Will Miller Social Justice Lectures
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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...
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...
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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...
Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University, Deepa Kumar is the recipient of the Dallas Smythe award for her engaged scholarship and the Georgina Smith award for her work on gender and race equity. She is recognized as a leading scholar on...
2019 marks the centenary of the murder of visionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, who fought to create a society based on justice and equality. Her legacy is very much alive in the political struggles of our own age. Three activist-scholars come...
Moustafa Bayoumi presents his talk "How Does It Feel To Be a Problem? Being Young and Muslim in America" as part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series at the Davis Center.
"Reflections on Resistance to Occupation and Colonialism on the Century of the Balfour Declaration"
Scholar Steven Salaita, author of the book "Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine" explores a century...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is an assistant professor in the African American Studies department at Princeton University. According to Taylor, the Black Lives...
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a longtime feminist, native rights, antiwar, and antiracist activist. She is a teacher and the author of five books, including "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States." This is part of the...
Dongping Han, Professor at Warren Wilson College and author of 'The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village' presents "Economic and Political Crisis in China - From the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural...
Gary Younge, Author, Broadcaster and Columnist for The Guardian and The Nation speaks to the current events in our communities. Gary Younge was born in Britain to Barbadian parents. A reporter covering Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean before...
The Canadian Tar Sands Project threatens the land and lives of communities across the continent. Clayton Thomas-Muller, member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation of Northern Manitoba and Co-Director of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, Organizer for...
With the world facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion, the desperate hunt for suppl;ies is igniting new conflicts and territorial disputes. The crucial task ahead, according to Klare, is to alter our consumption patterns...
Frances Fox Piven speaks to the wake of revolutionary upheaval across Africa and the Middle East, Occupy Wall Street bringing new generations of activists into the grass-roots struggle for social change.. Part of the Will Miller Social Justice...
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