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CONSCIOUSNESS,COMMUNITY,LIBERATION:FULFILLINGTHEPROMISEOF‘68
ACommemorationofthe40thAnniversaryofthe1968SFStateStudentLedStrike
LearnAbouttheHistoryandRelationshipbetweentheLiberationMovementsofpeopleofcolorfromtheVeteransoftheStruggleinthe60s/70sandtheNewGenerationActiviststoday.
JoinustodiscussArab&MuslimMovementsforLiberation,SelfDetermination,andJustice–Then&Now
TheSpiritofBandung:3rdWorldismasPraxis,Resistance,andSolidarity
Thursday,October30th,20082:103:25p
RichardOakesMulticulturalCenter
RevolutionintheAirFriday,October31st,2008
11:001:00pmJackAdamsHall
IntheSpiritofLegacies:ThePalestinianMuralThursday,October30th,2008
4:005:25pmRosaParksC
PeopleofColorCoalitionBuilding:WhatWillOur68’StrikeLookLikein08’Thursday,October30th,2008
12:351:50pmJackAdamsHall
This panel will illuminate the idea of 3rd worldism asclaimedbymilitantsinstrugglesofpeopleofcolor.Inthespirit of call and response, younger activists fromvariouscommunitiesofcolorwillengage theireldersanddiscussthespiritofresistanceandsolidarity,thenandnow.
MembersoftheGeneralUnionofPalestineStudentssharetheirownnarrativeofthestruggleandtheforgedalliancestocreatethePalestinianCulturalMuralHonoringProfessorEdwardSaid
From Oceanhill Brownsville to Harlem and El‐Barrio;fromAlgeriatoPalestine;fromVietnamtoCuba,PuertoRican, Afro‐American, and Palestinian movementsresisted colonial domination and sought to write theirown histories in the struggles for dignity, self‐determinationandanindivisiblesenseofjustice.
PanelistsInclude:RababAbdulhadi(AMED,PSC,UPWA),NadeenElshorafa(AROC),RamseyElqare(GUPS),JaimeVeve(YoungLords),RogerAlvarado(TWLF),NickOcchiponti,TerryCollins(BSU),JavadJahi(MXGM),TonyGonzalez(AIM)andMichelle&NadiaMoraira(SKINS)
PanelistsInclude:JackieHusaryandCharlieElqare
PanelistsInclude:YuriKochiyama(OrganizationofAfroAmericanUnity,HarlemParentsCommittee),RababAbdulhadi(AMED,PSC,UPWA)&JaimeVeve(YoungLordsParty)
StudentactivistsatSFSUwilllookattheeffectofthe68’strikeontheiractivismtoday.
PanelistsIncludeGeneralUnionofPalestineStudents(GUPS),A.S.Women'sCenter,LeagueofFilipinoStudents(LFS),BlackStudentUnion(BSU),LaRazaStudentOrganization,andMovimientoEstudiantilChican@sdeAzltan(M.E.Ch.A.).
TheStrike,TheArrests,TheDefenseAndTheLessonsForToday
Thursday,October30st,20086:008:00pm
JackAdamsHall
LiberatingtheAcademy:ArabandArabAmericanStudentLegacies
Thursday,October30th,200811:0012:15pmRosaParksC
PanelistsInclude:LailaAlArian,TerrenceHallinan,HankJones,MargaretLeahy,RoyHarrisonandTonySerra.
Panelistswill lookathow theuseofpoliceaffected thestruggle of the strike and also the growing repressiontodayinlightofthedevelopmentsinthe1960s.
Presenter: Magid Shihade. Examines the legacy of thestudents’ struggle tohavevoice in theacademyoutsidetheWhitedominantstructure,lookingatArabsandArabAmericansstruggleintheacademyasanexample.