FALL 2006:UMD
MEETINGS:
We meet every Wednesday from 8-9pm in Jimenez 1103. Lately, we have been discussing issues related to direct action, focusing almost exclusively on planning our monthly benefit concerts (e.g., raising money for organizations fighting against hunger and homelessness, war and globalization, and sexual diseases and abuse) on campus and feeding homeless people every weekend in DC. But come join us and bring your own ideas!
The Dupont Circle/ McPherson Square Project (Ongoing)
Every Sunday morning at 10am some members of Feminism Without Borders, along with about ten other people, meet at Dupont Circle in DC (across the street from Books a Million) to distribute food to homeless people. Everyone brings something to share, such as sandwiches, fruit, granola bars, or packages of soup, and even if you cannot bring anything, we can always use an extra hand. We stay at Dupont for about 30-45 minutes, which gives us time to hand out the food/sack lunches and catch up with each other as well as with those people whom we have met in the circle. After Dupont, we all walk or carpool down to McPherson Square and hand food out there for about 30-45 minutes. We are usually done by 12pm. Dupont is very laid back, and depending on the week, we serve between 10-20 people. McPherson is much busier, more diverse, and we serve any where from 25-60 people there. The Dupont Circle/ McPherson Square Project has no political, cultural, or religious affliation and has no long-term commitment attached to it, though it has been going on for more than a year now and is in the process of obtaining non-profit status. If you are interested, sign up at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontCircleProject/
Directions from campus: From the college park metro, take the green line (Branch Ave.) to the red line (Chinatown or Fort Totten) and stay on it until Dupont.
Feminism Without Borders Presents:
BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE AFGHAN WOMEN'S FUND
The Afghan Women's Fund does relief work in Afghanistan for women and children mostly, sponsoring orphans, providing counseling and paying for medical bills of gang rape victims, building wells for schools and communities, giving necessary school supplies to girls schools, and more! Check them out at http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/Welcome.html
Date: Saturday, November 25, 2006
Where: College Perk Coffeehouse on Baltimore Ave. (Rt. 1)
Time: 8 pm - 1 am
Featuring music by SAUCY BILLS, EAT IT RAW, VASUDEVA, and more!
Check them out at www.saucybills.net and eatitraw.net
Suggested Donation is $5-10
We will be raffling off sweatshop-free t-shirts and fair trade coffee!
MaryPIRG, Feminism Without Borders, the Fair Trade Advocacy Club, and STAND presents:
HUNGER BANQUET 2006
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Where: Atrium Room, Stamp Student Union
Purpose: To educate University of Maryland students on the realities of global hunger and present problems and possible solutions to poverty.
FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS PRESENTS:
A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR LEBANON
FUNDING WILL GO TO SAMIDOUN, A LEBANESE ORGANIZATION REBUILDING SCHOOLS IN BEIRUT
FEATURING POLITICAL FOLK MUSICIAN, DAVID ROVICS
DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006
TIME: 7-10:30PM
LOCATION: PRINCE GEORGE'S ROOM (STAMP STUDENT UNION), UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (COLLEGE PARK), USA
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 (WE WON'T TURN ANYONE AWAY)
PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT THE LEBANESE PEOPLE
MUSIC BY DAVID ROVICS (PROTEST FOLK), SAUCYBILLS (FUNK), BABY KILLER ESTELLE (PIANO ROCK), AND HENRY MILLS (HIP HOP/ PUNK/ FOLK)
WOMEN'S POETRY PROVIDED BY DC GUERRILLA POETRY INSURGENCY
CO-SPONSORED BY PEACE FORUM, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, THE FAIR TRADE ADVOCACY CLUB, COMMUNITY ROOTS, THE LEBANESE STUDENT ORGANIZATION, DC GUERRILLA POETRY INSURGENCY, AND TERPOETS.
LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!
FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS PRESENTS:
A HALLOWEEN BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK (FOR THE JUNTAS DE BUEN GOBIERNO IN OVENTIC, CHIAPAS, IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE ZAPATISTAS).
DATE: HALLOWEEN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
TIME: 7-10:30PM
LOCATION: PRINCE GEORGE'S ROOM (STAMP STUDENT UNION), UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (COLLEGE PARK)
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 (WE WON'T TURN ANYONE AWAY)
PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT THE ZAPATISTAS
MUSIC FROM ROCK HARD RECORDS: OPPOSABLE THUMBS, SUICIDE KINGZ, T.A.M.U., L.P.F., THE STICKMEN, PG COUNTRY, AND WHYTEOUT WITH STARCHILD
POETRY PROVIDED BY TERPOETS
CO-SPONSORED BY PEACE FORUM, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, THE LATINO STUDENT UNION, THE FAIR TRADE ADVOCACY CLUB, COMMUNITY ROOTS, AND TERPOETS.
BE YOUR FAVORITE REVOLUTIONARY! WEAR YOUR FAVORITE POLITICAL COSTUME! LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!
Alternatives to Wars in the Middle East
A panel discussion by two members of
Combatants for Peace
Where: STAMP COLONY BALLROOM
When: 6:30 THURSDAY, OCT. 26
Yonatan Shapira is former Captain in the Israeli Air Force Reserves. In 2003, Yonatan initiated a group of Israeli Air Force pilots who refused to fly attack missions on Palestinian territories.
Bassam Aramim is a former member of Fatah who served a 7-year prison sentence after being arrested in Hebron when he was 17 years old.
www.combatantsforpeace.org
Sponsored by:
A Coalition of Student Groups for the Middle East
(Community Roots, Peace Forum, UPZ, FWB)
www.umcp.org
Feminism Without Borders, Peace Forum, Community Roots, Muslim Students Association, Union of Progressive Zionists, and Amnesty International present a teach-in on the Lebanese-Israeli Conflict, featuring professors Bassam Haddad and Mark Lance
Event: Lebanese-Isreali Conflict Teach-In
Speakers: Professors Bassam Haddad and Mark Lance, Georgetown University, followed by a video and a discussion
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Time: 6:30PM
Location: Francis Scott Key 0106
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Spring 2006
SPRING 2006
DARFUR BENEFIT CONCERT
APRIL 15, 2006
A little info: The violence began nearly 3 years ago in Darfur, Sudan. "The government is arming Arab militias to systematically attack civilians, while engaging in a policy of terror, murder, rape, and devastation. This is forcing a mass migration of hundreds of thousands in what amounts to an ethnic cleansing campaign." From the Holocaust to Rwanda, the question of “How could this atrocity be allowed to happen?” will hang in the air forever. And those who stood by will be forever defined by what they failed to do.
What’s going on: Awesome people are playing music to get people together to raise money to help stop the genocide. On April 15, Captain Universe, Spiff and Krisis, Vasudeva, The Jakes, Fourth ‘Til Morning, The Kings, Eat it Raw, John Soares, Josh T., Nathan, the famous Blues Bulger, the lovely Charles Simon, among many others will be entertaining us.
What to bring: Chairs/blankets to sit on, money (at least $5) to donate, instruments, poetry, Frisbees, booze, meat??? Free vegetarian food (thanks to College Perk and more), as well as Equal Exchange coffee, tea, and cocoa will be provided. Come to swing off a tree, play volleyball, eat delicious food, meet amazing people, talk politics, and listen to and play good music.
When: April 15, 2006, 2-10PM
Where: Cockeysville, MD 21030
Info: e-mail ewillia9@umd.edu for more information, directions, info about donations, and booking your band at similar future events.
Thanks: Special thanks to Equal Exchange, the Fair Trade Advocacy Club, STAND, Feminism Without Borders, College Perk Coffeehouse, and the Genocide Intervention Network.
FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS, STUDENTS AND WORKERS UNITE, & the Fair Trade Advocacy Club PRESENT:
“Living with the Consequences of United States Policy: A Nicaragua Photo/ Testimony Project” by Paul Dix & Pam Fitzpatrick
Presentation: “Living with the Consequences of United States Policy: A Nicaragua Photo/ Testimony Project,” presented by Paul Dix and Pam Fitzpatrick
Date: Thursday, April 20
Time: 7pm
Location: Margaret Brent B
Cost: Free
| · The Dupont Circle/ McPherson Square Project (Ongoing) Every Sunday morning at 10am some members of Feminism Without Borders, along with about ten other people, meet at Dupont Circle in DC (across the street from Books a Million) to distribute food to homeless people. Everyone brings something to share, such as sandwiches, fruit, granola bars, or packages of soup, and even if you cannot bring anything, we can always use an extra hand. We stay at Dupont for about 30-45 minutes, which gives us time to hand out the food/sack lunches and catch up with each other as well as with those people whom we have met in the circle. After Dupont, we all walk or carpool down to McPherson Square and hand food out there for about 30-45 minutes. We are usually done by 12pm. Dupont is very laid back, and depending on the week, we serve between 10-20 people. McPherson is much busier, more diverse, and we serve any where from 25-60 people there. The Dupont Circle/ McPherson Square Project has no political, cultural, or religious affliation and has no long-term commitment attached to it, though it has been going on for more than a year now and is in the process of obtaining non-profit status. If you are interested, sign up at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontCircleProject/
Directions from campus: From the college park metro, take the green line (Branch Ave.) to the red line (Chinatown or Fort Totten) and stay on it until Dupont. |
"Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces:Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts"
Conference: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Student Conference: "Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts"
Features: feminist educator Dr. Peggy McIntosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr. Sangeeta Ray, Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and feminist sociologist Dr. Karen Rosenblum
Sponsorship: The Department of Women's Studies, the Women's Studies Graduate Student Organization, Feminism Without Borders, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland
Date: Wednesday-Friday, May 24-26
Time: Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon
Location: STAMP Student Union
Cost: Free
information: http://www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference or kim williams at kwillia9@umd.edu
Overview: Interdisciplinary scholars are courageous risk-takers; they often conduct their research and teaching in “dangerous places” in which their work is undervalued, misunderstood and/or not supported. Young scholars are particularly vulnerable to the ramifications that can result from pushing boundaries and working at the margins of their academic locations. In response to this ongoing challenge to our scholarship and/or research) and teaching endeavors, this conference will highlight and celebrate the scholarship of graduate students working in the areas of women’s, gender and/or feminist studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary academic locations having as their central locus progressive politics and intersectional theoretical and methodological approaches.
As signaled by its title, the conference identifies and will provide a forum for discussing compelling intellectual issues currently driving feminist/critical politics and will bring together graduate students in related interdisciplinary academic locations who are working to transcend divides, dichotomies and boundaries of all sorts in their activisms, research, and teaching.
As a “potential space” for making professional, intellectual and/or activist connections among and between graduate students and established scholars working on similar issues, the conference will be divided into four thematic seminars in which the customary division between audience and presenter is collapsed. Each seminar will feature interactive working sessions co-facilitated by one invited senior scholar and one graduate student whose own research, teaching and/or activisms fit within the rubric of that seminar’s thematic mandate. Participants, including the senior scholar, will each be asked to prepare and present short position papers (3-4 pages each) in which they address some key issues, debates and conversations of the seminar as outlined below. Following these presentations, the moderators will facilitate discussion and/or activities among the session participants designed to draw out common themes and controversial issues that participants identify as having significant potential for future work in the area under discussion.
1. Building Community and Making Intellectual Connections
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Plenary Speaker and Seminar scholar-participant
Concerned with strengthening the connections between intellectual communities, this seminar is about scholar-activists whose research, teaching, and/or activism consciously utilizes multiple critical perspectives and approaches from a variety of academic locations to transcend epistemological and/or disciplinary divides, dichotomies and boundaries to create that which could not have been otherwise.
2. Transforming Structures of Oppression
Dr. Karen Rosenblum, Plenary Speaker and Seminar scholar-participant
This seminar addresses feminist works that engage oppression and resistance at a structural level. Participants will explore a broad range of topics pivoting on the connections between systemic oppression and structures and individual people’s lives and experiences.
3. Globalization and Transnational Feminisms
Dr. Sangeeta Ray, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-Participant
This seminar explores gendered processes within a transnational framework. How do global economic, political and cultural processes impact the lives of gendered subjects differentially across the globe? How do they (re)construct/deconstruct particular kinds of gendered relations? How are gendered relations associated with shifting racial, sexual, national, cultural and other processes? Within this transnational framework, how do local groups resist? How do they connect with each other across borders? What are the power relations inherent in these kinds of feminist and other activisms across borders?
4. Women’s Studies in Translation: Accessing “Feminist Education” across the Spectrum of Difference
Dr. Peggy McIntosh, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-Participant
Women’s studies has developed into a thriving academic field of inquiry within the academy, and more and more women’s studies educators are being innovative how they develop and share feminist knowledge inside and outside of the academy. This seminar supports a conversation on these innovations in teaching, with a particular focus on how women’s studies practitioners interpret what counts as “feminist education,” and how they translate that knowledge to different kinds of learners across a variety of learning settings.
FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS, STUDENTS AND WORKERS UNITE, and Peace Forum PRESENT:
SOMSAK PLAIYOOWONG on Labor Rights in Thailand
Lecture: SOMSAK PLAIYOOWONG on Labor Rights in Thailand
Date: Wednesday, February 15
Time: 6pm
Location: Jimenez 2125
Cost: Free
Overview: Somsak Plaiyoowong ("P'Maung") organized the Center for Thai Labor Rights(TCLR) in 2003 and is currently Coordinator for the Center, which is an active member of the Action Network for Migrants, composed of Thai and Burmese NGOs supporting the rights of migrant workers in Thailand. P'Maung was a union organizer and field officer for the Center for Labor Information Services and Training (CLIST) for many years and has extensive experience in organizing garment and apparel unions in Thailand. He has focused on issues regarding developing union leadership and administration, promoting legal literacy in labor law, and leading collective bargaining and strategic campaigns. He was invited to speak at the UNITE convention in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a leading member of the Labor Subcommittee of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Law Society of Thailand, which functions as the national bar association of Thailand. Additionally, P'Maung and Phil Robertson (who was the former ACILS Field Representative in Thailand) co-wrote a paper documenting the successful struggle of Gina Form Bra factory workers in Thailand. For the authors, the Gina workers' struggle signified a wonderful example of the growing trend in the Thai labor movement to use creative new tactics while also building strong alliances with consumer and NGO campaigns overseas. Most recently, P'Maung and TCLR have been involved in factory monitoring and trainings together with ACILS and Jones Apparel Group. P'Maung also frequently consults with factory monitors of the Gap, Reebok, and the WRC.
Fall 2005
Feminism Without Borders & Students and Workers Unite present:
WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE
Film: WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE
Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 7pm
Location: Key 0106
Cost: FREE
Description: WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE is a new feature length documentary that uncovers THE retail giant's assault on communities. The film analyzes the corporation’s attack on labor unions, women’s rights, health care,global wages and the environment.
Feminism Without Borders, Amnesty International, Peace Forum, and Global Solutions present:
Nigeria, Oil, and Human Rights
THURSDAY, November 10, 7-8PM, DORCHESTER HALL BASEMENT: Ken sarO wIwa Lives: Nigeria, Oil, and Human Rights. tHIS EVENT, SPONSORED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND CO-SPONSORED BY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, PEACE FORUM, AND FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS, WILL ALLOW US TO REMEMBER KEN SARO WIWA, a Fallen Human Rights and Environmental Activist. THERE WILL BE A Movie, Speaker, Discussion, AND a Walking Vigil. Some candles will be provided, but flashlights, cell phones, and lighters are all
welcome. bring whatever you can to make light!!!!
The Basic Facts:
-Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, and fifth-largest within OPEC
-But even 44 years after independence, seven out of ten Nigerians
live on less than US$1 per day
-Shell Oil has frequently failed to clean up land polluted after oil spills. Gas flaring is also rampant, and more gas is flared in Nigeria than in anywhere else in the world
-The violence has escalated over the last few years to over athousand deaths in 2003
-November 10 marks the 10-year anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni 8. Shell oil was the driving force in SaroWiwa’s execution.
-What began in 1990 as a call for environmental and ethnic rights
of an ethnic minority group against a brutal military regime and oil companies that fueled it, has grown to into a catalyst for a call for
Nigerian democracy, corporate accountability, reduced independence on oil
and minority rights.
Post-event news: Remembrances were held around the world Thursday on the ten-year anniversary of the execution of Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa led the movement against Shell Corporation's oil practices in the Ogoni region. In 1994, he was imprisoned and accused of incitement to murder. Despite widespread international protests, Saro-Wiwa was hanged after a sham trial along with eight other Ogoni rights activists. In Saro-Wima’s native Ogoni
region, more than 1,000 people held an overnight candlelight vigil. The vigil was
followed by a march through the city of Bori to protest the Nigerian government’s treatment of the Ogoni people. One banner read: "You can kill the messenger, but not the message. Ogoni must survive."
Post-event news: Remembrances were held around the world Thursday on the ten-year anniversary of the execution of Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa led the movement against Shell Corporation's oil practices in the Ogoni region. In 1994, he was imprisoned and accused of incitement to murder. Despite widespread international protests, Saro-Wiwa was hanged after a sham trial along with eight other Ogoni rights activists. In Saro-Wima’s native Ogoni
region, more than 1,000 people held an overnight candlelight vigil. The vigil was
followed by a march through the city of Bori to protest the Nigerian government’s treatment of the Ogoni people. One banner read: "You can kill the messenger, but not the message. Ogoni must survive."
SUNY NEW PALTZ EVENTS
FALL 2006
MEETINGS:
We meet every other Wednesday from 8-9pm in SUB 409. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, Septermber 27, 2006. Join us!
SPRING 2006
THE TRANS-FORMING FEMINISM CONFERENCE
The 3rd annual Trans-Forming Feminism Conference, which explores the intersections between transgender and feminist communities, will be held at SUNY New Paltz on April 22, 2006.
We are looking to create a conference that will explore the issues connecting and dividing trans and feminist communities. We want to address the fears, myths, and misunderstandings that often keep these movements from building coalitions together as well as the bridges that stand firm in connecting these movements. We want to hear lots of different voices, for no one voice speaks for everybody.
We have new, innovative, dynamic, refreshing, and honest proposals for workshops, papers, panels, and performance pieces. We have many proposals that further explore the gender-queer community, multi and pansexual communities, the exploitation of race, class, ableism and the queer and feminist communities, third wave feminism and its interactions with other feminist roots, the "not trans enough" phenomenon, trans-phobia within the feminist-lesbian communities, and many other relevant issues.
Visit http://www.transformfeminism.com or e-mail transformfeminism@gmail.com for more information.
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FALL 2005
December 6, 9pm, SUB: The Black Panthers & Young Lords Speak. Robert Collier, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Kaba Hiawatha Kamene will enlighten us with information about these organizations, and they will talk about the present day conditions of Blacks and Latinos in our society today. This event is sponsored by Feminism Without Borders, the Black Student Union, the NAACP, and LASU.
November 1, 8:30-10pm, SUB 409: Feminism Without Borders will showing Harsh Beauty (2005), which is co-sponsored by Latinas Unidas, Fahari, and Social Change for Womyn. Harsh Beauty is a film about three eunuchs who live as women in India and their struggle to find a place for themselves in a culture splintered by religion, caste, and politics. After this Woodstock Film Festival premiere, directed by Alessandra Zeka, we will have a talk-back. Come out for a good film, discussion, and company!
