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DESCRIPTION:On Grace Paley’s birthday, we present a conversation exploring how 
 imagination, truth-telling, and courageous action flow out of Paley’s 
 life and work.  A prolific writer, Paley’s fiction highlights the 
 everyday struggles of women, what she calls “a history of everyday 
 life.”  In addition to her writing, Paley was also a committed activist, 
 passionate about numerous issues, including women’s rights, the Vietnam 
 War, nuclear non-proliferation, and most recently, the war in Iraq.  Her 
 death in 2007 was a great loss, but her work continues to inspire.  
 Speakers, coming from a range of generations,  will include politically 
 engaged writers, artists, and activists in such causes as immigration 
 rights, housing, human rights, gay and lesbian issues, foreclosure actions, 
 anti-militarism and other important struggles.  The speakers have all drawn 
 inspiration from Paley’s work and life and demonstrate various affinities 
 to the amazing woman, artist and thinker who described herself as a 
 “combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist.” Speakers will include: 
 Ujju Agarawal, member of the Center for Immigrant Families Collective; 
 Yvette Christianse, poet and novelist; Ynestra King, ecofeminist activist 
 and educator, and editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives 
 on Population, Environment, and Development; Nancy Kricorian, New 
 York-based writer and activist, author of Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and 
 Fire, and coordinator of the New York City chapter of CODEPINK Women for 
 Peace; and Amy Swerdlow, founding member of Women Strike for Peace and 
 author of Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical 
 Politics in the 1960s.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/07/18614586.php
SUMMARY:Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power -- A Panel Discussion
LOCATION:James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College (3009 Broadway, New 
 York, NY 10027)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/07/18614586.php
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