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Leonardo Cerda speaking at UW Tacoma

2008/11/20 - 12:30pm
2008/11/20 - 1:30pm
Location: 
Science Building, Room 219, University of Washington at Tacoma

Project Earth, a student-led environmental group at UWT, will be hosting Ecuadorian activist Leonardo Cerda. Leonardo Cerda is running a campaign to raise awareness about food sovereignty, indigenous resistance, and local cooperatives in the areas around the Amazon River. Cerda has been active in the environmental movement since age 14, and his story of activism will be an inspiration for people interested in climate change.

SDS Radical Film Night: Incident at Oglala

2007/09/14 - 7:30pm
2007/09/14 - 9:30pm

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing on September 14: Incident at Oglala (1992)

In 1975, armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Gunfire erupted -- a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest hunt in FBI history, three men were apprehrended. Only one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This is his story.

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