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Events & Activities: Spring, 2004

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Monday
February 2
7 pm
MIT 4-231
Open Meeting (Reg. Day)



Thursday
February 5
7 pm
MIT 66-110
From Judge to Janitor
Former Colombian judge Luis Velez
tells us about his life as an immigrant



Tuesday
February 10
7 pm
MIT 4-231
Open Meeting (February)



Thursday
February 12
7 pm
MIT 66-110
Prosecuting Narco-Traffickers in Colombia
A presentation by
former Colombian judge Luis Velez



 
Tuesday
March 9
7 pm
MIT 4-231
Open Meeting (March)



 
Thursday
March 11
7 pm
MIT 10-250
Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
Kevin Knobloch (Union of Concerned Scientists)
reports on the Administration's policies and methods

Co-sponsored with Technology & Culture Forum & others



 
Sunday
March 14
2:30 pm
Off-campus
Speaking for Ourselves:
Native Voices Protecting Land and Culture

Lori Goodman & Anna Frazier (Diné CARE)

Co-sponsored with the Native Ecology Initiative & others



 
Tuesday
March 16
7 pm
MIT 66-110
Paradise in Ashes
Anthropologist Beatriz Manz looks at the
impact of civil war on one Guatemalan village

Co-sponsored with the Anthropology Program & others



 
Saturday
April 3
7 pm
Killian Hall
Tales of a Lifetime:
Brother Blue's Stories of History, Politics, & Healing


Co-sponsors: Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies,
Committee on Campus Race Relations



 
Monday
April 5
6:30 pm
Off-campus
On the Ground in Colombia:
Indigenous Responses to Conflict & Displacement

Floro Tunubala & Ludivia Giraldo Diaz

Co-sponsored with Harvard/KSG & others



 
Thursday
April 8
7 pm
Student Center
Weapons of Mass Distraction?
Music & Multimedia as an Antidote to Propaganda!

Ros Dunlop & Martin Wesley-Smith
Co-sponsored with Noam Chomsky, Alan Brody,
Amnesty International, & Cultural Survival



 
Tuesday
April 13
7 pm
MIT 4-231
Open Meeting (April)



 
Friday
April 16
7 pm
MIT 66-110
From Colombia to Salem, Massachusetts:
A Story of Coal & Conscience

A presentation by Prof. Avi Chomsky
& the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee



 
Tuesday
May 4
Noon
Afro-Mexicans from Colonial Times to the Present
Lunch with historian Ben Vinson III
(RSVP by April 25 if you are interested.)

Co-sponsored with the History Faculty



 
Tuesday
May 4
7 pm
MIT 26-100
Worse Than Ever? News & Politics in 2004
An Evening with Alex Cockburn & Noam Chomsky



 
Tuesday
May 11
7 pm
MIT 4-231
Open Meeting (May)