From: Christina (cmi3@cornell.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 22:21:58 EST
Hey USAS!
The teach-in at Cornell is next weekend (Nov 9-11)! We would love for more
USAS folks to register. Unfortunately, we could not get Spike Lee here,
but we have a great teach-in planned with wonderful organizers and David
Lamb, esteemed author (Do Platanos Go Wit' Collard Greens?).
We've extended the deadline to register, so you know...register!
www.rso.cornell.edu/cola/ The teach-in fee is only $10 for students/low
income and $15 for others. Free crash housing is still available. Check
out the updated schedule below.
Hope to see some of you Friday! If you have any more questions, please
feel free to drop me a line.
In solidarity,
Christina Ingoglia
Cornell Orgnaization for Labor Action
Organizing Against Racism
Cornell University
November 9-11 2001
Mission Statement
Racism is a challenging subject, both on an intellectual and an emotional
level, but it is a subject, which we must not ignore. On the national
level, racism is pervasive, existing as the root of controversy and debates
on education, health care, welfare, housing, and immigration. At the
University level, race and racism come to the forefront of debate on issues
such as program housing, multicultural education, affirmative action, and
minority recruitment. Unquestionably, in large communities or small, racism
divides.
The mission of the Summit on Race Relations is to create a forum for
informed discussion on race and racism. The Summit is designed to bring
students from diverse communities together to explore the concept of
racism, and together propose solutions to the common challenges we face. It
is our sincere hope that the weekend will serve as the foundation for
future discussion of its type.
-Adapted from Cornell University Race Summit Mission Statement, 1997
Teach-in Organizers
Association of Students of Color, ASC
Arab Club
Cornell Organization for Labor Action, COLA
Cornell Civil Liberties Union, CCLU
Cornell Democrats
Students Against Sweatshops, SAS
Committee on Multicultural Issues, Student Assembly
Committee on US and Latin American Relations, CUSLAR
BLENDBi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities & Nationalities Discussion (BLEND)
HAPA, Hapa Student Association
La Asociación Latina
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP
Turn Left
Students Acting For Gender Equality, SAGE
Student Coalition Against Racism, SCAR
Black Students United, BSU
Quisqueya
Young Democratic Socialists from Ithaca College, YDS
Teach-in Sponsors
School of Arts and Sciences, Asian American Studies, Campus Climate Committee,
CRESP, Center for the Study of Inequality, COLA, CURW, CUSLAR, Dean of
Students, Gender & Global Change, Government, ILR, ISPB, JAM, Latino
Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Office of Minority Educational Affairs,
Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, Rural Sociology, SAFC,
Student and Academic Services, Student Assembly, Women's Studies
Organizing Against Racism
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
November 9-11, 2001
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
November 9, Friday
3:00- 5:00 pm Registration Pick up bracelets for dinner, get your
weekend program, and housing
Lobby, 105 Ives
5:00-6:30 pm Welcome: Keynote Address by Evelyn Zepeda of USAS and Kali
Zervos, organizer from AFSCME DC 1707/Dinner,
Trillium in Kennedy Hall
7:00-9:30 pm David Lamb, Author Do Plátanos Go Wit’ Collard Greens?
Kennedy Hall Auditorium
9:30 pm Vigil for Victims of September 11th and Victims of the Resultant
Racist Backlash
Outside Kennedy Hall
November 10, Saturday
8:30- 9:00 am Breakfast
Atrium, Corson Hall
9:00am- 1:00pm “Anti-Racism for Global
Justice”
Featuring Chris Crass of the San Francisco Challenging White Supremacy
Collective
Morison Room, Corson Hall
1:00pm-1:45pm Lunch
Atrium, Corson Hall
1:45-3:00pm Panel: Student & Faculty Perspectives on Race and Racism
105 Ives Hall
3:15- 4:30pm Workshops I: Race and
American Society
1. Demystifying the 2 Dimensional Sweatshop Worker, Evelyn
Zepeda Ives 108
2. Racial Profiling/War on Drugs as a War on Blacks? Ives
213
3. Building Alliances: Linking Systems of Oppression
4. Race & Globalization, Laura Close from STARC
5. Colonialism and Native
Americans
4:40-6:00pm Panel I: Justice in the Fields - Farmworkers Organize to
Fight Racism
Aspacio Alcantara
Wilson Augustave
Jill McGee
Salvador Solif
Moderator Kathy Castania
105 Ives Hall
Panel II: Patriotism Without Demons Does It Exist?
???
???
305 Ives Hall
6:15-7:00 pm Women Immigrants in NYC
Wei Chen, Coordintator of the ILR Institute for Women & Work
105 Ives Hall
8:00pm Entertainment, Risley Dining
BANDS, MUSIC, and
Dancing!
Idols of Perversity, Tankini, Purple Grip, Poetic Alchemy and more!
Great Hall, Risley Dormitory
November 11, Sunday
9:00-10:00 am Breakfast
Undergraduate Lounge, Ives Hall
10:00-11:30 am Workshop II: In Your Backyard
1. APAA Workshop
2. Program Houses at Cornell maintaining structural power on campus
3. Minority Recruitment among Students, Faculty and
Staff Ives 215
4. BLEND Organizing Against Bi-Racial Racism Ives 217
5. Student Government: Committee on Multicultural
Issues Ives 108
11:45- 12:45pm Town Hall Meeting: “Where Do We Go
From Here?” Facilitated Discussion.
105 Ives Hall
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