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Combining Community Building, Anti-Crapitalism, and Free Goods and Services.
Those post-Easter deals look hot but nothing beats really really free.
Come join us celebrate the fat of the land and say a warm-felt "fuck you" to
consumerism by bringing your old clothes, sporting equipment, bike parts,
music, etc. And leave with new found treasures. It's all FREE!
Location: UMC Fountain Area
Wednesday, April 13, 2009
9:00am - 4:00pm
Students for TRUE Academic Freedom, the 180 Degree Shift at the 11th Hour, and the Student Environmental Action Coaliton are hosting an event in conjunction with Ward Churchill's landmark academic freedom lawsuit against the University of Colorado. Churchill's legal suit for violating his first amendment rights begins March 9th. Therefore, we are bringing well known activist-scholars Derrick Jensen and Bill Ayers to voice their strong support for Churchill and political dissent in academia. Their presentations will unveil the mask of liberal academia and link Churchill's fight with other scholars who have been attacked for their strong beliefs. If we want our universities to embody institutions of critical inquiry, then we must not only support scholars such as Ward Churchill, but also view these attacks in context. Come and hear the shocking truths behind the right-wing attacks on Churchill. Hear what they don't want you to know!
Event is FREE for CU Students, Community Members $5 in advance, $6-10 Sliding Scale at the Door -
Note: FREE comp tickets are available to activist community members, email 180info@gmail.com to get on the guest-list.
DERRICK JENSEN, activist, small farmer, teacher, and philosopher, is the author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe (a finalist for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize) among other titles. Jensen’s writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader’s heart” (Publishers Weekly). He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine, among many others. Jensen’s speaking engagements in recent years have packed university auditoriums, conferences, and bookstores across the nation.
William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist who was a 1960s anti-war activist. He is known for the radical nature of his activism in the 1960s and 1970s as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the radical left organization the Weather Underground. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. Ayers' ties with President Barrack Obama were matters of some controversy for the candidate from John McCain in the 2008 election.
33 Years Searching for American Justice
Boulder, Colorado -- The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee (Colorado Support Groups)
and Indigenous Support Network will be presenting an educational event on the University of Colorado
campus on February 6th, 2009 to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the arrest and imprisonment
of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
The event will feature talks by Chief
Leonard Crow Dog, Lakota Spiritual Elder, as well as David Hill and Ben Carnes, of the LPDOC. There
will also be performances from local indigenous drum group the Plenty Wolf Singers and Aztec dancers
Grupo Tlaloc from Denver. The event will begin at 7:00pm in room 100 of the Mathematics building.
The LPDOC will also be staging a demonstartion followed by a march outside the Boulder City Courthouse
on Pearl Street starting at noon the same day.
Leonard Peltier is an inetrnationally recognized political prisoner who has been imprisoned for 33 years,
and whose story was made famous by award winning author Peter Matthiessen in the national best seller
"In the Spirit of Crazy Horse"
The importance of his case has been recognized by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Robert Redford,
Amnesty International, and others.
Peltier's case deserves to be brought into public awareness at this pivotal time in American history, with
the innauguration of the first minority president of the United States, so we as Americans can look
soberly at our nation's history in order to bring about a future of justice, equality and healing for the
nation. Peltier's struggle is not just a history, it is a continuing story. Peltier's struggle and life
are symbolic of the larger struggle for justice in indigenous land and human rights, which is much more than
an idle history, it is a continuing story.
The Rule of Law Movement in Pakistan
On November 3, 2007, Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf threw out the Chief Justice of Pakistan and 60 other judges when they failed to rule in his favor in cases challenging his eligibility to be re-elected as President of Pakistan. Devin Theriot-Orr is a lawyer from Seattle, Washington who was working at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan during these events. He will be discussing the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the human rights situation in Pakistan and the importance of the brief emergence of an independent judiciary in Pakistan. Following the presentation, there will be time for a discussion / question and answer session.
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Combining Community Building, Anti-Crapitalism, and Free Goods and Services.
Those post-Thanksgiving deals look hot but nothing beats really really free.
Come join us celebrate the fat of the land and say a warm-felt "fuck you" to
consumerism by bringing your old clothes, sporting equipment, bike parts,
music, etc. And leave with new found treasures. Food, live music, massages,
hair cuts, an alteration station, "door" prizes. . It's all FREE!
Location: Hellems Lawn
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
9:00am - 4:00pm
STATE REPRESSION AND CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT AT THE DNC & RNC 2008
Film Screenings (40min)
Followed by Guest Speaker Clayton Dewey:
Denver Anarchist Reveals Brutal Police Attacks and Violations of the Rights of Protestors, Especially Hundreds of Anarchist Activists.
Wednesday November 12th
Eaton Humanities 190 6pm
1. Speaking engagment
2. Columbus Day Protest March and Rally
3. People's Council
4. Student Walk-out on Racism
1. RACE, RESISTANCE AND THE COLUMBIAN LEGACY
Join nationally-known activist Glenn Spagnuolo, co-founder of Re-create 68,
for a night of education and dialogue about race in America
and resistance to the Columbian Legacy!
When: 5pm Thursday, October 9, 2008
Where: CU Boulder Campus, Hale Hall Room 240
2. Columbus Day Resistance March and Rally
The annual protest of the Columbus Day Holiday and the racism that it embodies will begin with a march from Four Winds that ends at the Capitol Building followed by a rally for a better future.
When: March starts at 8 am, Rally at 9am, Saturday, October 11
Where: Start of March is at Four Winds at 5th and Bannock in Denver, CO
3. People's Council
Following the Columbus Day resistance, people will be gathering to organize a new alliance locally that can act as a national vehicle for radicals. Bring your thoughts and cooperative energy. Please come and represent R68.
When: 1pm, Saturday, October 11
Where: The Great Hall at the Iliff School of Theology just past Evans on University Blvd, Denver.
4. Student Walk-out on Racism
Whether you are a student or not, join the students of Iliff, CU Denver, CU Boulder and DU as the educate the public about Denver's hidden racial past on the 101st Anniversary of the Columbus Holiday. There will be a student walk-out, a short rally, followed by a march to locations with a racial history that will end at Civic Center Park.
When: 12 Noon, Monday, October 13
Where: CU Denver's Auraria Campus, The Plaza Building Lawn
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 - TUESDAY OCTOBER 7
That's right, after ignoring farmworkers for so long, Chipotle is now
claiming it will change course but is still unwilling to take the
steps to ensure a workable solution that includes farmworkers
themselves in the protection of their own rights. Read the CIW's
response to Chipotle's latest public relations manuver:
http://www.ciw-online.org ;
And join the CIW in Denver for any of the events and actions during a
busy three days at the doorstep - literally at times - of Chipotle
Mexican Grill:
Sunday, October 5th:
1pm - Protest at the first ever Chipotle restaurant, 1644 Evans Ave
(near DU, west of University)
5pm - Celebration, Potluck and Art Making at Sixth Ave United Church
of Christ, 3250 E 6th Ave (west of Colorado). Bring food to share and
a musical instrument if you play.
Monday, October 6th:
Starting 7am through Noon Tuesday - Plantón/Encampment outside
Chipotle HQ, 1543 Wazee St. in downtown Denver: How much longer must
farmworkers wait for Chipotle to take responsibility for the human
rights abuses in its tomato supply chain? Join us for the entire
encampment, pass by to offer your support, or come out for two major
events:
Noon - Delivery of 85,000+ petition signatures to Chipotle HQ
6:30pm - Candlelight Vigil and Rally outside Chipotle HQ.
Also 4pm - Presentation at University of Denver, Craig Hall Community Room
4:30 - Presentation at Regis University on "the Quad."
8pm - "Fair Food & Farmworker Justice: Expanding the Horizons of
Sustainable Agriculture" presentation and discussion with the CIW at
the CU Boulder campus, CHEM room 140
Tuesday, October 7th:
Morning til Noon - Plantón outside Chipotle HQ continues.
8-9:30am & 10-11:30am: "The Continuing Movement for Farmworker
Justice" discussion with the CIW at Tivioli Student Union
Multicultural Lounge on Auraria Campus.
Noon - Closing Ceremony: be there as farmworkers bring this phase of
struggle to a close and vow to keep fighting as the Chipocracy tour
leaves Denver..
DISRUPT THE DNC 2008!
Disruption DNC ’08
Recreate ’68
Independent Media Center
Alliance for Real Democracy.com
Code Pink
My Populi
A non-partisan discussion with Mr. Larry Hales. Larry Hales is a an author,
contributing editor of Workers World newspaper, as well as being a leading
member of the youth group Fight Imperialism Stand Together. He first became
politically active 16 years ago in the Black community in Dallas, TX and has
since participated in many campaigns against oppression of people of color and
war. He has been on many international delegations, including going to
Palestine four delegations to Cuba, Libya and to Venezuela.
He was part of the Black Left Unity meeting that took place in North Carolina
earlier this year and has a unique perspective on the Obama phenomenon, what
it means and doesn't mean and the prospective for struggle emanating from the
oppressed communities in the U.S.
Friday, August 22, 3:30 p.m., UMC 382 University of Colorado at Boulder
Sponsored By CU and DU National Lawyers Guild / ACLU, Hosted by the People's Law Project.
THE PEOPLE’S LAW PROJECT
PRESENTS:
DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION
ACTIVIST
TRAINING DAY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST
NOON-7 PM
Room 250
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/index.cgi?bldg=HUMN
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11 AM Copwatch
training: Presented by Denver Copwatch.
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A
panel discussion followed by Q&A.
- Jessica West, First Amendment civil rights
lawyer
- Staff Attorney from the
- Paul Bame, veteran frontline activist
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Come
learn your rights through interactive role plays and discussion. Presented by
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Learn
how to document police misconduct for criminal defense and civil suits against
police.
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Build
basic medic skills to stay healthy and safe on the streets during the DNC.
**For more information
contact hskrypek@gmail.com
or visit www.dnc-plp.org
Simón Sedillo is a community based human rights filmmaker working with Proyecto Autogestion, a grassroots media collective co-founded with Dennis Flores. Proyecto Autogestion is a new media collective, which places skills, cameras and editing equpiment in the hands of communitites in resistance so that they may be able to document their own histories and human rights situation. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years documenting and teaching community based video documentation in indigenous communities in Oaxaca, in immigrant communities in the US, and with youth of color across the US.
Spend an evening with Simon Sedillo, a cutting edge activist-filmmaker.
Sedillo has spent the last five years documenting the popular struggle
taking place in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. His first film "El Enemigo
Comun" connects struggles in Cancun, Miami, and Oaxaca to a large, common
enemy: the imposition of neoliberalism. He also spearheaded Proyecto
Autogestion, an independent media collective that employed truly cutting
edge and revolutionary filming tactics in the film "El Machete."
Challenging dominant understandings of international solidarity, "El
Machete" put the camera and editing in the hands of Indigenous people and
their struggle in Oaxaca.
Sedillo's presentation will include presentation of films, a scathing
workshop on neoliberalism, and the chance to dialogue with the
revolutionary media activist. Boulder is also the first stop for Sedillo
upon return from his most recent visit to Oaxaca. Thus we will have the
privilege to view never before seen footage and an update on the current
state of Oaxaca.
TUESDAY November 27 through Friday November 30
Workshops on Hip Hop and community resistance and self-determination led by Rebel Diaz, Savage Family, and the Tortuga Project.
Nov 27th 2pm at University Club is Walk Your Words: Native Resistance to the Illegal Occupation of What is Now Known as the United Snakes
Nov 27th 3pm at University Club is Hip Hop and Activism
Here's Tentative Workshop Schedule
WEDNESDAY, November 28th
Performances by:
The Tortuga Project
REBEL DIAZ
SAVAGE FAMILY
Club 156 on the first floor of the UMC,
6:00 to 11:00
THURSDAY:
PANEL on Hip Hop, indigenous resistance, and community self determination and self-definition.
Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC,
6:00 to 8:00
School of Americas Watch
The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia." SOAW.com
Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins.
On the weekend of November 16-18, thousands will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia for the Vigil and the Nonviolent Direct Action to Close the School of the Americas. Take a Stand for Justice! The weekend will include a massive rally, nonviolent direct action training, workshops, benefit concerts, puppet shows, teach-ins and more!
Leave Boulder 8pm Wednesday the 14th, return by 5pm Tuesday the 20th of November, in time for Thanksgiving!
We have the vans, now we need you, contact daly@colorado.edu
Featuring James Zarichny. James has first hand insider experiences with McCarthyism, the founding of Students for a Democratic Society, and the first United Auto Workers strike, arguably the most important strike in US history.
Three Talks In Total, TBA!
For over 20 years, indigenous peoples of this nation and especially in Colorado have been working in many different ways to eradicate the columbus day 'holiday.' They have worked with many educational methods, such as re-education, prophetic speaking, and dialogue exchange. They have met with the columbus day parade organizers and pleaded their case. They have tried to pass legislation, but cannot even get Colorado politicians to slightly consider it. Therefore, every year since 1992 people have taken the streets in non-violent direction action to protest this ugly celebration, please check out the pictures from last year's parade and you will understand a little better.
Thousands of protestors have turned out to oppose the columbus day parade in Denver. One hundred years ago this year columbus day was celebrated for the first time in Colorado. Save the date for the Denver columbus day four directions march, Saturday, October 6th at 7am and the State Capitol at 9am.
For more info contact Virginia at cornbread124_at_hotmail.com
Glenn Morris and Glenn Spagnuolo from the American Indian Movement (AIM) will speak on the history of Columbus Day and what this day represents from both the American Indian and Italian-American perspectives.
Simón Sedillo is a community based human rights filmmaker working with Proyecto Autogestion, a grassroots media collective co-founded with Dennis Flores. Proyecto Autogestion is a new media collective, which places skills, cameras and editing equpiment in the hands of communitites in resistance so that they may be able to document their own histories and human rights situation. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years documenting and teaching community based video documentation in indigenous communities in Oaxaca, in immigrant communities in the US, and with youth of color across the US.
In Oaxaca, Sedillo has been working with The Committee Organized in Defense of the People’s Rights (CODEP), and The Oaxacan Popular Magonista Antineoliberal Coordination (COMPA), both predecessors of APPO (the Oaxacan People’s Popular Assembly). Sedillo collaborated with the Austin Independent Media Center and COMPA on the 2005 production of “El Enemigo Común”, which documents the birth of COMPA and its resistance to paramilitary activity in Oaxaca from 2001 - 2005. In March of 2007, Sedillo facilitated the co-production of “El Machete- La Lucha por el Poder Popular” a Proyecto Autogestion documentary, filmed and edited by indigenous women and youth from Oaxaca. Sedillo’s work in Oaxaca has contributed to the liberation of 21 political prisoners, and has continued to support several international human rights campaigns.
Today Sedillo shares some experiences and perspective for international audiences in the US and Europe, on the local and global implications of the Oaxacan people’s struggle. Through lectures, workshops, and screenings Sedillo helps open a powerful space for dialogue on the effects of neoliberalism on indigenous communities in Oaxaca, immigrant communities around the world, and communities of color in the US. Through collaborative media projects, Sedillo’s work has contributed to a growing network of community based media activism whose primary objective is to share, teach, and learn from one another, about popular community based resistance and the collective construction of horizontal networks of popular power.
Ward Churchill Classes - Three Preliminary Foci : Genocide, the Settler State, Pacifism As Pathology
Every Other Tuesday Night, Sylabus to be Handed out.
Carrie Dann from the Western Shoshone Defense Fund on August 30th at the Marriott Hotel in Denver where at the same time the criminal corporation, for both human rights and environmental crimes, Newmont Mining, long-time enemy of the Shoshone, is hypocritically receiving the “international bridge-builders award” from Denver University, which had been auctioned off to the biggest donor.
The Denver based Newmont Mining Corporation is the second largest gold mining corporation in the world. Newmont has been charged with environmental and human rights abuses stemming from their operations in Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Nevada (Western Shoshone), and Romania.
Wayne Murdy, CEO of Newmont Mining, the World's second largest gold mining
company, will be receiving an award from the University of Denver for being
such a good community leader at their exclusive Korbel Dinner, the
University's largest fundraising event. For those of you who are unfamiliar
with "Dirty" Murdy, he and his company operate mining operations on every
continent in the World. His is directly responsible for the poisoning of the
environment through the use of Cyanide leach mining, the destruction of
indigenous communities here in the US, especially in Latin America and else
where around the World, the theft of indigenous resources and the desecration
of spiritual and religious sites World wide. Newmont mining and "Dirty"
Murdy are the World's worst corporate criminals and they are directly
responsible for the continued genocide of indigenous peoples. Murdy is our
generations Columbus. We often say Columbus was so lo ng ago and I was not
even there to object, but you are here now and you should be objecting. To
allow the University of Denver to award this man for being a positive model
in our community to go unchallenged would be an assault on our humanity.
Calling the Dean of the University is one option, be he has already made up
his mind, regardless of mass opposition he has received from leaders of
communities under attack by Murdy's murauders and from leading professors and
students at his own University. It is time we take action and reclaim our
dignity and humanity as a community.
This is a two for one opportunity to protest an assault on our humanity and
dignity. The key note speaker of the event will be none other the
international war criminal Madalaine Olbright. The beauty who when asked
about US sanctions being directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi
children on the show 60 minutes responded that it was all worth it.
Who: The University of Denver's Korbel Dinner
What: Protest how you see fit, some will bring picket signs others more
creative ideas, let your
humanity guide your actions and do what is necessary!!!
Where: The Denver Marriot on 17th and California
When: August 30th at 5pm
Why: We have no other choice. Don't fail your community and others
communities that are
under attack, they desperately need your help!!!
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