l'Homenatge a les persones mortes a causa de fronteres, visibles i invisibles
La Mediterrània és un cementiri. Acció de Tanquem els CIEs, simulant amb creus, cartells i altres símbols un cementiri on es veuen les cares de persones que han patit per entrar a l'Europa Fortalesa o bé han mort pel camí. Instal·lació i informació, 3 d'agost, 2014, 9h-21h, Platja de Bogatell, Barcelona.
This documentary video recollects some of the statements by the participants of the JWTC mobile workshop during our travel through South Africa, on the importance of speaking about archives of the non-racial in relation to our political struggles for social change.
Alexandre (Sasha) White, Sarah Godsell, Kelly Gillespie, Roberta Estrela D'Alva, Angela Davis, Jorge A. Campos-Tellez, Jess Auerbach, Josslyn Luckett, Achille Mbembe, Tamara Levitz, Ayana Smythe, David Theo Goldberg, Federico Navarrete, Ruha Benjamin, Ghassan Hage, Zen Marie, James McMillan, Kirk B. Sides, Tjasa Kancler
Music by Neo Muyanga, performed at the Steve Biko Centre, Ginsberg.
There are just 85 black professors out of 18,510 in the UK and the number has barely changed in eight years...
Speakers:
Professor Michael Arthur, Chair, UCL President and Provost
Dr William Ackah, Panel Member, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Lisa Amanda Palmer, Panel Member, Newman University
Dr Shirley Tate, Panel Member, University of Leeds
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias, Panel Member, UCL
Deborah Gabriel, Panel Member, Founder and CEO of Black British Academics
Aquest dissabte, en el marc de la jornada del primer aniversari del desallotjament de la nau del carrer Puigcerdà, que va celebrar-se al nou Espai de l’Immigrant del barri del Raval de Barcelona, es va presentarl’informe “Vulneracions de drets humans a la frontera sud- Melilla”. Aquest informe, elaborat per la Comissió d’Observadores de Drets Humans (CODH), posa fi a un projecte que va tenir el seu origen a la segona trobada Frontera Sud Melilla i Drets Humans, duta a terme a Melilla del 2 al 6 de juliol. La comissió ha estat formada per membres de la Campanya Estatal pel Tancament dels CIEs, la Coordinadora Estatal per la Prevenció i Denúncia de la Tortura (CPDT), el Grup d'Acció Comunitària (GAC) i l'Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans de la Universitat de Barcelona (OSPDH). L’informe, dividit en cinc àrees temàtiques, pretén posar llum a la fosca situació dels drets humans que es viu a la ciutat fronterera de Melilla. Després de la introducció feta per Ana Fornés, membre de la CODH, per explicar la fonamentació i la metodologia emprades per elaborar l'informe, la resta de membres de la comissió va exposar les diferents àrees [...]
25J. Roda de premsa (Streaming!)
Informe de la Comissió d'observadores i observadors de Drets Humans que va visitar Melilla del 3 al 6 de juliol.
Segueix la roda de premsa en streaming / Sigue la rueda de prensa en streaming:
http://tanquemelscies.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/25j-roda-de-premsa.html
The Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape invites you to the second Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Lecture in African Humanities and Letters for 2014:
Nivedita Menon (University of Delhi, India)
'Feminist Dilemmas around Sexuality and Agency'
Date: Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Time: 3 - 4:30pm
Venue: Library Auditorium, UWC
Philomena Essed and Isabel Hoving (eds.)
Dutch Racism is the first comprehensive study of its kind. The approach is unique, not comparative but relational, in unraveling the legacy of racism in the Netherlands and the (former) colonies. Authors contribute to identifying the complex ways in which racism operates in and beyond the national borders, shaped by European and global influences, and intersecting with other systems of domination. Contrary to common sense beliefs it appears that old-fashioned biological notions of “race” never disappeared. At the same time the Netherlands echoes, if not leads, a wider European trend, where offensive statements about Muslims are an everyday phenomenon. Dutch Racism challenges readers to question what happens when the moral rejection of racism looses ground [...]
by Achille Mbembe
The utopian ideal of a world free of the burden of race has powered the struggles of the oppressed since the advent of the modern age. It gave meaning and purpose to the campaigns for the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. It was central to the decolonisation struggle, the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and some of the radical attempts to change the world in the 20th century.
As racism has kept mutating, though, so have forms of intersections between race, class and gender. Although local in its manifestations, racism has always been a global phenomenon and part of its persistence is a result of its globalisation. Furthermore, the force of racism in our world stems from its capacity to mutate and to reappear constantly in ever-changing forms in the most unexpected sites of everyday life.
The weakness of most antiracist struggles is the result of our inability to keep up with the mutating structures of racism and their virulence. As racism worldwide takes on a genomic turn and is now propelled by the war on terror, various anti-migratory policies, the resurgence of compensatory forms of nationalism and mass incarceration, South Africa is caught between various contradictory processes. [...]
by Xolela Mangcu
The first comprehensive biography of an exceptional and inspirational leader who changed South African history. As leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created Black Consciousness, which has resonance to this day. His death by torture, at the hands of the police, robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Biko’s intellectual legacy cannot be overestimated.[...]