Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:55:42 +0900
Subject: Re:reading list ideas
Re: reading list ideas
Add to Denise CUthbert's recommendation the newly published and
comprehensive anthology of Aboriginal life writing, Indigenous Austrlaian
Voices: A Reader (edited by Jennifer Sabbioni. Kay Schaffer and Smdonie
Smith, Rutgers University Press) and, on a European front, the critical
reader, Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in
Contemporary Europe (with Gisela Brinker-Gabler, University of Minnesota
Press, 1997) and De/Colonizing the Subject: Gender and the Politics of
Women's Autobiography (with Julia Watson for the University of Minnesota
Press in 1992).
Yours,
Kay Schaffer
At 02:10 PM 8/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>postcolonial-digest Sunday, August 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 1028
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> "Melanee D. Grondahl" reading list ideas
> Denise Cuthbert Re: reading list ideas
> srath-AT-pilot.lsus.edu Theory at the End of the Millennium, Dec 16-18, 19
> "bob brown" FW: National Alert to LGBTST communities-please po
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>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Melanee D. Grondahl" <melanee-AT-mail.csuchico.edu>
>Subject: reading list ideas
>
>I am a graduate student, embarking on an independent study this semester
>on Post-Colonial Literature and Life Writing. I need to compile a reading
>list that is appropriate for my study, but have few ideas of books that
>would address the issues I'm studying. Does anyone have any suggestions of
>books that speak of the immergence and repression of multiple selves
>through immigration? It would be wonderful to find this topic in letter,
>journal, autobiography, biography or diary form. I am currently comparing
>Mukherjee's Holder of the World and Jasmine on this same subject minus the
>Life Writing angle. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Melanee
>
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>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:38:12 +1000
>From: Denise Cuthbert <Denise.Cuthbert-AT-arts.monash.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: reading list ideas
>
>Melanee --
>
>While not taking up the issue of immigration but rather dispossession,
>Australian Aboriginal women's life writing is a rich and growing field of
>indigenous cultural production. A basic but good place to start is Anne
>Brewster's Aboriginal Women's Autobiography. Sydney University Press, 1996.
>
>Denise Cuthbert
>
>"Melanee D. Grondahl" wrote:
>
>> I am a graduate student, embarking on an independent study this semester
>> on Post-Colonial Literature and Life Writing. I need to compile a reading
>> list that is appropriate for my study, but have few ideas of books that
>> would address the issues I'm studying. Does anyone have any suggestions of
>> books that speak of the immergence and repression of multiple selves
>> through immigration? It would be wonderful to find this topic in letter,
>> journal, autobiography, biography or diary form. I am currently comparing
>> Mukherjee's Holder of the World and Jasmine on this same subject minus the
>> Life Writing angle. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Melanee
>>
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>Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:49:53 -0500
>From: srath-AT-pilot.lsus.edu
>Subject: Theory at the End of the Millennium, Dec 16-18, 1999, Goa
>
>From: Sura P. Rath <srath-AT-pilot.lsus.edu>
>To: Poco List
>Date: 21 August 1999
>Subject: Conference program "Theory at the End of the Millennium"
> December 16-18, 1999 University of Goa (India)
>
>Theory at the End of the Millennium
>Second Annual Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory
>University of Goa, 16-18 December 1999
>Preliminary Program
>
>Thursday 16 December 1999
>Session 1 (9:00-10:15 A.M.)
>A. Postmodernism
>Chair:
>1. "Enemies of the Text: Art/Essentialism/Experiential Thisness in
>Gardner/Barth/Barthelme/Robbe-Grillet" G. Timothy Gordon, Providence
>College (Taiwan)
>2. "DeLillo's Challenge to Theory" David Cowart, (USA)
>3. "Counter-hegemonic Practices" Gad Horowitz, University of Toronto
>(Canada)
>
>B. Boundaries of State: Nationalism
> Chair:
>1. "Scientific Utopia: A Wonderful Impossibility" George Waddington,
>University of Texas-Austin (USA)
>2. "Ethnonationalism: Politics, Identity, Desire" Stevan Vukovic,
>Akademieplein (The Netherlands)
>3. "Geographies of Identity" Christine Williams, University of
>Technology, Sydney (Australia)
>
>Session 2 (10:30-12:00 noon)
> A. Ecocriticism: Theorizing the Environment
>Chair:
>1. "Ecocriticism and Poetic Ecology" Helena Feder, Boston College (USA)
>2. "Risk Society: Constructions of Environment" Vian Bakir, Falmouth
>College of Arts (UK)
>3. "From Spatial Totalitarianism to Contextual Discourse and Place: A
>Re-reading of the Transgression of Boundaries in e.e.cummings's Poetry,
>from the perspective of Ecocriticism" J. Etienne Terblanche,
>University of Che (South Africa)
>
>B. Sexuality/Gender
>Chair:
>1. "Denial of Sexuality and Gender Roles in Doris Lessing's The Grass
>is Singing" Meral Cileli, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
>(Turkey)
>2. "Slavery and Religion in the Mapping of the Indian Ocean `World'"
>Shobana Shankar, University of California-Los Angeles (USA)
>3. Gendering Nationalism, Engendering Communalism: Sexuality and
>Identity in Raja Rao's Kanthapura" Anshuman Mondal, University of
>London (UK)
>
>12 noon-1:30 P.M. Lunch
>
>Session 3 (1:30-2:45 p.m.)
>A. Gender/Desire
>Chair:
>1. "Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Transnational Marital Fixes"
> Geeta Patel, Wellesley College (USA)
>2. "Queer Desire: Postcolonial Satire" Anindya Roy, Colby College (USA)
>3. Geopathologies of Postcolonial Desire: Foreclosing the Lesbian in
>Deepa Mehta's Fire" Anjali Arondekar, Smith College (USA)
>4. Respondent: Kath Weston, Arizona State University (USA)
>
>B. Women in Development
>Chair:
>1. "Unsettling Scenarios: Approaching Development, Environment, and
>Gender Differently" Priya Kuriyan and David McKie, University of
>Waikato (New Zealand)
>2. "The State and Ideology of Development in the Twenty-first Century:
>Implications for Women's Citizenship in India" Rachel Simon Kumar,
>University of Waikato (New Zealand)
>3. "Gendered Narratives of Sikh Nationalism: A Comparative Feminist
>Reading" Harveen Sachdev Mann, Loyola University of Chicago (USA)
>4. "Sati, Sweatshops, Binthies, and Menthies: The Production and
>Consumption of South Asian Women" Nirmal Puwar, Leicester University
>(UK)
>
>Session 4 (3:00-4:15 p.m.)
>A. Identities
>Chair:
>1. "Appropriate Subversion: Postcolonial Contexts and Potentiated Gay
>Identity Politics in India" Maya Singh Dodd and Eric Tribunella,
>University of Florida (USA)
>2. "Framing the Floating World: Bessie Head's A Question of Power
>(1974)" Robert Burton, California State University-Chico (USA)
>3. "Lewinsky's Mouth and the Fragmentation of Identity" Steven Carr,
>Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (USA)
>
>B. Sexualities, Genders, Cultures: Framing the Postcolonial Subject I
>Chair:
>1. "Bauhaus Dream-House: War and the Crisis of Imperial Masculinity"
>Katerina Ruedi,, University of Illinois-Chicago (USA)
>2. "Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Cultural Studies in the North"
>Paul Smith (USA)
>3. "Miscegenations: Matisse's Blue Nude and the Deconstruction of
>Difference" Alastair Wright, Richmond University, London (UK)
>
>Session 5 (4:30-5:45 p.m.)
>A. Sexualities, Genders, Cultures: Framing the Postcolonial Subject II
>Chair:
>1. "Engendering Deviance: Sexuality, Cultural Politics, and the
>Impossibility of Representation" Sudeep Dasgupta, Amsterdam School of
>Communications Research (The Netherlands)
>2. "Growing Up Between Feminine Personal or Cultural Identity" Antonia
>Navarro-Tejeero, Universidad de Huelva (Spain)
>3. "Cliffhanger: Lynching and Sexuality/Feminism and Race" Meredith
>Miller, University of Sussex (UK)
>
>B. Postcolonialism/Imperialism
>Chair:
>1. "Antoinette's Victimization [Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea]" Nursel
>Icoz, Middle Eastern Technological University (Turkey)
>2. "Subversion in Women's Fiction: The Presentations of Power Relations
>and Alienation in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Jean
>Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea" U. Jayachandran, Eastern Cape (South Africa)
>3. "How Useful is Postcolonial Theory in the Korean Context?" Jongmi
>Kim, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
>
>
>Friday, 17 December 1999
>Session 6 (8:30-9:45 a.m.)
>A. Sexualities, Genders, Cultures: Framing the Postcolonial Subject III
>Chair:
>1. "Queering Queer Theory: At the Intersection of Class and Sexuality"
>Vivyan Adair and Dzu Vien Bui, Hamilton College, New York (USA)
>2. "Law and the Postcolonial Queer Subject in South Asia: Mapping New
>Terrain" Sonia Kumari Katyal, Independent Scholar (USA)
>3. "Pasolini and the Scandalous Body of the Scapegoat" Maurizio Viano,
>Wellesley College (USA)
>
> B. Culture/Trade
> Chair
>1. "Indian Ocean Stories" Devleena Ghosh and Stephen Muecke, University
>of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
>2. "The Politics of dancing: Deconstructing jouissance" Jeremy Gilbert,
>University of East London (UK)
>3. "Trading in Genes: Colonialism and the Capitalization of Human
>Biology" Julia Ravell, Curtin University (Australia)
>
>Session 7 (10:00-11:15 a.m.)
> A. Postcolonial feminism
> Chair:
>1. "Bidding Women Hold Their Tongues: A Postcolonial and Black Feminist
>Critique of Nation, Narration, and Postcolonialism" Namita Goswami,
>Emory University (USA)
>2. "Relocating Asian American Education: At the Intersection of
>Postcolonialism and Feminist Theory" Nina Asher, Louisiana State
>University-Baton Rouge (USA)
>3. "Fast Feminism" Shannon Bell, York University (Canada)
>
>A. Travel/Tourism/Cultural Politics
>Chair:
>1. "Under the Volcanoes: Sex Tourism in Erskine Lane's Game Texts"
>Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa (USA)
>2. "Practice, Power, and the Politics of Place: Music Tourism vs.
>Intellectual Nationalism in Goa" Arun Saldanha,, Free University of
>Brussels (Belgium)
>3. "Twenty-first Century Imperial Lathers: Colonial Soaps, Western
>Complexions, and the Public Relations Spin Cycle" Debashish Munshi,
>University of Waikato (New Zealand)
>4. "Travel for Religion: Geographic Movement and Community Formation"
>Sondra L. Hausner, Cornell University (USA)
>
>Session 8 (11:30-12:45 p.m.)
> A. Theorizing Space: Architecture
>Chair:
>1. "Validity of the Theory of Place in Relation to Architecture" Rajiv
>Wanasundera, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
>2. "Signifying Space for a Contemporary Architectural Thought" Meghal
>Arya, Ahmedabad (India)
>3. "Translations from Text to Space" Aarti Kanekar, Georgia Tech
>University (USA)
>4. "The Post-Secular Nose: Religious Difference and the Territories of
>the Body" Amardeep Singh, Duke University (USA)
>
>B. Cyberculture/Film
>Chair:
>1. Going Native: The Y2K `Bug' and Cybercultural Fantasies of the
>Primitive" Terry Harpold and Kavita Philips, Georgia Institute of
>Technology (USA)
>2. "The Placement of Asian Americans as the `Feminized Other': A
>Political Pawn to Create Binary" Rita Verma, University of
>Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
>3. "Locating Aesthetics: The Geopolitics of Film Theory, Sexual
>Difference, and the Postcolonial Nation" Ashwani Sharma, University of
>East London (UK)
>12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch
>
>Session 9 (2:00-3:15 p.m.)
>A. Global/Local: Constructions of Nationhood
>Chair:
>1. "Theorizing Terrorism: Anti-American Violence and Globalization in
>the Neocolonial Frame" Zahid Chaudhary, Cornell University (USA)
>2. "Loving Haunted Spaces: Ramgopal Verma's Rath/Night and Ipeyi/Ghost"
>Lalitha Gopalan, Georgetown University (USA)
>3.
>
>
>B. Representations of Male/Female Bodies
>Chair:
>1. "Muscularity and Its Ramifications: Mimetic Male Bodies in Indian
>Mass Culture" Kajri Jain, University of Sydney (Australia)
>2. "`I Feel a Little Discombobulated': Female Troubles in Pulp Fiction
>and Mystery Train" Hilary Johnson, Wellesley College (USA)
>3. "Songs and Sexuality in Hindi Cinema" Monika Mehta, University of
>Minnesota (USA)
>
>Session 10 (3:30-5:00 p.m.)
>A. Locations of Culture
>Chair:
>1. "[Re/Dis]Locations of Culture: Photographs and Poems of a Goan
>Indian" Brian Mendonca, Oxford University Press (India)
>2. "Multimodality of Culture and Intertextuality: Transgression of
>Boundaries" Mikko Lehtonen (Finland)
>3. "Critical Multiculturalism: crossing borders of difference?" Sanjay
>Sharma, University of East London (UK)
>
>B. Identities
>Chair:
>1. "When Education = Loss of Femininity and Womanhood: Political
>Awareness and the Art of Being a Woman [in Manju Kapur's Difficult
>Daughters]" Rashmi Ramachandran, University of Louisville (USA)
>2. "Laxmi Kannan's India Gate: The Need for a Polyvocal Feminist
>Criticism" Lalita Ramamurthy, All Saints College, Trivandrum (India)
>3. "Amanat's Indar Sabha: Constructing Hybrid Identities on the 19th
>Century Hindi-Urdu Stage" Afroz Taj,, North Carolina State University
>(USA)
>4. "Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute Actresses of the Late 19th
>Century Bengali Theatre" Sudipto Chatterjee, Tufts University (USA)
>
> Saturday, 18 December 1999
>Session 11 (8:30-9:45 a.m.)
>A. Theorizing Business Strategy
>Chair: Sam Hariharan, University of Southern California
>1. "Nationalism vs. Globalism: Strategy Dialogues in an Era of
>Globalization" Sam Hariharan, University of Southern California (USA)
>2. "Collaborative Dialogues in Innovation" Arivind Bhambri, University
>of Southern California (USA)
>3. "Dialogues in Creativity" Prasad Subramaniam, Capital Inc., New
>Delhi (India)
>
>B. Theorizing History/Historicity
>Chair:
>1. "1948/1998: Periodizing Black Britain" James Proctor, University of
>Stirling (Scotland)
>2. "Shifting Theoretical categories and Reevaluation of Authors"
>Richard Serrano, Rutgers University (USA)
>3. "Re-Placing the Race/Sexuality Nexus in Colonial and Postcolonial
>Discourse Studies" Henry Schwartz, Georgetown University (USA)
>
>Session 12 (10:00-11:15 a.m.)
>A. Colonial Encounters
>Chair:
>1. "The Language of Nations and Nation's Languages" Sarah McKibben,
>Cornell University (USA)
>2. "Cross-Cultural Colonial Encounter as a Shamanic Mystery: The Case
>of `Karain: A Memory' by Joseph Conrad" Wieslaw Krajka, Marie
>Curie-Sklodovska University (Poland)
>3. "National Literatures and the Process of Globalization" Manuel
>Frias Martins, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
>
>B. International Trade(s) Queer masculinities East and West, High and
>Low
>Chairs: Richard Cante, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Thomas Waugh, Concordia University, Montreal
>1. "Subcontinentally Queer vs. Homosexually Coloured: Inside/Outside
>Views of a Writer" R. Raj Rao, University of Pune (India)
>2. "Homosociality, Homoeroticism, Autoeroticism in Recent Indian
>Parallel Cinema" Thomas Waugh, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada)
>3. "The World of All-Male Video Porn: A Primer in Textual and
>Geopoliticalk Economies" Richard C. Cante, University of North
>Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
>4. "Pornoeschatology (of the Second World), Or, Dreaming of Communism
>with Giorgio Agamben" Cesare Casarino, University of Minnesota (USA)
>
>
>
>Session 13 (11:30-12:45 p.m.)
>A. Humanism
>Chair:
>1. "Late Humanism: Orientalism at the Millennium" Anthony
>Alessandrini,, Rutgers University (USA)
>2. "An Ethical Antihumanism? Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask"
>Samir Dayal, Bentley College (USA)
>3. "The Orientalization of Memory in the Work of Michael Ondaatje"
>Christina Faulk, Australian National University (Australia)
>4. International Penetrability of Aesthetically Relevant Texts of
>Culture as a problem of Aesthetics" G. I. Bogin, Tver (Russia)
>
>B. Questions of Identity
>Chair:
>1. "Whiteness and the Topical assignation of Race" Joseph Pugliese,
>University of Wollongong (Australia)
>2. "Otherness Unbound: From Wuthering Heights to La Migration des
>Coeurs" Laryssa Mykyta, North Carolina State University (USA)
>3. "Quest for Identity: A Socio-Geographical Perspective" T. S.
>Chandra Mouli, Hyderabad (India)
>
>12:45-2:00 P.M. Lunch
>
>Session 14 (2:00-3:15 p.m.)
>A. Representations
>Chair:
>1. "Sikh Women, Nationalism, and gender in Bhisam Sahni's Tamas,
>Khuswant Singh's Train to Pakistan, and Gulzar's Maachis" Jaspal Kaur
>Singh, University of California-Los Angeles (USA)
>2. "La Malinche: Signified in Mexican Culture" David Shoemaker,
>University of Maine (USA)
>3. "Riding on a White Horse to the World Trade Center: The Problematic
>Eroticization of India and Indian Weddings in the U.S." Rachana
>Sachdev, Susquehanna University (USA)
>
>B. Questioning Theory
>Chair:
>1. "The Paradox of Theory: Literary Theory as the New Canon" Michael
>Mahin, Claremont Graduate University (USA)
>2. "Boundary Policing: Academic Journals, Business Organizations, and
>Social Issues" David McKie, University of Waikato (New Zealand)
>3. "return to Sources of Philosophy" Olexiy Bilyk, Pedagogical
>Institute of Berdyansk, and Yaroslav Bilyk, Kharkiv State University
>(Ukraine)
>
>For information:
>Sura Rath
>Louisiana State University in Shreveport
>Phone/Fax: 318-797-5296
>srath-AT-pilot.lsus.edu
>
>
>
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>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:09:14 -0400
>From: "bob brown" <vacirca-AT-charm.net>
>Subject: FW: National Alert to LGBTST communities-please post widely
>
>"solidarity means sharing the same risks" - Che
>( la solidarita significa correre gli stessi rischi)
>
>- ----------
>From: "bob brown" <vacirca-AT-charm.net>
>To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out <M-Fem-AT-csf.colorado.edu>
>Subject: FW: National Alert to LGBTST communities-please post widely
>Date: Sat, Aug 21, 1999, 11:44 AM
>
>
>
>"solidarity means sharing the same risks" - Che
>( la solidarita significa correre gli stessi rischi)
>
>- ----------
>From: "RainbowFlags4 Mumia" <rainbows4mumia-AT-hotmail.com>
>To: rainbows4mumia-AT-hotmail.com
>Subject: National Alert to LGBTST communities-please post widely
>Date: Fri, Aug 20, 1999, 11:16 PM
>
>
>
>National Emergency Alert from Rainbow Flags for Mumia
>Lesbians, Gay, Bi, Two-Spirit, and Trans People for Mumia Abu-Jamal
>39 West 14 St., #206, New York, NY 10011, Phone: (212) 633-6646, Fax: (212)>
>633-2889
>Web: http://www.peoplescampaign.org Email: rainbows4mumia-AT-hotmail.com
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>According to the Philadelphia Daily News, there is a possibility that
>Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge could sign a new death warrant for
>African-American journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal as early>
>as August 1999. We are writing to alert every progressive lesbian, gay,
>bi, and trans organization and activist to this very serious threat to
>Mumia=92s life.
>
>Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther and a lifelong fighter against
>racism, repression and police brutality. He is a widely published author an>d
>
>radio commentator who is known as the =93voice of the voiceless.=94
>
>As lesbians, gay men, bisexuals two-spirit and trans peoples, we experience>
>first-hand police brutality and repression--from raids in trans and gay bar>s
>
>to the police attacks and brutality against us. We understand what it means>
>to be harassed, arrested, and jailed for just being who we are. But Mumia>
>Abu-Jamal is not only an activist against racism and police brutality, he
>has also come out against the violence against our communities.
>=93The sickening attacks on gay people in cities across the nation
recently i>s
>
>a reflection of the sickness that simmers at the core of the American soul.>
>Is it a coincidence that Richmond, the city where a Black man was burned to>
>death and decapitated, follows several months later with the decapitation
>and torture of a gay man? I think not.
>This cruel and savage violence must be stopped -but it won't be the cops
>that stop it.
>The people are the solution! So my thanks to the Rainbow! Ona Move! =93
>Mumia Abu-Jamal (March 18, 1999)
>
>The execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal would be the killing of a political
>activist with State sanction. It would be a green light to right-wing force>s
>
>that provoke attacks like those against James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Billy
>Jack Gaither in Alabama, Rita Hesser in Boston, and Edward Northingham in
>Richmond.
>
>We are calling on all sectors of the LGBTST community to plan and
>participate in activities for Mumia Awareness Week, September 19-25, 1999,
>to mount a national emergency response to the anticipated signing of new
>death warrant. Already scheduled activities include the September 21st
>=93International Youth and Student Day for Mumia=94 and =93A Day of
Actions in 10>0
>
>Cities=94 on Saturday, September 25th.
>Rainbows Flags for Mumia, is a coalition of over 200 organizations and
>individuals of the lesbian, gay, bi, two-spirit and trans people who are
>organizing to stop the execution and to demand a new trial for Mumia
>Abu-Jamal. On April 24th, over 1,000 LGBTST activists representing over 25>
>cities and colleges marched in Philadephia and San Francisco at the Million>s
>
>for Mumia demonstrations. Rainbow Flags for Mumia also organized contingent>s
>
>and activities during the Pride celebrations in over seven cities across th>e
>
>country.
>
>Endorsers of April 24th included The National Lesbian and Gay Task Force,
>African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change, Pride At Work,
>Urvashi Vaid, Intl. Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, The Natl.
>Latina/o LGBT Organization, Jewell Gomez, Nancy Nangeroni, Transgenders
>United for Equality, Housing Works, Inc., Southerners for New Ground,
>Jessica Xaiver, Morris Kight, and The NYC Anti-Violence Project.
>
>Enclosed is the Mumia Awareness Week national call. In this critical and
>decisive moment, we are urging for the participation and support of the
>LGBTST community in Mumia Awareness Week, September 19-25 1999.
>
>Together, we can strike a blow against anti-gay and trans violence.
>Together, we can stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
>
>Sincerely,
>David Acosta
>Scott Berry
>Leslie Feinberg
>Mandy Carter
>Jesse Heiwa
>Joo-Hyun Kang
>Minnie Bruce Pratt
>Barbara Smith
>
>
>
>
>
>
>A Call to Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal
>
>Mumia Awareness Week
>
>SEPTEMBER 19-25 1999 AWARENESS
>
>There is a growing awareness that the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is a travesty>
>of justice. His case has become the focus of a growing international
>movement. The issues bound up in this case include the death penalty, racia>l
>
>bias in the U.S. criminal justice system, and the punishment of political
>dissent. Where people stand on this case has become a benchmark of where
>they stand on social justice.
>
>The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in the federal courts. This is the year
>of decision. Hence we call for a week for justice, September 19-25, to
>prevent an unjust execution from putting a stain on society for decades to
>come. To project the questions surrounding this case onto a national scale,>
>we call on all people and organizations concerned with justice and human
>rights to examine this case, to develop plans and materials, to take up thi>s
>
>issue to their communities and constituencies, and to make plans to
>contribute to this week for justice.
>
>This week will include a wide variety of national and local initiatives
>around Mumia's case, culminating in a day of activities in 100 cities. The
>effect will be to make this case, and the issues bound up in it, into a
>household word and a political dividing line in the United States and
>internationally.
>
>"Every generation should have a moral assignment, and one of ours must be
>justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal.=94
>=97 Ossie Davis
>
>Suggested Activities =97Mumia Awareness Week
>
>Joining together to make Mumia=92s case into a major national issue in
societ>y
>
>for a concentrated period of time . . .
>
>There was national attention when:
>
>The Oakland Education Association incorporated a lesson plan on Mumia and
>the death penalty in the Oakland public schools.
>
>Rage Against the Machine held a sellout benefit concert for Mumia=92s legal
>defense.
>
>The Longshoremen=92s Union held meetings on the case during the working day
>that shut down ports from San Diego up to Oregon.
>
>And Evergreen State College chose to hear a message from Mumia at their
>commencement.
>
>Now during September 19-25 we are going to:
>
>Hold programs and actions in =93100 Cities for Mumia Abu-Jamal.=94
>
>Hold a national Youth and Student Day for Mumia in hundreds of schools and
>campuses.
>
>Proclaim a national =93Faith Weekend=94 for Mumia, in which religious
>communities take up this issue.
>
>Promote a national day to wear symbols of sup-port for justice in Mumia=92s
>case and place his picture in windows across the country.
>
>Here is what you and your organization can do:
>
>First and foremost, make the decision NOW to participate, and have your
>activity listed as part of the national effort. Every group will take the
>activity most effective in their community -- but we hold in common a
>refusal to become complicit by doing nothing.
>
>Lawyers and law students: programs at law schools that invite legal
>commentators to address the questions raised in this case. A national
>statement by concerned lawyers could be published that week.
>
>Faith communities: national religious bodies send material on the case to
>their local congregations. Study groups and religious services on the theme>
>of Mumia and capital punishment by major religious groups of all faiths
>during the week of September 19-25.
>
>African-American community: bring the issues in this case to Black
>fraternities and sororities, churches, and the traditional civil rights
>movement. Ask the Congressional Black Caucus to undertake to hold public
>hearings on Mumia=92s case. Energize the Black media to sound a clarion call
>against the threat to Mumia.
>
>Campuses and high schools: programs, debates and classroom assignments. Han>g
>
>banners and set up a mock death row. Call on campus newspapers to publish
>background information, and campus and community radio stations to play
>Mumia=92s commentaries. Translate these materials in many languages.
>
>Artists and performers: Build on the =93Mumia 911=94 programs being held on
>September 11 to create works of art and =93imaginative graphic
appearances.=94
>Hold public readings from Mumia=92s books in bookstores.
>
>In our communities: Take Mumia=92s case into the housing projects, community
>centers, and basketball courts. Creative acts of civil disobedience, as whe>n
>
>people of conscience chained themselves to the White House fence to protest>
>apartheid and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.
>
>Press and radio: place letters and op-ed pieces in hundreds of community
>newspapers: Latino, Asian, women=92s, alternative, lesbian and gay press in
>that week. Bombard the U.S. with international support for Mumia. Organize
>major media appearances and talk show programs.
>
>Culminating on September 25: with a day of public activities, with
>everything from silent vigils, to fo-rums, to car caravans, to night time
>torch-light parades and demonstrations in 100 cities. Building on the April>
>24 =93Millions for Mumia=94 mobilizations, we now have the capacity to reach
>into every community. Our actions, combined with the impact of and the
>controversy over the entire week of activity, will make Mumia=92s case an
>unavoidable issue in society.
>
>MUMIA AWARENESS WEEK (mailing address):
>511 Ave. of the Americas, #186, New York, NY 10011
>www.j4mumia.org Phone 212-924-8585
>
>To give donations in support of the Mumia Awareness Week, please make check>s
>
>out to the =93Black United Fund -Mumia=94 w / =93September week=94 in the
memo
>field. Mail to: BUF 2227 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19132-4502
>
>To obtain a list of organizations planning activities for this week or to
>obtain the list of cities with "100 Cities for Mumia" activities planned,
>Email: info-AT-j4mumia.org
>Call: 212-924-8585
>Mail to: 511 Ave. of the Americas, #186, New York, NY 10011
>
>Volunteers and funds urgently needed!
>To find about Mumia organizing in your area please call:
>
>International Action Center-East Coast
>39 West 14th Street, Room 296
>New York, NY 10011
>email: iacenter-AT-iacenter.org
>http://www.iacenter.org
>phone: 212 633-6646
>fax: 212 633-2889
>
>International Action Center-West Coast
>2489 Misson, #28
>San Francisco, CA 94110
>phone: 415 821-6545
>fax: 415-821-5782
>email: iac-AT-actionsf.org
>www.iacenter.org
>
>Other Mumia Contacts:
>
>Intl. Concern Family and Friends for Mumia Abu-Jamal
>215 476-8812
>www.mumia.com
>
>Rainbows Flags for Mumia
>Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Two-Spirit, Trans People for Mumia
>39 West 14th Street Room 206
>NY, NY 10011
>212 633-6646
>rainbows4mumia-AT-hotmail.com
>Contact: Imani Henry or Deirdre Sinnott
>
>Youth and Students for Mumia
>39 West 14th Street Room 206
>NY, NY 10011
>212 633-6646
>npcny-AT-peoplescampaign.org
>Contact: Vivan Martin, Sarah Sloan, Imani Henry, Andrea MacManus
>
>The New York Free Mumia Coalition
>212 330-8029
>
>Mumia Awareness Week National Number
>212-924-8585
>www.j4mumia.org
>
>LIST OF CONTACTS FOR =93100 CITIES FOR MUMIA=94For September 25,
>the culminating day of Mumia Awareness Week,
>Atlanta 770-989-2536
>Boston 617-522-6626
>Buffalo 716-855-3055
>Chicago 773-381-6507; 312-683-5194
>Cleveland 216-631-5338
>Columbus 614 424 =96 9074
>Des Moines 515-243-0765
>Detroit 313-628-4932
>Honolulu 808-598-4653
>Houston 713-523- 8454
>Los Angeles 323-962-8084, 323-653-4510
>New Paltz (NY) 914 255-7173
>New York 212-330-8029
>Milwaukee 414-374-1034
>Madison,Minneapolis 651-649-4579
>Nashville 615 332-8543
>Paris (France) 011 33 14 579-8844
>Paterson, NJ 973-278-0919
>Pensacola,FL 850-458-5350
>Philadelphia 215-476-8812
>Providence 401-467-2288
>Richmond 804-355-6914, 804-358-0236
>Rochelle Park (NJ) 201-670-0318
>Rochester (NY) 716-436-6458
>San Diego 619-616-8574
>San Francisco 415-821-0459
>Selma 334 -874 =960065
>Stevens Point (WI) 608-788-0459
>Springfield (MA) 413-538-8537
>Washington, DC 703-750-2231
>
>
>
>
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