Wednesday August 22, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Film Screening and Discussion
Filipinas for Rights and Equality
Fire'd Up Wednesdays
The Learning
Ramona S Diaz | 86 minutes | 2011 |USA
In the new documentary, "The Learning," filmmaker Ramona Diaz follows four Filipina women facing their first year as teachers in Baltimore's public schools. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project, a series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and the NewsHour.

Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Radical Women Meeting --

This special Radical Women meeting will feature an open discussion of this title work by feminist activist and author Mitsuye Yamada. The essay reflects the double invisibility based on being both Asian and a woman. A survivor of the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, Yamada makes a powerful statement on the intersections of race, gender, and national identity.

A Pan-Asian dinner will be served at 7pm (donation $8). Door admission free. Held at Freedom Hall (address below).

1-DAY WORKSHOP: Cutting It Up with Julia Lee Barclay
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory

Special Meeting Commemorating the 39th Anniversary of Roe v.Wade

Speaker Charlotte Strauss Swanson will talk about the racist campaign of the right wing that claims “abortion is Black genocide.” This meeting will address the historical role of women of color in the defense of reproductive rights and how feminists are organizing to keep the doors of clinics like Dr. Emily Women’s Health Center in the South Bronx open to women who face barriers to health care based on race, class, language, and immigrant status.

Join The New School, Angela Glover Blackwell and Manuel Pastor for “Countdown to 2050: Race and America’s Future,” a panel discussion to address both the challenges and solutions involved in overcoming the deep-seated racial, social and economic disparities facing communities of color. Based on their book Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, Blackwell and Pastor – along with co-author Stewart Kwoh – present a blueprint for the future that is built from the ground-up, characterized by equity, and achieved through bold and visionary leadership.