October 24 & 25: events, guest speakers, and course materials

 

Wednesday, October 24 (for Wednesday class members and interested participants from our Thursday seminar group)

Our Wednesday class will be attended the inter-campus seminar session titled, “The mid-term elections: AUC edition“. 

AUC stands for Atlanta University Center (http://aucenter.edu/). This particular event is organized by our partners at Spelman College and will be taking place at the Atlanta University Center (Room 202, Robert W. Woodruff Library, located at 111 James P. Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314), on Wednesday at 5:30 pm. This event falls squarely within our scheduled class time and we expect everyone in this section to attend. 

Please click here for the event poster that has more details about location and parking. 

This time too we will be organizing a car-pool system to make sure that all of us are able to attend. I have created a simple table in Google Docs to organize this carpool. Please do take a look at it and put your names down at your earliest convenience.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8W3zqeDNQ1wQt5BWxZxNbqJrRPmEqZ-MdNnwjM0yKY/edit?usp=sharing

Suggested reading:

The following news article might offer a useful comparative point for “community defense” practices that our guest from South Bend Commons (Hunter) shared with us on October 17, 2018:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/philadelphia-juntos-community-resistance-zone-immigrant-rights-ice

 

Thursday, October 25 (for Thursday class)

Guest speaker: Estrella Sanchez

We will have a regular class session on Thursday, October 25. Estrella Sanchez has kindly agreed to return as a guest speaker for our Thursday class. In order to prepare for Estrella’s session, please read the following articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/immigration-ice-deportation-undocumented-trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/05/living-in-fear-every-single-day-as-immigration-raids-wreak-havoc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/philadelphia-juntos-community-resistance-zone-immigrant-rights-ice

IMPORTANT NOTE: APPOINTMENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

We will be setting up individual meetings with participants from the Thursday section to discuss your plans for a’field-based project’. Please use the following Doodle Poll Link to select date and time that works for you. The meeting place will be at Prof. Nugent’s office in ANT 212. Here the Doodle Poll link:

https://doodle.com/poll/pw7ew86iz8vrm4y5