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DESCRIPTION:“Tostadas and Insurgentes” will be a conversation with Roxanne Dunbar 
 Ortiz, Hilary Klein, Amrah Salomon Johanson, and Marina Sitrin on the 
 recent women’s Encuentro in Chiapas, and on the state of the Zapatista 
 movement.  This panel will be the first in a new monthly series of panel 
 discussions on critical contemporary topics presented by The Global Commons 
 Foundation. \n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a longtime activist, university 
 professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles 
 on histories and issues of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, 
 she has published a trilogy of historical memoirs: Red Dirt: Growing Up 
 Okie (Verso, 1997), Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 
 (City Lights, 2002), and Blood on the Border: a Memoir of the Contra War 
 (South End Press, 2005).\n\nHilary Klein lives in the San Francisco Bay 
 Area and has worked as an activist and community organizer on a number of 
 issues including immigrants rights, affordable housing, and violence 
 against women. She lived in Chiapas from 1997 - 2003 working with women's 
 cooperatives in Zapatista communities and is currently writing a book about 
 women's participation in the Zapatista movement.\n\nAmrah Salomón Johnson 
 is a formerly homeless high school dropout who became an activist after 
 attending community college in her mid twenties.  She has worked on issues 
 such as anti-sweatshop campaigns and workers rights, education access, 
 housing, environmental justice, immigrant rights, human rights, and 
 international solidarity efforts.  Her current focus is on Latino / Chicano 
 political organizing in the Bay Area and issues for mixed race activists.  
 She is a current graduate student in San Francisco State University's 
 Ethnic Studies program.\n\nMarina Sitrin is a dreamer, teacher, student, 
 and militant. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power 
 in Argentina, an oral history of the autonomous social movements in 
 Argentina (Spanish edition Chilavert 2005, English edition AK Press 2006).  
 Marina has traveled extensively in Latin America, spending time with the 
 various new social movements, most recently in Chiapas where she attended 
 the third, women's, encuentro of the Zapatistas. She is currently writing 
 and editing a book entitled: Insurgent Democracies: Latin America's New 
 Powers (City Lights Press 2008)\n\nThe Global Commons Foundation creates 
 and supports platforms for discussion, reflection, and action on urgent 
 contemporary issues, particularly privileging perspectives from the Global 
 South.  GCF works to nurture and sustain an evolving global commons of 
 critical, innovative, and imaginative responses to the political, 
 ecological, social, and cultural crises of today’s world, emphasizing 
 dialogue across discipines and practices, and across geographies, cultures, 
 and economies.  The Global Commons Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit 
 organization, based in San Francisco.  For more information:  
 http://www.globalcommonsfoundation.org\n \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/20/18480617.php
SUMMARY:Tostadas and Insurgentes: Gender and Indigenous Perspectives of the Zapatista Struggle
LOCATION:New College of California, Cultural Center, 777 Valencia Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/20/18480617.php
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