Rowe Center presents:
Discover ancient, ancestral teachings to heal the world’s collective trauma and reconnect with your spiritual source.
Many indigenous ancestral prophecies predicted this present time of upheaval, but they did more than provide a warning. These ancient teachings of Native Americans also provided a map,...Read more
Resistance Studies Initiative Spring Webinar Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Carol Kalafatic (Quechua, Spanish & Croatian) is a Resistance Studies Fellow with tthe Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst and has been working alongside Indigenous Peoples (IPs) since 1991, as an organizer, workshop provider, trans-disciplinary scholar, and policy advocate for IPs’ self-determination and food sovereignty.
Chief Gary Harrison (Ahtna), Traditional Chief of Chickaloon Village, Alaska, and Tribal Chairman of Chickaloon Village Traditional Council was named Traditional Chief in 1994.Read more
Discussants
· Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor of Sociology, New York University
· Laura Gorriahn, Researcher, ERC Project Protest and Order. Contentious Politics, Democratic Theory and the Changing Shape of Western Democracy, Freie Universität Berlin
Moderator:
Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Director...Read more
The University of Massachusetts Amherst and The GroundTruth Project present this free online conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers public release.
Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Amy Goodman, Frances FitzGerald, John Dean, Elizabeth Holtzman, Fredrik Logevall, Beatrice Fihn, Hedrick Smith, and many other distinguished historians, journalists, activists,...Read more
Resistance Studies Initiative Spring Webinar Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Dr. Z. Fareen Parvez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Scholar with the UMass Resistance Studies Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a 2019-20 member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.She is the author of Politicizing Islam: the Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is currently researching the political economy of debt in marginalized Muslim and Dalit communities in India.Read more
Join Pace e Bene trainer Rivera Sun for a skillbuilding webinar on creative actions to build a culture of peace and active nonviolence. Shake up your go-to protests, unpack the tactical toolbox, explore new action ideas, dig into how creative actions enthuse and energize people for making change. We’ll...Read more
Civil Liberties and Public Policy at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA presents:
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The conference is envisioned as a virtual space for grassroots organizations, community activists, educators, students, and others committed to social and environmental justice to come together to exchange experiences/information, strengthen alliances and networks, and devise strategies to create an explicitly post-capitalist society using the “Solidarity Economy” framework.
Smith College guest lecturer Leo XL Y Fuentes Jr, will be speaking on behalf of indigenous communities in the Philippines on the water history of the Philippines from the pre-colonial era, through imperialism, and to modern day neo-colonial policies that grant water rights to corporations. Fuentes will use case...Read more
Rooted in Indigenous communities from two hemispheres but committed to building alliances across geo-political divides, Indigenous
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