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)