An evening with IITC...

...in solidarity with Indigenous People Around the World

Wednesday, December 15 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

In Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples Around the World

La Pena Cultural Center - Berkeley

3105 Shattuck Avenue

Berkeley, CA

An evening with the International Indian Treaty Council

Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical neglect

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
15 November 2010
Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 1-701-235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info 

Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical neglect

“A man dies from prostate cancer every 16 minutes in this country. Why does my brother have to wait over a year to receive even a diagnosis?”

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who maintains his innocence, was wrongfully convicted in connection with the shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1977. Imprisoned for 35 years—currently at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania—Peltier has been designated a political prisoner by Amnesty International. Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, 55 Members of Congress and others—including a judge who sat as a member of the court in two of Peltier’s appeals—have all called for his immediate release. Widely recognized for his humanitarian works and a six-time Nobel Prize nominee, Peltier also is an accomplished author and painter.

Sister Betty Solano says Peltier began exhibiting symptoms commonly attributed to prostate cancer over a year ago. His age (he is 66 years old) and family history are risk factors for the disease. Pressured by Peltier’s attorneys, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) ran standard blood tests in June. Peltier received the results last week, over four months later. A physician only now says a biopsy is needed to make a diagnosis.

Prostate cancer affects 1 in 6 men in the United States. Medical experts agree that the cure rate for prostate cancer is high, but only if detected early.

Even if Peltier doesn’t have cancer, the symptoms indicate a serious medical condition and one that could lead to serious complications if left untreated.

A physician who conducted an independent review of Peltier’s medical records in 2000 concluded that Peltier’s overall medical treatment is below a reasonable standard of care. Decades ago, Peltier suffered a stroke which left him nearly blind in one eye—damage physicians say could have been prevented had he been treated sooner. In the 1990s, there was international outrage after the BOP botched surgeries to correct a jaw problem. Only then was Peltier transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for treatment. Subsequent procedures were recommended by a specialist, but never performed by the BOP.

“Last week, at the United Nations, the United States claimed that it is unequivocally committed to the humane treatment of all individuals in detention, including criminal detention. Delaying tests, avoiding a diagnosis, and preventing proper medical treatment for a potentially life threatening disease is not humane by anyone’s definition,” a spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee said.

“Unfortunately, this situation isn’t unique to Mr. Peltier. Many U.S. prisoners die prematurely because treatment is delayed or denied.”

Family members want the government to release Peltier who was denied parole in 2009. His North Dakota tribe has twice passed a resolution asking the government to transfer Peltier into their custody. Peltier’s many supporters believe his release from prison is the only way Peltier will receive humane treatment.

Can we help you with your finals?

Need a new place to study? Looking for books for your research paper?

 

Come to the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center during Study Week! The ROMC, located on the Terrace Level of the Student Center, will be open to students during Study Week (Dec 6-10) as a quiet study space.

 

The ROMC Resource Library features books and publications on:

o   American Indian Studies

o   African-American Studies

o   Raza Studies

o   Asian/Pacific-Islander Studies

o   Women and Gender Studies and

o   Other historically oppressed communities.

 

Although our books are not yet available for check out, we welcome students to visit us during Study Week, where books from the collection will be available for students to bring into the ROMC study space for research and reference.

 

 

ROMC & ROMC Library Study Week Hours

Monday, Dec 6: 11am-3pm

Tuesday, Dec 7: 10am-7pm

Wednesday Dec 8: 11am-7pm

Thursday Dec 9: 10am-3pm

Friday Dec 10: 10am-5pm

 

The ROMC Resource Library & Archive is located on the Terrace Level of the CCSC, through the Computer Lab in T-143.

 

"Sin by Silence"

You can send a message to the governor here.

Reading for World AIDS Day

Latino Gay Men and HIV by Rafael Diaz seeks to uncover why Latino gay and bisexual men are suffering from AIDS at epic proportions. He takes a close, personal look at the intersections of homophobia, poverty, racism and machismo in creating this problem.

Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and its Aftermath by Andrew Holleran is a republication of Andrew Holleran's original collection of essays written and published in 1988, during the first years of the AIDS crisis. This new collection includes important insights and reflections of the last 20 years since its first publication.

Both of these books are available at the ROMC Resource Library & Archive.

Some thoughts on Pigford v Cobell

I recently received an email petition from a friend, forwarded from colorofchange.org which asked me to sign to support black farmers' lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture in the much delayed Pigford II settlement. Interestingly, nowhere in the petition did it mention how in recent news, Pigford II has been publicly linked by Obama to the equally long-standing Cobell settlement involving mismanagement of Indian trusts. At face value it seems that the two cases bear similarities: one involving black farmers whose rights to farming land have been denied through systematic discrimination in preferential loaning by the USDA; the other involving thousands of Indians whose rights to their personal property have been denied through federal mismanagement of trusts. Yet since Obama's public declaration linking these cases, there has been outcry from both sides insisting on the necessity for the cases to be considered separately; in fact, prominent figures in each camp have pointed fingers at the other, suggesting that linking the two cases has prevented their own settlement from moving forward.

How do we make sense of these complicated legal battles? One journalist has argued that Obama's call to consider the cases jointly is a result of mistaking the Cobell case for Keepseagle, another settlement involving Indian farmers, and that the actual terms of each case require individual consideration. It might also be argued that any contestation over property rights with the U.S. government by any other group can never be considered on the same terms as Native people.

At the same time, is there also something to be said for the loss of potential coalition-building between the two groups, despite the specificities of each case? As Carol Estes points out in her article, one major factor stalling the progress of Pigford II was the counterintuitive decree requiring each individual farmer to provide evidence of discrimination in separate "mini-trials," evidence nearly impossible to come by since it involved white farmers willingly providing information on loans they received. In a case like this that deals with systematic discrimination, it seems counterintuitive to rely on a legal process hinged on isolated judgements of individual cases. Bringing the matter back to Cobell and Pigford II, does a complete separation of the cases further support the bureaucratic nightmare of the federal process? Or is the integrity of each case lost in strategic alliance as is sometime inevitable in the coalition-building process?

-CK

Cited:

Estes, Carol. June 30, 2001. "Second Chance For Black Farmers" YES! Magazine. http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/second-chance-for-black-farmers

Further Reading:

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/Black-farmers-turn-away-from-Cobell-Senators-respond-103709079.html

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/07/cobell-pigford-settlements-still-need-a-home.html

http://www.blackfarmers.org/html/100810.html

Letter of appreciation from President Corrigan

New DVDs in the Library

Come check out the latest additions to our DVD collection! Introducing three incredible, acclaimed documentaries that challenge our understanding of our own histories as it has typically been told to us. Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School uncovers the dark history of the U.S. government's atrocious boarding school policy for Native children. The film, produced by Rich-Heape Films, won Best Feature Documentary at the International Cherokee Film Festival.

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy is another multiple award-winning documentary by Native-owned production company, Rich-Heape Films. Told from a Native American perspective, the film explores the brutal history of the Cherokee Nation's forced relocation from their native homelands under the federal Indian Relocation Act of 1830.

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a critically-acclaimed documentary series by Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee. The documentary explores the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the lives affected in New Orleans. Spike Lee asks hard-hitting questions about race, federal policy and inaction and the value of human life in this deeply political yet heartwrenching documentary.

New titles coming soon: Don't Get Sick In June: American Indian Healthcare by Rich-Heape Films

Exciting new community class in Oakland!

This class will show history-based films, provide additional readings
and ALL participants will receive copies of the book "Urban Voices". A
Native American historian, Melinda Micco (Seminole/Creek/Choctaw)will
facilitate discussions following the films, which will allow community
members to share their own knowledge of their tribal histories and
process their reflections in a supportive environment.

Please Jessica LePak at jessical@nativehealth.org with any questions or concerns.

Open Mind, Open Library.

Clear your calendars and save the date! Whatever you have to do to try and make it to the ROMC's celebration of Cesar Chavez Student Center's 35th anniversary.

For more info, contact us.

Indian Country Today Interviews Madonna Thunder Hawk

The latest issue of Indian Country Today features an article on famed Red Power activist and woman warrior, Madonna Thunder Hawk. She talks about her experiences during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff and her lifetime of organizing:

Thunder Hawk described Red Power as a movement, not an organization. It involved entire families and communities, including children and elders who anchored the movement. "We were people-based. That's why we were effective." (Indian Country Today, Wednesday, October 13, 2010)

Come to the ROMC Resource Library to read the latest issue of Indian Country Today...

Rigoberta Menchu...

is going to be speaking in Oakland on November 15,
clear your calendars and save the date for this amazing opportunity.

Here's the website for more info and to get your tickets:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/134367

New Journals added to ROMC library!

The University of Chicago brings you...

Critical Inquiry, Volume 36 Number 4

A journal that is considered a "leading journal within literary studies," within the field of critical theory.

& Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Volume 36, Number 1

Feminists theorize International Political Economy.

Both of these great contributions to our library.

To read more about them, come visit us at T-143, through the computer lab.

National Coming out Week!

ROMC Library has many books pertaining to Sexuality Studies!

Here's a list of a few of the books we offer.

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

2nd edition John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman

0-226-14264-7 1

Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco

Josh Sides 0-19-537781-1 1

Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men

Lori B. Girshick; Foreward: Jamison Green

1-58465-645-X 1

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (with a new preface), Why Darwin Was Wrong About Sexual Selection Joan Roughgarden 0-520-26012-2 1

Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca 0-87286-497-9 1

The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts

Claude J. Summers ed.

1-57344-191-0 1

For a complete listing of our books you can visit our website or visit us in person at T-143, through the computer lab!

For more updates you can always visit our other sites @:

Website: http://www.romclibrary.org/index001.html

Blogger: http://richardoakesmulticulturalcenter.blogspot.com/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/romclibrary

Twitter: http://twitter.com/romc4allvoices

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/romc4allvoices/page2/

COMMEMORATING 518 YEARS OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE!

Remember to get your tickets out to Alcatraz for the Sunrise Ceremony on Oct 11, Indigenous Peoples day. 5am-9am

The annual sunrise gathering on Alcatraz Island commemorating 518 years (1492-2010) of Indigenous Peoplesʼ resistance to colonization of the Americas. Tobacco and prayers will be offered to the fire, give thanks for those who came before us, for Mother Earth and for coming generations. Everyone is welcome.

Contact us for more info!

NEWS UPDATE!!

The new Indian Country Today newspaper is in!

Article of the Day:

"New Yorkers Support Honoring Indian Treaties"

A Zogby poll was taken within the middle of New York, results showed that 68.4%  of voters in this poll believe new and even OLD treaties should be honored!

If you want to read more about this visit the ROMC library in T-143 through the computer lab!

(Located on page 3 of the newspaper)

Wilma Mankiller, beloved leader and friend, passes on (1945-2010)

Wilma Mankiller
1945-2010


The Richard Oakes Multicultural Center (ROMC) at the Cesar Chavez Student Center honors the life and legacy of Dr. Wilma Mankiller. Dr. Mankiller was an SFSU hall of fame alumna, scholar, Native American activist and women's rights heroine. She served as the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma from 1985-1995. Mankiller passed away at age 64, on April 6, 2010.

Among Mankiller's many successes, she oversaw the substantial revitalization of the Cherokee Natino of Oklahoma, including several new free-standing health clinics, and an $11 million Job Corps Center, greatly expanding services for children and youth. She also lef the team that developed the core of what's now known as Cherokee Nation Enterprises. In 1969, she participated in the Alcatraz Occupation. In 1998, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

Dr. Wilma Mankiller touched the lives of people all over the world with her wisdom and guiding vision. Her exemplary Cherokee leadership, her strong Native American advocacy, and her expansive work in the women's rights movement have inspired us all. Her spirit of determination, grace, humility, and decisiveness will always be remembered.

Visit the ROMC Resource Library & Archive and check out Indian Country Today's article on Wilma Mankiller. (At the Cesar Chavez Student Center on SF State campus. Terrace Level.)

We've also posted on Facebook (including preview of Indian Country Today's article).

The 17th Annual African American Community Health Fair

On Tuesday, April 20, 2010, the campus community will come together to celebrate the 17h Annual African American Community Health Fair! Students, staff, and faculty are invited to interact with on and off-campus social service and healthcare agencies, community groups, and individuals from the African American community. Free screenings including HIV antibody testing, cholesterol testing coupons (students only) glaucoma screenings, and nutrition assessments along with valuable information regarding health and self-care will be available from 10 am to 2 pm on the main lawn of the SFSU campus.

Please join us on this very special day!

For more information, please contact Albert Angelo at 415-338-3039 or at aangelo@sfsu.edu

nterviews with people involved during the Occupation of Alcatraz

COMING SOON: Full interviews will be available at the library.


Interviewees:

- Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe). Co-founder of AIM (American Indian Movement). Veteran of the Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973).

- Tony Gonzales (Seri/Chicano). Indigenous Rights worker. Leader of AIM West. Community leader and organizer

- Bill Means (Oglala Lakota). Co-founder of IITC (International Indian Treaty Council). Wounded Knee veteran. Co-founder of U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

- Lenny Foster (Dine'). Prisoner Rights activist. Wounded Knee veteran. IITC board member. Veteran of the occupation of Alcatraz and BIA. Spiritual advisor.

- Dr. Betty Parent. Former Chairperson of the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University.

- Tom Goldtooth (Dine'/Dakota). Executive Director of IEN (Indigenous Environmental Network). Grassroots organizer and educator

-Ann Marie Sayers (Ohlone). Activist/educator. Leader of the Indian Canyon Band of Coastonoan/Ohlone Indians

- L Frank (Tongva) Artist/educator/activist.


Please check back for updates on the full interviews that will be available at the library!
www.romclibrary.org




"We Are Still Here"

By Mark Nicely in collaboration with Larry Sillaway

Located in the West Plaza of the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SFSU.

The mural depicts community activism, self determination, resistance and survivance of Native American people and the defense of native lands. It also makes a connection between the SF State Strike of 1968-69 and the occupation of Alcatraz.

16th Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration

Celebration in Honor of the continued struggle for immigrant workers' Rights

Thursday, March 25, 2010

12p-2p: Malcolm X Plaza
-speakers
-food
-music

2:30p-5p:Richard Oakes Multicultural Center
-Panel discussion on the relevance of Cesar Chavez's struggle, in the current political atmostphere.

All events are free and open to the public

Intersection for the Arts presents: "Open Process Series: Manufactured Manipulation"

Intersection for the Arts presents

Open Process Series:
Manufactured Manipulation

Tueseday, March 16, 2010
7pm
FREE

Amal Kouttab, Director of Community Initiatives at San Francisco Women Against Rape, will facilitate an interactive presentation in which participants learn to critically examine how the media promotes a “rape culture” and how this impacts our relationships with each other and with ourselves. The presentation will frame issues of sexual violence within the larger context of systems and institutions, while exploring how various forms of oppression intersect to create and sustain a cultural climate that normalizes sexual violence. This presentation is ideal for educators and anyone looking for tools to engage in creative dialogue about these issues.

San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, they believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution. SFWAR provides a 24-hour free and confidential rape crisis hotline at 415-647-7273. SFWAR invites you to join them for their 5th Annual Walk Against Rape on April 24th culminating with a festival in Dolores Park. For more information or to register for the Walk Against Rape please visit their website at www.sfwar.org.

Amal Kouttab is a registered drama therapist, teacher, mediator, and filmmaker. She has used drama, art and writing to facilitate therapeutic groups in mental health settings, nursing homes, hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained a bachelor's degree in the performing arts and women's studies from the University of Virginia in 1997, and a master's degree in psychology and drama therapy from New York University in 2001. For the past four years, she has facilitated therapeutic workshops with Palestinians and Israelis and other groups in conflict in the Middle East and the Bay Area. She has taught graduate psychology classes entitled Drama Therapy for Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she developed part of the curriculum focused on internalized oppression. She co-founded the Araceli Theater Project based at San Francisco General Hospital, which rehearses and performs original educational theater pieces for people with cancer.


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This event is held in conjuntion with:

'The Bodies Are Back' by Margaret Harrison

Wed, Feb 10 - Sat, Mar 27 12pm - 5pm FREE

Margaret Harrison, renowned British artist and pioneer of feminist art, revisits the themes of her very early work exploring notions of the human body as an object of sexuality, consumption, and gaze. The Bodies Are Back consists of works on paper that Harrison produced in the late 1960's/early 1970's displayed alongside new works created for this show. In 1971, Harrison's work was instantly met with controversy and antagonism (the London police shut down her first solo exhibition the day after it opened feeling that its contents were too controversial). This controversy caused Harrison to abandon the issues and themes of this series. Now an established artist with work in the permanent collections of major international institutions, she is critically re-engaging with this body of work, continuing the dialogue that she began four decades ago.


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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art.

We depend on the support of people like you. Please help ensure Intersection's future and become a Member today. To become a Member, simply click here to our secure server . For more information, please visit www.theintersection.org

Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15/16), Mission District
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.theintersection.org/

The Art of Protest Reception at the CCSC Art Gallery

The Art of Protest: Reception, Thurs, February 11, 2010, 5p-8p


The Art of Protest Reception at the Art Gallery was a huge success!!! There was good food, a great band, and many visitors!!!

for more photos from the event, visit us on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47800946@N03/

didn't get a chance to go to the reception? There is still a chance to visit the Art of Protest:
Running Dates: January 25, 2010 − March 11, 2010


A TWO-PART EXHIBIT, “The Art of Protest” will feature historic prints from the College of Ethnic Studies Strikes of 1969 (Part I) and current student work of all media created in response to the budget and education crises threatening our campus (Part II). The gallery doors will open on January 25, 2010 with a display of archived silkscreen prints that convey the spirit of the times and serve as a reminder of the importance of creative expression. On February 11, 2010, from 5 to 8 p.m., a gallery reception and public forum will take place, at which time the silkscreens from the past will be replaced by the current student work. These new works of protest will acknowledge the victories of the past while keeping focus firmly on concerns of the present—lending a voice to the anger felt statewide.

Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday:
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
(or by appointment)

the art gallery is located on the Terrace Level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center

Gallery Manager:
Molly Cox
415.338.2580
artgallery@sfsustudentcenter.com
www.sfsustudentcenter.com/artgallery


CHECK OUT T.V. REED'S NOVEL "THE ART OF PROTEST" AT THE ROMC RESOURCE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE RM T-143 (inside the computer lab)



Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrants Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics writes:
"This impressive study shows that culture matters to social movements, and that social movements affect cultural and aesthetic practices. From the transmission of southern spirituals into freedom songs during the civil rights era to political theater in antiracist struggles, from poetry as a site of feminist consciousness-raising to mural painting within the Chicano movement, from rock music and the 1980s anti-apartheid student movement to performance art in ACT UP, Reed vividly demonstrates that cultural work has been a vital medium for imagining and acting for social change."

Safiya Bukhari Book Release-The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther...

The War Before:
The True Life Story of
Becoming a Black Panther,
Keeping the Faith in Prison,
& Fighting for Those Left Behind

Foreward by Angela Davis
Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Edited, with an Introduction by Laura Whitehorn


Bay Area Release Event
with
Safiya Bukhari's Daughter, Wonda Jones
Editor, Laura Whitehorn
Former Panther, Kiilu Nyasha and other guests


Thursday, March 11, 7 pm
Women's Building - 3543 18th Street
San Francisco

endorsed by All of Us or None, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, Friends of Marilyn Buck, It's About Time & Out of Control


http://www.feministpress.org/books/safiya-bukhari/war

Safiya Bukhari Website to view other Bay Area and National events and read reviews:
http://safiyabukhari.com/

http://www.freedomarchives.org/Safiya_event.html

Book celebration of Marshall Ganz's "Why David Sometimes Wins"

Check out the book celebration of Marshall Ganz's "Why David Sometimes Wins"

Location: Los Angeles, CA
July 2009

One of out SCGB students, Sam Brown, Chair, Student Fee Advisory Committee, attended this inspiring talk.

Book Celebration For Marshall Ganz Part 1 from Sandy Chung on Vimeo.

Book Celebration For Marshall Ganz Part 2 from Sandy Chung on Vimeo.

for more info on his new book, check out vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/5813182

The Black Rock: The Untold Story of the Black Experience on Alcatraz

The Black Rock: The Untold Story of the Black Experience on Alcatraz

DATE:
Friday February 12

TIME:
8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Location Details:
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Event Type:
Screening


The Black Rock: The Untold Story of the Black Experience on Alcatraz

Friday, February 12, 2010, 8:00 pm, $6
Dir. Kevin Epps in person

The Black Rock aka Black Alcatraz chronicles the role ofAfrican-Americans in the history of Alcatraz, the first super-maximumsecurity prison. The film identifies and examines the lives of a fewAfrican-American prisoners who were important figures in the history of“The Rock” from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some people believe that allcriminals are treated equally, and many are deceived by the notion thatall individuals receive equal treatment under the law. The Black Rockaka Black Alcatraz highlights the truth about the perseverance,sufferings, and resilience of African-Americans who experiencedAlcatraz during this time of racial prejudice and discrimination.Interviews with historians, archival footage, as well as photographsand re-enactments are used to present an entirely new perspective onthe most feared prison of its time. Dir. Kevin Epps (US 2009, 60m)

About the Director:

Kevin Epps documentary “Straight Outta Hunter’s Point” (2002) won bothlocal and national acclaim, establishing Epps as a leader in digital,independent film and new media. Epps’ other work, Rap Dreams (2006)about the struggles of upcoming rappers, received recognition as well.His most recent works, ranging from topics of gun violence to blackfatherhood, can be seen nationwide on Current TV, a network founded byAl Gore. Epps is the founder of Mastamind Productions as well as amember of Digital Media Advisory Council, and works with many communityorganizations including Conscious Youth Media, BAVC, the Hunters PointYouth Park. He is a frequent speaker on many panels and forums ondigital filmmaking and new media. http://www.blackalcatraz.com


TRAILER:

Thank you Author John C. Hammerback for his generous donation to the ROMC Library!

Thank you John C. Hammerback for your donation of the publication "The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez" to the ROMC Library & Archive! A bookplate was created in your honor of your donation.


About John C. Hammerback:
John C. Hammerback is head of the department of communication at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and past president of the Western States Communication Association.Richard J. Jensen lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hammerback and Jensen separately and together have written some fifty scholarly articles and chapters and have collaborated on two other communication and rhetoric books.


The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez
by John C. Hammerback & Richard J. Jensen
Synopsis:
Cesar Chavez urged the farm laborers of America to say "Yes, we can!" An indefatigable speaker, writer, and non-discursive communicator, Chavez developed a well-thought-out approach to his rhetorical discourse and placed his speaking and writing at the very center of his career. By merging thought and character in his themes, arguments, and explanations, he identified with the character of his listeners. Award-winning scholars John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen offer a thorough examination of how Chavez developed his speeches and writings to further his agenda for union activism. They analyze his world view, the rhetorical approaches he took, and many of his own texts, showing that although born into one of the least powerful segments of American society, Chavez led the farm-labor movement to unprecedented heights.


For more information about donating to the library, please visit:

http://www.romclibrary.org/romc_donate.html

Bookplates are created in honor of of donators.

The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez
by John C. Hammerback & Richard J. Jensen

Bay Area Indian Calendar-Jan 20,2010

Bay Area Indian Calendar - January 20, 2010

Thanks to American Indian Contemporary Arts for the calendar. More detailed calendar info on these and other events is linked to the Bay Native Circle page at kpfa.org.

http://ical.mac.com/WebObjects/iCal.woa/wa/default?u=janeenantoine&n=BAIC%20Calendar.ics

To have events included in the calendar send TEXT info to janeenantoine@mac.com or post on http://groups.google.com/group/bay-area-native-american-indian-network.

Bay Native Circle airs on kpfa 94.1 Wednesdays from 2 – 3 p.m. Hosts rotate weekly with

1) Lakota Harden

2) Janeen Antoine

3) Morningstar Gali or Ras K’Dee

4) Gregg McVicar.

BNC is live at 94.1 -- and podcast, and online, everywhere, anytime at kpfa.org. It is archived for 2 weeks from original air date.

Thanks to our listeners for your support! UPCOMING Shingle Springs Tribal TANF Community Meeting invites community input and participation about the upcoming TANF program, including jobs, services and timeline.

Wednesday, January 20, 5:30 pm

SNAHC, 2020 J St. Sacramento.

FMI: 530.698-1433.

Arthur Manuel from the Olympic Resistance Network speaks against the Olympics on Native Land to rally supporters and educate the people on the issue of appropriated Native land and how to combat corporate privatization.

He speaks:

Wednesday Jan 20 at 7 pm,

Station 40, 3030 B 16th Street,

San Francisco.

Thursday, Jan 21 at 7 pm

East Conference Room, Memorial Union, UC Davis. $5-10 sliding scale, (no one turned away FMI: Cristina Fernandez, SeventhGenerationNation@yahoo.com, 831-320-8284.

Coast Miwok, Kashaya Pomo Basketmakers Julia and Lucy Parker present a Weaving Workshop Saturday, Jan 23, 10am – 4pm at NAS Studio, 1401 Hart Hall , UC Davis. Students prepare seasoned red willow to make a medium-sized gathering basket utilizing the weaving technique of twinning. Free but limited to 15 participants! To reserve your place email: cngorman@ucdavis.edu. La Cultura Cura Fundraiser benefit includes an art show.