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SUMMARY:ICE Surveillance is Not Safety / La Vigilancia de ICE No es Seguridad
DESCRIPTION:During a time of escalating state violence\, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an evening of community education and resistance against automated license plate readers (ALPR) that track us and endanger migrant members of our community. At this freedom school\, we will discuss what we can do locally to secure our digital civil rights and make us safe. \n \nDoors will open at 6:00 pm\, and the event will begin at 6:30 pm / Hora: Puertas se abren a las 6:00 pm\, el evento empieza a las 6:30pm\nLocation will be sent with registration confirmation / La ubicación se enviará junto con la confirmación de registro \nWhy Freedom Schools? In the tradition of freedom and liberation schools\, the Watsonville Ethnic Studies Freedom School fosters a space of political education in the service of local communities most impacted by structural violence. We formed in response to the failure of the prior PVUSD school board to heed the community’s call to support ethnic studies. From a foundation of community knowledge\, we learn from each other and engage in collective study in order to organize for justice and enact social transformation. \nCosponsored by the Center for Racial Justice\, the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, MILPA\, the Tobera Project\, Santa Cruz Black\, People’s Aid\, Santa Cruz County Immigration Coalition\, Your Allied Rapid Response\, and Watsonville Brown Berets.
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LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon - The Future is Peace
DESCRIPTION:Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine\, both of whom have lost family in the conflict\, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy\, bloodstained land and discover the mythic\, political\, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. \nIn The Future Is Peace\, Sarah and Inon take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land. Facing competing narratives\, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred. Throughout their travels\, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much loss\, how can we ever find hope? Their answer is always the same. One cannot find hope. We must create it. \n \nAziz Abu Sarah is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is a peacebuilder\, entrepreneur\, National Geographic Explorer\, TED Fellow\, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict resolution and responsible travel. Aziz is the co-founder of MEJDI Tours\, a travel company on a mission to transform tourism into a global force of citizen diplomacy. He has won numerous awards\, including from the United Nations\, Institute of International Education\, and The Explorers Club. Aziz is consistently named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Al-Quds\, and Haaretz. \nMaoz Inon is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken on Capitol Hill\, at U.S. universities\, and the European Parliament. He has written pieces for The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Haaretz\, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East\, including the Jesus Trail\, Fauzi Azar Inn\, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands. \nDouglas Abrams is a multiple New York Times-bestselling author\, as well as an editor\, literary agent\, and film producer. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He co-wrote The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu which inspired the film MISSION: JOY. Doug served as the interviewer in the film as well as an Executive Producer. As an editor and literary agent\, he has also worked with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela\, Jody Williams\, and Elizabeth Blackburn and worked with many visionary scientists including Stephen Hawking. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aziz-abu-sarah-maoz-inon-the-future-is-peace/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Julie Wyman - The Tallest Dwarf
DESCRIPTION:The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“— a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to address health disparities in institutions and policy — and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates. \nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event \nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. \nPhotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-with-julie-wyman-the-tallest-dwarf/
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