[amc] Fwd: NOWAR - Jane Rhodes: "Fear of a Black Planet: Race, Media and Black Power, " Winter Soldier, and more

From: Ray Gingerich <rjgingerich@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:23:26 -0600
I thought some of you might be interested in attending some of the
activities listed below. Ray

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Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM
Subject: NOWAR - Jane Rhodes: "Fear of a Black Planet: Race, Media and Black
Power, " Winter Soldier, and more
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  Hello, all. Visit http://ThirdCoastActivist
<http://thirdcoastactivist/>for an Austin area events calendar and
more.
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*Tuesday, February 24, 7 p.m.*
*Jane Rhodes, "Fear of a Black Planet: Race, Media and Black Power"*
Barack Obama's campaign brought into stark relief the continued importance
of race in the powerful relationship between mass media and the nation's
social and political culture. That was seen clearly in Obama's opponents'
strategy to highlight imagined and real links to 1960s activism -- his
connections to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former SDS leader Bill Ayers, and a
former Black Panther, Congressman Bobby Rush, among others. Rhodes' talk
will focus on black-power activism in the late 1960s and the strategic
exchanges between social movements and media institutions in that era,
paying attention to how these historical processes continue to shape
contemporary political discourse. She will discuss how this influenced
popular memories of the 1960s and of African American resistance.
Rhodes latest book is *Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a
Black Power Icon* (The New Press, 2007). She is also the author of *Mary Ann
Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century* (Indiana
University Press, 1998) and was featured in the award-winning documentary
"The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords." Rhodes is Dean for the Study of
Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester
College in Saint Paul, MN.
*Location:* UT campus, Thompson Conference Center auditorium (TCC 1.110),
map at http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/tcc.html
TCC is next to the LBJ School at Red River and Dean Keeton.
There is free convenient parking for motorists in the large lots along Red
River.

   *Saturday, February 28, 1 - 4 p.m.*
*Winter Soldier - South Central Region: Eyewitness Accounts by Iraq Veterans
Against the War*
Veterans from Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma will join
together to publicly share the experiences of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the tradition of other Winter Soldier events, live testimony, panel
discussions, along with supporting video and photographic documentation,
will focus on the human impact of war.
Winter soldiers, according to Thomas Paine, are the people who stand up for
the soul of their country, even in the darkest hours. The original "Winter
Soldier Investigation" took place in 1971, when veterans of the Vietnam War
spoke before Congress. Sponsored by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the
event was intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities committed in the
Vietnam War. In March of 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War held a national
Winter Soldier event in Baltimore, Maryland.
*Location:* Central Presbyterian Church, 200 East 8th Street.
Information: http://austinivaw.wordpress.com and 469-767-7201.

 *Tuesday, March 24, 7 p.m.*
*"Beyond the Walls: The Battle for Iraq's Future" - a screening and
discussion with Rick Rowley, Big Noise Films*
Though U.S. news media have reduced their coverage of the U.S. occupation of
Iraq, understanding the conflict is as crucial as ever for U.S. citizens.
Independent media such as Big Noise Films help fill that gap. Filmmaker Rick
Rowley will screen three short films that originally aired on Al Jazeera
English.
The films are:
"*Beyond the Wall: Inside the Sadr Movement in Iraq"*
Moqtada al Sadr and his militia, the Mehdi Army, have been America's most
intractable opponents in Iraq. But after attacks launched by the U.S. and
Iraqi military against Sadr strongholds, cease-fires were negotiated and the
Mehdi Army melted away from the streets. Has the Mehdi Army been defeated,
and is this the end of the armed Shiite resistance to the occupation?
"*Re-awakening Saddam's Tribal Strategy"*
After four years of bloody insurgency in Iraq, the course of the war changed
abruptly when America formed an alliance with a confederation of Sunni
militias known as the Awakening movement. But is the U.S. just re-empowering
the same tribal elite Saddam used to run the country? And will it lead to
long-term stability?
*"The Detention Imperative: An Inside Look at the U.S. Detention System in
Iraq"*
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been detained by the U.S., 1.5 million
Iraqis have had an immediate family member detained, and almost every Iraqi
knows someone who has been through the U.S. detention system. Few American
institutions affect the lives of ordinary Iraqis more directly and
profoundly, and once Iraqis are swept up in the system, there is no clear
way out.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Senior
Fellows honors program of the College of Communication and the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies.
*Location: *UT campus, Flawn Academic Center auditorium (FAC 21), map at
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/fac.html

 *Wednesday, April 1, 7 p.m.*
*"Airstrikes and the Airwaves: Charting the Political and Media Landscapes
in Pakistan" - a talk by Imran Aslam, president of GEO Television*
Journalists have struggled to expand press freedom as Pakistan has moved
from military to civilian rule in recent years, and critical reporting on
the Musharraf regime led to government shutdowns of the independent
television networks in 2007-08. The most prominent of those networks is GEO
Television, established in 2002. In this lecture, GEO President Imran Aslam
will discuss his network's role in that political conflict, while also
addressing the challenges in covering the current violence in Pakistan and
U.S. airstrikes in Pakistani territory.
Aslam began his journalism career as editor of The Star in the 1980s before
moving to become editor of *The News* in Karachi, where he worked in the
1990s. He also has written plays for television and is famous for his
political satires performed by the Gripps Theatre.
Responding to Aslam's talk will be Tracy Dahlby and Chris Tomlinson. Dahlby,
the director of the UT School of Journalism, served as Tokyo bureau chief
for *Newsweek *and *The Washington Post* and was managing editor of *Newsweek
International*. He is the author of the 2005 book *Allah's Torch: A Report
from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror*. Tomlinson, currently a
correspondent-at-large for the Associated Press, has served in a variety of
positions for the AP, including East Africa bureau chief. He has reported
extensively from the Middle East and Central/South Asia.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by UT's South
Asia Institute and the School of Journalism.
*Location:* UT campus, Thompson Conference Center auditorium (TCC 1.110),
map at http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/tcc.html
TCC is next to the LBJ School at Red River and Dean Keeton.
There is free convenient parking for motorists in the large lots along Red
River.


 Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public. Please
forward where appropriate.

In Solidarity,

the Nowar Collective

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