawal, and David Damian Figueroa following the screening of “Food Chains” at the Guadalajara Film Festival. To top off its great week, the film was also included in the prestigious “Tribeca Talks” series of panel discussions organized around the film festival, with the CIW’s Gerardo Reyes joining the film’s Executive Producers Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser for a talk about the situation of farmworkers in the country today and the Fair Food Program as the most effective solution to farm labor exploitation and abuse in over a generation.  Other panel discussions included in the Tribeca Talks series this year feature artists, directors, and writers from Kevin Spacey and Ron Howard to Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, and David Simon. Director Sanjay Rawal (pictured below, speaking, after Sunday’s screening in Guadalajara) offered the following, impassioned reflection on the film, its genesis, and his hopes for its impact on the occasion of its selection by the Tribeca Film Festival: In August 2011, I drove up to the CIW headquarters alone, expecting to meet one or two people to pitch an idea about a farm labor film, something I hoped in all honesty and humility might become the FOOD INC of farmworker rights. I knew firmly that without the CIW, such a film could not be made... Read the rest of Sanjay's inspiring behind-the-scenes statement about "Food Chains" at the CIW website!

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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare Talks by Gareth Porter March 25, Northampton: Broadside Books, 247 Main St., 7pm. Sponsored by AFSC Western MA March 26, MIT: 1 Amherst St. (Bldg. E40), 4th floor conference room, Cambridge.  12 noon- 1:30 pm. A seminar sponsored by the Center for International Studies. March 26, Walpole: Public Library, 43 School St., 7pm. Sponsored by Walpole Peace & Justice Group March 26, Fall River: Bristol Community College, 10am March 27, Cambridge: Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle St. near Harvard T), 7pm. March 29, WZBC 90.3 FM: Hear Gareth on "Sounds of Dissent", 11am-1pm Investigative reporter Gareth Porter unravels the whole web of lies and fabrications that have formed the basis of a false narrative about a lengthy and active pursuit by Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. The Obama administration is demanding that as part of a final nuclear deal, Iran must 'resolve concerns' about claims that are based on falsified intelligence.  It's now more important for everyone to understand how and why the Iran nuclear crisis was pumped up and has been going on for so long. Watch a 30-minute video of Gareth's February talk in New York:  Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, American Friends Service Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace.

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Dear Al, The president's budget request for 2015 shows that his priorities are still dangerously backwards, asking for yet another increase for nuclear weapons while crucial domestic spending continues to be slashed. Our allies in Congress are stepping up to take these misguided priorities head on. Companion bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that would each save $100 billion in the next ten years by reducing the number of nuclear weapons and cutting nuclear weapons spending. In the Senate, Sen. Ed Markey's (D-MA) bill is the SANE Act (S. 2070) and in the House, Rep. Earl Blumenauer has introduced the REIN-IN Act (H.R. 4107). We need your help to get your representatives on board supporting cuts to nukes. Tuesday, March 25th is a National Call-in Day for the SANE and REIN-IN Acts. Call your representatives through the capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. To look up your representative click here  Here are the suggested messages: Your US Representative: "My name is ___ and I live in ____. I am calling to ask Rep. ____ to cosponsor H.R. 4107, the REIN-IN Act, to save money by cutting wasteful nuclear weapons spending." Your US Senators: "My name is ___ and I live in ____. I am calling to ask Sen. ____ to cosponsor S. 2070, the SANE Act, to save money by cutting wasteful nuclear weapons spending." Groups all over the country are working together to get cosponsors on these bills. We need your help to keep phones on Capitol Hill ringing off the hook calling for cuts to nukes. Please call right now and tell your representatives to cosponsor these important bills to cut wasteful nuclear weapons spending. Peacefully Yours, Kevin Martin Executive Director Peace Action   Take Action: Today, March 25th, is a national call-in day to cut funding for nuclear weapons.  Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. CONNECT TO US:  Find us on Facebook  Follow us on Twitter  Read our blog  Contact us You are subscribed to Peace Action's Action Alert Network. You can unsubscribe here.

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World Can't Wait leader Samantha Goldman writes: “In January World Can't Wait organized the "Close Guantanamo Now" speaking tour bringing journalist and Guantanamo expert Andy Worthington and others to campuses and community events on both coasts. This tour addressed how and why the U.S. has kept this illegal prison open for 12 years and dug into the people's responsibility for stopping it. Following the series of events, college students have become volunteers, asked for more information, begun discussions with their professors, wrote papers about the tour, and joined in our conference calls discussions and street demonstrations against the torture and wars.” Here is what one California Poly Ponoma student wrote after hearing Andy Worthington and Dennis Loo: “I remember being confused as to why the U.S. was at war, but believed at least that it was to fight terrorists just like I believed terrorists were being held at Guantanamo Bay. In both instances, I was wrong. Now that I have been enlightened to some of the truths behind Guantanamo Bay, I am aware that I now belong to a small minority of other informed people while the rest of the American citizenry remain shrouded in lies. I am aware that in order to take sufficient steps towards closing Guantanamo Bay, a much larger proportion of the population needs to be adequately informed about its illegality. Perhaps then, U.S. citizens can put enough pressure on President Obama to leave him no choice but to shut down the establishment.” Help us reach more students like this all year long! With student groups and professors asking us back and others inviting us at the high school and community college level more sustainers are needed to fulfill all the requests and set students up with materials to take action at their campus. Renew your commitment to sustaining the movement putting humanity and planet the first; sustaining an organization that won’t stop until the crimes do. 13 more sustainers of $10 a month or more are needed by the end of the month to respond to requests from schools and activists for speakers and materials. All sustainers receive special quarterly newsletters. Sign up today and your first newsletter will arrive in May. Sustainers who give $25 a month or more will get a “Humanity and the Planet Come First” Tote Bag. Above, protesting war criminal General Petraeus, NYC December 2013. From David Swanson, warisacrime.org, a petition to stop US threats of war.  You can sign it now and share it. To: The U.S. Congress, President Obama, and NATO From: [Your Name] We demand a moratorium on all NATO wargames in Europe, cancellation of the "missile defense" program along with plans for missiles in the Ukraine, and compliance with the U.N. Charter's ban on threats of war. SPRING DAYS OF DRONE ACTION - 2014 a series of grassroots events organized internationally in April and May aimed not only at stopping current drone attacks but also the spread of weaponized drones and drone surveillance, will begin with: April 1, a protest of drone operations at at Beale AFB in California; and a forum in Atlanta examining military drone research by Georgia Institute of Technology. April 2 – a “Prelude to Drone Days of Action-2014” forum in New York City with Maria Lahood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights; Madiha Tahir, maker of the film Wounds of Waziristan; and Carl Dix, co-founder with Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. To be webcast by stopmotionsolo. We've asked the speakers specifically to bring in answers to common questions we get as we're doing outreach against the US drone wars.  We will record and share --and hope supporters watch live and share questions and comments.  See the Facebook event, where you can join in the discussion now, and post your thoughts. Events planned by dozens of organizations and leaders for the two-month period include: vigils, film-showings, rallies, teach-ins, kite-flying, marches and outreach to campuses. A particular focus will be protest actions at active and planned drone control and drone support bases in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. 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U.S. Hands Off The World-The Struggle Continues...

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Free Chelsea Manning-The Struggle Continues....

Free Chelsea Manning-The Struggle Continues....

 

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U.S. Hands Off The World - The Struggle Continues…

 

 

Free Chelsea Manning-The Struggle Continues...  

 

Lynne Stewart Update-

click on link to check out the latest medical news on former (not by her choosing) lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart.  

Please contribute to Lynne's Immediate Medical Needs! As Valentine's Day approaches, show your continued love and support for Lynne Stewart and her tireless efforts to fight for justice. And if you donate now, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by a generous friend of the fight for justice for Lynne Stewart.

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