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No New Prisons - Reimagining Communities Through Collective Organizing 03/26/2024

From the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series:

In the US there are approximately 250,000 women in jails or prisons on any given day. Join us for a special panel discussion of what it would look like to shift investment away from incarceration and into true public safety, transformation, and healing.

Speakers include Andrea James, Sashi James, Mallory Hanora, and Jayna Ahsaf.

For more information visit: https://www.willmiller.org/

Palestine, "Women and Children", and the Politics of Appeal 10/26/2023

From Haymarket Books and Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series:

Haymarket Books is proud to join the lecture series and their other co-sponsors and to provide a virtual platform for this important talk.

Mohammed El-Kurd is an award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Palestine correspondent for The Nation and a Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California. He talks about representation and misrepresentation of Palestinians in the U.S.

For more information visit: https://www.willmiller.org/

Africa Day - Africa and the International Criminal Court 05/28/2023

From the Organizer:

On May 27 and 28, 2023, Burlington was the Capital of Africa for a Weekend.

In celebration of Africa Day 2023, area groups invited professor Gnaka Lagoke for a series of discussions on Panafricanism, including the presentation of his new book: Laurent Gbagbo's Trial and the Indictment of the International Criminal Court, A Pan-African Victory, on Sunday, May 28, at the Fletcher Free Library at 3 PM.

Sponsoring groups are the Vermont Institute for Community and International Involvement (VICII), a non-profit, educational organization based in Burlington, Vermont; Toward Freedom, a news and analysis publication offering a grassroots perspective on world events and the Caroline Fund, helping women in crisis lead healthy and productive lives.

Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on May 25, 1963. It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent, as well as around the world.

Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future 03/28/2023

From the Organizer:

Capitalism is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening extinction of complex species including humanity. Kali Akuno explains how EcoSocialism offers transformation from below, employing the principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, and degrowth. www.CooperationJackson.org.

Kali Akuno is a seasoned activist, organizer, educator, and writer. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging network of worker cooperatives in Jackson MS. He is co-editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS (2017) and author of numerous articles and pamphlets.

UVM John Dewey Lecture- U.S. Education 09/17/2004

Carl Glickman - John Dewey Lecture "Progressive Education, Public Purpose, and American Education"

Prof. Will Randall Lecture: The Hamilton and Burr Duel 04/14/2004

Willard Sterne Randall

Leadership American Style: A Champlain College Lecture Series. The Duel: Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr.

Sponsored by the Champlain Heritage Society and Champlain College's Professional Studies Program.

BARBARA JORDAN LECTURE 03/27/1992

Barbara Jordan Lecture

John Burke (Chair of the Political Science Department)

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!