From: mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 12:05:34 EST
props to aria for putting together this list.
larry bogad put together the "culture jamming 101"
lecture a few week ago, so if you enjoyed (or missed)
that talk, check out #1 and #2 below. if you guys
get involved in the student government stuff this
semester, please push the candidates to support
our workers' rights efforts on campus, and also to
repeal the braindead policy of senate which will not
fund our group for "political" reasons.
we have been invited to table at #4, the amnesty event
on afghanistan, as well at Jam for Justice on friday night
in the underground. please help us with this! also, eyes
on the prize (#7) is awesome.
hope to see everyone from our group out at these events!
-matt
(ps - look out for "Imp Activism", a movie, this thursday and
saturday, semi-sponsored by PWR, and JAM FOR JUSTICE III this
friday in the underground, featuring matt toups and rob cullen
of PWR in Double K.O. emails will come out later this week)
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:53:43 -0500
From: aria <alt@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: alt@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: PLS FWD: Local Currents + more
please forward this message to friends, classes, residents, etc...
AND READ ALL - WHAT A WEEK!!
1. Local Currents 8: Performance, Humor and Action, 3/19 @ 8pm, Mudge House
2. Bogad to present dissertation, Mon. 3/18 @ 4:30, CFA 303
3. Mike Morrill, Green Party Candidate to visit CMU, 3/20 @7pm, DH 2210
4. Meet the Candidates, Wed. 3/20 @ 9pm, Mudge Piano Lounge
5. Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil, 3/20 @ 5pm, McConomy
6. ULS: "Will the Circle be Unbroken?": Civil Rights in America, 3/21
Adamsion Wing
------------------ 1.
Local Currents 8: Performance, Humor, and Grassroots Action
Tuesday, March 19 @ 8pm, Mudge Piano Lounge
Larry Bogad and Karen Wood-Campbell will discuss performative and
satirical/humorous tactics in environmental and social activist work. This
will be an amazing discussion- and action-based follow up to Bogad's talk
on Monday (see below).
about the discussion leaders:
Larry Bogad (postdoctoral fellow, Center for the Arts in Society) received
his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University in June 2001.
His academic work focuses on the impact of activistand guerrilla theater;
his dissertation examined the aesthetic choices and tactics of electoral
guerrilla theatre performance artists and activists in the Netherlands,
Australia, and the United States. As a theater practitioner, he has
designed performance pieces for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, as
well as writing and directing "Haymarket," a multimedia play that recalled
the Haymarket Square riot of 1886. As an actor, he has appeared in several
award-winning independent films, as well as stage productions in New York,
Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, Santa Fe and Miami.
Karen Wood-Campbell arrived in western Oregon in 1984, as the
controversy over continued logging of old-growth forests began to heat
up. In 1987, she was arrested for blocking a logging operation in the
North Kalmiopsis Roadless Area of the Siskiyou National Forest, in
southwestern Oregon. Later that year, she worked with the first
tree-climbers in the ancient redwoods of northern California, and returned
to Eugene to start the Southern Willamette Earth First!
activist group. Over the next eight years, Southern Willamette Earth
First! became known for its lively and and often humorous protests in
western Oregon during the height of the "spotted owl controversy." Karen
also worked with other nonprofit environmental groups in Oregon,
including League of Wilderness Defenders (which she founded), and the
Siskiyou Project. In the year 2000, Karen and her family moved to
Pittsburgh to be closer to their families. Karen currently lives in the
North Hills with her husband and two young daughters, where she works at
home as a part-time bookkeeper while homeschooling her daughters. Karen
also serves on the board of the Allegheny Defense Project, a group based
in Clarion that is working to stop commercial logging, drilling and
mining in the Allegheny National Forest.
----------------------- 2.
430 PM
Monday, March 18th
CFA 303
Larry Bogad, Fellow at the Center for the Arts in Society
"Candidate Drag: The Politics and Aesthetics of Electoral Guerrilla
Theatre."
Drawing on examples from the US, Australia and the Netherlands, this talk
will define, analyze and critique a protest performance genre Bogad calls
"electoral guerrilla theatre," in which members of marginalized groups
campaign for public office using highly theatrical, satirical, and ironic
tactics.
------------------------- 3.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Progressive Student Alliance
March 14, 2002 psa@andrew.cmu.edu
AT 7:00 ON 20 MARCH, 2002, MIKE MORRILL, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR, WILL SPEAK IN CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY'S DOHERTY HALL ROOM 2210.
The Progressive Student Alliance and Carnegie Mellon's Activities Board are
sponsoring the event.
Michael Morrill has been called Pennsylvania?s only progressive choice for
governor. Mr. Morrill supports a living wage of $11 per hour, single-payer
universal healthcare, Second Amendment rights, voluntary Clean Election
funding, and channeling state economic development funding into small
businesses. He opposes the death penalty, further expansion of landfills
in Pennsylvania, and the restrictive Casey abortion laws.
A longtime citizen, environmental, and consumer advocate, Michael Morrill
has been the executive director of the Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network
(PCAN) since its founding. Before serving as executive director of PCAN, he
was the PA director of Citizen Action. Mr. Morrill served as the lead
organizer for Unity 2000, the major march and rally held on the eve of the
Republican Convention in Philadelphia on July 30. He has also served as
executive director of Pennsylvania?s Campaign for Choice, the Christian
Churches United of the Tri-County Area (Harrisburg) and the Rhode Island
Community Food Bank.
Mr. Morrill has spoken on social justice issues in 25 states and over a
dozen countries, been called to testify on working people's interests by
the U.S. Senate and numerous state legislatures, and had his written work
published in newspapers and magazines across the country. He is
considered one of Pennsylvania?s leading consumer advocates, especially on
utility issues, campaign finance reform and fair trade issues.
The Progressive Student Alliance is proud to welcome Mr. Morrill to speak
before our school. His reputation of honesty, perseverance, and civic
activity precede him. A Campus Greens affiliate, the Progressive Student
Alliance was formed in September of 2000 to promote a broad range of
progressive issues, including electoral reform, the environment, and
political participation on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
To learn more about Mr. Morrill's campaign, visit
http://www.michaelmorrill.org.
To learn more about the Progressive Student Alliance, visit
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~psa
------------------------ 4.
The Mudge House hosts MEET THE CANDIDATES wednesday march 20 at 9pm
(in the mudge piano lounge - corner fifth and morewood)
voting turn-outs are way down and students' concerns over tuition, academic
calendars, safety, and public space continue.... where do you fit in to the
picture?
on March 25-26 THE VOTE is yours, don't you want it to be informed?
learn what exactly the Student Senate, the President of the Student Body and
other officers actually DO.... meet the new candidates and most importantly:
hear about the ideals they represent and the changes they'll make - on your
behalf.
get your questions answered. make your voice heard.
and - there will be food. would we let you down like that?! so be there.
questions? email alt@andrew
-------------------------- 5.
Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil
Wednesday, March 20 @ 5pm, McConomy Auditorium
"Women were forced to comply with the discriminatory policies of the
Taliban who imposed severe restrictions on their education, employment, and
freedom of movement. Tens of thousands of women effectively remained
prisoners in their homes, with no scope to seek the removal of these
restrictions..."
-Amnesty International, Women in Afghanistan, 1999
Speakers:
Mr. Aziz Bashir - Former Afghan Government Official
Ms. Mona CAdens - Amnesty Field Organizer Afghanistan
Ms. Carol Stabile - Afghan Expert, University of Pittsburgh
jointly sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Amnesty
International, CMU Women's Center, and you Student Activities fee
questions? email sife@andrew.cmu.edu
------------------------- 6.
Thursday, March 21, Adamson (BH 136A) , 4:30
"Will the Circle be Unbroken?": Civil Rights in America
Judy Richardson, Educator, Activist, Award-Winning Filmmaker of "Eyes on
the Prize", former member of SNCC (Student Non-violence Coordinating
Committee)
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