FIFTH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT AT SFSU, 2008

"Privileged Destruction: Examining Environmental Justice"

2008 Summit Information

General schedule of events (Preliminary)

Fifth Annual Human Rights Summit at San Francisco State University
"Privileged Destruction: Examining Environmental Justice"
April 30 – May 2, 2008

April 30 – Tabling on the SFSU Main Lawn  
May 1st – Rosa Parks, César Chávez Student Center
May 2nd – Jack Adams Hall, César Chávez Student Center

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Student panel topics, locations, and times

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Outreach and human rights commnity resources

SFSU Main Lawn, Cesar Chavez Student Center
April 30, 2008 @ 10:00 am - TBA

Tabling, interactive booths, workshops, and demonstrations will be presented by the following participating organizations:

• African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center - Website
• Amnesty International - Website
• Black Coalition on AID - Website
• Center for Environmental Health
• Environment California
• Greenpeace
• Literacy for Environmental Justice
• More TBA

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Guest participants

 

 

Speakers/Contributors:

Henry Clark:
Henry Clark is the Executive Director of West County Toxics Coalition, and has been a pioneer in environmental justice for over twenty years. He is an expert in community organizing, and is driven towards building coalitions among diverse neighborhood groups. Under Dr. Clark, the West County Toxics Coalition has received numerous awards, and has developed a model that communities throughout the United States and groups abroad can use in their struggles.

Bradley Angel
Bradley Angel is the Executive Director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. There, he is involved with urban, rural, desert and Indigenous communities around the west in campaigns for health and environmental justice. Since 1987 Bradley has worked with hundreds of diverse communities impacted and threatened by pollution, and has played a leading role helping communities win some of the most important struggles in the history of the environmental justice movement.

Glenn Fieldman
Glenn Fieldman has been a professor at SFSU since 1990, mostly in the International Relations Department. In 1994 he helped launch the Environmental Studies Program. This past January, Glenn was an organizer for "Focus the Nation," a climate teach-in that took place on the SFSU campus.

Annie Loya
Annie Loya represents Youth United for Community Action. YUCA is a grassroots community-organization created, led, and run by young people of color. There, Annie works to provide a safe space for young people, empowering them to work on environmental and social justice issues in efforts to create change.

Antonio Diaz
Antonio Díaz is the Project Director for PODER, an organization that helps Mission residents work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color. Prior to joining PODER, Antonio was the Co-coordinator of the EcoJustice Networking Project at the Institute for Global Communications in San Francisco. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of CorpWatch and the Board of Directors of the Center for Environmental Health and Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action.

Sheila Tully
Sheila Tullly is a professor in SFSU's Anthropology Department. Her interests include issues of gender, sexuality, and power, as well as North American urban groups, Mesoamerica, and Latin America.

CarlosDavidson
Carlos Davidson is a professor in SFSU's Environmental Studies Program. He is a conservation biologist, with a background in ecology and economics. Carlos' research focuses on the causes of amphibian population declines and he is also interested in the political and economic aspects of society's relationship to the natural world.

Phil Klasky
Phil Klasky is a lecturer in the American Indian Studies Program at SFSU. He is also a Storyscape Project Director for The Cultural Conservancy organization.

Sherry Keith
Sherry Keith is Professor of Social Sciences at SFSU. She explores a full range of issues in her multiple- course curricula, including women and international policy, the individual in modern society; and the sociology of poverty, education, and community service. Sherry has participated as discussant in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Human Rights Summits.

Dan Knapp
Dan Knapp is the founder of Urban Ore, whose purpose is to end the age of waste by advocating and developing total recycling. He works toward a new idea of the meaning of 'disposal,' one that is based on a zero-waste model.

 

 

Performers:

3rd PURI Project

A music and performance ensemble whose goal is to interweave and explore traditional and innovative elements of dance, music, spoken word, visual art, and audience participation and cultivate them as an integrative approach to raising awareness, communication, and recognition and dignity for Korean history. Visit them online at www.puriproject.com.

California State East Bay Dance Group

Director Eric Kupers is co-director of the Dandelion Dancetheater in San Francisco and a veteran of the Margaret Jenkins and Della Davidson Dance Companies. He created and currently leads an improvisational modern dance course that is the embodied channel through which his diverse collection of students – both able-bodied and physically or developmentally impaired - learn to experiment with movement and expand personal repertoires of agility, capability, and art.

Creative Arts Poets @ SFSU

• Ann Galjour

Anne Galjour's one woman plays have been produced at Berkeley Rep,  Seattle Rep,
Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville and numerous theatre festivals
around the country.  Her playwriting credits include BIRD IN THE HAND, which premiered at
Central Works Theatre Company, OKRA, which premiered at Brava Theater Center, then moved
to Southern Rep and later to True Brew Theatre in New Orleans where it was playing to
sold out houses till Hurricane Katrina hit, and THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, which was
commissioned and produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre.  Her newest untitled solo work
is commissioned by the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College and The Flynn Performing Arts
Center.  It will have its world premiere and tour this Fall in New England. She is the
recipient of numerous national and local awards and teaches in the Creative Writing
Department at S. F. State University.

• Camille Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red
Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library
of Virginia 2007 Literary Award.  She has received fellowships from organizations
including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave
Canem, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf.  Dungy is associate professor of Creative Writing
at San Francisco State University.

• Craig Perez

  Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamorro from the Pacific Island ofGuåhan (Guam), has lived in California since 1995. He is the co-founder of Achiote Press and his first book, from unincorporated territory, is forthcoming from Tinfish in 2008. He received an MFA
  from University of San Francisco and is currently a Phd candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

• Chad Sweeney

  An MFA alum of SFSU, Chad Sweeney is the author of An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006).  Sweeney co-edits Parthenon West Review and has taught in SF for fourteen years, most recently with Writers Corps and as poet-in-residence at the School of the Arts.  He was chosen for Best American Poetry 2008 by editor Charles Wright and was awarded a grant from the SF Arts
  Commission for translating (with Mojdeh Marashi) a book of Iranian poetry, the Selected Works of H.E. Sayeh.

• Kristi Lynn Moos

  Kristi Lynn Moos is a graduate student of poetry in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. She received her Bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley. There she developed an interest in the intersections of urban landscape, environmental cause and the individual, bringing the broader scope of human rights to the local. A bay area native, her current research focuses on the historic construction of the Grove-Shafer Freeway in Oakland as a paradigm for the types of social disaster that go unspoken in the bay area.
  

• L.J. Moore

  L.J. Moore lives in a basement by the beach in San Francisco with two ferrets. She recently received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. In her spare time, she likes to   photograph abandoned cemeteries and look for lost ships buried under the streets of San Francisco. L.J. is a co-editor and co-founder of Small Desk Press, a San-Francisco based small press dedicated to supporting writing that challenges the conventional divisions of experimental, narrative, poetry and/or prose, and that gives primacy to no one school or style of writing.

• Maxine Chernoff

  Maxine Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.  With Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing.  She is the author of  6 books of fiction and 9 books of poetry. Her collection of stories, Signs of Devotion, was a NYT Notable Book of 1993.  With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which will be published in fall 2008. She has read her poems in countries including Brazil, Australia, Germany, China, Belgium, England, Scotland, and Russia.  An Iranian literary magazine is currently doing a special issue on her fiction.

Navarette x Kajiyama Dancetheatre
Jose Navarette - http://www.nkdancetheater.com

Youth Speaks

The nation’s leading nonprofit presenter of Spoken Word performance, education, and youth development programs, this youth-based and youth-led organization cultivates and trains young people from underprivileged communities to become the creators of social, artistic, educational and political change. Youth Speaks promotes the redefinition by youth of written and oral literacies, concepts of marginality, silence, alienation, and identity. Visit them online at www.youthspeaks.org.

MORE TBA...

 

 

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Getting to the event

The event is located at San Francisco State University (SFSU) 1600 Hollyway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132.

• Directions
• Parking : On the street or in one of the Lots.
• Map of the Campus:

• There will be signs directing you around the campus on the days of these events.
• Jack Adams Hall is on the top floor of the Ceasar Chavez Student Center. Southeast part of Campus.
• Hohenthal Gallery is on the third floor of the Science Building. (SCI388) Northeast part of Campus.
• Rosa Parks Conference Hall is in the Cezar Chavez Student Center. Southeast part of Campus.

 

 

 

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Shout-outs and PSAs

Thank you for your publicity and attention!

• KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM - Website - Listen Online : Download PSA for Summit - Thanks to Lisa Windsor and Brad Aldrige
• KPFA 94.1 - Website - Listen Online
• KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco - Website - Listen Online
• Golden Gate [X]press - Website
• Amnesty International - Website
  

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Fundraising Events for the Summit

SFSU Human Rights Summit Fundraiser
@ HI-FI Lounge on April 17th,2008, 9pm

Host: Students of the Anthropology and Human Rights class at San Francisco State University

Location: Hi-Fi Lounge, 2125 Lombard, SF, CA

When: Thursday, April 17, 9:00PM
Please join us for a fun night of socializing, dancing, and drinking... and it is for an AMAZING cause!

We are asking for a $5 donation at the door. We will be selling raffle tickets as well for some fantastic prizes such as movie tickets, a gift certificate to a salon, restaurant gift certificates and more.

We hope you can join us for a really fun night. Feel free to add anyone and everyone to the evite, the more the merrier. There will be a great DJ spinning a variety of music and there is a dance floor as well.
You must be 21+ to attend this party.

For more information on the 5th annual San Francisco State University Human Rights Summit, check out our website http://humanrights.sfsu.edu/ or feel free to email me at lindsayakauffman@gmail.com, I would be more than happy to talk to you about the summit and how you can be involved. If you would like to make a donation to the summit, the website has information on how to do that.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Click Here To View Invitaiton

SFSU Human Rights Summit Fundraiser
@ Stray Bar on April 5th, 2008, 6pm

Host: Students of the Anthropology and Human Rights class at San Francisco State University

Location: Stray Bar, 309 Cortland, SF, CA

When: Saturday, April 5, 6:00pm
Please join us for a fun night of socializing and drinking... and it is for an AMAZING cause!

$20/per person for all you can drink beer until the kegs(s) run dry and there will be certain shots available where proceeds will be going towards the summit, and there will be baked goods available for sale as well. We will also be selling raffle tickets (restaurant gift certificates, movie tickets, gift certificates for sporting goods, and many more) and you do not need to be present to win.

We hope you can join us for a really fun night. Feel free to add anyone and everyone to the evite, the more the merrier. If you plan on attending please RSVP so we know how many kegs we will need.

You must be 21+ to attend this party.

Stray Bar: http://straybarsf.com/

For more information on the 5th annual Human Rights Summit contact Lindsay at lindsayakauffman@gmail.com, I would be more than happy to talk to you about the summit and how you can be involved. If you would like to make a donation to the summit, please click the donation link.

Thank you in advance for your support!

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