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DESCRIPTION:7:00 Wednesday, April 11th @ Science and Engineering Library room 
 332\n\nTodd Chretien Presenting\n\n"Like the execution of innocent Georgia 
 death row prisoner Troy Davis last fall--and the prosecution of the Jena 
 Six in rural Louisiana a few years earlier--Trayvon Martin's case has 
 crystallized for millions of people the continuing ugly reality of racism 
 in 21st century America. But not only that, Trayvon's story has also moved 
 people to take a stand and demand change."\n\nFrom the article "We have to 
 win justice for Trayvon" in the April issue of the newspaper Socialist 
 Worker, it would be possible to append innumerable accounts of racist 
 violence that have been at the forefront of American consciousness and 
 media for the past month. The case of disabled former US marine Kenneth 
 Chamberlain Sr., who was gunned down in his own home in November by 
 racial-epithet-hurling police officers, will be shortly coming before a 
 jury in New York, while us Californians struggle to comprehend the 
 ignorance and hate behind the murder of Iraqi-American woman Shaima Alawadi 
 near San Diego on April 2nd--Alawadi was beaten to death with a tire iron, 
 and left next to her body was a note telling her to "Go back to your 
 country."\n\nIndeed, while it would be possible to bring to mind many such 
 occurrences of hate-fueled violence, it would be manifestly impossible to 
 list the accounts of prejudice and hatred people of color face on a daily 
 basis--often at the hands of police. But, as the Socialist Worker article 
 points out, stories such as these have moved millions of people across the 
 country to "take a stand and demand change."\n\nThe fact is that we are no 
 longer fooled by those who would have us believe that we are living in a 
 "post-racial" society where the issue of racial prejudice and violence has 
 been surmounted and that the racial question, therefore, has lost its 
 significance. Concurrently, we are all too aware of the fact that for far 
 too many people in this country--and far too many police officers--being a 
 person of color naturally equates to being a criminal, and Trayvon Martin's 
 murder and the innumerable cases like it are starting to drive people to 
 change this all-too-prevalent view at the levels of community, law 
 enforcement, and the judiciary.\n\nWe must first recognize the systemic 
 nature of racism in American society. But beyond that point, questions have 
 a need to be collectively discussed and determined: How do we turn our 
 outrage into protest, and our protest into real social change? How can we 
 begin to collectively move toward a world that is truly equal? Join the 
 International Socialist Organization at Santa Cruz for a presentation and 
 discussion on these and other issues concerning the eradication of racism 
 and moving toward a world that we might one day want to live in.\n\n7:00 
 Wednesday, April 11th @ Science and Engineering Library room 332\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/09/18711050.php
SUMMARY:Trayvon Martin and the Struggle Against the New Jim Crow
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz, Science and Engineering Library Room 332
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/09/18711050.php
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