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Special Issue: Muslim Journal, Vol. 34, No.1, October 3, 2008
Tribute to Imam W. Deen Mohammed who recently died.
Special Issue: Muslim Journal, Vol. 34, No.1, October 3, 2008
Tribute to Imam W. Deen Mohammed who recently died.
E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Thursday, September 25, 2008
NEWS FROM IPS
Where Rivers Meet
Words and Music by Chilean-American Artists Francisco Letelier and Jacqueline Fuentes
Letelier Theater
3251 Prospect Street NW in Georgetown
Tuesday, October 14, 7 pm
This event is free but seating is limited. Please rsvp to: emilyh@ips-dc.org. For more details, see the web site of the Institute for Policy Studies.
The Institute for Policy Studies is honored to host this special event featuring poetry and art by Francisco Letelier and music by Jacqueline Fuentes, both Chilean-American artists based in Los Angeles. Join us as these remarkable artists create a vision of possibility through images, words and music.
Francisco Letelier is well-known for his moving visual art and public murals, as well as for his powerful spoken word poetry, which examines and celebrates struggles for human rights. He is the son of Orlando Letelier, the Chilean diplomat who was assassinated by agents of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on his way to work at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, in 1976. Francisco has carried on the legacy of Chilean culture, creating opportunities which bridge continents and disciplines.
Jacqueline Fuentes is an intense experience, a fusion of love, awareness and revolution. Audiences are mesmerized by the power of her voice and the beauty of her lyrics. The volatile political injustices of her native Chile, culminating with the 1973 coup d'etat, gave a voice to folk music and the plight of the people it represented. Jacqueline was heavily influenced by this movement and by such great artists as Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra, not only for the beauty of their music but how it had the power to move so many people. Crossing the boundaries of language, religion, and geography their music formed a collective of inspiration and solidarity.
This event is free but seating is limited. Entrance to the building is in the courtyard. See the Letelier Theater website for more information.Please RSVP to emilyh@ips-dc.org.
This performance is in honor of this year’s Letelier-Moffit Human Rights awardees, the Indian Workers Congress and Francisco Soberón and Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) of Peru for their courageous advocacy of human rights.
The 32nd Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights awards program will take place Wednesday, October 15, at the National Press Club — visit the event page for more details or to purchase tickets.
The Institute for Policy Studies has hosted this event every year since the assassination of IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt in 1976.
Sarah Anderson
Director, Global Economy Program
Institute for Policy Studies
Tel: 202 234-9382 x227
Email: saraha@igc.org
Web: www.ips-dc.org
Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Where Rivers Meet
Words and Music by Chilean-American Artists Francisco Letelier and Jacqueline Fuentes
Letelier Theater
3251 Prospect Street NW in Georgetown
Tuesday, October 14, 7 pm
This event is free but seating is limited. Please rsvp to: emilyh@ips-dc.org. For more details, see the web site of the Institute for Policy Studies.
The Institute for Policy Studies is honored to host this special event featuring poetry and art by Francisco Letelier and music by Jacqueline Fuentes, both Chilean-American artists based in Los Angeles. Join us as these remarkable artists create a vision of possibility through images, words and music.
Francisco Letelier is well-known for his moving visual art and public murals, as well as for his powerful spoken word poetry, which examines and celebrates struggles for human rights. He is the son of Orlando Letelier, the Chilean diplomat who was assassinated by agents of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on his way to work at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, in 1976. Francisco has carried on the legacy of Chilean culture, creating opportunities which bridge continents and disciplines.
Jacqueline Fuentes is an intense experience, a fusion of love, awareness and revolution. Audiences are mesmerized by the power of her voice and the beauty of her lyrics. The volatile political injustices of her native Chile, culminating with the 1973 coup d'etat, gave a voice to folk music and the plight of the people it represented. Jacqueline was heavily influenced by this movement and by such great artists as Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra, not only for the beauty of their music but how it had the power to move so many people. Crossing the boundaries of language, religion, and geography their music formed a collective of inspiration and solidarity.
This event is free but seating is limited. Entrance to the building is in the courtyard. See the Letelier Theater website for more information.Please RSVP to emilyh@ips-dc.org.
This performance is in honor of this year’s Letelier-Moffit Human Rights awardees, the Indian Workers Congress and Francisco Soberón and Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) of Peru for their courageous advocacy of human rights.
The 32nd Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights awards program will take place Wednesday, October 15, at the National Press Club — visit the event page for more details or to purchase tickets.
The Institute for Policy Studies has hosted this event every year since the assassination of IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt in 1976.
Sarah Anderson
Director, Global Economy Program
Institute for Policy Studies
Tel: 202 234-9382 x227
Email: saraha@igc.org
Web: www.ips-dc.org
Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
The Palin Watch:
McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, was canceling her limited campaign events. She told the "CBS Evening News" that the country could be headed for another Great Depression if Congress doesn't reach a solution.
How limited? Very limited. Will Alaska be spared the Depression if we pray?
Reminder:
The Department of Afro-American Studies Howard University
PANEL DISCUSSION OF NOVELIST RICHARD WRIGHT'S LIFE AND WORK.
Discussants: Dr. James A. Miller and Dr. Michele Simms-Burton
Moderator: E. Ethelbert Miller
Thursday, September 25, 2008
4:00PM-6:00PM
The Browsing Room
Founders Library
For additional information: 202 806-7242.
The Department of Afro-American Studies Howard University
PANEL DISCUSSION OF NOVELIST RICHARD WRIGHT'S LIFE AND WORK.
Discussants: Dr. James A. Miller and Dr. Michele Simms-Burton
Moderator: E. Ethelbert Miller
Thursday, September 25, 2008
4:00PM-6:00PM
The Browsing Room
Founders Library
For additional information: 202 806-7242.
Quote of the Day:
In the past few days, Obama has had the demeanor of a man who fell out a window and landed on a trampoline; McCain has looked like someone who thought he had won the lottery only to discover, en route to the prize ceremony, that he had been sold a phony ticket.
- John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 29, 2008.
In the past few days, Obama has had the demeanor of a man who fell out a window and landed on a trampoline; McCain has looked like someone who thought he had won the lottery only to discover, en route to the prize ceremony, that he had been sold a phony ticket.
- John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 29, 2008.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The World of Poetry According to ?
Maybe one day when I'm my mother's age I'll be invited to The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival for a reading. The festival is this weekend (September 25-28) in Waterloo Village -Stanhope, New Jersey.
Tickets and complete program at
www.dodgepoetryfestival.org
Maybe one day when I'm my mother's age I'll be invited to The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival for a reading. The festival is this weekend (September 25-28) in Waterloo Village -Stanhope, New Jersey.
Tickets and complete program at
www.dodgepoetryfestival.org
Politics:
McCain looked so silly today. It was an Al Haig moment. Impulsive to a fault. Suspending his campaign and rushing back to Washington. What is this guy going to do? Stop at Ben's on U and grab a hot dog? McCain is only a senator. No one elected him president of anything. Shouldn't he be also thinking about North Korea tonight?
Obama got it right when he mentioned how a president has to deal with multiple issues at one time. OK - should we vote right now? Obama 08.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
University of the District of Columbia Fall “Literature Live” Series
The University of the District of Columbia will present two literary programs as part of the “Literature Live” Reading Series.
On Thursday, October 2nd, U.D.C. Writer-in-Residence Marita Golden will deliver a lecture:
“Why We Read Why We Write.”
Professor Golden will discuss her reading and writing life and her interviews with a dozen African-American writers from Dr. John Hope Franklin and Nikki Giovanni to Nathan McCall and J. California Cooper on how writing and reading shaped their personal and professional in their lives.
On Thursday November 6th poet Dwayne Betts will read from his forthcoming memoir
“A Question of Freedom.” The reading will be followed by a panel discussion about the high rates of Black male incarceration and ways to prevent imprisonment and recidivism.
Both presentations will be held at 7 pm in building 41 A-03 on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia
U.D.C. is located at 4200 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008
For more information call 202-274-5553
The University of the District of Columbia will present two literary programs as part of the “Literature Live” Reading Series.
On Thursday, October 2nd, U.D.C. Writer-in-Residence Marita Golden will deliver a lecture:
“Why We Read Why We Write.”
Professor Golden will discuss her reading and writing life and her interviews with a dozen African-American writers from Dr. John Hope Franklin and Nikki Giovanni to Nathan McCall and J. California Cooper on how writing and reading shaped their personal and professional in their lives.
On Thursday November 6th poet Dwayne Betts will read from his forthcoming memoir
“A Question of Freedom.” The reading will be followed by a panel discussion about the high rates of Black male incarceration and ways to prevent imprisonment and recidivism.
Both presentations will be held at 7 pm in building 41 A-03 on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia
U.D.C. is located at 4200 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008
For more information call 202-274-5553
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONFERENCE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
“Evolutionary Momentum in African American Studies—
Legacy and Future Direction”
A Conference in Honor of Professor Winston Napier
1953-2008
On February 27-28, 2009, Clark University will host a conference in honor of Professor Winston Napier. We are writing to you, as previous participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series at Clark, to invite your participation in this conference.
The focus of the conference is to honor Professor Napier’s passion for the contributions of African American intellectual culture to advancing and broadening the study of Blacks in America, to deepening our understanding of race through the lenses of humanities, and to laying a sophisticated and multi-faceted groundwork for social and political action. As the founder of the African Intellectual Culture Series (AAICS) at Clark, Professor Napier set in motion and oversaw a decade-long annual lecture series that drew prominent scholars and artists to Clark.
We seek the participation of former participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series to form the core for panels at the conference. We envision a conference that reaches to the past and articulates priorities for future study and that encompasses the broad span of intellectual inquiry and creativity that has characterized the AAICS. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. Karla F.C. Holloway, who is the James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. Dr. Holloway was an AAICS participant in 1998.
The Saturday session for the conference will include a series of panels on topics related to the conference theme. The topics for the panels are yet very general, but the following list will give you an idea of what we have in mind. We are, however, flexible and will work to arrange panels around themes and topics of interest to those who would like to participate.
1. Opening panel: “The Role of the Intellectual in African American Culture”
2. Literary Theory and African American Studies
3. Explorations of Gender Identity and African American Culture
4. Historical Legacy of Black Arts
5. Bridges to/from African American Studies and other disciplines
We are now in the process of organizing the conference and preparing the schedule of events. It would be helpful to hear from you by October 6 if you would like to participate. Please provide a brief statement describing the topic/theme on which you would like to speak. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to write to either of us.
Fern Johnson and Stephen Levin
Department of English, Clark University
fjohnson@clarku.edu
slevin@clarku.edu
“Evolutionary Momentum in African American Studies—
Legacy and Future Direction”
A Conference in Honor of Professor Winston Napier
1953-2008
On February 27-28, 2009, Clark University will host a conference in honor of Professor Winston Napier. We are writing to you, as previous participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series at Clark, to invite your participation in this conference.
The focus of the conference is to honor Professor Napier’s passion for the contributions of African American intellectual culture to advancing and broadening the study of Blacks in America, to deepening our understanding of race through the lenses of humanities, and to laying a sophisticated and multi-faceted groundwork for social and political action. As the founder of the African Intellectual Culture Series (AAICS) at Clark, Professor Napier set in motion and oversaw a decade-long annual lecture series that drew prominent scholars and artists to Clark.
We seek the participation of former participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series to form the core for panels at the conference. We envision a conference that reaches to the past and articulates priorities for future study and that encompasses the broad span of intellectual inquiry and creativity that has characterized the AAICS. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. Karla F.C. Holloway, who is the James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. Dr. Holloway was an AAICS participant in 1998.
The Saturday session for the conference will include a series of panels on topics related to the conference theme. The topics for the panels are yet very general, but the following list will give you an idea of what we have in mind. We are, however, flexible and will work to arrange panels around themes and topics of interest to those who would like to participate.
1. Opening panel: “The Role of the Intellectual in African American Culture”
2. Literary Theory and African American Studies
3. Explorations of Gender Identity and African American Culture
4. Historical Legacy of Black Arts
5. Bridges to/from African American Studies and other disciplines
We are now in the process of organizing the conference and preparing the schedule of events. It would be helpful to hear from you by October 6 if you would like to participate. Please provide a brief statement describing the topic/theme on which you would like to speak. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to write to either of us.
Fern Johnson and Stephen Levin
Department of English, Clark University
fjohnson@clarku.edu
slevin@clarku.edu
EDITORIAL - THE NEW YORK TIMES 9/23/08
The proposal , which is now being negotiated with Congressional leaders, would give the Treasury secretary the authority to buy any assets from any financial institution at any price that he deemed necessary to provide stability to the financial markets. And it asserts that neither the courts nor any administrative agency would be allowed to question or review those decisions.
We've seen this kind of over-reaching from the Bush administration before. It has usurped far too many powers under a banner of urgency - think wiretapping - and abused those powers. Now, Congress and the American people are being told that unless they quickly approve sweeping executive powers for the bailout, capitalism may collapse. Even if this administration weren't so untrustworthy, rushing ahead would be a bad idea.
The proposal , which is now being negotiated with Congressional leaders, would give the Treasury secretary the authority to buy any assets from any financial institution at any price that he deemed necessary to provide stability to the financial markets. And it asserts that neither the courts nor any administrative agency would be allowed to question or review those decisions.
We've seen this kind of over-reaching from the Bush administration before. It has usurped far too many powers under a banner of urgency - think wiretapping - and abused those powers. Now, Congress and the American people are being told that unless they quickly approve sweeping executive powers for the bailout, capitalism may collapse. Even if this administration weren't so untrustworthy, rushing ahead would be a bad idea.
In the words of Brent Staples:
Mr. Obama seems to understand that he is always an utterance away from a statement - or a phrase - that could transform him in a campaign ad from the affable, rational and racially ambiguous candidate into the archetypical angry black man who scares off the white vote.
His caution is evident from the way he sifts and searches the language as he speaks, stepping around words that might push him into the danger zone.
These maneuvers are often painful to watch. The troubling part is that they are necessary.
The New York Times, September 22, 2008.
Mr. Obama seems to understand that he is always an utterance away from a statement - or a phrase - that could transform him in a campaign ad from the affable, rational and racially ambiguous candidate into the archetypical angry black man who scares off the white vote.
His caution is evident from the way he sifts and searches the language as he speaks, stepping around words that might push him into the danger zone.
These maneuvers are often painful to watch. The troubling part is that they are necessary.
The New York Times, September 22, 2008.