Updated Program Of The San Francisco State 40th Anniversary Commemoration

http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Eethnicst/fortieth.html

CONSCIOUSNESS, COMMUNITY, LIBERATION:

FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF ‘68



A Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the

1968 SF State Black Student Union (BSU)/Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Student Led Strike



October 29- November 1, 2008

Cesar Chavez Student Center

San Francisco State University


Wednesday, October 29

7:30am-5:00pm Registration
Jack Adams Hall (foyer)

8:30am-9:30am Opening Ceremony
Malcolm X Plaza Opening Prayer: Anne Marie Sayers
Native Drumming and Dance: Jake and John Perea; Eddie Madril

Brief Introduction: Roger Alvarado
Parade: Audio from Strike Film
Lowering of Banners in Front of Student Center

9:30am Introduction to the Commemoration

Jack Adams Hall


9:30am-5:00pm San Francisco Unified School District High School Students
Rosa Parks A, B, C
[Central meeting place for San Francisco Unified High School Students attending commemoration]


Contact Person: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales



10:00am-12:00 pm “Civil Rights and Social Justice”
Jack Adams Hall


Moderator: Dr. Ramona Tascoe. Panelists: Former Mayor Willie L. Brown, Dr. Nathan Hare, Mayor Ronald Dellums, Mr. Roberto Vargas, Mr. Bruce Hartford, Dr. Jim Hirabayashi. We will look at the social justice climate of the late 60's with a particular eye towards the civil rights movement itself.



12:00noon-2:00pm Entertainment
Malcolm X Plaza Youssoupha Sibide (acclaimed Kora Player)



12:00noon-1:00pm “Steady Buildin’: Community-Building, Critical Consciousness & Liberatory Agency in Los Angeles”



Rosa Park A, B, C

Panelists: Patrick Camangian, Benji Chang, and Ramón Antonio Marquez. This panel focuses on sustainable community-building, critical consciousness, and liberatory agency through the experiences of students, teachers, and organizers in inner-city LA. Drawing on the presenters’ work as LAUSD K-12 teachers/ researchers, and informed by the legacies of Third World Liberation, this panel examines the struggles and successes of supporting youth and families in challenging their material and ideological dehumanization.



1:00pm-3:00pm “Brothers and Sisters of the ’68 BSU, Share Experiences”

Jack Adams Hall

Panelists: Nesbitt Crutchfield, et al. This panel looks at the Sisters and Brothers of the BSU talking about what they did, how it affected their lives and their political perspectives. They will also talk about why they did what they did, what was accomplished, and where they (as a people and as a consciousness) are at this time.


3:00pm-5:00pm “The Role and Lessons of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in the SFSU Strike”

Jack Adams Hall
Panelists: Margaret Leahy, Joy Magezis, Gene Marchi, Charlie Rassmussen, and Steve Zeltzer. SDS was the largest mass militant student organization in the history of the United States. In San Francisco, it mobilized against the war in Vietnam during Stop The Draft Week, supported striking Bay Area oil workers, and mobilized to build support for the strike at San Francisco State College. Many of its members were arrested and jailed during the strike. This forum will look at the role of SDS at San Francisco State, how they were involved in the strike and the lessons learned for today. There will also be a display from the strike.


5:00pm-7:00pm Open Reception: Strike Veterans, Guests, Panelists
Rosa Parks A, B, and C

7:00pm-9:00pm Ticketed Reception Honoring Strike Veterans

Towers Conference Special Guest Speaker: Harry Belafonte
Center



Thursday, October 30

8:00am-5:00pm Registration
Jack Adams Hall (Foyer)

8:10am-9:25 am “Liberation Theology and its Role in the San Francisco State College Strike of 1968”

Jack Adams Hall

Moderator: Dr. Ramona Tascoe. Panelists: Dr. Amos Brown, Dr. Jerry Pedersen, Dr. Roberto Rivera, Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Jr. This panel will examine the participation of the controversial Ecumenical House during the historic strike as an exemplar of Liberation methodology. It will further explore the controversies that surrounded liberation theology in the context of the historic Civil Rights Movement and the general quest for Social Justice. The panel will be asked to explore current challenges to Black Liberation Theology that have emerged in the wake of the U.S. Presidential election and the perception regarding the controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright.


9:35am-11:00am “’Heritage’ the Impact of Culture through the Arts, as a Change Agent for Social, Political, and Educational Gain”

Coppola Theatre
Presenters: Linda Johnson, Myrtha Muse, Alicia Pierce, Dr. Raye Richardson, and Albirda Rose. The major production that created a stage for students to become leaders not only in the University community but also in the world of today I believe was "Heritage" by Countee Cullen. This production was developed, produced, and choreographed by Dr. Phil McGee, the late Dean of Ethnic Studies, Dr. Raye Richardson, Professor of Black Studies and Albirda Rose, Professor of Dance. The production was done two years in a row and created an energy that could never be duplicated. This presentation will show a video of this production, followed by a roundtable discussion with faculty and students who participated in the production, including a question and answer period and discussion of the impact and the changes that it created on the campus.



9:35am-11:30am “The Straight Story”
Jack Adams Hall
Moderator: Daniel Gonzales. Panelists: Roger Alvarado, Terry Collins, Nesbitt Crutchfield, Ron Quidachay, Juanita Tamayo-Lott, Mason Wong. This panel is concerned with the experiences and recollections of the Third World Liberation Front Central Committee and organizational representatives to the TWLF. Speakers will include strike veterans of the Third World Liberation Front.


11:00am-12:15pm “Conversations: Ethnic Studies the Past, Future, and in the Moment with Ken Mosesh”

Rosa Parks A

Panelists: Ken Mosesh, Tracey Quezada, and Margaret Rhee. A media presentation with interview footage of Ken Mosesh, ‘68 Striker and former professor at U.C. Berkeley. This presentation is co-presented with Mosesh, Margaret Rhee, doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley (MA from SF State),and independent producer and journalist Tracey Quezada, and introduces public access television show, Conversations, co-hosted by Mosesh and Rhee and The Tracey Show, hosted by Quezada. Mosesh, Quezada, and Rhee will discuss the past, future, and “in the moment” around Ethnic Studies and the intersections of independent media activism.



11:00am-12:15pm “Free Rider Dilema”

Rosa Parks C

Presenter: Magid Shihade. This paper examines the legacy of the students’ struggle to have voice in the academy outside the White dominant structure, a step in a long goal of transforming the academy, and the society at large. In a similar vein, Edward Said’s work, initiated over 30 years ago, the first step for Arabs and Arab Americans to take on the academy in a struggle against dehumanization, and opened up the academy for new and alternative voices that aims at transforming U.S. policies at home and abroad.



“Black Muslim & American: A Unique Journey through Community, Consciousness, and Liberation”



Presenter: Waliakbar Muhammad. For nearly half a century, social activist Waliakbar Muhammad has maintained a healthy association with major African American personalities and leaders, while writing about photographing, and preserving historical accounts of known and lesser known pioneers in the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. Having been an active participant in this struggle for social justice called “African American history” for nearly 70 years; Muhammad’s presentation will offer a unique perspective on simultaneously being “Black, Muslim & American.”


12:00noon-2:00pm Entertainment
Malcolm X Plaza Tito Garcia y sus orchesta la Internacional

12:00noon-4:00pm “How Much Money Could Buy us out of this Third World System?”

Poster Display

Rosa Parks E
Jennifer Tejano. This poster will be a presentation of work in progress. It will seek to explore health care as a social justice issue. It is not intended to provide solutions, but to stimulate discussion around issues such as healthcare disparities, environmental racism, and barriers to care.



12:00noon-2:00pm “Spectrum: Building Pathways to Biomedical Research”

Poster Panel

Rosa Parks E
Presenters: Allison Busch, Leticia Márquez-Magaña, and Kimberly Tanner. The Spectrum Program at SF State brings together K-12 teachers and students with women of color at different stages of the biomedical research career pathway to attract girls of color to these careers. Spectrum benefits by collaborating with the SF Unified School District, the Exploratorium, and National Expanding Your Horizons network.


12:35pm-1:50pm “Women in the 1968 Strike: Then and Now”
Rosa Parks B
Moderator: Dorothy Tsuruta. Panelists: Laureen Chew, Margaret Leahy, Sharon Martinas, Nancy Minns, and Tomasita Medál. No one who participated in the 1968 SF State Strike came out of that experience unchanged. Our perceptions of ourselves and how we related to and with others were altered. We are interested in a round-table discussion with other women who participated in the Strike to examine how our different experiences affected our perceptions of ourselves then and now.


12:35pm-1:50pm “A History of EOP: The Living Legacy of the 1968 Strike”

Rose Parks D
Panelists: Bobby Farlice and Xochitl Sanchez-Zarama. This symposium will be a brief history of the State Strike and onto the continued work and struggles of the Educational Opportunity Program. It will cover the initial 1968 strike and then go on to the Harmer Bill that in 1969 established EOP programs throughout the State. It will cover the mid -1980s when EOP lost its legislative protection language and the attempt to dismantle EOP programs statewide. It will then move on to 2004 when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor and the struggle to maintain EOP was reignited. It will cover the efforts by EOP and all its statewide programs to save and further the work of EOP.


12:35pm-1:50pm “Veteran and Current Leaders of PACE”
Rosa Parks F
Moderator: Jeremy Villaluz. Presenters: Students and Faculty Exploring the Legacy of PACE. Since the 1968 Student Strike, and our founding in 1967, the Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE) has strived to provide academic support, cultural awareness, and Pilipino and Pilipina American History. Continuing the legacy as the only remaining original TWLF (Third World Liberation Front) organization, our hopes for the 40th Year Student Strike Commemoration is to examine what PACE has done to survive the various social and political facets that the San Francisco State University student community, as well as the Bay Area Pilipino community has both faced, and put forth. With so much of PACE relying on its leadership, we will be introducing a panel of past and present coordinators and members in order to build an understanding of PACE: its history and ability to endure and sustain itself in an environment where people of color have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised.





12:35pm-1:50pm “Role of Service to the Communities in Asian American Studies: ’68 and Current Perspectives”

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Moderator: Lorraine Dong. Panelists: George Woo and Grace Yoo. There will be a discussion of issues surrounding community service in Asian American Studies; perspectives from the ’68 strike to the present will be discussed.



12:35pm-1:50pm “Voices of Promise & Protest: Exploring the Activism of Native Peoples during the 1968 SF State Strike”

Richard Oakes
Multicultural Center
Panelists: Eileen Baustian, Denny Bruno, Tony Gonzales, Ilka Hartmann, Dr. Troy Johnson, Michelle Mass, Annie Marie Sayers, and Kim Schuck. This program, Voices Of Promise & Protest: Exploring the Activism of Native Peoples during the 1968 SF State Strike, is intended to uncover what maybe known by a few or forgotten by most through personal voice and historical narratives.



12:35pm-1:50pm “People of Color Coalition Building: What Will Our ’68 Strike Look Like in ’08?”

Jack Adams Hall
Participants: A.S. Women's Center, League of Filipino Students (LFS), General Union of Palestine Students, Black Student Union (BSU), La Raza Student Organization, and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@s de Azltan (M.E.Ch.A.). This will be a roundtable discussion composed of SFSU student of color organizations concerning such issues as: coalition building by students and communities of color; lack of 40th Anniversary concern for REAL issues of community and students; budget cuts to Ethnic Studies and cuts to AAS faculty; expand and critique of Ethnic Studies; discussion on 68’ then and 08’ now; and a critique of SFSU Administration “mainstreaming” the 40th Anniversary.


2:10pm-3:25pm “Ethnic Studies as Heresy: Empire Resistance and the Academy”

Rosa Parks A

Panelists: Sunaina Maira, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and Kasturi Ray. This panel examines the legacy of the 1968 student strike in relation to ethnic studies and to social, political, and cultural movements, linking these through a critique of the evolving forms of U.S. empire and neoliberal capitalism as they have shaped emerging fields of knowledge production in the academy.



2:10pm-3:25pm “Then and Now: Asian American Arts and Revolution”

Rosa Parks B

Moderator: Valerie Soe. Panelists: Jeff Chan, Curtis Choy, Michael Chin. The panel looks at the connections between art and activism in the Asian American community and the ways in which Asian American artists have been influenced by and continue the themes and issues from the SF State Third World Strike. These issues include community empowerment, activism, identity formation, self-determination and the need to reclaim our history and culture. The films and writings also emphasize the importance of Asian Americans controlling their stories and representations, through the production of creative work that accurately and sensitively illustrates the Asian American community.


2:10pm-3:25pm “The Legacy of the Strike: A Communication Perspective”

Rosa Parks C

Moderators: Mercilee Jenkins and Gerianne Merrigan. Panelists: Hari Dillon and Hank McGuckin. Two current professors in Communication Studies, meet for a conversation with a speech communication professor and a student strike leader from the 1968 strike to discuss the legacy of the student-led strike on communication in the department and campus.



2:10pm-3:25pm “Applied Africana Studies”

Part 1: “Afrocentric Methodology and African Foreign Policy”

Part 2: “Contemporary Ideological Threats to the Internal Security of African Americans”

Rosa Parks D

Presenters: Serie McDougal III and Michael Tillotson. It is becoming important to extend the domain and area of application of Africana Studies. This presentation will focus on applying Afrocentric methodology in Africana Studies and its implications for African foreign policy. Consideration will be given to current foreign policy challenges facing the African continent including oil revenue management, food production and manufacturing. This presentation will also assess the implications of following non-African paradigms to seek solutions for meeting challenges that African people face.



2:10pm-3:25pm “Project Rebound’s Legacy”

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Presenter: Jason Bell and panelists. In 1967, Professor Irwin created Project Rebound to extend higher education’s accessibility to the formerly incarcerated, a disproportionate number of whom are working class people of color. The founding of Ethnic Studies at SF State encouraged students of color to address and resolve real problems in the community, a goal that Project Rebound continues to fulfill.



2:10pm-3:25pm “The Spirit of Bandung: 3rd Worldism as Praxis, Resistance, and Solidarity”

Richard Oakes
Multicultural Center
Older Generation: Roger Alvarado, Jaime Veve, Hank Jones or Terry Collins, Rabab Abdulhadi, and Tony Gonzalez. Younger Generation: Nancy Hermandez, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, ILP, GUPS, AROC, and SKINS. This panel stems from research done on Palestinian and Arab anti-colonial struggles that emerged and crystallized in the 1960s and what that decade in particular meant for colonized people in the Arab world as well as the rest of the 3rd world: Africa, Asia, and Latin America.



Younger activists became interested and asked it to be constructed as an exchange of thought, strategies, and alliances between our various communities between those of us, OG (Older generation!) and the younger generation of activists.





2:10pm-3:25pm “Resist the Camouflage; Bay Area Stand Up”

Jack Adams Hall

Presenters: Stephen Funk, and student organizers from the BAY-Peace Youth Action Team. We will use spoken word, video clips, and discussion to explore how young people of color have stood up against U.S. militarism—from 1968 to 2008. We'll look at where GI resistance and student organizing come together in communities of color. Come support the BAY-Peace Youth Manifesto Campaign to stop aggressive military recruiting in our schools and to demand better education and job training for our young people. Join the Movement!



2:30pm-4:30pm “Blacks are more that just their Race: A Multidimensional Approach of Black Life Struggles” Poster Panel

Rosa Parks E

Presenter: Chris Bell, Janasha Higgins, Gennelle Lacy, and Joseph Wilson. The 1968 strike gave birth to the Black Studies Department and later the Africana Studies Discipline to examine the lives of Black people through ideological theory. Given this success, this poster will examine how developing an Afrocentric identity should also consider other struggles within the race when examining the experiences of Blacks.


4:00pm-5:25pm “We Walked Out: The Formation of the National Association of Black Social Workers”

Rosa Parks A

Presenter: Liz Dunbar Knox. The birth of the National Association of Black Social Workers occurred on May 29, 1968 in Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, California. This presentation will chronicle the historic events that led to the formation of NABSW.



4:00pm-5:25pm “Is Change in the Air: 1968 to 2008 and Beyond, Examining Race in the Media”

Rosa Parks B

Moderator: Venise Wagner. Panelists: Cristina Azocar, Faye Eastman, Austin Long-Scott, Dorothy Tsuruta, and Katynka Martinez. Using the prism of the historic 1968 Kerner Commission report, we examine how the media have covered people of color, how we are doing and where we still need to improve.




4:00pm-5:25pm “In the Spirit of Legacies: The Palestinian Mural”
Rosa Parks C
Presenters: Ramsey El-Qare and Jackie Husary.

As a workshop, the members of GUPS who were involved in the mural process wish to tell their story. A brief overview of the history of GUPS with an emphasis on events that occurred in 2002 leading to the creation of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas unit in the College of Ethnic Studies, and more importantly, that catalyzed the administration’s classification of Palestinian students’ beliefs and identity as threatening and counter to the university’s core values. We will give a timeline of important events with regard to the mural, discuss the effects that the mural had on the students, and the limits and lessons that were learned from the ordeal. We will also discuss the after effects on the campus and larger Arab and Palestinian communities.



4:00pm-5:25pm “Labor Movements, Workers, The San Francisco State Strike and its Relevance Today”

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Panelists: Jimmy Garrett, Russel Kilday Hicks, Ray Tompkins and Daniel Phil Gonzales. This Panel will focus on the working class struggle around the right to an education in the 1968 strike for Black, Latino, Asian all working class students. The struggle for open admissions for those who could not afford a college education and have been historically discriminated against was a key focus of the strike.



4:00pm-5:25pm “Voices for Justice: The Enduring Legacy of the Latino Press in the U.S.”

Richard Oakes

Multicultural Center

Panelists: Juan Gonzales, Felix F. Gutierrez, Elizabeth “Benita” Martinez, and Eva Martinez. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S. – El Misisipi, founded in 1808 in New Orleans. The panel examines and analyzes the role and impact of this medium in fanning the flames of social change and empowering a community.








4:00pm-5:25pm “The Art and Soul of the Struggle”
Jack Adams Hall

Presenters: Judy Juanita, Devorahm Majors, Ted Pontiflet, Sonia Sanchez, Ashley Smiley, and Roberto Vargas. Esteem poets speak to how the arts movement of the 1960s lent consciousness to the ’68 strike and the subsequent struggles of resistance and social justice. Poets include former strikers and newer poets inspired by them.


6:00pm-7:30pm “BSU: '64 to '08”

Rosa Parks C

Presenters: 2008 SF State BSU. This presentation followed by a discussion will focus on the creation of the SF State Black Student Union; the social, political and cultural climate it was formed under and how this unprecedented organization came to be involved in the 1968 Strike. The discussion will address how this historic past must be applied to the present. How must we maintain and build on this legacy?


7:00pm-9:00pm “The Strike, The Arrests, The Defense And The Lessons For Today”

Jack Adams Hall

Panelists: Laila Al-Arian, Terrence Hallinan, Hank

Jones, Margaret Leahy, and Tony Serra. The use of a massive show of police and repressive forces were the lessons of the strike at San Francisco State. This panel will look at how the use of the police affected the struggle of the strike and also the growing repression today in light of the developments in the 1960's.



7:00pm-9:00pm “The Return of the Legendary Last Poets”
McKenna Theatre, CA


7:00pm-9:00pm “Evolving Contemporary Relationships between Native Communities and Museums”

Humanities 133

Panelists: Janeen Antoine, Tomasita Medál, Ann Marie Sayers, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, and Pascual Yaxon Saloj. What are contemporary museums' roles and responsibilities in collecting and presenting the cultural patrimony of indigenous communities and in
working with the native communities these collections represent? This panel presents past and current museum and exhibition models within the native community, such as American Indian Contemporary Arts, the C. N. Gorman Museum, and the Ohlone Museum at Indian Canyon. It examines current practices, goals, issues and obstacles in working with mainstream museums and institutions, and addresses specific concerns about how collections representing native peoples of the Americas are collected, conceptualized, and presented. It examines areas of concern with the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, and compares the implementation of NAGPRA at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.


Friday, October 31

9:00am-5:00pm Registration
Jack Adams Hall (foyer)

9:10am-10:30am “From Black Struggle to Black Studies, Building the Black Studies Curriculum at San Francisco State College in 1969”

Jack Adams Hall

Presenters: Robert Chrisman and Joseph White. SF State College strike veterans Dr. Robert Chrisman and Dr. Joseph White implemented the building of the Department of Black Studies, assembling the Department from April 1969-September 1969. Their presentation reviews the tasks, the processes involved in assembling experimental courses, developing new courses, and gathering black teaching materials to build a department in the post strike period, April 1969-September 1969.



10:00am-3:00pm Open Conversation Hours

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This is a chance to converse with presenters, panelists, and strikers.



10:10am-11:00am “New Directions in Interdisciplinary Social Justice Work”

Rosa Parks E

Presenter: Joe Parker. Though the subsequent proliferation of interdisciplinary fields perhaps is a measure of their success within the academy, their hope for effect as catalysts for social change remains an open question that is being debated within different conceptions of social justice. This paper surveys the different conceptions of interdisciplinary and social justice to evaluate the different politics and ethics of these competing conceptions.



10:10am-11:00am “The International Connections of the SFSU Strike to Today’s Organizing for Global Social Justice”

Rosa Parks F

Presenters: Derethia DuVal and Bobby Farlice. This is a workshop around the San Francisco State Strike and the psychology of struggle for change in the context of the national and global student movement in 1968. S.F. State was not in a vacuum as Eastern and Western Europe students were going through some serious struggles for academic freedom and social change as well as resistance to the Vietnam War. The whole industrialized world was in turmoil and the Socialist block was about to fall apart due to the struggle and activism of university students.


10:00am-11:00am “The Lucifer Effect”

McKenna Theater, CA

Presenters: Philip G. Zimbardo. Dr. Zimbardo will discuss his book The Lucifer Effect, which raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil? This lecture will be part of the Introductory Psychology course and will address principles of social psychology that influence good people brought into systems where they will commit evil acts against others. He will relate his original research to important examples in recent history, e.g. Abu Ghraib.



10:00am-12:00noon “Against the Current in Higher Education”

Rosa Parks A

Presenters: Anatole Anton, Felix Kury, and Roberto Rivera. We propose to present a two hour panel discussion about the present corporate trends in higher education. We will argue that the corporate approach to education has by and large replaced the traditional view of higher education and that the ground was unwittingly prepared for corporate education by the very depth and intensity of the critique of what was then traditional education. That critique of traditional education came from opposition to racism, sexism, colonialism and was partially successful in transforming the academy. But that critique could not have anticipated the neo-liberal trends in society that began to take hold in the mid-seventies. For those who would carry on the legacy of the strike, if for no other reason than to honor the sacrifices made by a large number of students, faculty and staff, we need to revive and re-think the critique of higher education that was implicit in the strike.



10:00am-12:00noon “Korean Americans Coming of Age”

Rosa Parks B

Moderator: Grace Yoo. Panelists: Melanie Hahn, Mirian Louie, Warren Lee, Tom Surh, and Gail Whang. This is a discussion of forty years of ethnic consciousness among third generation Korean Americans. This discussion will cover how the 1968 SF State Third World Strike influenced their own ethnic consciousness, their development of a pan-ethnic Asian American identity, and their own work over the years around inclusion and voice for people of color.



10:00am-12:00noon “Turning Solidarity into Community; 10 years of the Mexico Solidarity Tour”

Rosa Parks C

Presenters: Teresa Carrillo, Roberto Casarez, Ana Jimenez, Amanda Martinez, Jose Rodriguez, Kevin O’Brien, Norma Ocegueda, and Dannhae Herrera-Wilson. Over 100 SFSU students have traveled to Mexico to meet with activists and community organizers as part of the Mexico Solidarity Study Tour. When they returned they all said the same thing – that the trip changed their lives. In this discussion, alumnus of the Tour will reflect upon how what they learned in Mexico and how that translated into their life’s work with the Latino community in the US.



10:00am-12:00noon “AFT and the San Francisco State Strike”

Richard Oakes
Multicultural Center
Moderator: Steve Zeltzer. Panelists: Anatole Anton, Nathan Hare, Jim Hirabayashi, Eric Solomon and Bill Stanton. The teachers’ union at San Francisco State College played an important role in the strike including some of its own demands and winning support for the strike from the San Francisco Labor Council. This strike also led to the victimization of members of this union who were fired for their activities in support of the strike.



10:00am-12:00noon “The Community Based Organization as Laboratory for Liberation and Development: The Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life & Culture, Inc.”

Coppola Theatre
Panelists: Rachael Bayard-Cooks, William Jackson, Nicholas James, Wade Nobles, Janet Stickmond, and Sayoko Watson. This symposium will share the actualization of the Africana (Black) Studies theme of “the community is the classroom and the classroom is the community” by reviewing the work of an Oakland based community organization grounded in Black psychology and African-centered thought. It will showcase the research, program development and service through science in the Black community work of San Francisco State Africana Scholars and students and discuss and defend the value of reciprocal incubation between the community and the classroom regarding ideas and actions relative to the liberation of the African mind and world wide development of African people.



11:00am-12:00noon “Critical Spiritual Pedagogy: Methodologies of Liberation and Resistance”

Rosa Parks E

Panelists: Jennifer Crawford, Dianna Moreno, and Jean Ryoo. We will address how educators and students can create a revolutionary and decolonizing critical spiritual pedagogy for humanization through the praxis of spiritual-liberatory philosophies and social change. We will discuss possibilities for educational practice and present our own curricula for our forthcoming academy designed for female high school students.



11:00am-1:00pm “Revolution in the Air”

Jack Adams Hall

Panelists: Rabab Abdulhadi, Jamie Veve, and Yuri Kochiyama. This will be a roundtable on the epistemological and praxis of Third Worldism: emergence, challenges, and solidarities. The idea stems from research on Palestinian and Arab anti-colonial struggles that emerged and crystallized in the 1960s and what that decade in particular meant for colonized people in the Arab world as well as the rest of the Third World: Africa, Asia, and Latin America.



12:10pm-1:00pm “Asian American Studies: 40 years of Struggle and Survival”

Gymnasium 114

Panelists: Lorraine Dong and Daniel Gonzales. This panel is to bring together both faculty and students to discuss 40 years struggle and survival of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.




1:00pm-2:30pm “Educational Equity Initiatives”

Rosa Parks C

Presenters: Antwi Akom, Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. The Educational Equity Initiative (EEI) is a collaborative research project designed to support urban schools and community based organizations in building their capacity to transform educational and youth development practices. This panel aims to bring together the faculty, students, and youth who participate and teach in our programs and projects to show how the “dream” of the TWLF to engage youth has been fulfilled through EEI’s transformative praxis.



1:00pm-3:00pm “Queer People of Color Speak Out: Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in the Movements of the 60s and 70s”

Rosa Parks A
Moderator: Amy Sueyoshi. Panelists: "Trinity Ordona, Crystal Jang, Ken Maley, Cecilia Chung, Max Valerio, Andrew Jolivette, and Shaily Matani. As various civil rights movements demanded equality for marginalized people in the late 1960s, women and queers quickly found that their needs or identities would not necessarily be accepted as "important" in the march towards liberation. Join four activists, a historian, a sociologist, and a graduate student in a conversation about the past, present, and future of sexuality and gender in social justice movements. Bring your comments and questions for a spirited exchange with the provocative panelists.



1:00pm-3:00pm “Sound Come-Unity! Creating a Consciousness Continuum at SF State in World Music and Dance, Ethnic Studies and AsianImprov Arts”

Rosa Parks B

Panelists: John Calloway, Jose Cuellar, Danongan Kalanduyan, Hafez Modirzadeh, John-Carlos Perea, and Francis Wong. This is a panel of musical faculty, students, and alumni from both Ethnic Studies and the School of Music and Dance. Join Community artists/activists to discuss the significance of last Spring’s collaborative intercultural event for ImprovisAsians 2008, as well as in continuing 40 years of Ethnic Studies consciousness at SFSU.



1:00pm-3:00pm “Still on Strike: The Experiences of API Undergraduate Student Activists at UCLA”

Rosa Parks D

Presenters: Rob Ho and Jean J. Ryoo. UCLA has a legacy of activism and continues to be a robust site in which student groups continue to advocate for diverse social causes. This paper explores the experiences and perspectives of contemporary Asian Pacific Islander undergraduates who are active in these political and social organizations.



“Reflections of a Vietnamese American Literature Professor Born in the 1960s”



Presenter: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. This is a reflection about teaching at San Francisco State University as a Vietnamese American Professor tries to formulate ways of addressing the discrepancies between national ideology and Asian Americans experience, taking into account the contradictions and complexities brought by war and demographic changes among Asian American students.


1:00pm-3:00pm “Educational Struggles and Pedagogy Inspired by the 1968 Strike”

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Moderator: Kitty Epstein. Panelists: Mahasan Abdul-Salaam, Dhameera Ahmad, Cheryl Garrett, Gene Mabrey, and Carolyn Thompson. This panel will share the experiences of 1968 Strike participants who have worked as educators in public and private schools. The panelists will explore if the events of the SFSU Strike helped to create new thinking and practices in education. Alliances among people of color, Third World Liberation Front, and alliances with people who had the courage to challenge authority and create new education models will be explored. Panelist will connect the experiences of the SFSU Strike with growing concerns for the African American children in public schools.



1:00pm-3:00pm “Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) and Asian American Activism in the ‘60s”

Richard Oakes
Multicultural Center
Panelists: Penny Nakatsu, Richard Wada, Paul Yamasaki, and Alan Wong (pending). This discussion panel will seek to shed light on the role of the Asian American Political Alliance in the 1968 San Francisco State strike. The panel will include student activists and community supporters.



1:00pm-3:00pm “‘Love and Serve the People:’ the Real Alternatives Program (RAP) Movement for Social Justice”

Jack Adams Hall

Moderator: Jim Queen. Panelists: Elisa Miranda, Santiago Ruiz, Mitchell Salazar, Vicente Padilla, Ray Balberon, Dr. Tony Anderson, Ex. Deputy Mayor Claude Everhardt, Ariel Vargas, Anita Sanchez, and Roberto Hernandez. This presentation will consist of a power point and several revolving panels that will outline RAP’s contribution to significant social and institutional change in the following areas: justice System, educational system, culture and art, youth leadership development, and community development.



1:00pm-3:00pm “The Role of Higher Education in the Social and Economic Development of our Communities”

Humanities 133

Moderator: Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies, Kenneth Monteiro. Panelists: Henry Der, Jorge Haynes Belinda Reyes, Carolyn Thompson, Jake Perea

Education is sometimes romantically seen as the route for most people of color or other disenfranchised peoples to liberate themselves from oppressive conditions and elevate their social and economic conditions. This panel will examine very practical and concrete examples of how offering a conscious and culturally relevant education can prepare individuals to contribute to the social and economic development of our communities. In addition, it will examine how institutions of higher education can better leverage their moral, social and material values to better serve our communities.


3:10 pm -4:10pm "The Legacy of the '68 strike and the Student Center murals."



Richard Oakes

Multicultural

Center



Panelists: Sam Brown, Student Center Governing Board members and student groups.

The first part of panel and presentation would be a brief power-point discussing the history of the student center and how it was born out of the dynamic social change movements going on in 1968 and in educating and encouraging participation in social justice movements that encourage diversity. The next part of the presentation would be a panel with representatives talking about murals on the student center and their

struggles in putting them up, the correlation between the mission of the Student Center Governing Board, and the connection between the ideals of the 1968 strike. The panels will have representatives that were involved in, and/or can actively talk about their knowledge of each of the five external murals which include: The Palestinian Mural, the Filipino Mural, the API mural, the Malcolm X mural, and the Cesar Chavez mural.



3:00pm-4:30pm “Undocumented Students in Higher Education”
Rosa Parks B
Panelists: Jacqueline Mendez, Laura Melgarejo, Cintia Guerra, and Kristina Peralta. This panel discussion will focus on undocumented students in higher education. We will focus on the struggles and challenges they face in attaining higher education. We will present a video done by P.O.D.E.R. (People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights), a community based organization from San Francisco; in which the video reveals the challenges that undocumented students face as a consequence of their immigrant status. We will also discuss California Assembly Bill 540 and its current status. At the same time, we will explain the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) and its significance for undocumented students in higher education. Lastly, we will discuss how student, immigrant, and community organizations are organizing in support of the DREAM Act.


3:00pm-4:30pm “Historical Perspectives on the Relationship of the ‘68 Strike to Campus Activists and Community Struggles”

Rosa Parks D

Presenter: Paul Longmore. In April 1977, disability rights activists occupied the Federal building in downtown San Francisco for 3 1/2 weeks. They demanded implementation of Section 504, the first civil rights statute that prohibited discrimination against persons with disabilities. Their protest marked the coming-of-age of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States.



Presenter: Peter Shapiro. The San Francisco State strike exposed the contradictions inherent in California’s system of mass public higher education by dramatizing its failure to serve communities of color. An End the Silence portrayed it as a strategic breakthrough, redefining the relationship between campus activists and community struggles. Were these hopes realized?



3:00pm-4:30pm “Community Service Programs within the College of Ethnic Studies



T-160 Panelists: Brigitte Davila and students. This panel shows the dimensions of Community Service Learning within the College of Ethnic Studies and its impact on students and respective communities.



Saturday, November 1

10:00am-11:30am “The Strike, the War In Vietnam and the Present War in Iraq/Afghanistan”

Jack Adams Hall

Panelists: Clarence Thomas, Cindy Sheehan of the Gold Star Mothers, and Ralph Schoenman, formally with the Bertram Russell Foundation. A major impetus for protest and activism during the 1960's was the war in Vietnam and the rest of South East Asia. San Francisco State College was a center of Bay Area activism against the war, and it mobilized for protests and actions against the Vietnam war. Forty years later another imperial war is being fought by the United States not against "communists" but against "terrorists". This panel will discuss the role of the strike and activism at San Francisco State between 1967 and 1969, the world wide movement against the war and the nature of the US adventures in the Middle East today.



11:45am-1:30pm “Inter-generation Discussions of the Struggle”

Jack Adams Hall

Panelists: S. Nzingha Dugas, Director, Academic Coordinator, African American Student Development, Multicultural Student Development Unit, University of California, Berkeley, Abdel-Malik Ali, Amir, California Muslim Movement for Human Rights, Tafara Manning,

Teacher, Willie L. Brown, Jr. College Preparatory Academy, San Francisco Unified School District, and Nesbitt Crutchfield. The impact of the BSU and the Third World Liberation Front collaboration on the students, the faculty, and the city will be discussed. This “intergenerational” conversation will include how the collaboration was an infant dynamic in the realization of how folks of color coming together can positively make a difference.



12:00noon-1:00pm Entertainment

Malcolm X Plaza The SFSU Afro-Cuban Ensemble



1:00pm-2:00pm Entertainment

Malcolm X Plaza John Handy with Special Guests



2:00pm-3:00pm Entertainment

Malcolm X Plaza The Bobby Hutcherson Quartet



3:15pm-3:45pm Entertainment

Malcolm X Plaza Encore Piece with John and Bobby