Radical events happening in Kay this week!
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Rachel Mandelbaum
Sep 24, 2012, 11:04:10 AM9/24/12
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sorry for one more email: here are some super cool events happening in Kay SLC this week! one starts in an hour!
Monday September 24 12pm
Kay Lounge
Human Rights Defenders Series presents:
Hacienda las Pavas: Challenges in Land Restitution in Colombia
Join Etny Torres Moreno a peasant leader leading an initiative seeking to obtain a land title for the Hacienda las Pavas, from which peasant families were forcibly displaced by paramilitary groups, and Jorge Eliecer Reales Maza a human rights lawyer with Corporacion SEMBRAR working on legal actions geared towards guaranteeing peasant and Afro descendent communities the right to remain in their collective territories in Bolivia.
pizza will be served!
Tuesday September 25 1pm
Kay Lounge
Human Rights Defender Series presents:
Impunity in Guatemala
Helen Mack has a long history fighting for human rights and rule of law in Guatemala. When her sister was assassinated in 1990, Helen embarked on a quest for justice that would lead her to be one of the most influential human rights defenders and leading voices on citizen security issues in the region. She founded the Myrna Mack Foundation in 1993 and has since held several leadership positions to promote justice in the country.
Thursday September 27 12pm
Kay Lounge
Table Talk Lunch Series: Student Debt, a Borrowed Future
Featuring Brian Lee Sang, Director of Financial Aid at American University; Fanta Aw, Assistant Vice President of Campus Life at American University; Robert Borosage, Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future; and Caiden Jay Elemer, Kickass Student Activist at American University.
Monday September 24 12pm
Kay Lounge
Human Rights Defenders Series presents:
Hacienda las Pavas: Challenges in Land Restitution in Colombia
Join Etny Torres Moreno a peasant leader leading an initiative seeking to obtain a land title for the Hacienda las Pavas, from which peasant families were forcibly displaced by paramilitary groups, and Jorge Eliecer Reales Maza a human rights lawyer with Corporacion SEMBRAR working on legal actions geared towards guaranteeing peasant and Afro descendent communities the right to remain in their collective territories in Bolivia.
pizza will be served!
Tuesday September 25 1pm
Kay Lounge
Human Rights Defender Series presents:
Impunity in Guatemala
Helen Mack has a long history fighting for human rights and rule of law in Guatemala. When her sister was assassinated in 1990, Helen embarked on a quest for justice that would lead her to be one of the most influential human rights defenders and leading voices on citizen security issues in the region. She founded the Myrna Mack Foundation in 1993 and has since held several leadership positions to promote justice in the country.
Thursday September 27 12pm
Kay Lounge
Table Talk Lunch Series: Student Debt, a Borrowed Future
Featuring Brian Lee Sang, Director of Financial Aid at American University; Fanta Aw, Assistant Vice President of Campus Life at American University; Robert Borosage, Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future; and Caiden Jay Elemer, Kickass Student Activist at American University.
free food!
love and rage yall
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Rachel Mandelbaum
Environmental Studies & International Studies
American University 2013
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Rachel Mandelbaum
Environmental Studies & International Studies
American University 2013
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