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SUMMARY:End the Wars! 25 Years of Struggle and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Join Haymarket and Truthout for the first in their joint 25th anniversary event series re-visiting key political junctures and experiences from the last quarter-century\, hosted by Maya Schenwar. Join Maya\, Khury Petersen-Smith\, Maha Hilal\, and Negin Owliaei for an urgent conversation drawing lessons from the War on Terror and the anti-war movement of the 2000s to inform today’s struggles against war and imperialism. \nMore About the Speakers: \nDr. Maha Hilal is the founding Executive Director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab and a founding steering committee member of the Guantanamo Survivors Fund. She is also a researcher and writer and the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia\, the War on Terror\, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11. \nNegin Owliaei is an award-winning journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truthout. \nKhury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. He does research on war and militarization and strategizes with activists to end them. \nMaya Schenwiar s the director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She joined Truthout in 2007 as a reporter covering the Iraq War\, militarism\, and surveillance\, and has been with the organization ever since. Maya is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and the co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\, among other books. In addition to Truthout\, Maya has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, NBC News\, The Nation\, and many other publications\, and is cofounder of the Movement Media Alliance. She lives in Chicago with her partner\, child\, and anti-imperialist cat. \n**Register to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.
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LOCATION:Online\, YouTube
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SUMMARY:The Water Defenders: The Graphic Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:In their acclaimed book The Water Defenders\, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh told the story of activists in San Isidro\, El Salvador\, who fought multinational mining corporation OceanaGold and won—protecting their drinking water and environment from irreparable harm—despite great personal danger. Now\, Jon Sack’s captivating graphic adaptation brings the story to new audiences and with new urgency\, as environmental progress and human rights remain under assault around the world. \nThe book is also updated to address Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele’s ascent and the subsequent arrests of five water defenders. Initially excited by the company’s promises of jobs and prosperity\, farmer Vidalina Morales\, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera\, and others soon realized that the trade-off was catastrophic contamination of El Salvador’s main source of fresh water. Facing corporate machinations and violence\, the ordinary people of San Isidro and surrounding communities built a transnational coalition that prevailed over powerful adversaries to score an environmental victory with worldwide repercussions. Broad and Cavanagh draw on over a decade of research\, interviews\, and experience as allies and experts in international development to recount the harrowing saga. A blueprint for civic bravery and local-to-global activism\, as well as a rich history of Central America’s political conflicts and people’s fights against environmental and economic exploitation. \nRobin Broad is a two-time MacArthur fellow and won a Guggenheim fellowship for her work surrounding mining in El Salvador. A research professor at American University\, she served as an international economist in the US Department of the Treasury\, in the US Congress\, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Broad and her husband\, John Cavanagh\, helped build the network of global allies that spearheaded the fight against mining in El Salvador. They have coauthored several books together. \nJohn Cavanagh is senior advisor for and former director of the Washington\, DC–based Institute for Policy Studies\, an organization that collaborates with the Poor People’s Campaign and other dynamic social movements to turn ideas into action for peace\, justice\, and the environment. Previously\, he worked with the United Nations to research corporate power. Cavanagh and his wife\, Robin Broad\, helped build the network of global allies that spearheaded the fight against mining in El Salvador. They have coauthored several books together. \nJohn Duda is an independent researcher and communications strategist working to advance a more democratic economy. He has worked extensively at the intersections of digital media\, software development\, and left politics\, as well as serving for nine years as Communications Director for The Democracy Collaborative\, an international research institute working to develop practical models for a post-capitalist economy. He has written extensively on left organizing\, history\, and economic alternatives\, and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Intellectual History. He is a co-founder of Red Emma’s\, a worker-owned radical bookstore and restaurant in Baltimore\, which he calls home.
URL:https://test43.ips-dc.org/event/the-water-defenders-graphic-adaptation/
LOCATION:Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse\, 3128 Greenmount Ave.\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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SUMMARY:Community Forum: Inequality and Democracy - On a Collision Course
DESCRIPTION:The wide and growing gap in income\, wealth\, and opportunity threatens our communities and lives. It also poses an existential threat to our democracy. The good news about this moment of crisis is that there are signs that it is also a moment of opportunity. \nCome learn about a bold agenda being incubated at the national level. Bring your questions and share your thoughts. Chuck Collins\, a nationally-recognized expert and author on extreme income and wealth inequality\, and Jay Kaufman\, who served as Lexington’s State Representative in the Massachusetts House of Representative for 24 years\, will lead this lively community conversation. \nChuck is director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of the new book\, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. Jay is now writing and publishing on his “Uncertain Times” Substack site.
URL:https://test43.ips-dc.org/event/inequality-and-democracy-on-a-collision-course/
LOCATION:First Parish in Lexington\, 7 Harrington Rd\, Lexington\, MA\, 02421
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