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May 9, 2009
Saturday

  • Bail Out Working People -- NOT the Banks!

  • May 9, 2009 from 8:30am to 1:00pm
  • Location: Plumbers Hall,
  • Description: Without joining together for our common interests, we don't have the strength to change our government's priorities. We must begin to build a massive movement that will have the power to impact government policy and give people genuine hope for a better future. Help organize a mass mobilization and ongoing action campaign around the following demands: - No layoffs. Massive job-creation program. - Tax the rich -- don't bail out the banks. - Pass the Employee Free Choice Act. - Single-payer healthcare for all. - Affordable housing for all. Tenants' rights. Moratorium on foreclosures & evictions. - Funding for jobs and for social services & infrastructure, not for war. - Stop the ICE raids and deportations. Legalization for all! Speakers: - Art Pulaski, Secretary-Treasurer, California Federation of Labor; - N'tanya Lee, Executive Director, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth; - Mark Dudzic, National Organizer, Labor for Single Payer Healthcare Campaign (Washington, D.C.); - Rosie
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  • Culturally Responsive Teaching: May 2009

  • May 9, 2009 at 6:00am to May 16, 2009 at 12:00pm
  • Location: Medgar Evers College (Adult and Continuing Education)
  • Description: As part of the on-going Leadership and Literacy through Debate Campaign, we are pleased to announce the second installment of our continuing education course at Medgar Evers College, entitled "Culturally Responsive Teaching." The first session held in January was a huge success and we look forward to teaching the course again. If you check this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8DTXKyJjtg&feature=email you can see a brief clip that shows some of the course and the response to the lessons learned in the program. Most educators who work with our youth are ill prepared to address the specific educational needs of the Black and Brown students that they serve. This is directly related to the growing achievement gap and high drop-out rates that we see everyday. It is no coincidence that most educators have never taken a single course that addresses the various sociological and psychological issues that our youth bring to the classroom. Many of us who have had the opportunity to study a
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  • Afrikan Liberation Day 2009 - Nkrumah@100 (1909-2009)

  • May 9, 2009 to Jun 17, 2009
  • Location: London, Birmingham, UK & Internet and Radio
  • Description: ALD will feature a programme of activities for children and youth including Afrikan drumming and craft workshops; cultural artists and performers including, Afrikan dancers, poets and singers. International speakers on the day include brother Kwesi Pratt editor of Insight newspaper and Sister Mawete Teresa of Moyo Wa Taifa Pan-Afrikan women’s network both direct from Ghana. Activities will include a panel discussion and a broad range of grass roots Afrikan community organisations will be giving messages of solidarity. The day will also feature cultural Afrikan and Caribbean food, book stalls and displays. Entry is free. A member of this year’s organising committee, Brother Omowale said: “Kwame Nkrumah is one of the greatest Afrikan leaders of all time. In this the centenary year since his birth, we have a duty to ensure that his strategy of Afrikan liberation is told. Our ancestors suffered intensely under slavery and colonialism and we continue to suffer now. The world’s economic sy
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May 4, 2009
Monday

  • Charter Schools: The Solution to the Crisis in Public Education?

  • May 4, 2009 at 1:30pm to May 5, 2009 at 4:30pm
  • Location: Pace University Student Union
  • Description: •Do Charter Schools actually represent a genuine movement to re-establish community control, parent choice and equitable education for ALL students? Or are they part of a larger movement sweeping the country and turning the public sector of education over to hands of privately run organizations? •Do charter schools provide adequate channels for the democratic input of staff and parents? What happens when charter schools deny educators union rights, pensions and benefits? •At this forum, we invite teachers, parents, students and community members to consider the role that charter schools play in the larger national agenda to privatize education in the United States. We will discuss the validity of their popular claim to support civil rights by providing parents of failing schools other options. Please join us. •Charter schools are opening while public schools are closing or being placed in smaller spaces that hinder the expansion of public schools. Charter schools also have stricter adm
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May 2, 2009
Saturday

  • RUNOKO RASHIDI'S AFRICAN PRESENCE IN PRESENCE GROUP TOUR

  • May 2, 2009 to May 16, 2009
  • Location: Mexican Gulf Coast
  • Description: DR. RUNOKO RASHIDI's ~~AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEXICO GROUP TOUR ~~ "BEGINNING WITH THE OLMEC" May 2-16, 2009 Special Feature: The Ivan Van Sertima Symposium Prices beginning at $2689.00 double occupancy It is accurate to say of the Americas that not only did Columbus come late but that African people had a profound presence long before the beginning of the trans-Atlantic trade in captured Africans. The first civilization of ancient America is called the Olmec. It was located along the Mexican Gulf Coast and began almost four thousand years ago. The most significant artistic representations reflecting the presence of Africans in the ancient Americas are to be found among the Olmec. At least seventeen enormous stone heads, weighing from ten to forty tons each, have been revealed in Olmec sites along the Mexican Gulf Coast. Many of them can be viewed today in Mexico's many museums. One of the first European-American scientists to comment on the Olmec heads, archaeologist Mathew Stirling,
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May 1, 2009
Friday

  • 1st Latin American & Caribbean Pan Africanists World Convention

  • May 1, 2009 to May 3, 2009
  • Location: Hall Vice Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Description: Brother and sister as many of you now yet, we want invite you to participate at this historical conference with our 150 million africanas sister and brother who speaking spanish. The conference call intelectuals, youth, women, activist , grassroot and goverment to meet in La Paz Bolivia on 1-3 May 2009 and take a Pan-African World declaration. This conference its historical because will give orientation to this movement in terms of Reparation and social justice at the same time the president Morales who will open the convention is very excited with the Pan-African solidarity with the indigenous and Bolivian democracy process. At the same time the conference will pay tribute to sister Miriam Makeba 2009. Its our challenge and we are the maroons of the XXI century and reparation its our responsability and Pan-Africanist is the key . abuy nfubea 1st world convention of Pan-Africanist movement in America and Caribe from Marcus Garvey to Obama trough Durban La Paz Bolivia 1st-3rd May 2
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April 30, 2009
Thursday

  • Black Studies Forty Years Later: An African American Perspective

  • Apr 30, 2009 to May 3, 2009
  • Location: Temple University - Anderson Hall -17
  • Description: Registration (Anderson Hall -17) 2:00 pm Welcome (Anderson Hall - 17) 5:00 pm 5:15 pm Black Politics and the Barack Obama Presidency: Plenary 5:15 pm 7:30 pm Amiri Baraka, Dr. Mack Jones, Dr. Augustine Lao-Montes, Kenneth Lawrence and Dr. Ron Walters Intergenerational Dialogue Coordinator: Cleo Silvers 7:30 pm 8:30 pm (Anderson Hall - 17) Mabel Williams& Youth Student (TBA) Reception (Anderson Hall - 17) 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Saturday, May 2, 2009 Continental Breakfast/Registration (Beury Hall - 160) 7:30 am - 8:30 am Working Group Meetings (Anderson Hall) 8:30 am - 10:15 am Black Studies Forty Years Later: Plenary 10:30 am - 12:30 pm John Bracey, Jr., Dr. Jimmy Garrett, Dr. Charles Jones and Dr. Rosemari Mealy (Beury Hall 160) Lunch (on your own) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Working Group Meetings (Anderson Hall) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Black Labor: Plenary 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Janet Hammond Ryder, Saladine Muhammad, Henry Nicholas (Beury Hall - 160) Reception/Dinner (Diamond Club) 5:30 pm -
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  • Black Studies Forty Years Later, 1969-2009

  • Apr 30, 2009 to May 3, 2009
  • Location: Temple University
  • Description: Black Studies Forty Years Later, 1969-2009: 100 Day Assessment of the Barack Obama Presidency From an African American Perspective Sponsored by Center for African American Research and Public Policy at Temple University and the Philadelphia Community Institute of Africana Studies Black, Studies as a discipline was institutionalized in 1969. The first department was established at San Francisco State College. Since then, over 200 Black Studies departments have been established at colleges and universities across the United States with several offering doctoral degrees in African American Studies or Africana Studies. As an academic discipline, Black Studies was originally designed to describe and explain the conditions and problems faced by African American communities and to identify and assess alternative solutions to improve their life situations. Over the years, Black Studies departments have struggled to remain true to the original mission. Faced with changing circumstances, Blac
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April 22, 2009
Wednesday
April 17, 2009
Friday

  • HOW THE ORISA GOT THIER POWERS

  • Apr 17, 2009 at 11:00am to Apr 19, 2009 at 1:30pm
  • Location: THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
  • Description: Immigrant Heritage Week at The National Black TheatreApril 17-19, 2009National Black TheatrePRESENTSGuided Toursshowcasing 38 Yoruba statues depicting the Orisa tradition created with the New Sacred Art technique by Nigerian artists carved with instruments seven generations oldTour Guide: Adeyemi LythcottTours: April 17,18 & 19 at 3pm - FREENational Black TheatrePRESENTSDavid D. Wright's"How The Orisa's Got Their Powers"performed by members of theOrisha Tales Repertory Radio Theater CompanyPerformances: April 17, 18 & 19 at 4pm - $10 GeneralGroup rate available
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April 14, 2009
Tuesday

  • Bolivian Prez In Harlem, April 22.

  • Apr 14, 2009 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Salem United Methodist Church
  • Description: Dear Friends of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, The Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations has invited us to a forum with the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 from 6-8pm, at the Salem United Methodist Church 2190 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Ave & 129th St.), New York, NY. In order to attend, you must have a ticket. How to get a ticket: If you are interested in attending this historic meeting there are two options. You can get them directly from the Bolivian Mission to the UN, which requires that you e-mail them your name and contact information at admin@boliviaun.org. by Thursday April 16th. Or you can get them through IFCO. We will need the names and contact information (phone number and e-mail address) of everyone you would like tickets for. Please call us at 212-926-5757, or email ifco@igc.org by the end of the day on Wednesday, April 15th. After receiving all of the ticket requests, we will pick up the t
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April 8, 2009
Wednesday
 

  • SPEAK OUT Thursday, April 9, 9am / BART Board Meeting, Oakland, California

  • Apr 8, 2009 from 4:30am to 8:00am
  • Location: BART Board Room
  • Description: SPEAK OUT Thursday, April 9, 9am / BART Says Officers Pirone & Domenici "acted appropriately" re. Oscar Grant / Come to BART Board Meeting Thurs, April 9, 9am* * * PLEASE DO FORWARD WIDELYESPECIALLY SINCE THIS IS A DAYTIME EVENT * * *As if the murder and cover-up of Oscar Grant's execution weren't outrageous enough, now BART attorneys claim that Officers Tony Pirone and Marysol Domenici were not at fault in the shooting of Oscar Grant. They even say Oscar would have beaten THEM -- that Oscar would have beaten the police -- if they hadn't acted with the force they used.BART is trying to separate itself from the murder of Oscar Grant and act like now it's just between the District Attorney and former BART Officer Mehserle. BART is also trying to influence those criminal proceedings by publicizing evidence before Mehserle even goes back to court. Well, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they spend on "research," how many public meetings they hold (when most people can't a
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April 3, 2009
Friday

  • JOIN THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE: In advance of the Durban Review Conference

  • Apr 3, 2009 from 7:00am to 8:30am
  • Location: (218) 339-3600 Participant Access Code: 736265#
  • Description: The racially defined history of injustice still shapes today’s realities, both national and international. Despite the media hype to the contrary, neither our country nor our world is “post racial.” This fact underscores the importance of the upcoming Durban Review Conference, April 20 – 24, 2009, in Geneva Switzerland. The Review Conference is an opportunity for the world to continue the dialogue begun in 2001, during the World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerances, and to refocus attention on the task of achieving human dignity for all. Unfortunately, the Obama administration, continuing the Bush policy, has said that it will not participate (see TransAfrica Forum statement for details). However, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, TransAfrica Forum, and other members of the NGO community will attend. And, we want to hear from you. What do you think? •Has the U.S. made progress in the fight against racism, xenophobia, and intolerance since 2001?
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  • THE OBAMA PHENOMENON: Race & Political Discourse in the United States Today

  • Apr 3, 2009 at 5:30am to Apr 4, 2009 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall, The University Of Memphis
  • Description: Opening remarks by Daphene R. McFerren, Director Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis KEYNOTE ADDRESS* Some Through the Fire! Some Through the Flood! Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. *All Conference proceedings (with one exception noted on the program) will take place on the University of Memphis campus at the Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall. All events are free and open to the public, on a first-come, first serve basis. A capacity crowd is expected for Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.’s keynote address, and, when that occurs, no more people will be admitted to the Rose Theatre. PLENARY ADDRESS Soul Brother No.1: Is Obama Black Enough? Ronald S. Sullivan Harvard Law School. Chair of Candidate Obama’s Criminal Justice Policy Group, Member of National Legal Advisory Group and Advisor to the United States Department of Justice Transition Team Event Co-Sponsors: Scholars In Critical Race Studies Group The Marcus W. Orr Center For The Humanit
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March 31, 2009
Tuesday

  • 10th ANNUAL CENTRAL BROOKLYN JAZZ FESTIVAL

  • Mar 31, 2009 to Apr 30, 2009
  • Location: venues throughout Brooklyn, New York
  • Description: 10th ANNUAL CENTRAL BROOKLYN JAZZ FESTIVAL "A Decade of Keeping Our Music Alive" Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) presents its 10th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival from April 1 thru 30, 2009. This month long celebration of an American original art form Jazz, will be held in venues throughout Brooklyn, New York. Some of the musicians and events scheduled include: legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Dave Valentin, Houston Person, Melba Moore, Ronnie Mathews/Freddie Hubbard Tribute, symposiums (Brooklyn jazz history & women in Jazz), youth programs, and Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame induction ceremony. For festival information call 718.569.1896 or visit www.cbjcjazz.org. Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium is proud to present The Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band on Saturday, April 4th at Brooklyn Tech Auditorium, 29 Fort Greene Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Roy Haynes, the world's greatest living drummer, has performed with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sara
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  • Black Women and the Radical Tradition 2009

  • Mar 27, 2009 to Mar 28, 2009
  • Location: City University of New York
  • Description: Black Women and the Radical Tradition 2009 On March 28, 2009 the Graduate Center for Worker Education at Brooklyn College will welcome some of the leading activists and scholars to take part in a national conference that will discuss the historical and current accomplishment of black women in the United States. Black women have been leading the struggle for social transformation dating from the American Revolution to the present struggle for the presidency of the United States. This conference will examine the multifaceted leadership contributions of Black women as presented by leading scholars and social activists. The Conference will include a tribute to Charlene Mitchell, the first African-American women to run for president of the United States in 1968. FEATURING * Angela Davis * Manning Marable * Genna Rae McNeil * Leith Mullings * Erik McDuffie * Bill Fletcher, Jr. * Gerald Horne * Frances Fox Piven * Mary Louise Patterson * Carole Boyce Davies * Kimberly Springer Registrat
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