I keep up with my politics regularly. But not full time. This afternoon I read following at CCJP Facebook site. Too late for me to attend. Sending to keep you informed on what is happening on campus.
Plus several years ago I attended similar programs at Northwestern. Faculty administrator saw I was a non-student. She didn't know if I was "pro-" or "anti-" the program. She asked me to leave before the program even started. Her reason, "Open to NU students only."
And it's my understanding that under today's environment, the campus security is watching student behavior more closely. Years ago I questioned the SJP speaker. Can't do it today. I have encounter stories of three separate events. Not related to today's, so I won't go into them now.
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Arab American Cultural Center
MENA Studies
Harris 108, Monday January 8th, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
A lecture by Nour Joudah
"Mapping as Decolonial Praxis: From Algeria to Palestine and Hawaii"
co-sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
My footnotes to above announcement.
# Israeli government will not allow Nour Joudah to enter either Israel or the West Bank.
# Today's program. i.e.; Middle East, North African. MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) as a speaker in the MENA Monday lecture series. Lunch will be served at the event.
This talk will give a glimpse into Dr. Joudah’s ongoing research and book project which focuses on how indigenous communities use mapping as an imaginative decolonial praxis. Starting with the remapping of pre- and post-independence Algeria as inspiration and a nodal point of inquiry, the study grows to a comparison of contemporary countermapping efforts for Palestine and Hawaii. These various creative processes range from archiving, the design of reconstructing destroyed villages, to the embodied imagining of protest and land restoration – all of which stand as testaments to indigenous duration.
# Algerians fought French colonialism is the 1950's. Today there are more Algerian Muslims living in France than there were French colonialist living in Algeria prior to the 1950's.
# Recently I came across a site on Hawaii. Can't find it today in a repeat search. There is a sovereignty movement in Hawaii to restore their monarchy which existed before the United States seized the islands in 1893. Gave more history than next Wikipedia.
# The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement is a grassroots political and cultural campaign to reestablish an autonomous or independent nation or kingdom of Hawaii out of a desire for sovereignty, self-determination, and self-governance. Some groups also advocate some form of redress from the United States for its 1893 overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani, and for what is described as a prolonged military occupation beginning with the 1898 annexation. The movement generally views both the overthrow and annexation as illegal.
# From searching the above topic, I discovered the University has additional programs on Israel/Palestine. Next is the URL on local activism and the Gaza Ceasefire.
Palestine 101. Building Coalitions for Justice in Gaza and Beyond. An Intergenerational Conversation.