Tacoma SDS

WHAT: "Iraq's Refugees"
WHO: Gerri Haynes
WHEN: Thursday, January 24, 2007 -- 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402 (253-272-8801)

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6918/

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GERRI HAYNES
At King's Books
218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma

2007- 2008 Speakers Series (free)

7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2008

"The Refugees of Iraq"

"Since 1993 I helped organize the first Washington Physicians for
Social Responsibility trip to Israel/Palestine, I have traveled at
least once (some times multiple times) each year to this region --

Past President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Gerri Haynes will speak on the plight of Iraqi refugees on Thursday, September 24th, 7pm at King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma.

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 at 7:00pm in the University Bookstore at the University of Washington in Seattle, Prof. Peter Cole, from Western Illinois University, will discuss his new book, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.

In 1907, more than two hundred South Asian migrant workers in Bellingham were attacked by a mob of white workers. In the course of one night, an entire community was driven from the town - in the approving words of a local paper, "wiped off the map". One hundred years later in 2007, hostility toward immigrants of color in Bellingham continues. Raids and detentions by government immigration agents are ongoing: so are surveillance and harassment from both government agents and groups like the minutemen. How have the events of 1907 shaped Bellingham as we know it in 2007?

As part of University of Puget Sound's annual Ecofest, Students for a Sustainable campus, Youg Democrats and SDS members will take part in a discussion about both local and national green policies and presidential candidates. Young Democrats will have a 20min presentaion on Obama.

If you can afford the outrageous ticket price ($15, $5 UPS students), go check out Angela Davis!

Angela Davis is a highly important social justice organizer, made famous by the FBI's attempts to imprison and brutalize Angela along with other black radical organizers, her work with the Black Panther Party and Communist Party, and her most recent work to abolish prisons and establish rights for those having been convicted of felonies. She also teaches as a professor of history of consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz.

Date: Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m.